Autodesk Navisworks Family of Products

What are the different flavors of Navisworks?

The product family includes Autodesk® Navisworks® Review, Autodesk® Navisworks® Simulate, Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage and Autodesk®Navisworks® Freedom, which is a free* viewer for Autodesk Navisworks NWD native files and 3D DWF file formats.

The Autodesk® Navisworks® family of products helps architecture, engineering,and construction teams improve controlover the outcome of their projects. WithNavisworks solutions, detailed designmodels can be aggregated and reviewed byall project stakeholders, helping users to benefit from the competitive advantages of building information modeling (BIM) workflows.
BIM processes allow team members to explore a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it is built, helping to deliver projects faster, more economically, and with reduced environmental impact.
With Autodesk Navisworks solutions,users can combine design data created in applications—such as the AutoCAD® software and Autodesk® Revit®-based applications—with geometry and information from other design tools in multiple file formats, regardless of file size.
The result is a whole-project view that helps all project stakeholders to make better design decisions, increase accuracy of construction documentation, and predict performance and planning.

The Autodesk Navisworks software family offers three products to provide project stakeholders with the right tools to help collaborate, coordinate, and communicate more effectively.

Autodesk Navisworks Manage Contains:

1. Project Review Features

Model File and Data Aggregation:

Autodesk Navisworks model file and data aggregation features enable you to combine design, construction, and other project data into a single integrated project model. The software incorporates files in any major 3D design or laser scan file format, reads intelligent data from original design files for viewing beside the model, and imports data from external databases and displays it within the model.

Review Toolkit:

The software’s review toolkit offers a host of tools that facilitate whole-project review.
Its features enable you to measure distance, areas, and angles;store, organize, and share camera views of a design and export those views into images or reports; and add cross sections and section plans to inspect details closely. Navisworks NWF reference files enable you to view the latest version of a CAD design while maintaining previous review data.

NWD and 3D DWF Publishing:

Publish your entire project for a whole-project view.
Complete project models can be published and stored in a single distributable NWD or DWF file with compressed file sizes up to 90 percent smaller than original design files.

Collaboration Toolkit:

Communicate design intent and encourage teamwork with the ability to add markups to viewpoints with advanced redlining tools, comment on viewpoints with searchable notes, record animated walkthroughs for real-time playback, and stream large  models and content, navigating the design as the model loads.

2. Simulation and Analysis Features

Photorealistic Visualization:

Use Autodesk Navisworks advanced visualization features to develop compelling 3D animations and imagery to present projects to stakeholders.
Customize and configure every render aspect, including materials, lights, backgrounds, and rendering styles; use environment backgrounds to add real-world scenery; and choose from more than 1,000 built-in materials to create an accurate, photorealistic look.

Object Animation:

The software’s object animation features help you create animations of objects for clash and interference analysis. You can create interaction scripts that link animations to specific events, triggers, or key comments, and link animations to tasks in a 4D schedule for improved construction planning.

4D Scheduling:

Simulate construction schedules and logistics in 4D to visually communicate and analyze project activities, and help reduce delays and sequencing problems. The 4D scheduling features enable you to verify building or demolition viability by developing construction or demolition sequences that link model geometry to times and dates; import times, dates, and other task data from project management software to dynamically link schedules with project models; and set up planned and actual times to visualize deviations from the project schedule.

3. Coordination

Clash and Interference Detection:

Anticipate and avoid potential problems before construction, reducing expensive delays and rework.
Clash and interference detection features in Autodesk Navisworks Manage software enable you to perform clash tests against specified geometry to more easily find and resolve conflicts.
Link clash tests to 4D simulations and object animations to analyze issues in space and time.

Clash and Interference Management:

Autodesk Navisworks Manage software provides the ability to manage and track clashes and interferences through to resolution. Reports of
clash tests, including comments and screenshots,can be exported to communicate issues to the project team.

4. Project Viewing

Real-Time Navigation:

Explore your integrated project model using advanced navigation tools that produce a realistic, real-time experience. Real-time navigation capabilities are included in all Autodesk Navisworks products.

Navisworks Simulate

Compared to Navisworks Manage, Simuate Contains:

1. Project Review Features

2. Simulation and Analysis Features

4. Project Viewing

Navisworks Review

Compared to Navisworks Manage, Review contains:

1. Project Review Features

4. Project Viewing.

Navisworks Freedom

 
Autodesk Navisworks Freedom:
Autodesk® Navisworks® Freedom software is the free* viewer for NWD and 3D DWF™ files.
Navisworks Freedom extends the whole-project view to all project stakeholders, helping to improve communication and collaboration.

Comments

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[Project Management Software]

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