If a user is working with Revit and Navisworks at the same time (to do advanced clashing detection for example), often he will export a NWC from Revit and use the NWC in Navisworks. But when you try to export the NWC when it is already in use by the Navisworks project you will get … More Revit & Navisworks: Work simultaneously in both of them
I’m a big fan of http://villagebim.typepad.com/, a French-language blog of my French Autodesk colleagues. Always relevant and interesting posts. On 17 January, for example, they placed a new post explaining the “Compare” function within Navisworks, where they give a nice overview how you can look at differences between 2 versions in a visual way. I … More Navisworks: Detailed info for Compare
Just got a problem with an IFC file created from Revit. One of my customers send me an email telling me that, after loading the IFC in Navisworks 2017, he couldn’t see all objects. Surprisingly, when I opened the same IFC file in my Navisworks 2017 (same version, same update releases as the customer) I could … More Navisworks: problem with Revit IFC: not all elements are visible
There are several ways to link a geo-referenced drawing (like one from Civil 3D). You can start a new Revit project, link the DWG, move/rotate it in place and then you could use “Acquire Coordinates” to move the Revit’s survey point to the origin of the DWG. But what if you already configured the shared … More Revit: Warning: Default Center-To-Center positioning will be used
Yesterday I received the VERY good news that the permission model in BIM 360 Docs has been changed. Before the minimum level you could use in any BIM 360 Docs folder was “Publish” and then on a higher level you got “Publish+View” followed by “Publish+View+Edit” and “Publish+View+Edit+Control”. This meant that when you wanted to assign only … More BIM 360 DOCS: Changed permission model
