Navisworks for beginners

What Navisworks is, how its file types work, and how to navigate and review a federated model.

3 lessons · about 0.7 hours · free

Federating and reviewing

1. 1. What is Navisworks?

   Navisworks combines models from many design tools into one place for review, clash detection and construction simulation. It’s the coordination hub on many BIM projects.

   • • Describe what Navisworks is used for
   • • Tell Navisworks Manage, Simulate and Freedom apart
   • • Understand why models are federated rather than edited

   12 min

2. 2. File formats and appending models

   Getting file types right is the first coordination skill. Learn NWC, NWD and NWF, how to append models from different tools, and how to keep a federated model up to date.

   • • Explain NWC, NWD and NWF files
   • • Export NWC files from authoring tools
   • • Append and align models

   16 min

3. 3. Navigation, viewpoints and review

   Reviewing a model well means getting to the right place quickly and recording what you find. Learn navigation, viewpoints, sectioning, measuring and markup.

   • • Navigate with orbit, walk and fly
   • • Save and organise viewpoints
   • • Section and measure the model

   16 min