Navisworks Training Course Content

Getting started with NavisWorks

• Workspace
• Opening and appending files
• Saving, merging and refreshing files
• About file types
• Database support

Visual project model reviews

• Navigation
• Absolute coordinate display
• The NavisWorks engine
• Performance indicators
• Selection tree and selecting objects
• Hiding objects and overriding materials
• Object properties
• Measuring and moving objects
• Selection and search sets
• Viewpoints
• Comments and redlining
• Animations
• Sectioning
• Hyperlinks
• Comparing models
• Switchback
• NavisWorks real-time rendering

TimeLiner

• TimeLiner overview
• Creating tasks
• Importing tasks from an external project file
• TimeLiner simulation
• Configuring and defining a simulation
• Simulation export

Animator

• Animator overview
• Creating a basic animation
• Cameras and camera viewpoints
• Manipulate geometry objects in an animation set
• Section plane sets
• Controlling animation scene playback

Scripter

• Scripter overview
• Creating and managing scripts
• Events
• Creating and configuring actions

Presenter basics

• Presenter overview
• Apply materials to model items
• Adding lighting effects to a scene
• Adding background effects
• Rendering effects
• Outputting rendered images
• Outputting animations (videos)

Presenter advanced features

• Editing and managing materials
• Advanced material editing
• Ground planes
• Individual light effects
• Image-based lighting
• Environment backgrounds and reflections
• Custom environments
• Light scattering
• Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC)

Clash Detection

• Clash Detection overview
• Selecting items to be clashed
• Clash test settings
• Setting clash rules
• Clash results
• Clash test reporting
• Audit checks
• Create and save batches of clash tests
• Export and import clash tests
• Custom clash tests
• Setting up custom clash tests
• Laser scan data clashing
• Holding and releasing objects
• SwitchBack in clash detective
• Time-based clashing

Please note: Course topics may be customized by the instructor based upon the knowledge and skill level of the course participants.