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posted 10/27/08 by Jack Strongitharm Navisworks Navigator in Civil 3D

As jobs get more complicated you may find that you want a more powerful reviewing tool to look at your Civil 3D models.

I am now working with Navisworks quite a bit now and I am presenting at Civils Show 2008 at Earls Court 2 in London on how you can use Navisworks along with Civil 3D. This will be looking at clash detection and also 4D modelling.

What is 4D?

Time

So the construction sequence is critical and can make or break the project on site from when underground cables need to be diverted to when a truck load of fill material is delivered and stored on site and potentially blocking the site for vehicles etc.
So if you are interested I will be presenting each day at Civils Show on 18th, 19th and 20th of November.
There also will be my other Civil colleagues presenting different topics using Civil 3D during the day.


www.civils.com


Anyway, I wandered off the topic of this post.

If you have Navisworks installed along with Civil 3D on the same machine you can export to a NWD file but you can also enable a simpler viewing engine in Civil 3D.

By typing 'nwnavigator' will open up the panel.

Then hit the refresh button and your model in Civil 3D will load in the viewer within a couple of seconds.
Then you can fly, walk and orbit the biggest of models with no effort.



This viewer only shows shaded and wireframe mode.
If you want render materials, you will need to use the actual Navisworks software.



Then you can clash away and look at construction sequence also.



Now we are getting into what I call True BIM of 'Building the Information Model'. Its not just for Architects you know!!
We could have our own acronyms such as CIM or RIM, but maybe that is taking it too far!!

Have a good week

Jack Strongitharm

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