Autodesk® Navisworks® 2010

Autodesk Announces Availability of Autodesk Navisworks 2010 with New Features for Process and Power Customers

The Autodesk Navisworks 2010 software family consist of four separate software products: Autodesk^® Navisworks^® Review 2010 software provides basic model aggregation; Autodesk^®Navisworks^® Simulate 2010 software includes Navisworks Review and adds 4D scheduling & photorealistic visualization capabilities; Autodesk^® Navisworks^® Manage 2010 software includes all and also adds clash detection functionality, helping to enable smoother real-time visualization of all types of models, more precise replication of designs and more accurate simulation of 4D construction schedules to help keep all project stakeholders on the same digital page, whether they are creating, viewing or reviewing 3D project models. Autodesk^® Navisworks^® Freedom 2010 is a free* viewer for files in Autodesk Navisworks NWD format, which gives project stakeholders better access to whole-project views.

Navisworks software helps enable design, engineering and building professionals to unite project contributions into a single, synchronized building information model. By helping enable team members to more reliably share, combine, review and perfect detailed 3D design models of any size or format, Autodesk Navisworks solutions are at the core of the BIM & Plant design workflows.

What’s New?

Enhanced Usability

On-screen ViewCube^® widget allows users to orbit the 3D scene and providesfeedback about the current camera viewing angle in relation to the model world. The ViewCube also provides a clickable interface to switch between model views.
Task-based SteeringWheels^® floating tool palettes travel with the cursor to help minimize tool access time. Tools are grouped into various wheels depending on the navigation task and user skill level.
Measurement displays are directly in the scene view, helping to increase efficiency as it is no longer necessary to go to the Measure Tools control bar to read measurement results.

Improved Workflow Functionality

New measure tools allow users to measure the shortest distance between two objects and the distance between centerlines.
Focus on smaller subsections of the unified model using the new section box and align section tools.

Updated and Enhanced Interoperability

Navisworks continues to offer support for the latest 2010 versions of Autodesk design applications, including the AutoCAD^® and Revit^®-based products and Autodesk^® Inventor^®2010 software.
Support for non-Autodesk applications such as ArchiCAD 12 have been updated, and a new format has been introduced, JT Open.

Screenshots

Clash Transparent Dimming – Construction predictability can be gained by using Navisworks to analyze the project model to ensure the various components fit together. Using the Clash Detective module you can look for hard clashes between various disciplines and systems and check for relevant clearances, such as insulation thicknesses. There have been a number of enhancements to the Clash Detective tool in the 2010 Autodesk Manage product.

Multiple clashes that are due to one interference issue can now be grouped together allowing you to deal with them as one issue.
The new View in Context button will automatically zoom out providing a better vantage point, allowing you to orientate yourself, and the clash, before zooming back into the clash location.
Once you know where you are, animated transitioning between clash results, and transparent dimming [as illustrated with the screenshot] allows you to remain orientated and better enables you to see the clash within its surroundings.

Texture with Mask – The Navisworks Presenter tool delivered in Simulate & Manage 2010 is a quick and easy to use visualization solution, particularly for working with existing design date combined into a single whole project view.

Presenter now supports PNG files, including transparency—also known as an Alpha channel. This allows you to create semitransparent image files and then use them to build your own materials. In this screenshot, an image file of a tree with a transparent background has been used to create a material. That is then applied to a number of billboards in the model scene. As the image background is transparent, you can see through the background and when rendered, the lights only cast a shadow of the [visible] trees, and not the [transparent] background.

Measure As Redline – New measurement tools for all FY10 Navisworks project review products [i.e. Review, simulate & Manage] make it easier to take accurate measurements including finding the minimum distance between two objects, or two groups of objects, regardless of object complexity. Having taken a measurement, it can now be converted into a redline and saved with a viewpoint.
Multiple measurements can be stored in this way on the same viewpoint. This could be used to provide necessary dimensions for the positioning of a piece of equipment, for example, which could help reduce the need for plotted paper drawings.

Now is the Time
Now is the time to take a look at Autodesk Navisworks. For more information, click on the links at the top right, fill in the form at right, or call your Hagerman & Company representative.

†Products include Autodesk Navisworks Manage software, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate software, and Autodesk Navisworks Review software.

*Free products are subject to the terms and conditions of the end-user license agreement that accompanies download of the software.

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Autodesk® Navisworks® 2010