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1. Editing toolbars Go to View Customize The Customize Toolbar dialog is displayed Customize Toolbar y 21x Available toolbar buttons Current toolbar buttons Separator Separator Le Straighten CD Perspective t SetUp Add gt Orthographic Separator lt Remove x Align A Y Align Y Z lian Z 2 Click any of Standard Workspace Rendering Style Navigation Mode Navigation Tools 3 The relevant dialog box appears depending on which toolbar you selected 4 Edit the layout of the toolbar as required by selecting buttons and clicking Add and Remove to add and remove buttons to the toolbar respectively Note Reset enables the default layout of the toolbar to be restored On the Navigation Tools toolbar there are 2 buttons not used by default Straighten and Set Up 14 4 Workspace Toolbar The Workspace toolbar gives you control over the NavisWorks interface Each button will toggle on and off a different control bar Alternatively the control bars can also be toggled on and off by right clicking on the NavisWorks frame and using the context menu or selecting from View Control Bars cepas am B y Feine 158 Chapter 14 Interface ene Hyperlinks A Measure Viewpoints Sectioning ES Plan Thumbnail Section Thumbnail Selection Tree Selection Sets de EE 71 J E Comments i aa Find Comments E W Find Items 14 5 Splitting the main view
2. Global Options A Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks 3D5 DWG DXF Presenter DaN IGES Faceting Factor Max Facet Deviation m 0 000 Split by Color Default Decimal Units Millirneters Menge 30 Faces Merge Lines Convert OFF Convert Frozen Convert Entity Handles Convert Groups 133113393 4 EN Advanced Enter the Faceting Factor the value must be greater than 0 The higher the value the more Navis Works will facet rounded entities and therefore the smoother they will appear See Faceting Factor for more information Enter the Max Faceting Deviation This will facet entities to within the specified tolerance This number uses the units of the model See Max Deviation Factor for more information 17 Chapter 3 Converting Files Check the Split by Color check box if you want to be able to select parts of compound entities in NavisWorks For example a window object from Architectural Desktop may be split into a frame and a pane If this check box is not checked then you will only be able to select the window object as a whole whereas if you check this check box you will be able to select the individual pane and frame However the names of the pane and frame will be based on their color From the Default Decimal Units drop down choose the type of units that NavisWor
3. 3 3 2 NavisWorks Preview for Viz and Max NavisWorks Preview for Viz and Max gives you a quick preview of the model and allows you to walk through it in real time inside a NavisWorks Freedom window launched from Viz Note If you install Viz after NavisWorks then install NavisWorks again choosing the Custom Install option and choose the relevant version of Viz The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you Previewing a model from Viz or Max Go to the Utilities tab and click on More Select NavisWorks from the list and click OK The NavisWorks command panel containing four buttons will open 51 Chapter 3 Converting Files B T a Utlis More Sets E Asset Browser Camera Match Collapse File Link Manager Measure Rescale World Units bass cript Panorama Exporter Navisworks Options Editor Preview Preview Selection Only Grab Viewpoint The Options Editor button allows you to control some aspects of the exported geometry from the scene See Section 3 2 3 for more details on these Click on Preview to launch NavisWorks Freedom and walk through the whole model in real time There will be a short delay while the geometry is exported into Freedom Click on Preview Selection Only to launch NavisWorks Freedom and walk through the selected geometry in real time There wi
4. 6 3 1 Saving Selection and Search Sets Saving a selection set Select all the items you want saving e Go to Edit Select Selection Sets Save Current Selection or e Right click on the Selection Sets control bar and choose Save Current Selection Saving a search Set up a search as explained in Section 7 2 Go to Edit Select Selection Sets Save Current Search or 81 Chapter 6 Selecting Items Right click on a blank space on the Selection Sets control bar and choose Save Current Search New selection sets and search sets are named Selection SetX where X is the next available number added to the list A selection set is identified by this icon E and a search set by this icon Ta Note Saved selection and search sets can be renamed by slow clicking clicking and pausing without moving the mouse on the set or clicking on it and hitting F2 6 3 2 Recalling Selection Sets To re select items from a selection set Go to Edit Select Selection Sets and choose the saved selection set from the list or In the Selection Sets control bar simply click on the selection set from the list Note On recalling a selection set all the items that were selected when the set was saved are re selected into the current selection On recalling a search set the search that was saved into the set is re run and any items matching the specification are selected into the current selection 6 3 3 Managing S
5. Click Send on the standard toolbar This accesses your mail package and sends the current file as an email attachment Receiving 3D Mail If an nwf file is received NavisWorks will search for the appended files first using the absolute path that the sender originally saved the file with This is useful if a team is on a local network and the files can be found using the Universal Naming Convention UNC Otherwise a team not sharing a server can orga nize a project using the same file hierarchy and drive letter and NavisWorks can find the files this way If NavisWorks is unable to find the files then the recipient can save the attached nwf in a directory where all the appended files are located The nwf can then look for these files relative to its own location This way you are able to move a whole sub directory from your projects directory to a completely new lo cation Save the nwf file in this new place and it will be able to search for the files from here 2 11 Exporting Files 2 11 1 The export option outputs the current viewpoint in one of three ways Windows bitmap bmp JPEG format jpg e Piranesi Epix format epx It is also possible to export an animation to an avi file Exporting to a Bitmap Exporting the current viewpoint to a bitmap From the File menu choose Export Windows Bitmap The BMP Export dialog box is displayed Chapter 2 File Management x C AProgram Files MavisW
6. Field of View Focal Point Model Centric Roll Saved Attributes Tilt Angle World Up Vector The field of view of a camera is the angle that the camera can see A large field of view will fit more into the view but will look distorted and a small field of view will tend to make the view more flat tending towards an orthographic view There are two fields of view in NavisWorks verti cal and horizontal Editing one will change the other and the two are re lated by the viewpoint s aspect ratio The focal point is the position in 3D space that the camera will rotate around or zoom into in examine orbit turntable and zoom modes Navigation modes in which the model is moved in front of the camera c f camera centric The roll of the camera is its angle around the viewing axis This cannot be edited in a navigation mode where the world up vector stays upright walk orbit and turntable Each viewpoint can optionally save the state of its hidden and required items as well as any material color and transparency overrides Then on recalling the viewpoint those same items are re hidden re made re quired and the materials reinstated This can be useful in the creation of animations when dragging on viewpoints onto an empty animation This is indicated in the scene s units below negative or above positive horizontal 0 at the base of the tilt bar The direction that NavisWorks considers up is called the worl
7. The current view may be split horizontally vertically or both The model can then be navigated indepen dently in each view with a white border indicating the active view To split the main navigation window e Go to View Split Horizontal or Split Vertical to divide the main view in half horizontally or vertically respectively or e Go to View Split and use the mouse to click where the split on the main view is required To remove the splitter bars Double click on the bar you wish to remove 159 Chapter 14 Interface or Drag a vertical bar to one side of the view or a horizontal bar to the top or bottom Note The recording and playback of animations will occur in the most recently used view Each sepa rate view remembers the navigation mode being used 14 6 Scene Statistics This displays a list of the files contributing to the scene and the different graphic elements that make up the scene along with which of these have been processed or ignored when loaded Other useful statistics are the bounding box of the entire scene and the total number of primitives triangles lines points in the scene To view scene statistics e Go to View Scene Statistics to display all the statistics about the current scene The number of each type of element is listed together with which have been ignored or processed in cre ating the scene 14 7 Units NavisWorks has the concept of what unit the scene is prese
8. Chapter 3 Converting Files Library part instances e Cameras e Hotlinks Sun attributes e Materials Unsupported entities e Section planes e Points e Lines Textures ArchiCAD nwc Exporter Options The export options appear after choosing OK from the File Save As menu II Export from 2D window E Navisworks nd file exporter w 1 4 Lightwork Design Limited 2000 I Export GUIDS f Enable library part instancing IY Export library part parameters fe Export current story only Cancel Setting the ArchiCAD exporter options Check the Export GUIDs check box if you want to attach a Globally Unique IDentifier as a property to each item in the model This is mainly useful for clash detection to track clashes 48 Chapter 3 Converting Files Check the Enable library part instancing check box if you want to make instances of library parts rather than creating new items This is only possible when multiple library part elements within the ArchiCAD model have exactly the same properties Instancing these parts means a smaller nwc file and shorter export times Library parts defined in GDL scripts may have a number of user defined custom parameters Check the Export library part parameters check box if you want to save library part parameter values as item properties in NavisWorks Check the Export current story only check box if you want to only export the current story Other wise all storie
9. Click Print OK to confirm and print the image or click Close to return to NavisWorks 2 8 3 Setting up printouts This option enables the setting up of paper size and orientation options Changing the print setup Go to File Print Setup The print setup dialog box is displayed Make changes as required to the paper orientation and click on Properties to change printer spe cific settings Click OK to print the image or click Cancel to return to NavisWorks 2 9 Deleting Files This command deletes the selected file from the scene It is only available when a single model file is se lected and there are more than one files appended in the scene Note You cannot delete files from within a published NavisWorks nwd file see Section 2 7 You can only delete appended files whether they were appended manually or within an nwf file To delete a file e Go to File Delete File Note It is not possible to undo this command 2 10 Emailing Files NavisWorks is a communication tool and the Send feature makes it easy for you to send your current Chapter 2 File Management model along with its viewpoints The Send command uses your current mail exchange service and will prompt you to set one up if it cannot find one Sending a mail will first save the current working file so you are guaranteed to always send the latest re view To send a file by email from within NavisWorks Go to File Send or
10. Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smat Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks 305 DWG DXF Presenter DGN Ices F Faceting Factor Mas Facet Deviation m Convert Hidden Items Convert Lines and Arce Menge Lines and Arcs Convert Text Shape Merge Threshold Convert References Ignore Unres References Use Level Symbology yi la Enter the Faceting Factor the value must be greater than 0 The higher the value the more Navis Works will facet rounded entities and therefore the smoother they will appear See Faceting Factor for more information Enter the Max Faceting Deviation This will facet entities to within the specified tolerance This number uses the units of the model See Max Deviation Factor for more information 24 Chapter 3 Converting Files Check the Convert Hidden Items check box if you want to read hidden entities from the dgn file They will be converted but hidden in NavisWorks Check the Convert Lines and Arcs check box if you want to read lines splines curves arcs circles or ellipses from the dgn file Check the Merge Lines and Arcs check box if you want to reduce the complexity of the model as seen in the selection tree by interpreting ajoining lines etc with the same color level and parent as a single item Leaving unchecked leaves these elements as separate items in NavisWorks Check the Conve
11. Fi A Point line TT Accumulate Angle Area 13 3 1 Measuring Tools The Measure Tools control bar is a dockable bar like all others in NavisWorks It can be accessed by clicking A on the Workspace control bar or by going to Tools Measure Measure Tools E Sle UU gt N Start rn 251 a 6 784 g 24 End m 5 683 6 088 po 5 Difference m fa Bb 0 636 EX 35 Distance m 4 512 Use the buttons at the top select the type of measurement you want to do For all measurements the x y and z coordinates of the Start point and End point are displayed in the text boxes underneath the buttons as are the Difference and the absolute Distance If an accumulative measure is being used such as Point Line or Accumulate Distance will show the accumulated dis tance for all points registered in the measurement All these measurements are shown in scene units All points will be represented in the main navigation window with a small cross and all lines being measured by a simple line between points You can use the Measure Options to choose how these are displayed 143 Chapter 13 Reviewing Note It goes without saying that you must click on a point on an item to register a point clicking on the background will not register anything but it is worth noting that you can snap to certain points on items see Section 13 3 1 for more details You can reset a measure command at any time by right click
12. If a group of files is appended into a NavisWorks scene and saved as an nwf file then on re opening this nwf file later once the original CAD files have been changed the updated CAD files will be loaded into the scene for review External references sometimes called reference files or xrefs are shown in Roamer selection tree as an inserted group Roamer looks for the externally referenced files in the same place as AutoCAD or Micro Station would If the Unresolved xref dialog box is shown then this link has somehow been broken and the referenced files need to be relocated to where Au toCAD or MicroStation would expect them to be If these xrefs are not important for the current session then you can lg nore the reference and the file will load without that xref inserted Simi larly Ignore All will load the file without any unresolved xrefs You can also use the DWG DXF and DGN options in the Tools Global Options dialog to set whether external references are loaded or not giv ing you more control over file appending into NavisWorks During an export from a CAD package to nwc or while Roamer is read ing a native CAD file decisions must be made as how a curved surface is reduced to flat facets For most applications and file formats you have control over the level of faceting that takes place All items no matter what their size will use the same faceting factor and 172 Glossary Max Faceting Deviation
13. c c Bentey si c Bentey si D ocumentatior E Home Program Help Workspace 3 Ce Options 7 cae gt q List Files of Type Drives View Number Navisworks Files nec E bl 1 Enter the file name if it is to be different to the existing MicroStation file 2 Enter the location you wish the file to be published to 3 Select the view number you wish to the model to be published from 4 Click on the Options button if you want to change the export configuration See Section 3 2 2 for more information on these options 5 Click OK to publish the file or Cancel to return to MicroStation without publishing it 58 Chapter 4 Publishing Note MicroStation can also be customized to add NWExport commands to the menu bar using the Workspace Customize dialog See Section 3 1 6 for what entities are and are not supported by the MicroStation exporter NavisWorks colors are derived from either MicroStation cell colors or MicroStation materials depending on the export options set during nwdout The appearance of objects in Publisher will match the appear ance of a MicroStation shaded render The view number chosen for export determines the initial view in NavisWorks whether level symbology is used and which levels are hidden Note The exporter only exports from 3D dgn files 2D files are not supported 4 4 NavisWorks Freedom NavisWorks Freedom is a cut down free version of Navi
14. 49 NavisWorks cache files 13 NavisWorks files 12 NavisWorks published files 12 NWC files 13 NWD files 12 NWF files 12 O options 167 167 file 167 global 167 orbiting 66 orthographic camera 70 overriding item properties 99 P panning 66 perspective camera 70 Piranesi Epix 9 points 111 Presenter 117 options 117 Preview NavisWorks 51 previewing 49 primitives 110 110 110 111 111 lines 110 points 111 snap points 111 surfaces 110 printing 5 5 5 6 current viewpoint 5 previewing 5 setup 6 profiles 162 PRP files 22 PRT files 35 publishing 54 Q Quick Find 90 quitting 11 Index R reading files 12 receving 3D mail 7 redlining 141 141 adding 141 redo 95 render modes 109 109 109 109 110 full 109 hidden line 110 shaded 109 wireframe 109 rendering 104 styles 104 required items 98 reviewing 138 commenting 138 S scene lights 106 107 options 107 scene statistics 160 search sets 81 81 saving 81 searching see also finding sectioning 130 sections 131 linking 131 selection commands 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 all 80 invert 80 multiple instances 80 none 80 same name 80 same property 80 same type 80 selection options 84 selection resolution 84 84 84 84 84 84 84 first object 84 geometry 84 last object 84 last unique 84 layer 84 model 84
15. EEN 2002 C Program Files NavisWorks 3examples library Library dwg pa oj xj File View Window Help 18 x COPAS AREA E S L a S fm TEMP SR ByLayer all ByLayer y ByColor E ara Beti LESM BHC pie 1 si S EE ES Regenerating model Command SNAP GRID ORTHO POLAR OSNAPJOTRACK LWT MODEL Navigator is very similar to NavisWorks Freedom see Section 4 4 except that it has three extra buttons on the interface Click on the NavisWorks button A to update the Navigator window with what s in the AutoCAD window Note The Navigator window is not updated automatically when the AutoCAD model changes so you have to click on this button manually every time you want to navigate around the latest model Click on the Export Viewpoint button AL to update the current AutoCAD viewpoint with that in the Navigator window Click on the Import Viewpoint button A to update the Navigator viewpoint with that in the current AutoCAD window If on typing nwnavigator at the command line you get an error you probably have to load the ARX plu gin manually See Section 3 2 1 for details on how to do this You should only have to do this once If you prefer to work from menus there is a partial menu available to run this command from along with the other NavisWorks ARX plugins See Section 3 2 1 for more information on how to use this menu 50 Chapter 3 Converting Files
16. Shape Merge Threshold so have the same number of sides to curved entities Therefore you need to experiment a little with different values to account for the size that these items will appear on screen The faceting factor must be greater or equal to 0 where 0 results in the faceting factor being turned off The default value is 1 if you double the value you get twice the number of facets if you halve the value you get half as many facets Larger faceting factors will result in more polygons to a model and larger NavisWorks files There is little point having a large faceting factor if these curved entities are golf balls viewed from 200 yards For AutoCAD exports the faceting factor is set from the NWCOPT com mand MicroStation s faceting factor is set from Options which is avail able from the NWCOUT export dialog and the option to set the faceting factor on reading CAD files is found by choosing Tools Global Options and the relevant options tab Maximum faceting deviation is used in conjunction with faceting factor to ensure that larger objects with too large a deviation from the original have additional facets added If a difference greater than the entered value is found in a model it adds more facets The values are measured in the model units d Where d is greater than the maximum faceting deviation value more facets are added to the object If the max faceting deviation is set to 0 then this function is ignored and
17. e Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools Align X or e Click Align X on the Navigation Tools toolbar X Aligning With The Y Axis This function toggles between Look From Left and Look From Right views To align the viewpoint with the y axis e Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools Align Y or e Click Align Y on the Navigation Tools toolbar Y Aligning With The Z Axis This function toggles between Look From Top and Look From Bottom views To align the viewpoint with the z axis e Goto Viewpoint Navigation Tools Align Z or e Click Align Z on the Navigation Tools toolbar 2 Looking From a Preset Viewpoint When this option is chosen the model is displayed from this viewpoint in the main navigation view This is equivalent to toggling the Align X Align Y and Align Z buttons on the Navigation Tools toolbar Looking from a preset viewpoint Go to Viewpoint Look From 72 Chapter 5 Navigating Choose any direction from Top Bottom Front Left Back and Right 5 11 Tilt The slider on this control bar provides direct control over the tilt angle of the camera in degrees below negative or above positive the horizontal at the base of the tilt bar This is particularly useful in walk mode to look up and down To switch the tilt bar on and off e Click on View Toolbars Tilt The Tilt control bar is displayed 7 5 12 Thumbnail Views Thumbnails are useful to get an overall view of where you are in the
18. just the faceting factor is used MicroStation shapes are polygons that can have 3 or more vertices They re often used to model more complex objects which can waste memory So NavisWorks merges all shapes on the same level or in the same cell and with the same color into a Shape Set if these shapes have less than or equal to the number of vertices given by the Shape Merge Threshold Selection Terminology These are terms specific to NavisWorks that are used in relation to selecting items Composite Objects 173 Glossary Instances ltem Name Item Type Selection Resolution User Name and Internal Name A composite object is a group of geometry that is considered a single ob ject in the selection tree For example a window object might be made up of a frame and a pane If a composite object the window object would be both the frame and the pane and be selected all at once An instance is a single object which is referred to several times within a model for example a tree This has the advantage of cutting down on file size by not unnecessarily repeating an object The original CAD or NavisWorks assigned identifier Any item can have a name and this name will usually come from the original CAD package that the model was created in Every item in NavisWorks has a type Examples of types are reference files layers instances sometimes called inserts and groups Every CAD package also has a number of geometry
19. to an item the default hyperlink will be followed You can also follow one of the none default hyperlinks attached to an item by selecting the item and go ing to Review Hyperlinks and selecting the hyperlink from the list The default hyperlink can also be followed from the Properties control bar by selecting the item right clicking on any tab in the bar and choosing Follow Default Hyperlink from the context menu Editing Hyperlinks Editing a hyperlink Either e Select a single item see Chapter 6 for more details on how to do this from which you want to edit a hyperlink and go to Review Hyperlinks Edit Hyperlinks Right click on the item from which you want to edit a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks Edit Hy perlinks from the context menu The Edit Hyperlinks dialog is displayed Edit Hyperlinks l x Name Hyperlink Category Attach Points Y web site www navisworks com Hyperlink 1 C Documents and Settings Tag Add Edit Follow Delete Make Default Move Up dnd OK Cancel Move Down Select the hyperlink under the Name column 150 Chapter 13 Reviewing Click on Edit The Edit Hyperlink dialog is displayed Hyperlinks X Mame Link to file or UAL es Category Hyperlink Attachment Paints 0 Add Clear All ce i 4 Complete this dialog as outlined in Section 13 4 1 5 Move hyperlinks up and down the list using
20. 117 Freedom 59 full lights 108 full render 109 H hardware acceleration 116 head light 104 105 options 105 help 169 169 169 169 170 About 170 license 169 System Info 169 What s This 169 hidden line render 110 hiding items 98 99 unselected 99 Index holding objects 94 hyperlinks 147 147 149 150 150 151 152 adding 147 deleting 151 displaying 149 editing 150 following 150 options 152 IAM files 33 IGES files 26 27 file reader options 27 interactive selection 78 Inventor files 33 33 file reader options 33 IPJ files 33 IPT files 33 item properties 99 99 100 100 100 100 101 101 101 101 overriding 99 99 100 100 color 99 hyperlinks 100 transparency 100 resetting 100 100 101 101 101 101 hyperlinks 101 101 materials 100 position 101 L lighting 104 108 full lights 108 head light see also head light scene lights see also scene lights lines 110 looking around 64 MAN files 26 measuring 142 143 145 options 145 tools 143 menu 2 File 2 MicroStation exporter 39 42 options 42 multiple sections 131 N navigating 63 63 64 64 65 65 66 66 66 67 67 examining 66 flying 67 looking around 64 modes 63 orbiting 66 panning 66 spinning 67 walking 64 zooming 65 zooming to a box 65 navigation tools 68 Navigator NavisWorks
21. ANDed together and will be logically ORed with all conditions preceding this condition which are in turn logically ANDed together A small plus will appear next to an ORed condition See the example below for a better explanation of the logic To delete the selected condition right click on the list box and choose Delete Condition from the context menu Alternatively to delete all the conditions in the find specification choose Delete All Conditions from the context menu The context menu that appears when right clicking on the list box also contains several Ignore Cate 89 Chapter 7 Finding gory and Ignore Property options See User Name and Internal Name for details on what these mean Check the Match Case check box if you want the find to respect the upper and lower case letters in strings You can also define case sensitivity at the condition level by selecting the condition right clicking on the list box and choosing Ignore String Value Case from the context menu This will then ignore that condition s case when making comparisons The Match Case check box should gray out showing that some conditions are case sensitive and other are not Check the Prune Below Result check box if you want to stop searching a branch of the selection tree as soon as an item that matches the find specification is found From the Search drop down select the type of search you want to perform Default searches all items selected in
22. Chapter 10 Viewpoints Global Options a x 305 DWG DxF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Default Saved Attributes Hide Required Override Material Defaults Check the Hide Required check box if you want to save the hidden and required items with the view points you save This means that when returning to those viewpoints the items that were hidden when the viewpoint was saved will be hidden again and those that were drawn will be drawn again The default is unchecked as it requires a relatively large amount of memory to save this state infor mation with each viewpoints See Section 8 3 for more information on hidden items and Section 8 4 Check the Override Material check box if you want to save the material overrides with the view points you save This means that when returning to those viewpoints the material overrides set when 128 Chapter 10 Viewpoints the viewpoint was saved will be reinstated The default is unchecked as it requires a relatively large amount of memory to save this state information with each viewpoints See Section 8 6 for more in formation on overriding materials Click OK to set the profile or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting it 129 Chapter 11 Sectioning Sectioning allows you to make up to 6 sectional cuts
23. Leaving unchecked leaves the faces as separate items in NavisWorks 32 Chapter 3 Converting Files 4 From the Default Units drop down choose the type of units that NavisWorks will use when opening 3ds files If the units turn out to be wrong the model can be easily rescaled using the File Transform function see Section 8 9 for more details 5 Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 3 1 11 Inventor Files Autodesk Inventor part ipt assembly iam and project ipj files can be read by NavisWorks Roamer Drawing idw files cannot be read Note The reader supports files from Autodesk Inventor v6 and earlier Supported Entities All geometry e Assembly structure e Materials Unsupported Entities e Material names Inventor File Reader Options Setting the Inventor file reader options Go to Tools Global Options Inventor The Inventor dialog is displayed 33 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E E x Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP Solidworks Active Project The Active Project text box displays the path of the current Inventor project To change project open the corresponding project file or enter the path to it here Click OK to set these options or Cancel
24. Note On recalling viewpoints the navigation mode that was active when the viewpoint was created will be re selected Any redlines and comments associated with the viewpoint will also be reinstated 120 Chapter 10 Viewpoints 10 3 The Viewpoints Control Bar Viewpoints allow you to keep a record of all the different views of a model so that you can jump to preset viewpoints without having to navigate each time to reach an item Animations are also saved with the viewpoints as they are simply a list of viewpoints treated as key frames of the animation In fact anima tions can be made by simply dragging preset viewpoints onto an empty animation See Section 12 1 for more information on animations You can also organize your animations and viewpoints using folders Church ci a O walk over The Viewpoints control bar is shown above To open it Go to View Control Bars Viewpoints or e Click Viewpoints on the Workspace toolbar Icons are used to represent different elements ii represents a folder which may contain all other elements including other folders a represents a viewpoint saved in orthographic mode 121 Chapter 10 Viewpoints D represents a viewpoint saved in perspective mode y represents an animation clip De represents a cut inserted into an animation clip You can select more than one viewpoint by either holding down the Control key and left clicking or by left clicking on the
25. Tools control bar is a dockable bar like all others in NavisWorks It can be accessed by clicking ae on the Workspace control bar or by going to Tools Redline x Noa o Do Thickness g Color Note Redlines can only be added to a saved viewpoint or to a clash result which has a saved view point If a viewpoint is not selected a warning is given if a redline tool is selected Adding a redline to a saved viewpoint Go to a saved viewpoint or a Clash Detective result with the Save Viewpoint check box checked Ensure the Redline Tools control bar is displayed as outlined above 141 Chapter 13 Reviewing Type the thickness of the redlines into the Thickness edit box The thickness applies to the redlines you are about to draw and will not change any existing redline thicknesses To change the color of the redline they don t have to be red click on the Color button to open the standard Windows color chooser This color applies to the redlines you are about to draw and will not change any existing redline colors Choose the Pen 2 redline tool to sketch over the viewpoint Simply click and drag the left mouse button in the main navigation window to interactively sketch a redline Choose the Line N redline tool to draw single lines over the viewpoint Alternately click the start and end points of lines with the left mouse button in the main navigation window Choose the Line String sA redline tool to dr
26. comprehensive and powerful Find Item feature see Section 7 2 NavisWorks also offers a simpler and quicker Quick Find This simply searches for a string case insensitive in all prop 90 Chapter 7 Finding erty names and values attached to items in the scene Quickly finding items from a string Go to Edit Quick Find or press Ctrl F The Quick Find dialog will appear Find what Cancel 2 Type in the string you want to search for in all items properties This search is not case sensitive 3 Click Find Next to find the next item in the selection tree containing this string or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 4 If any items contain properties with the string being searched for the next one in the selection tree will be highlighted and the search stopped 5 To repeat the search simply press F3 or go to Edit Quick Find Next If any more items contain properties with the string the next one in the selection tree will be highlighted and the search stopped 7 4 Finding Comments As well as finding items by property you can also search the comments attached to items clash results and selection sets using the Find Comments control bar For more information on what comments are and how to attach them to items see Section 13 1 Alternatively go to Edit Find Comments As usual in NavisWorks the Find Comments control bar is a dockable bar accessed through the View Control Bars menu from the Review Com
27. down To add another row simply click on the row underneath the last row in the Category column to get a new drop down or right click on some blank space in the list and choose Add Row from the context menu To delete a row or all rows right click on some blank space in the list and choose Delete Row or Delete All from the context menu Right clicking on some text in the list offers four extra options Ignore Category User Name Ignore Category Internal Name Ignore Property User Name and Ignore Property Internal Name For explanations of the terms User Name and Internal Name see the Glossary You might use Ignore User Name for example if you wanted to match something irrespective of which localized version was being used Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 156 Chapter 14 Interface The NavisWorks interface is fairly simple Most features are accessible from the control bars which can be turned on or off from either the View Control Bars menu or by right clicking on any of the displayed toolbars All the control bars are dockable and a useful hint is to hold down the Control key when moving a dialog if you do not want the dialog to dock It is also a good idea to right click on dialogs to discover features that are not at first glance obvious NavisWorks has the concept of what unit the scene is presented in This is most useful when measuring items setting tolerances for clash d
28. e Step Back ll will step back a single frame e Reverse Play A will play the animation backwards Pause 00 will pause the animation at the frame you press it at You can then look around and wonder off in the model or step forwards and backwards through the animation To continue play ing from where you paused just press Play again Stop O will stop the animation playing and rewind back to the beginning e Play F will play the animation from the currently selected frame e Step Forwards IC will step one frame forwards Forward ie will fast forward the animation to the end 137 Chapter 13 Reviewing NavisWorks offers several design review tools to help you review a model and communicate those re views to others Any reviewing you save in the model can also be saved into an nwf file so that you can reload the reviews into a later session when the model has changed or to pass onto colleagues to com municate design intent or problems The reviewing tools available in NavisWorks are e Commenting Redlining e Measuring e Hyperlinks 13 1 Commenting Multiple comments can be attached to any item in the Viewpoints control bar see Section 10 3 or to any item in the Selection Sets control bar see Section 6 3 or to Clash Detective results The Comments control bar allows you to view all comments attached to one of these sources Click on in the Workspace toolbar or go to View Control Bars Comments to to
29. height the dimensions are in pixels Aspect Ratio allows you to set the height and the width is automatically calculated from the aspect ratio of your current view Current View takes the width and height of your current view Anti Aliasing smoothes the edges of the exported images The higher the number the smoother the im 10 Chapter 2 File Management age but the longer they take to export 4x should be adequate for most situations Note There is a maximum size of 2048 x 2048 pixels 2 12 Quitting NavisWorks Quitting NavisWorks Go to File Exit If the model has been changed since opening it NavisWorks will ask you whether you want to save any changes Respond appropriately and NavisWorks will then close 11 Chapter 3 Converting Files With NavisWorks Roamer you can open a wide variety of native CAD file types without having to have the CAD application on your machine Files read by NavisWorks include dwg dgn dxf SolidWorks Solid Edge and Inventor For a full list of CAD files that NavisWorks can open please refer to the web site www navisworks com http www navisworks com This site will also explain which entities are read by NavisWorks and which are ignored as well as any object property information that is converted lt is pos sible to load multiple files of different formats into the same scene in NavisWorks and set their units and origins appropriately There are also a number of opt
30. icon on the desktop or go to Start Programs Navis Works Roamer The following chapters will describe the interface in more detail NavisWorks contains full context sensitive Help Click h2 and click over the toolbar button or menu command to display the appropriate Help topic Or alternatively go to the Help menu For more hints tips and answers to frequently asked questions see Chapter 17 or alternatively go to the NavisWorks website at www navisworks com http www navisworks com Chapter 2 File Management With NavisWorks Roamer you can open a wide variety of native 3D CAD file types without having to have the CAD application on your machine See Chapter 3 for more detailed information on these file formats and their options File management all happens with the File menu and the Standard toolbar Dosda js s 0o09 N 2 1 File Menu The File menu includes the following items e New e Open Append Save e Save As e Publish Print Print Preview e Print Setup Delete File Send Export e Recently opened files Exit 2 2 New Files This option resets NavisWorks and closes existing files To create a new file Goto File New or Chapter 2 File Management k on the Standard toolbar 2 3 Opening Files With NavisWorks Roamer you can open a wide variety of native CAD file types without having to have the CAD application on your machine See Chapter 3 for more detailed info
31. if you want to create a new animation ready for dragging viewpoints onto in this folder A new animation will be created with its default name AnimationX editable See Sec tion 12 1 for more information on animations 4 Choose Add Copy to create a copy of the folder in the saved viewpoints list The copy will be named the same as the folder clicked on but with a copy suffix 5 Choose Add Folder if you want to add another folder underneath the selected folder A new folder will be created with its default name FolderX editable 6 Choose Add Comment to add a comment regarding this folder See Section 13 1 for more informa tion on comments 7 Choose Update to update all viewpoints in the folder with the current render style lighting and navi gation mode Choosing Update on a single viewpoint will only update that viewpoint with the current modes 8 124 Chapter 10 Viewpoints Choose Delete to remove the folder and all its contents from the list of saved viewpoints 10 5 Editing Viewpoints You can edit by hand any viewpoints attributes including camera position field of view speed of motion and saved attributes All entries are measured in scene units see Section 14 7 If accessed from Viewpoint Edit Current Viewpoint the Edit Viewpointdialog box allows editing of the current viewpoint s attributes Alternatively if accessed via the saved viewpoints list by right clicking on a viewpoint or animati
32. in any plane while still being able to navigate around the scene enabling you to see inside models without hiding any item Section planes are stored inside viewpoints and so can also be used within animations to show a dynamically sectioned model See Sec tion 10 3 for more information on viewpoints and Section 12 1 for more information on animations Slices can also be created using two opposing section planes and linking them In this way you can move a slice through the scene in real time and can again link this to animations and viewpoints 11 1 Sectioning a model There are up to 6 section planes enabled at one time but there is only one that is active The section plane that is active is numbered in the drop down box However you can link section planes together to form slices PPP foro e zile x gt des 0005 AAA eit The Sectioning toolbar is shown above To open it Goto View Control Bars Sectioning or e Click Sectioning Be on the Workspace toolbar Manipulating the active section plane Choose the plane that you wish to manipulate using the numbered drop down In this drop down there will always be one more than the number of enabled section planes in the scene up to a maxi mum of 6 Switch this plane on or off by clicking the section toggle button E Once switched on choose one of the 7 planes that this section plane will cut You have the choice of Align Viewpoint a This will align the plane par
33. is found to snap to ES 4 An edge is found to snap to oR Note The geometry in NavisWorks is tessellated with triangles and therefore the cursor will snap to edges that may appear to be in the middle of a face Viewing the model in hidden line mode will make it clear which vertex or edge the cursor is snapping to 13 3 2 Measure Options NavisWorks allows you to configure the appearance and selection style of the measure tools and the measurement drawing in the main navigation window Setting measure options Go to Tools Global Options Measure The Measure dialog is displayed 145 Chapter 13 Reviewing Global Options E xj 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Line Thickness a I naD Color Snap to Verter Snap Tolerance Edge f E Line End Defaults Set the Color and Line Thickness of the measure lines Check the In 3D check box if you want to draw the measurements in 3D in the main view They then act as 3D lines in the scene which can be obscured by other geometry If this box is unchecked then all measurement lines are drawn in 2D over the top of the all geometry Set the measure picking style by checking the Vertex Edge and or Line End check boxes The cur 146 13 4 13 4 1 Chapt
34. is the latest available number will be added to the Viewpoints control bar The name will be editable at this point if you want to name it yourself There will be no plus sign next to the animation showing that the animation is indeed empty Create the viewpoints where you want the camera to move through during the animation and save these into the Viewpoints control bar These will become the frames for the animation The more frames you have the smoother and more predictable the animation will be See Section 10 1 for more information on creating viewpoints When you have all the viewpoints simply drag them onto the empty animation you just created You can drag them on one by one or select multiple viewpoints using the Control and Shift keys and drag several on at once If you drop them onto the animation icon itself then the viewpoints will be come frames at the end of the animation but you can drop the viewpoints anywhere on the ex panded animation to put them where you wish At this point you can use the slider bar on the Animation toolbar to move backward and forward through the animation to see how it looks You can edit any of the viewpoints inside the animation see Section 10 5 for details on this or you can add more viewpoints delete them move them around add cuts and edit the animation itself see Section 12 2 until you are happy with the animation Once you have several animations you can drag and drop them onto a mas
35. ning is a model centric motion Right clicking on any item in the main navigation view or selection tree displays a context menu that shows a list of commands relevant to a particular item The Navigation Mode toolbar also includes the Select tools as they are mutually exclusive to navigation just as redlining and measuring are See Section 6 2 1 for more information on the selection tools Below is shown the Navigation Mode toolbar and the navigation modes available REM 219 yt Walk Gp Po 63 Chapter 5 Navigating Look A ook Around a Zoom A Zoom Box p Pan Mm Orbit gt Examine A 29 Fly FE Turntable el 5 1 1 Walking Walk mode enables you to walk through the model on a horizontal plane ensuring that up is always up To walk through a model Go to Viewpoint Navigation Mode Walk or e Click Walk gg on the Navigation Mode toolbar Po Dragging the left mouse button or using the cursor keys spins the camera left and right and moves it for wards and backwards Holding down the Shift key speeds up this movement Holding down the Control key glides the camera left and right and up and down As walk mode is cam era centric this mode differs from the normal pan mode in that the camera is moved rather than the model Spinning the mouse wheel tilts the camera up and down 5 1 2 Looking Around Look around mode enables you to look around the model from the current camera position and gives
36. of both your movement through the model and views of the model An animation toolbar is provided for the recording and playback of animations and this is linked to the Viewpoints control bar which can be used to make animations from scratch by build ing up an animation frame by frame viewpoint by viewpoint The Viewpoints control bar can then be used to save edit rearrange and manage your animations in folders including inserting cuts and drag ging and dropping animations onto other animations to build up a more complex animation from simpler ones At any time during an animation playback you can stop the animation and have a real time look around before restarting it Once you are happy with the animation you can export it as an avi file It is worth remembering that you can hide items in viewpoints override colors and transparencies and set multiple section planes and these will all be respected by an animation This way you can very simply cre ate powerful animations 12 1 Creating Animations There are two ways to create animations in NavisWorks You can either simply record your real time walk through or you can assemble specific viewpoints for NavisWorks to interpolate into an animation later for amore controlled animation All animation is controlled through the Tools Animation menu the Viewpoints control bar and the Ani mation toolbar which is shown below md vc o gt o a H foo fsi J Creating an animation in rea
37. purchased the Presenter or Clash Detective plugins they will be available under this menu The Tools menu consists of e Clash Detective e Presenter Compare e Redline e Hyperlinks Smart Tags e Measure e Animation e Background Color File Options e Global Options All items on this menu are explained in other chapters except for the Compare tool which is described below 15 1 Comparing Models The Compare tool becomes available when exactly two items are selected These can be any types of item but the compare tool is most useful when comparing two versions of the same model During the comparison NavisWorks will start at each item and recursively travel down each path as seen in the standard selection tree comparing each item it comes across in terms of the criteria requested When the comparison has finished you have the option of saving the differences as Selection Sets with comments describing the differences in more detail Comparing two items Select exactly two items in the scene see Chapter 6 for more information on how to do this Go to Tools Compare The Compare dialog is displayed 164 Chapter 15 Tools Find Differences In Results M Type W Save as Selection Sets ls 4 Save each difference as Set 7 an M Remove old results i Path 4 Hide Matches Dl isis IM Highlight Results W Tree Overiden Material m Overiden Transhorm x toma He In the F
38. selection sets 81 81 82 82 managing 82 recalling 82 saving 81 selection trees 76 shaded render 109 showing items 101 SLDASM files 31 SLDPRT files 31 slices 131 Smart Tags 154 155 options 155 snap points 111 Solid Edge files 35 35 file reader options 35 SolidWorks files 31 31 file reader options 31 spinning 67 STEP files 29 29 file reader options 29 straighten 70 surfaces 110 T thumbnails 73 tilt 73 tools 164 164 comparing models 164 transform 102 transparency 116 U undo 95 96 options 96 units 102 160 160 options 160 V View menu 157 view window 159 splitting 159 viewing 69 69 everything 69 selected items 69 viewpoints 71 71 72 72 120 120 121 122 123 124 125 127 align X 71 align Y 72 align Z 72 context menu 122 control bar 121 editing 125 folders 124 managing 123 options 127 preset 71 recalling 120 saving 120 Viz 51 NavisWorks Preview 51 Viz exporter 44 44 options 44 Index W walking 64 wireframe render 109 workspace toolbar 158 world up vector 71 Z zooming 65 65 to a box 65 179
39. sets control bar 77 Chapter 6 Selecting Items Naming of items reflects the names from the original CAD application wherever possible There are several different tree icons representing the types of item that make up the structure of a model A model such as a drawing file or design file FA layer or level fe A group such as a block definition from AutoCAD or cell definition from MicroStation An instanced group such as an inserted block from AutoCAD or cell from MicroStation If in the im ported file the instance was unnamed NavisWorks names the instance to match its child s name An item of geometry such as a polygon 4 An instanced item of geometry such as an instance from 3D Studio A search Behind the scenes NavisWorks is searching the model for all items with a property of this type and sets up the find specification to repeat this search if the selection set is saved See Section 6 3 for more information on this Each of these item types can be Hidden gray Unhidden dark blue or Required red Note If a group is selected as hidden or required then all instances of that item will be hidden or re quired If you wish to operate on a single occurrence of an item then you should make the in stanced group the level above or the parent in the hierarchy hidden or required You can use the selection tree in combination with the main navigation window to select items into the current selection wh
40. the selection tree along with the paths below these itesm for matches with the search e Below Selected Paths only searches below the items selected in the selection tree for matches with the search e Selected Paths Only only searches within the items selected in the selection tree for matches with the search Click Find First for the first item in the selection tree to match any of the find specification Find Next to find the next item in the tree and Find All to find all items matching the specification You can click on Abort Search at any time during a lengthy search to cancel the search Any items found will be selected in the selection tree and main navigation window Note A small star will appear next to any condition that does not have the default settings such as if you negate the condition or check one of the Ignore items on the context menu Find Item Example Say you have set up four conditions in the search called C1 C2 C3 and C4 If you want to search for C1 AND C2 OR C3 AND NOT C4 then you would select condition 3 and choose Or Condition from the context menu and then select condition 4 and choose Negate Condition from the context menu So all conditions following the OR are ANDed together and this group of conditions is ORed with the first group of conditions which are also ANDed together In other words in geek speak the precedence is NOT then AND then OR 7 3 Quick Find As well as the more
41. them or override their colors At any time the current selection can be saved saved and named for retrieval in later sessions 6 1 Selection Trees The selection tree is a tabbed control bar which displays a variety of hierarchical views of the structure of the model as defined by the CAD application in which the model was created 76 Chapter 6 Selecting Items selection Tree E 4 east nwd 8 bridgeD01 dwg a 8 east24_deg H BRANCH 6 3 EZABITS EJ 3D Face Set m E24GRASS H E E24PAVE 5 E24PPET i se Ol Polygon Mesh E Polygon Mesh pe Ol 3D Face Set ce Ol Polygon Mesh E Poligon Mesh EY Polygon Mesh E Polygon Mesh H E EZARLITE p E E24ROAD H E E24RDOF H E E24R00FR HS TE p E24WALL EZ INF LEAF h Standard Properties By default there are four tabs called Standard Compact Properties and Sets Standard displays the default tree hierarchy including all instancing e Compact displays a simplified version of the Standard hierarchy omitting various items You can control the level of complexity of this tree using the Select options see Section 6 5 for more informa tion e Properties displays the hierarchy based on the items properties This enables simple manual searching of the model by item property See Chapter 7 for a much more powerful way of searching the model for items with certain properties Sets simply shows the same view as the selection
42. this is a slower process Also you may want to disable the writing of cache files in order to save on disk space and clutter even though the cache files are generally many times smaller than the original native CAD files Setting caching options Go to Tools Global Options and select the Caching tab The Caching dialog box is displayed 13 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E E x 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags W Read Cache e Write Cache Defaults Uncheck the Read Cache box if you wish to ignore any existing caches when opening a native CAD file Uncheck the Write Cache box if you do not wish to write a cache file the next time a native CAD file is loaded Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 14 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 1 4 DWG and DXF Files NavisWorks Roamer s dwg and dxf file reader uses Autodesk s ObjectDBX technology and so is guar anteed to read all object geometry and information for those third party applications that utilize the Object Modelling Framework The reader currently supports all surface shaded entities 3D faces rectangular meshes polyface meshes circles extruded lines and so on including Proxy Graphics and custom objects such as ACIS b
43. to click on an item in the main navigation window to select it Once a single item is selected its properties will be shown in the Properties control bar You can select multiple items in the main navigation window using the familiar Windows methods of holding down the Control key while selecting items This will add them to the current selection na Altertively if the items are already in the current selection holding down Control while selecting them again will remove them from the current selection Holding the Shift key whilst selecting items in the main navigation window will cycle through the selection resolution allowing you to get more specific with your selections See Selection Resolution for more infor mation on this To select an item e Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Select or e Click Select x on the Navigation Mode toolbar 6 2 2 Select Box Mode This mode which can be used in conjunction with the normal select mode allows you to drag a box in the main navigation window to select multiple items at once This mode is also mutually exclusive to the navi gation modes so that when you are selecting you cannot navigate and vice versa Dragging the box will select all items within the box Holding down the Shift key while dragging the box will select all items within and that intersect the box You can select multiple items in the main navigation window using the familiar Windows methods of holding down the Control ke
44. to configure the file output If you regularly export nwc files from MicroStation then you will not want to load the NWExport plugin manually each time so do the following Loading the NWExport MDL plugin automatically Go to Workspace Configuration 2 Choose Design Applications under Category 3 Choose NWExport under Available Applications 4 Click Add and confirm that you want NWExport added to your default configuration 5 MicroStation will then automatically load NWExport in future sessions 6 Click OK Once NWExport plugin is loaded you can export to nwc using the nwcout command from the key in command line Exporting nwc files from MicroStation Type nwcout at the key in prompt The MicroStation export dialog is displayed 40 Chapter 3 Converting Files Export NavisWorks File Files Directories c c Bentey si c Bentey si Doetmentation Home Frogram Help Workspace _ T Options naa P q List Files of Type Drives View Number Navisworks Files nec ms Ci ad 1 2 Enter the file name if it is to be different to the existing MicroStation file 3 Enter the location you wish the file to be exported to 4 Select the view number you wish to the model to be exported from 5 Click on the Options button if you want to change the export configuration See Section 3 2 2 for more information on these options 6 Click OK to export the file or Canc
45. to exit the dialog without setting them 34 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 1 12 Solid Edge Files EDS Solid Edge part prt and assembly asm files can be read by NavisWorks Roamer Note The reader supports files from Solid Edge v14 and earlier Supported Entities All geometry e Assembly structure e Materials Unsupported Entities e Material names Solid Edge File Reader Options Setting the Solid Edge file reader options Go to Tools Global Options Solid Edge The Solid Edge dialog is displayed 35 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options 2 xj Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor Solid Edge SMER Solidworks Merge Faces E Check the Merge Faces check box if you want to reduce the complexity of the model as seen in the selection tree by interpreting a body as a single item consisting of a group of faces Leaving unchecked leaves the faces as separate items in NavisWorks Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 36 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 2 File Exporters Cache files can in some cases be exported from the CAD application itself Currently they can be written directly from AutoCAD MicroStation ArchiCAD and Viz There are two reasons you may want to use cache files in this way 1
46. trying to figure out which items are lost To view everything e Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools View All or e Click View All tal on the Navigation Tools toolbar 5 4 Viewing Selected Items This function zooms the camera so that the selected item fills the main navigation view To view a selected item Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools View Selected or e Click View Selected in on the Navigation Tools toolbar 5 5 Focusing This function puts the main navigation view into focus mode until the next click Left click on an item and the view swivels so that the point clicked is in the center of the view The point clicked becomes the focal point for examine orbit turntable navigation modes 69 Chapter 5 Navigating To focus the camera Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools Focus or e Click Focus on the Navigation Tools toolbar 5 6 Perspective Camera Uses a perspective camera to view with To select a perspective camera Goto Viewpoint Navigation Tools Perspective Camera or e Click Perspective ai on the Navigation Tools toolbar 5 7 Orthographic Camera Uses an orthographic camera to view with To select an orthographic camera Goto Viewpoint Navigation Tools Orthographic Camera or e Click Orthographic E on the Navigation Tools toolbar Note Orthographic cameras are not available with Walk and Fly navigation modes 5 8 Straighten This function straightens the camera
47. AGP SSE2 OpenGL Yersion 1 3 1 Pixel Format 6 Color Bits 32 Depth Bits 24 Graphics Driver NVIDIA GeForce4 420 Go Toshiba OpenGL Driver Version 6 13 10 2846 nvoglnt dll 17 4 About NavisWorks Opens a dialog giving you information about your product including version and build number which can be helpful in support situations About NavisWorks 3 x Navisworks 3 0 Version main 12171 Built Feb 17 2003 Copyright C Navisworks Ltd 1998 2003 ObjectDBX TM copyright c 1999 2002 Autodesk Inc http www navisworks com This product is licensed to Steve Parnell The CAD Monkeys 170 Glossary Glossary of technical terms relating to NavisWorks Roamer Display Terminology Average Frame Rate Average Frame Time Average Triangle Rate Culling Drop Out Frame Rate This shows the current measured frame rate averaged over the last sec ond This shows the time taken to render the last frame This shows the rate at which triangles are being rendered and is a mea sure of how well your graphics card is working Culling is a process for determining items not to draw during the render of a scene NavisWorks does a level of prioritized culling with the drop out method of rendering interactive scenes but you have a certain level of control over other aspects of culling such as backface near and far planes In order to maintain interactivity and guarantee a user defined fram
48. CAD based product between AutoCAD 14 and 2004 releases You can also publish nwd files directly from AutoCAD if you have the Publisher plugin For more de tails refer to Section 4 2 Exporting nwc files from AutoCAD Type nwcout at the command line The standard Windows Save As dialog is displayed so choose the location and name of the nwc file to be exported 37 Chapter 3 Converting Files Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to AutoCAD without exporting it See Section 3 1 4 for what entities are and are not supported by the AutoCAD exporter If on typing nwcout at the command line you get an error you probably have to load the ARX plugin manually You should only have to do this once Loading the NavisWorks ARX Plugin Loading the ARX plugin manually Type ARX followed by return at the command line 2 Then type the letter I followed by return at the command line for Load 3 The Select ARX file dialog will be displayed so browse to the ARX plugin By default for AutoCAD R14 this will be C Program Files NavisWorks 3 NWExport AutoCAD_R14_Plugin_Files nwexport arx for AutoCAD 2000 based applications this will be C Program Files NavisWorks 3 NWExport 2000 AutoCAD2000_Plugin_Files nwexport2000 arx and for AutoCAD 2004 based applications C Program Files NavisWorks 3 NWExport2004 AutoCAD2004_Plugin_Files nwexport2004 arx 4 Click OK to load the ARX plugin 5 You shoul
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50. Last Unique Fick Radius ic Compact Tree Models ie Layers Objects Defaults Last Object C Geometry To set the color that selected items are displayed in click the Color button The default highlight color is blue Alternatively check the None check box to disable selected item highlighting items won t change color when selected 85 Chapter 6 Selecting Items Enter the radius in pixels that an item has to be within in order for it to be selected in the Radius box Choose the level of selection that you wish to use as the default selection resolution Choose what level of detail you wish to see in the Compact selection tree Models will restrict the tree to just displaying model files Layers will restrict it down to the layer level and Objects will show a similar tree to the Standard tree but without the levels of instancing inserted above an inserted block Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 86 Chapter 7 Finding Finding is a quick and powerful way of selecting items into the current selection based on items proper ties These searches can then be saved see Section 6 3 1 and re run in later sessions You can also find text inside comments using the Find Comments functionality 7 1 Properties The Properties control bar shows all the properties of an item selected Properties are categorized into categories such as Item and Material and
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52. NavisWorks Roamer cannot read the native CAD file directly in the case of ArchiCAD and Viz but you wish to view the files created in these applications 2 You wish to get a better quality file into NavisWorks Although the direct file readers are adequate the majority of the time the exporters can get a better quality So if you are missing some items or some items are being read wrongly by reading the native CAD files directly then try exporting to a nwd file and reading this into NavisWorks Roamer instead See Section 3 2 for more information There are nwc file exporters for the following CAD applications e Autodesk s AutoCAD e Bentley s MicroStation Discreet s Viz and Max e Graphisoft s ArchiCAD 3 2 1 AutoCAD nwc Exporter NavisWorks Roamer comes with ARX plugins for any AutoCAD based product such as Architectural Desktop that enable you to export an nwc file directly from the CAD application in which it was cre ated As long as AutoCAD is already installed on the computer when NavisWorks is installed the ARX plugin is installed with NavisWorks on a Custom Install or Full Install and ready for use Note If you install AutoCAD after NavisWorks then install NavisWorks again choosing the Custom In stall option and choose the relevant version of AutoCAD The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you The nwc exporter is available for any Auto
53. NavisWorks again choosing the Custom Install option and choose the relevant MicroStation The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you There are two steps to publishing nwd files from MicroStation first you have to load the MDL application into MicroStation and then you have to publish the file Loading the NWExport MDL plugin manually Go to the Utilities Key in dialog box to load the application manually Type mdl load nwexport without the quotes and press return An options dialog can be opened from this export dialog to configure the file output If you regularly publish nwd files from MicroStation then you will not want to load the NWExport plugin manually each time so do the following Loading the NWExport MDL plugin automatically Go to Workspace Configuration 2 Choose Design Applications under Category 3 Choose NWExport under Available Applications 4 Click Add and confirm that you want NWExport added to your default configuration 5 MicroStation will then automatically load NWExport in future sessions 6 57 Chapter 4 Publishing Click OK Once NWExport plugin is loaded you can publish to nwd using the nwdout command from the key in command line Publishing nwd files from MicroStation Type nwdout at the key in prompt The MicroStation export dialog is displayed Export NavisWorks File Files Directores
54. NavisWorks files so that as the model changes the links remain for you and others to view See Section 13 4 for more information on overriding hyperlinks 8 7 Resetting Overriden Properties Once an override has been applied to an item you simply reset that override to return it to the value that it had when the file was originally converted from the native CAD file 8 7 1 Resetting Materials This option restores the original items color and transparency to the selected items Note You cannot reset an item s color separately from its transparency they are always reset to gether To reset color and transparency 100 Chapter 8 Editing Go to Edit Reset Item Colors and Transparencies 8 7 2 Resetting Hyperlinks This option restores the original items hyperlinks to the selected items and removes any hyperlinks that have been added in the model since To reset hyperlinks Go to Edit Reset Item Hyperlinks 8 7 3 Resetting Items Positions This option restores the original items positions to the selected items after it has been moved using the Hold Item command To reset a held item s position Go to Edit Reset Item Held Item 8 8 Resetting All Overriden Properties Once an override has been applied to several items you can reset them all at once to return them to the values that they had when the file was originally converted from the native CAD file 8 8 1 Resetting All Colors and Transp
55. Oia de A E A E E 169 LTA RENIEN AO ATE a A E tad E A 169 IZA About Navis Wok Sui EERE TEE SE SE RE 170 GIOSSANY ias A NT i EAE a eee Gs o E TE A E TE E E O A E ET vii Chapter 1 Overview The basis of NavisWorks Roamer is its ability to walk through any size model in real time NavisWorks guarantees a user defined frame rate using a unique algorithm which automatically calculates which items to render first during navigation based on the size of items and distance from the viewpoint Items which NavisWorks does not have time to render are therefore sacrificed or dropped out in the name of interactivity These items are of course rendered when navigation ceases The amount of drop out de pends on several factors including hardware in particular graphics card and driver performance for a list of recommended graphics cards visit www navisworks com http www navisworks com as well as the size of the NavisWorks navigation window and the size of the model If you wish to reduce drop out during navigation you have the option to reduce frame rate and therefore trade it off against drop out NavisWorks is sold as a base product Roamer and a set of plugins that plug in to it for additional func tionality such as for file publishing photo realistic rendering and clash detection This set of user guides is organized by product so there is a book for base Roamer and one for each plugin To start Roamer double click on the Roamer
56. Viewpoints control bar dragging frames off the animation into a blank space on the View points control bar to remove them from the animation editing individual frames attributes inserting cuts or dragging other viewpoints or animations onto the existing one to continue developing your animations 12 3 Animation Cuts Cuts in an animation are simply points where the camera pauses for a while They are inserted automati cally when you click on Pause during the interactive recording of an animation or you can insert them manually into an existing animation Inserting pasues into an animation Right click on the frame below where you want to insert the cut Choose Add Cut from the context menu 135 Chapter 12 Animating 3 Type in the name of the cut or hit Enter to accept the default name which will be CutX where X is the next available number 4 This default duration of a cutis 1 second To alter the duration of this pause right click on the cut and choose Edit The Edit Animation Cut dialog is displayed Edit Animation Cut xj 1 0 Delay 5 Cancel 5 Type in the duration of the pause in seconds 6 Click OK to set the duration or Cancel to return o NavisWorks without setting it 12 4 Playing Back Animations You can choose any one of the animations saved in the Viewpoints control bar to play back in real time in the main navigation window Playing back an animation in real time means that the NavisWo
57. Works navigation window and the size of the model If you wish to reduce drop out during navigation you have the option to reduce frame rate and therefore trade it off against drop out You can set the frame rate anywhere between 1 and 60 frames per second Setting the frame rate Go to Tools File Options Speed The Speed dialog is displayed File Options xj Culing Head Light Speed Scene Lights Frame Rate E Defaults Cancel Apply Help 114 Chapter 9 Display Modes Select the number of frames per second to be applied to the rendered display of the model Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 9 4 Display Options This dialog enables you to control several aspects of the NavisWorks main navigation window display to suite your preferences and setup Setting display options Go to Tools Global Options Display The Display dialog is displayed 115 Chapter 9 Display Modes Global Options E E xl 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Acceleration Primitives Point size M Hardware Acceleration z m Transparency Line size W Interactive Transparency fi Detail Snap point size W Guarantee Frame Rate E M Fillin Detail Batch Fill Defaults Check t
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59. ached to a specific point on the item instead of the default center of the item s bouding box then click on Add A cross hair cursor will appear in the main navigation win dow allowing you to select a point on the item where the hyperlink will be attached to See Sec tion 13 4 2 for more information on attachment points Click on Clear if you want to delete all attachment points associated with this hyperlink and revert to the hyperlink being attached to the center of the item s bouding box Click OK to add this hyperlink to the item or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without attaching any 148 13 4 2 Chapter 13 Reviewing thing Hyperlinks Categories Hyperlinks can be categorized so that you can group them to distinctly display or not display in the main navigation window at one time The five default categories are e Hyperlink Tag Viewpoint e Clash Detective e Selection set Tags are just hyperlinks that are displayed by name rather than by icon in the navigation window The last three of these categories are defined by NavisWorks and so you cannot assign a hyperlink to one of these categories other than by setting up a viewpoint a selection set or a Clash Detective result Use the Hyperlinks Options to select which categories are displayed when hyperlinks are turned on To add a new category simply type in the name of the category into the Category box on the Add Hy perlink dialog when you are adding or e
60. allel with the current viewpoint Align Bottom ES 130 Chapter 11 Sectioning Align Top ES Align Front fil Align Back iia Align Left ff Align Right Ci Note Each plane for each section remembers its position so the slider will move when you choose an other plane Move the slider to interactively position the section plane to the required location The number in the edit box shows the position of the section plane from the origin and will be updated when moving the section plane You can also type in the location of the origin in this edit box for exact positioning of the plane Note You can also use the cursor keys and mouse wheel for simple sliding of the section plane through the model Clicking on the Set Range button a helps you to set a finer resolution for sectioning large models What this button does is limit the range of the section planes to the bounding box limits of the cur rently selected items For more information on selecting items see Chapter 6 Clicking this button with nothing selected reset the section range to the limits of the whole model which is the default If you have more than one section plane enabled you can delete this active plane using the delete button A The next enabled plane will then become the active plane 11 2 Linking Sections 131 Chapter 11 Sectioning You can add up to 6 section planes to the scene at once using the above procedure Once more t
61. an 0 The higher the value the more Navis Works will facet rounded entities and therefore the smoother they will appear The smoother the enti ties the larger the file and the longer the export will take See Faceting Factor for more information Check the Convert Hidden Items check box if you want to export hidden elements They will be ex ported but hidden in the NavisWorks file Check the Use Materials check box if you want to use MicroStation s materials in place of its colors in NavisWorks If you choose not to export materials NavisWorks will assign the same colors as in the MicroStation scene Assigning materials will assign the same textures diffuse ambient and spec 43 Chapter 3 Converting Files ular colors to the elements as in the MicroStation scene Check the Convert PDS check box if you want to export object information from Intergraph s Plant Design System while exporting the dgn files 3 2 3 Viz nwc Exporter While NavisWorks Roamer cannot directly read max files there is a plugin for Viz and Max versions 3 and 4 that will export the model to an nwc cache file that can then be read into Roamer Viz will be out lined here although the process is exactly the same for Max As long as Viz is already installed on the computer when NavisWorks is installed the plugin is installed with NavisWorks on a Custom Install or Full Installand ready for use Note If you install Viz after NavisWorks then insta
62. arencies This option restores to all items in the scene their original colors and transparencies Note Items colors cannot be restored separately from their transparencies To reset all materials e Go to Edit Reset All Colors and Transparencies 8 8 2 Resetting All ltems Hyperlinks This option restores all items hyperlinks to the original state that they were in when the model was im ported into NavisWorks To restore all items hyperlinks Go to Edit Reset All Hyperlinks 8 8 3 Revealing All Items 101 Chapter 8 Editing This option reveals unhides all items To reveal all items Go to Edit Reset All Hidden Items 8 8 4 Making All Items Unrequired This option makes all items unrequired so that no items are forced to be rendered during navigation To make all items unrequired Go to Edit Reset All Required Items 8 8 5 Resetting All ltems Positions This option restores the original positions of any items that have previously been held and moved around the model To restore all items position Go to Edit Reset All Held Items 8 9 Setting a File s Units and Transform Probably the only time you will need to use this feature is if you append several models from different sources into the same scene and the scale rotation and origin of some models need amending to match the other models The first thing to try however before attempting to manually adjust the file s transform is to
63. ased entities 3D Solid Region lines points and snap points Complex entities shapes dimensions text are not supported The structure of the drawing is preserved including xrefs blocks inserts Auto CAD color index layers views and active viewpoint Entities are colored using the AutoCAD Color Index ACI so will match those in an AutoCAD shaded view There is also an nwc file exporter for AutoCAD see Section 3 2 1 for more details Note The reader supports files from all products based on AutoCAD 2004 and earlier Supported Entities All 2D and 3D geometry including arcs lines polylines with non zero thickness ACIS objects regions and solids polygon and polyface meshes 3D faces and surfaces e Points and snap points Lines polylines circles arcs with zero thickness Named views e Layers Colors Blocks inserts and multiple inserts e Groups External references xrefs e Hyperlinks Entity handles Attributes e File properties Unsupported Entities Lights Textures e Splines 15 Chapter 3 Converting Files e Multi lines e Linetypes Dimensions and leaders e Raster bitmaps e Text or multi line text e Construction lines xlines and rays e Hatching DWG and DXF File Reader Options Setting the dwg and dxf file reader options Go to Tools Global Options DWG DXF The DWG DXF dialog is displayed 16 Chapter 3 Converting Files
64. avisWorks files To get to the global options dialog go to Tools Global Options In addition to a tab for each file format that is read by NavisWorks Roamer there are distinct sets of functionality that are controlled by the fol lowing options e Undo See Section 8 2 e Display See Section 9 4 e Profile See Section 14 8 e Smart Tags See Section 13 5 1 e Selection of items See Section 6 5 e Hyperlinks See Section 13 4 6 e Measure tools See Section 13 3 2 e Saved Viewpoints See Section 10 6 e Units See Section 14 7 e Caching of files See Section 3 1 3 e Textures See Section 9 5 167 Chapter 16 Options The reading of native CAD file formats is also configured from this dialog using the following tabs DWG DXF See Section 3 1 4 e 3DS See Section 3 1 5 e DGN See Section 3 1 6 IGES See Section 3 1 8 e STEP See Section 3 1 9 e SolidWorks See Section 3 1 10 e Inventor See Section 3 1 11 e Solid Edge See Section 3 1 12 168 Chapter 17 Getting Help The Help menu gives you access to useful resources about your system your product and the documen tation NavisWorks comes with full context sensitive help as well as user guides in Adobe Acrobat pdf format The Help menu consists of e Help Topics What s This e Online help for the NavisWorks range of plugins e License e System Info About NavisWorks If the online documentation and help does not ans
65. aw a string of lines over the viewpoint Clicking the left mouse button in the main navigation window to add a new point in the line string When the string is complete click the right mouse button to end the line and you can then start a new line string Choose the Ellipse redline tool to draw ellipses over the viewpoint Click and drag a box in the o main navigation window with the left mouse button to outline the ellipse Choose the Cloud 3 redline tool to draw clouds over the viewpoint With the left mouse button click points in the main navigation window in a clockwise direction to draw the arcs of the cloud if you go counter clockwise the arcs will be inverted Right click with the mouse button to automati cally close the cloud Choose the Erase a redline tool to erase all redlines from the viewpoint Note You can also access all the redline tools from the Review Redline menu 13 3 Measuring Measuring allows you to measure between points on items in the model All measurements are made in the scene s units For information on how to set the units see Section 14 7 Like redlining and selecting it is mutually exclusive to the navigation modes so that when you are mea suring you cannot navigate and vice versa The measure tools which can all be accessed from the Measure Tools control bar or from the Review Measure menu are 142 Chapter 13 Reviewing y Point to point Point to multiple points
66. check that the units are ok See Section 14 7 for a discussion of units and how to adjust them Note The transform properties can only be set for a whole file If you select an item that is inside the file and do a File Transform on it the whole file will be transformed not just the item selected Also only single files can be transformed at one time this command is not available if multiple files items are selected Setting a file s transform In the selection tree select the file that you wish to transform the scale origin or rotation of Go to Edit File Units and Transform The File Units and Transform dialog will appear 102 Chapter 8 Editing File Units and Transform E x File Units Units Meters Origin Origin m 0 000 0 000 jo 000 Reflected transform Rotation 0 000 about p fe ox ies a Move the model s location by entering model units for the x y and z axis in Origin The Reflected Transform checkbox only needs to be checked if a negative scale has been set Change the rotation of an object by entering an angle of rotation and selecting the axis to rotate about by entering a value greater than 0 The object rotates about its origin point Amend the size of the object by entering values greater than 0 to proportionally scale an object en sure the x y and z scale values are equal A negative value will in effect flip the object inside out Cho
67. ck No Lights Y on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 1 2 Head Light This option uses a single directional light located at the camera that always points in the same direction as the camera You can set the head lights properties using Head Light options To turn on the head light e Go to Viewpoint Lighting Head Light 104 Chapter 9 Display Modes or e Click Head light on the Rendering Style toolbar ir 9 1 1 3 Head Light options Sliders are available to change the intensity of the scene s ambient light and headlight The Ambient slider controls the general overall brightness of the scene while the Headlight slider con trols the brightness of the light located at the viewpoint Note Changes made in Head Light options will not be visible unless you have selected the Head Light rendering style Changing head light intensity Go to Tools File Options Head Light The Head Light dialog is displayed 105 Chapter 9 Display Modes File Options l x Culling Head Light Speed Scene Lights Ambient Headlight Cancel Apply Help 2 Move the sliders to affect the ambient and head light intensities You will see the effect your changes have on the scene in the main navigation window as long as head light is selected as the rendering style 3 Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 9 1 1 4 Scene Lights This option uses whatever lig
68. click on an ArchiCAD file is installed If you have multiple versions of ArchiCAD installed use the custom install option to force installation of the other versions When saving from the 2D window the current story will be exported by default An option may be set so that the whole model will be exported A default view will be determined from the bounding box of the model When saving from the 3D window the view will become the default NavisWorks view including window settings such as cutaway planes Note Only visible layers will be exported Cutaway plane settings does not set the NavisWorks section plane but exports items that are physically reduced by the plane lt is advised to turn off the Enable library part instancing option since all instances will show the same sectioning as the original item usually the first library part in the file and this may lead to unexpected effects Exporting an nwc file from ArchiCAD With a model loaded choose File Save As An options dialog will allow you to change settings be fore the export process begins 2 Select NavisWorks nwc as the file type and type in a file name 3 Click OK to advance to the options dialog 4 Click OK on the options dialog to export the file or click Cancel to return to ArchiCAD without saving anything Supported Entities e Global Unique Identifiers GUIDs e Custom parameters for library parts defined by GDL scripts e Storeys 47
69. d To turn on hyperlinks e Click Hyperlinks ee on the Workspace toolbar or Go to Tools Hyperlinks Adding Hyperlinks An item can have multiple hyperlinks attached to it although only the default hyperlink the one at the top of the list can be displayed in the navigation window at one time The default is the link that will be fol lowed when clicked Adding hyperlinks to an item Either e Select a single item see Chapter 6 for more details on how to do this on which you want to at tach a hyperlink and go to Review Hyperlinks Add Hyperlink 147 Chapter 13 Reviewing or Right click on the item on which you want to attach a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks Add Hy perlink from the context menu The Add Hyperlink resizeable dialog is displayed Hyperlinks i x Mame Link to file or UAL E Categor Hyperlink Attachment Points 0 Add Clear All ce Z Type in the name of the hyperlink into the Name text box Type in or browse to the actual hyperlink value in the Link to file or URL This is what will be linked to when the hyperlink is clicked on Choose the category that the hyperlink will belong to from the Category drop down You can add more categories than the default Hyperlink and Tag categories by simply typing in the name of your category into this box See Section 13 4 1 for more information on categories If you want the hyperlink to be att
70. d Comment from the context menu An empty Add Comment resizeable dialog is displayed x 4 Type in the comment Click OK to save it or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without saving it Adding a comment from the source viewpoint selection set or Clash Detective result 139 Chapter 13 Reviewing Go to the source of the comment be it a viewpoint selection set or Clash Detective result 2 e Right click on the source and choose Add Comment from the context menu or e Goto Review Comments Add Comment An empty Add Comment resizeable dialog is displayed x 3 Type in the comment Click OK to save it or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without saving it Deleting a comment Go to the source of the comment be it a viewpoint selection set or Clash Detective result Ensure the Comments control bar is open as outlined above e Right click on the comment and choose Delete Comment from the context menu or Goto Review Comments Delete Comment 140 Chapter 13 Reviewing 13 2 Redlining 13 2 1 Redlining allows you to add annotation directly over a viewpoint It is mutually exclusive to the navigation modes so that when you are redlining you cannot navigate and vice versa The redline tools which can all be accessed from the Redline Tools control bar or from the Review Redline menu are 2 Pen N Line Line Strin A g Ellipse 5 p 3 Cloud a Erase Adding Redlines The Redline
71. d files along with their path relative to the nwf file is saved along with any overrides com ments redlines viewpoints or other NavisWorks specific information See Section 2 5 for more informa tion on saving files To append a file e Go to File Append or Chapter 2 File Management e Click Append ct on the Standard toolbar Note The standard Open dialog use of Shift and Control keys allows multiple files to be selected and appended to the current set of models 2 5 Saving Files When you have finished reviewing a model or a set of models and are exiting NavisWorks you are prompted to save When saving to a NavisWorks nwf file only a list with pointers to the files currently loaded is saved along with the scene s environment the current view clash results if available and viewpoints If you want to take a snapshot of the scene including all geometry then you need to publish an nwd file See Section 2 7 for information on how to do this Saving a file e Go to File Save or e Click Save on the Standard toolbar Enter a name and location for the file if you wish to change the existing name Click Save to save the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without saving 2 6 Saving and Renaming Files This is exactly the same as the Save function see Section 2 5 but it gives you the opportunity to rename the file that you are saving Saving a file with a new name Go to File Save As E
72. d now be able to use the nwcout command from AutoCAD to export an nwec file The NavisWorks Partial Menu for AutoCAD If you prefer to work from menus there is a partial menu available to run this export command from along with the other NavisWorks ARX plugins Loading the NWExport partial menu At the command line type menuload followed by return The Menu Customization dialog will be displayed so change the Files of type to Menu Template mnu and browse to the partial menu By default for AutoCAD R14 this will be c Program Files NavisWorks 3 NWExport Eng LwNw_Export mnu for AutoCAD 2000 based applications this willbe c Program Files NavisWorks 3 NWExport2000 Eng LwNw_Export mnu and for AutoCAD 2004 based applications C Program Files NavisWorks 38 Chapter 3 Converting Files Click Load and than Yes to the dialog that appears You should now have a NavisWorks menu just before the Help menu and this will be reloaded into future AutoCAD sessions This menu contains 4 items e Publish nwd See Section 4 2 for more details Export nwc See Section 3 2 1 for more details e NavisWorks Export Options See Section 3 2 1 for more details e Navigator See Section 3 3 1 for more details AutoCAD nwc Exporter Options Available from the NavisWorks menu or by typing nwopt at the command prompt this enables you to configure various elements of the exported file to your choosing See S
73. d product such as Architectural Desktop that enable you to publish an nwd file directly from the CAD application in which it was cre ated Note If you install AutoCAD after NavisWorks then install NavisWorks again choosing the Custom In stall option and choose the relevant AutoCAD The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you The nwd publisher is available for any AutoCAD based product between AutoCAD 14 and 2004 releases Publishing nwd files from AutoCAD Type nwdout at the command line or go to NavisWorks Publish nwd The standard Windows Save As dialog is displayed so choose the location and name of the nwd file to be published Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to AutoCAD without exporting it 56 Chapter 4 Publishing See Section 3 2 1 for more information on publishing options what to do if the menu is not already loaded or you get an error on typing nwdout at the command line 4 3 Publishing from MicroStation NavisWorks Publisher comes with MDL plugins for MicroStation SE 95 J and v8 that enable you to publish nwd files directly from the CAD application in which it was created As long as MicroStation is al ready installed on the computer when NavisWorks is installed this MDL plugin is installed with Navis Works and ready for use Note If you install MicroStation after NavisWorks then install
74. d up vec tor This is maintained in the walk orbit and turntable modes 175 Index Symbols 3DS files 19 20 file reader options 20 A animations 123 133 133 134 135 136 creating 133 cuts 135 editing 134 managing 123 playing 136 ArchiCAD exporter 47 48 options 48 ASM files 35 AutoCAD 49 NavisWorks Navigator 49 AutoCAD exporter 37 39 options 39 background color 111 C caching 13 CAD previewing 49 camera 70 70 orthographic 70 perspective 70 commenting 138 comparing models 164 control bars 157 culling 112 options 112 D DGN files 22 23 file reader options 23 display 115 116 116 117 117 117 117 117 batch fill 117 detail 117 hardware acceleration 116 line size 117 options 115 point size 117 snap point size 117 transparency 116 DWG files 15 16 file reader options 16 DXF files 15 E editing 94 emailing files 6 examining 66 exporters 37 exporting 7 7 8 9 9 10 AVI 9 bitmaps 7 JPEG 8 Piranesi Epix 9 size control 10 F file 37 54 exporters 37 publishing 54 file management 2 files 2 3 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 12 appending 3 deleting 6 emailing 6 new 2 opening 3 publishing 5 reading 12 saving 4 4 sending 6 finding 87 87 88 90 91 comments 91 items 88 properties 87 Quick Find 90 flying 67 focusing 69 frame rate 114 117 guarenteed
75. diting a hyperlink Displaying Hyperlinks To turn on hyperlinks e Click Hyperlinks azz OM the Workspace toolbar or e Go to Tools Hyperlinks Hyperlinks are drawn as icons in the main navigation window and tags as text Clicking on a hyperlink in the main navigation window will follow the link and right clicking on it will open a context menu offering you the options of Follow Hyperlink Edit Hyperlink see Section 13 4 4 or Select item containing hy perlink which will select the item onto which the hyperlink is attached Attachment Points Hyperlinks and tags are by default attached to the center of their owner s bounding box but you can over ride this with more convenient attachment points When adding or editing a hyperlink you have the option of adding attachment points as described in Section 13 4 1 If you add more than one attachment point the hyperlink will be displayed attached to the closest attachment point to the camera during navigation This allows you to set up hyperlinks so that they are always available for following when drawn in 3D mode during navigation rather than disappearing behind objects Leader lines will be drawn from the at tachment point to the hyperlink The size of these lines can be defined in Hyperlinks Options 149 13 4 3 13 4 4 Chapter 13 Reviewing Following Hyperlinks To follow a hyperlink simply click on it in the main navigation window lf multiple hyperlinks are attached
76. e rate NavisWorks only renders what it can in the fraction of a second it has The remainder is dropped out or not rendered However Navis Works prioritizes what is rendered and what is dropped out based on size of the item s bounding box distance from viewer and size on screen so only the less significant items in the scene are dropped out Once navigation has ceased the scene continues rendering until all items are visible The frame rate is the number of frames per second FPS that are ren dered in the main navigation window NavisWorks guarantees a user defined frame rate in order to maintain interactivity Export Terminology These are terms specific to NavisWorks that are used in relation to exporting Codecs File Terminology nwc Cache Files Codec stands for COmpression DECompression and is a program that compresses and decompresses animations when creating and playing back avi files Codecs are installed independently of NavisWorks and are available when installed on your Windows system and the same codec that was used to create an avi file is required to play it back When any native CAD file file is opened or appended NavisWorks Roamer creates a cache file nwc if the write cache option is set When the file is next opened or appended NavisWorks Roamer will read data 171 Glossary nwd Published Data Files nwf Review Files External References Faceting Factor from the correspondin
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78. ection 3 1 4 for details on what each of the options does Once you have set the options future exports of nwc and publishes of nwd files will use these settings 3 2 2 MicroStation nwc Exporter NavisWorks Roamer comes with MDL plugins for MicroStation SE 95 J and v8 that enable you to ex port nwc files directly from the CAD application in which it was created As long as MicroStation is al ready installed on the computer when NavisWorks is installed the MDL plugin is installed with Navis Works on a Custom Install or Full Install and ready for use Note If you install MicroStation after NavisWorks then install NavisWorks again choosing the Custom Install option and choose the relevant version of MicroStation The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you You can also publish nwd files directly from MicroStation if you have the Publisher plugin For more de tails refer to Section 4 3 There are two steps to exporting nwc files from MicroStation first you have to load the MDL plugin into MicroStation and then you have to export the file Loading the NavisWorks MDL Plugin 39 Chapter 3 Converting Files Loading the NWExport MDL plugin manually Go to the Utilities Key in dialog box to load the application manually Type mdl load nwexport without the quotes and press return An options dialog can be opened from this export dialog
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81. el that will not be displayed For ex ample if you were to set the value to 100 pixels any object within the model that would be drawn less than 10x10 pixels in size will not be displayed Culling options by near and far plane allows some degree of control over the resolution of the axis per pendicular to the screen NavisWorks uses the near and far clip plane to maximize the resolution of the model on screen The near and far clip plane boxes dictate constraints for the near and far culling planes Setting culling options Go to Tools File Options Culling The Culling dialog is displayed 112 Chapter 9 Display Modes File Options x Culling Head Light Speed Scene Lights Area Backface e Enable Enable Humber of pixels below which objects are culled Near Clip Plane Far Clip Plane Furthest i Closest J10 distance distance Automatically e Automatically W generated generated Cancel Apply Help Check the Area Enable check box to enable the definition of the screen area in pixels below which objects are culled and type in the number of pixels in the text box In the Near Clip Plane area check the Automatically generated check box to tell NavisWorks to constrain the near plane to give the best view of the model it possibly can Alternatively uncheck this box to manually constrain the near clip plane NavisWorks will put the near clip plane no further than the
82. el to return to MicroStation without exporting it Note MicroStation can also be customized to add NWExport commands to the menu bar using the Workspace Customize dialog See Section 3 1 6 for what entities are and are not supported by the MicroStation exporter NavisWorks colors are derived from either MicroStation cell colors or MicroStation materials depending on the export options set during nwcout The appearance of objects in Publisher will match the appear ance of a MicroStation shaded render The view number chosen for export determines the initial view in NavisWorks whether level symbology is used and which levels are hidden 41 Chapter 3 Converting Files Note The exporter only exports from 3D dgn files 2D files are not supported MicroStation nwc Exporter Options Available from the NWExport dialog box this enables you to configure various elements of the exported file to your choosing Setting MicroStation Export Options Choose Options from the NWExport dialog box The MicroStation Export Options dialog is displayed 42 Chapter 3 Converting Files Faceting Factor Mas Facet Deviation m Convert Hidden Items Convert Lines and Arcs Merge Lines and Arce Convert Text Shape Menge Threshold Convert References lgnore Unres References Use Level Symbology jo r I e r fa M r F Jal Defaults OF Cancel Help Enter the Faceting Factor the value must be greater th
83. election Sets As well as a tab on the selection tree there is also a control bar dedicated to selection sets To activate it click on D in the Workspace toolbar or go to View Control Bars Selection Sets 82 Chapter 6 Selecting Items Selection Sets x M rusty steel ii brushed steel ii concrete E stucco E shiny_steel ii stone ii glass Mi asphalt E wire Ha Blue materials Ta Green materials This is the main management center for selection sets All actions concerning selection sets are available by right clicking on this control bar Right clicking on a blank space in the Selection Sets control bar opens a context menu with the options to Save Current Selection or Save Current Search as outlined in Section 6 3 1 Managing Selection Sets Right click on a selection set 2 Choose Save Current Selection to save the current selection as a selection set in the list This set will contain the currently selected items 3 Choose Save Current Search to save the current search as a selection set to the list This set will contain the current search criteria 4 Choose Add Comment to add a comment to the selection set This command will bring up the com ments text edit dialog See Section 13 1 for more information on comments 5 Choose Add Copy to create a copy of the selection set to the list The copy will be named the same as the selection set clicked on but with a copy suffix 6 Choose Upda
84. epeat as many times as required or your options allow Undo Options The Undo tab of the Global Options dialog box allows you to tailor how you wish the Undo and Redo commands in NavisWorks to function The check boxes select the types of actions to undo and redo with the undo redo actions in NavisWorks You can also set the amount of space you wish to allocate to the undo buffer The more undo commands you allow the more space that is required The default settings should be adequate for most normal usage Setting undo options Go to Tools Global Options and select the Undo tab The Options dialog box is displayed 96 Chapter 8 Editing Global Options E me 305 OWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Undo Buffer Used f of 100 KB Enable Presenter Properties Render Style Scene Scene Lights Animation Current View Foreground Hide Required Hyperlinks Lights Override tl aterial Overnde Transtorm Selection Selection Sets Thumbnail 243214333 Defaults Cancel Apply Help Select the Undo tab Set the amount of space you wish to allocate for saving these actions Check the actions you wish to be able to undo redo 97 Chapter 8 Editing If you want to return to the system default values click Defaults Click OK to s
85. er 13 Reviewing sor will snap to the nearest vertex triangle edge or line end respectively depending on the options chosen 5 Set the Snap Tolerance The smaller the tolerance the closer the cursor needs to be to a vertex or edge before it snaps to it 6 Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them Hyperlinks Hyperlinks are an extremely useful review tool to allow you to access non graphical information through the graphical interface of NavisWorks As well as hyperlinks being converted from the native CAD files you open in Roamer you can also override an item s hyperlinks by attaching multiple additional hyper links to it Because hyperlinks are treated as such a property by NavisWorks they can be searched on with the Find Items tool and displayed in the Properties bar They are also saved into NavisWorks files so that as the model changes the links remain for you and others to view Hyperlinks are categorized so that you can switch them on and off by category and they can be anything internal such as a viewpoints or selection set or external such as a web page script or spreadsheet to NavisWorks By turning on hyperlinks in the main navigation window you can simply click on the link to activate it Hyperlinks can be displayed as a text description or as an icon and can also optionally have leader lines pointing to points on the item to help you identify which item has the link attache
86. eries of letters within a string Wildcard means any series of characters in a string can match The symbol means exactly equals and can be used for any type of property The mathematical symbols lt gt lt and gt apply to number types and mean less than greater than less than or equal to and greater than or equal to respectively Also available are De fined and Undefined to mean anything in other words it s there and nothing in other words its not there respectively e Finally if you didn t choose either Defined or Undefined in the Condition column you have to define the Value you want to match in the find You can either type in a value freely in the text box or choose a pre defined value from the drop down which shows all values in the model avail able within the category and property you defined earlier Continue to add conditions to the find specification Each condition you add will by default be logically ANDed with the others See the example below for a better explanation of the logic You can logically negate any condition by selecting the condition then right clicking on the list box and choosing Negate Condition See the example below for a better explanation of the logic Instead of the condition being logically ANDed you can also logically OR a condition by selecting the condition then right clicking on the list box and choosing Or Condition All conditions following this condition are logically
87. et these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 8 3 Hiding Items This command hides the current selection and allows you hide and reveal items by toggling on and off Note In the selection tree the object will appear gray when hidden Hiding an item Select the item s that you want to hide see Chapter 6 for more information on how to do this e Go to Edit Hide Item or Click Hidden on the Standard toolbar 8 4 Item Required This option makes the current selection required for rendering which means that they will always be ren dered during navigation and not drop out The command allows you make an item required or unrequired by toggling on and off Note A Required item may also be Hidden In the selection tree the object will appear red when re quired Making an item required Select the item s that you want to make required see Chapter 6 for more information on how to do this 98 Chapter 8 Editing e Go to Edit Item Required or e Click Hidden on the Standard toolbar 8 5 Hiding Unselected Items This command hides all items except those currently selected so that they are not drawn in the main view The command allows you hide and reveal the hidden items by toggling on and off Note In the selection tree the items will appear gray when hidden Hiding all non selected items Select the item s that you want to remain visiable see Chapter 6 for more information on ho
88. etection or sizes of textures There is a single scene unit that is set from Tools Global Options Units and this unit is used throughout the interface whenever appropriate You can also set a profile to determine how complex the interface is and which parts are available to the user See Section 14 8 for more information on this feature The view menu gives you control over the NavisWorks interface It allows you to hide or reveal control bars customize the toolbars and status display and split the current view into several smaller views It also allows you to display statistics about the currently loaded scene 14 1 View Menu The View menu includes the following items e Control Bars e Customize e Split Vertical e Split Horizontal e Split e Scene Statistics 14 2 Viewing Control Bars A control bar is checked when it is displayed and unchecked when not displayed To display a control bar Go to View Control Bars or right click on a displayed toolbar Click any of Standard Workspace Rendering Style Navigation Mode Navigation Tools Animation Tilt Section Plane Plan Thumbnail Section Thumbnail Viewpoints Selection Tree Selection Sets Find Items Comments Find Comments or Properties Alternatively use the Workspace toolbar 14 3 Customizing toolbars The layout of several toolbar buttons can be re arranged additional spacers can be inserted and buttons can be deleted 157 Chapter 14 Interface
89. files from Bentley s MicroStation but does not support cel files or 2D dgn files Reference files and instances of cells are respected and the selection tree re flects this file structure There is also an nwc file exporter for MicroStation see Section 3 2 2 for more details Note The reader supports files from MicroStation SE 95 and J It does not support MicroStation v8 MicroStation Modeller and any versions of MicroStation before SE Supported Entities All 2D and 3D geometry including shapes complex shapes meshes cones surfaces B spline bound aries solids and SmartSolids lines arcs and ellipses Splines and B spline curves e Lights e Saved views e Levels e Cells and shared cells and their instancing e Colors and ambient diffuse and shininess properties of materials from pal and mat palette and mate rial files e Texture maps e Reference files including aliases e Text will be converted into hyperlink tags see Section 13 4 for details on hyperlinks e Family and Part information from TriForma and PDS object information from drv files DMRS and database linkage and association ID s Unsupported Entities Raster bitmaps 22 Chapter 3 Converting Files Dimensions and leaders DGN File Reader Options Setting the dgn file reader options Go to Tools Global Options DGN The DGN dialog is displayed 23 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E x
90. first item and then clicking on the last item while holding down the Shift key You can drag viewpoints around the viewpoints control bar and reorganize into folders or animations There are no buttons on this control bar and commands are actioned through context menus Through these menus you can save and update viewpoints create and manage animations and create folders to organize these viewpoints and animations You can also drag and drop viewpoints or animations onto ani mations or folders and holding down the Control key during this operation will copy the element being dragged This allows fairly complex hierarchies of animations and folders to be easily composed Viewpoints folders and animations can all be renamed by slow clicking clicking and pausing without moving the mouse on the element or clicking on it and hitting F2 Right clicking on an element in the Viewpoints control bar gives you a different context menu depending on the element or if you ve right clicked in a blank space The following section explains the different context menus 10 4 The Viewpoint Context Menus You get a different context menu depending on what element you right click on in the Viewpoints control bar Blank space Asaved viewpoint An animation A folder 10 4 1 The Viewpoints Control Bar Context Menu Saving viewpoints adding animations and folders Right click on a blank space in the Viewpoints control bar Choose Add Folder
91. from which you want to delete a hyperlink and choose Hyperlinks Edit Hyperlinks from the context menu The Edit Hyperlinks dialog is displayed Edit Hyperlinks i x Attach Points Add x Web site www navisworks com Hyperlink 1 C Documents and Settings Tag Edit Follow Delete Make Default Move Up OK Cancel Move Down iiite Select the hyperlink under the Name column Click on Delete Click OK to confirm deletion or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without the hyperlink deleted 13 4 6 Hyperlinks Options Setting hyperlinks options 152 Chapter 13 Reviewing Go to Tools Global Options Hyperlinks The Hyperlinks dialog is displayed xl Global Options 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Cull Display Hide Colliding Icons PF In3D Radius ml Mas icons jo 000 Leader Offset me P p Categories I Visible Tag Hide Icons Without Clash Detective a Comments Selection Sets Viewpoints wad Image Test Defaults Cancel Apply Help Icons that appear overlapped in the main view can be hidden if the Hide Colliding Icons check box is checked Enter the distance in the Radius box for how close hyperlinks have to be in order to be drawn in the 153 Chapter 13 Reviewing main view Any hype
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93. g cache file rather than re converting the original data if the cache is newer than the original file If the original file is al tered NavisWorks Roamer will re create the cache file when it is next loaded Cache files speed up access to commonly used files They are particularly useful for models made up of many files of which only a few are changed between viewing sessions Cache files can also be ex ported from some CAD applications where a native file reader is not available with NavisWorks Roamer Cache options can be edited from the Global Options dialog box under the Tools menu Published nwd files are useful when wanting to take a snapshot of the model at a certain time All the geometry and review information is saved into the nwd file and cannot then be changed Published nwd files can also contain information about the file as well as being able to be pass word protected and time bombed for security These files are also very small compressing the CAD data by up to 80 of the original size Published nwd files are useful when issuing models for viewing by oth ers with the NavisWorks Freedom free viewer as well as being append able themselves into Roamer to build up a larger scene Review files are useful when using the native CAD files appended into NavisWorks Roamer They store the location of the appended files along with any design reviews made in NavisWorks such as comments redlines viewpoints animations and so on
94. ggle the Comments con trol bar on and off Comments xj When the source of the comments is recalled such as a viewpoint all comments attached to it appear in the Comments control bar showing the time date and author of each comment The icon on the far left represents the source type i Selection set Su Search set amp or amp or or a Clash Detective result or Viewpoint we gt e With many comments attached to many sources in a model you may want to find a particular comment without having to manually search each possible source See Section 7 4 for details on how to achieve this 138 Chapter 13 Reviewing Note The first line of a comment is what is displayed in the top half of the Comments control bar and can be treated like its subject To get multiple lines in a comment hold down Control and press Enter This will give you a carriage return in the text box rather than simulating a press of the OK button Once a comment is added it cannot be edited although it can be deleted Adding and Deleting Comments You can add and delete as many comments as you wish to a source either from the Comments control bar or from the source itself Adding a comment from the Comments control bar Go to the source of the comment be it a viewpoint selection set or Clash Detective result 2 Ensure the Comments control bar is open as outlined above Right click on the Comments control bar and choose Ad
95. han one plane is enabled you can then link them together This becomes particularly effective when opposing planes such as top and bottom are linked Sliding the plane through the model then gives a slice The following is an example of creating a horizontal slice using the top and bottom section planes Slicing the model Set up the bottom plane as described in Section 11 1 2 Choose 2 in the drop down 3 Enable this with the section toggle and select the Align Top plane Note The model may disappear completely at this stage lf so just slide the slider until it becomes ap parent where the plane is 4 Keep switching between planes 1 and 2 using the drop down and configure the planes position to how far you want them separated in the slice 5 When happy with their separation select section plane 2 and click on the Link button This links planes 2 and 1 together to form the slice 6 Use the slider bar to move the horizontal slice through the model 7 If you want you can save this slice configuration into a viewpoint See Section 10 1 for more informa tion on how to do this Thinking about linked sections and slices can be confusing Just remember that when linking sections to gether the section plane direction currently in operation effectively moves the whole box around the scene keeping the other section planes relative to it 132 Chapter 12 Animating NavisWorks allows the recording playing and editing
96. he Hardware Acceleration check box to allow NavisWorks to utilize any available OpenGL hardware acceleration on your video card If your video card drivers do not function well with Navis Works then you may wish to disable this option You have to restart NavisWorks in order for this op tion to take effect This option is grayed out if your video card does not support OpenGL hardware acceleration Check the Interactive Transparency check box to allow the rendering of transparent items during in teractive navigation This may have an effect on performance especially if your video card does not 116 Chapter 9 Display Modes support hardware accelerated OpenGL and so by default transparent items are only drawn when in teraction has ceased 4 Check the Guarantee Frame Rate check box to enable the NavisWorks engine to maintain the user defined frame rate set in Tools File Options Speed see Section 9 3 By default the target rate is maintained while moving When movement stops the complete model is rendered If guarantee frame rate is disabled the complete model is always rendered during navigation no matter how long it takes 5 Check the Fill In Detail check box if you want NavisWorks to fill in any discarded detail when naviga tion has ceased 6 Check the Batch Fill check box if you want NavisWorks to fill in detail in chunks rather than gradu ally By default this is disabled as gradual rendering is generally better but s
97. he comparison or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without making any comparison At any time during the comparison you can click on Cancel on the Exporting dialog to abort the comparison The colors of the resulting highlights are as follows White for items that match Red for differences between items e Yellow for things found in the first item that aren t in the second e Cyan for things found in the second item that aren t in the first 166 Chapter 16 Options There are two types of options File Options and Global Options These are both accessed from the Tools menu File options are saved in NavisWorks files nwf or nwd and reinstated when opening it Global options on the other hand are set for all NavisWorks sessions This chapter simply links to other chapters where the functionality is described in more detail 16 1 File Options These options are saved into NavisWorks files and re loaded when opening these files into NavisWorks They are predominantly concerned with the appearance of the model and the speed of navigation around it To get to the File Options dialog go to Tools File Options You will get a tabbed dialog box offering one of the following four file options e Culling See Section 9 2 e Speed See Section 9 3 e Head light See Section 9 1 1 3 e Scene lights See Section 9 1 1 5 16 2 Global Options These options are persistent across NavisWorks sessions and are not saved into N
98. he data is determined by the faceting level in SolidWorks when the display lists were created Note Part and Assembly files from SolidWorks 97 plus to SolidWorks 2003 are supported Supported Entities e Parts and assemblies e Faces Bodies e Current view Model space lights and directional paper space lights Ambient diffuse specular emission shininess and transparency material properties Unsupported Entities e Saved views e Non directional paper space lights e Configurations e PhotoWorks textures SolidWorks File Reader Options Setting the SolidWorks file reader options Go to Tools Global Options SolidWorks The SolidWorks dialog is displayed 31 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E 305 OWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP Solidworks Rebuild Triangle Strips B Merge Faces T Default Units Millirneters Check the Rebuild Triangle Strips check box if you want to interpret the triangle strips in Solid Works models in a form more suitable for NavisWorks The model will take longer to import but may result in a slightly smaller file size Check the Merge Faces check box if you want to reduce the complexity of the model as seen in the selection tree by interpreting a body as a single item consisting of a group of faces
99. hts are defined in the model or two default opposing lights if none are avail able You can set the scene lights properties using Scene Lights options To turn on scene lights Go to Viewpoint Lighting Scene Lights or 106 Chapter 9 Display Modes e Click Scene lights on the Rendering Style toolbar vy 9 1 1 5 Scene Lights Options Sliders are available to change the intensity of the scene s lights The Ambient slider controls the general overall brightness of the scene when scene lights is selected as the rendering style Note Changes made in Scene Lights options will not be visible unless you have selected the Scene Lights rendering style Changing scene light intensity Go to Tools File Options Scene Lights The Scene Lights dialog is displayed 107 Chapter 9 Display Modes File Options my x Culling Head Light Speed Scene Lights Ambient Cancel Apply Help Move the slider to affect the ambient intensity You will see the effect your changes have on the scene in the main navigation window as long as scene lights is selected as the rendering style Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 9 1 1 6 Full Lights This option uses lights that have been defined with the Presenter plugin To turn on full lights Go to Viewpoint Lighting Full Lights or 108 9 1 2 1 9 1 2 2 9 1 2 3 Chapter 9 Displa
100. ich is highlighted in both the selection tree and the main navigation window Note Using the Shift and Control keys while selecting items in a selection tree will do the standard Windows multiple selection Control allows multiple selection item by item and Shift allows multiple selection between the first and last items selected If you have the Clash Detective plugin the selection trees will be used for selecting items for the clash tests The selection trees are also used inside the Find Items control bar for the ability to refine your searches better See Section 7 2 for more information Note Additional customised selection tree tabs can be added by using the NavisWorks API 6 2 Interactive Selection NavisWorks provides several methods to interactively select items into the current selection You can use the tabs in the selection tree select items in the main navigation window with select and select box modes and you can select other items with similar properties to an existing selection using the selection 78 Chapter 6 Selecting Items commands Note Right clicking on any item in the tree view or main view temporarily selects the item click on and displays a context menu You can click on the topmost menu item to permanently select the item 6 2 1 Select Mode This mode is mutually exclusive to the navigation modes so that when you are selecting you cannot navi gate and vice versa Select mode allows you
101. if you want to add another folder A new folder will be created with its default name FolderX editable Choose Save Viewpoint if you want to save the current viewpoint A new viewpoint will be created with its default name ViewX editable 122 Chapter 10 Viewpoints Choose Add Empty Animation if you want to create a new animation ready for dragging viewpoints onto A new animation will be created with its default name AnimationX editable See Section 12 1 for more information on animations 10 4 2 Viewpoints Managing Viewpoints Right click on the viewpoint in the Viewpoints control bar 2 Choose Edit to manually edit the viewpoint s attributes see Section 10 5 3 Choose Add Copy to create a copy of the viewpoint in the saved viewpoints list The copy will be named the same as the viewpoint clicked on but with a copy suffix The main navigation window will jump to this viewpoint 4 Choose Add Comment to add a comment regarding this viewpoint See Section 13 1 for more infor mation on comments 5 Choose Update to make the saved viewpoint the same as the current viewpoint 6 Choose Delete to remove the viewpoint from the list of saved viewpoints 10 4 3 Animations Managing Animations Right click on the animation or any of the animation s key frames in the Viewpoints control bar 2 Choose Add Frame to add the current viewpoint as the last key frame in the selected animation 3 Ch
102. ind Differences In section of the dialog check all the boxes of the criteria that you want Nav isWorks to compare for differences between the two items Overridden Material and Overridden Transform relate to changing the color and or transparency in NavisWorks and changing a file s ori gin scale or rotation since loading into NavisWorks so these are unchecked by default All the other criteria relate to properties of items from the original CAD model Check Save as selection set if you want to save the selected items the you are comparing between as a selection set You can then use this for later comparisons between the same items Check Save each difference as set if you want to save the resulting differences found in the com parison between the two items as a selection set for later analysis The selection set will also have a comment attached detailing the differences in more depth Check Remove old results if you want to remove any selection sets resulting from a previous com parison in order to reduce confusion when looking at the results Check Hide matches if you want to hide all items that turn out to be the same in the comparison when the comparison finishes To show them again reset all hidden items Check Highlight results if you want to highlight each resulting difference with a color override when the comparison finishes Reset the color using the reset material command 165 Chapter 15 Tools Click OK to start t
103. ines and comments are all saved into an nwf file from NavisWorks Roamer so even if the native CAD files are changing the saved viewpoints remain the same over the top so you can see how the design has evolved See Chapter 13 for more information on hyperlinks comments and redlines and Section 3 1 1 for more information on the nwf file format Viewpoints also retain the section planes active at the time of viewpoint creation which can be useful in animating sliding sections See Section 11 1 for more information on sections Viewpoints can optionally retain saved attributes too so that on returning to a viewpoint overridden colors transparencies and hid den items are reinstated This can be used to great effect to create animations where items appear and disappear from the scene in time See Section 10 6 for more information on options and Section 12 1 for more information on animations To save a viewpoint e Goto Viewpoint Saved Viewpoints Save Viewpoint or e Right click on the Viewpoints control bar and choose Save Viewpoint New viewpoints are named ViewX where X is the next available number added to the list This new viewpoint will take all the attributes of the current viewpoint in the main navigation window 10 2 Recalling Viewpoints To return to a viewpoint e Goto Viewpoint Saved Viewpoints and choose the saved viewpoint from the list or Inthe Viewpoints control bar simply click on the viewpoint from the list
104. ing down the Control key temporarily puts this mode into normal Pan mode Spinning the mouse wheel or using the up and down cursor keys tilts the turntable up and down like the tilt bar 5 2 Navigation Tools Navigational tools are a number of handy tools for altering resetting or changing the type of the camera and the viewpoint displayed These tools can be accessed from the Viewpoint Navigation Tools menu or from the Navigation Tools toolbar emo ge DO x Y z Navigation Tools comprises the following functions View All tal View Selected tat Focus Hold En Perspective Camera Dd Orthographic Camera af Align With X Axis x Align With Y Axis a Y Align With Z Axis A Z 68 Chapter 5 Navigating Straighten Camera le Set World Up to Current View Tt Note The Straighten and Set Up buttons are not on the toolbar by default but can be added by cus tomizing it see Section 14 3 5 3 Viewing Everything This function dollies and pans the camera so that the entire model is in view which is very useful if you get lost inside a model or lose it completely Sometimes on doing a View All you seem to just get a blank view This is usually because there are items that are very small in comparison to the main model located a long way away from the main model In these cases it is best to click on an item in the selection tree and do a View Selected to at least find your way back to the model before
105. ing instead of left clicking on the main navigation window This will start the measure command again with a no points registered just as if you had chosen a new measurement type Measuring between points on items Ensure the Measure Tools control bar is displayed as outlined above To simply measure the distance between two points choose the Point to Point measurement type on the Measure Tools control bar and click on the start point and then the end point with the left mouse button To lock the start point and then click on multiple different end points choose the Point to Multiple Points measurement type To on the Measure Tools control bar and click on the start point Every other click after the start point will then register a new end point but you can right click to reselect a start point To measure the distance along a path or route choose the Point Line measurement type Wh on the Measure Tools control bar and simply click on a series of points along the path The Distance will display the total distance along the path from the start point Right clicking will enable you to se lect a new start point To calculate the sum total of several point to point measurements choose the Accumulate mea surement type ac on the Measure Tools control bar and click on start and end points alternately The Distance will show the sum of all point to point measurements since the first start point Right clicking will enable you to
106. ink O Rebis AutoPlart LIJCADPipe CAD Wor Multis teel FipeDesigner 30 Check those applications you wish to read information from 19 Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 3 1 5 3DS Files 3DS is a common file format that is supported by many CAD applications The NavisWorks file reader reads all 2D and 3D geometry as well as texture maps The hierarchy defined by the keyframe data from keyframe 0 is preserved including instancing Entities are positioned based on keyframe 0 NavisWorks Roamer does not read max files but instead has exporters for Viz and Max versions 3 and 4 Entity support is the same as for the 3ds reader See Section 3 2 3 for more information Textures from 3DS files come through into NavisWorks Presenter though you should bear in mind that 3DS files contain file names in the 8 3 DOS format only and that various formats are not yet supported in Presenter see below Supported Entities All 2D and 3D geometry 19 Chapter 3 Converting Files e Cameras e Groups Texture maps in the formats 8 bit color mapped 16 bit and 24 bit true color uncompressed or Run Length Encoded tga bmp jpg lwi LightWork Image e Colors from material color not wireframe color ambient diffuse shininess transparency and self illu mination Unsupported Entities Keyframes objects are currently taken from keyframe 0 e Texture maps in the for
107. ions to help optimize native CAD file reading In addition to these native CAD files NavisWorks Roamer also reads its own native nwc NavisWorks Cache nwf NavisWorks File review and nwd published NavisWorks Data file formats Some file formats such as those from Autodesk s Viz and Graphisoft s ArchiCAD cannot be read directly by NavisWorks Roamer but there are exporters available to export to the NavisWorks nwc file format from these applications See Section 3 2 for more details 3 1 File Readers As well as the NavisWorks file formats nwf nwd and nwc Roamer can open a variety of native CAD applications formats dwg dxf e 3ds e dgn e man e iges e step e SolidWorks parts amp assemblies Inventor parts amp assemblies e Solid Edge parts amp assemblies 3 1 1 NWF Files nwf files can be saved by NavisWorks Roamer in order to save a current review of the scene No geome try is saved in this format but a list of appended files along with their path relative to the nwf file is saved along with any overrides comments redlines viewpoints or other NavisWorks specific informa tion nwf files are useful when the CAD files are still changing throughout the design period as the latest files are loaded each time the nwf file is opened 3 1 2 NWD Files nwd files are files published by NavisWorks Publisher and are snapshots of the model at a certain time See Section 4 1 for more infor
108. it Viewpoint if you want to set up the thumbnail s viewpoint by hand using the Edit View point dialog see Section 10 5 for more information on this 5 Choose Lock Aspect Ratio if you want the aspect ratio of the thumbnail to match that of the main navigation view and remain matching even when the thumbnail dialog is resized This will usually give gray strips either to the top and bottom or to either side of the thumbnail view See Aspect Ratio for more information on aspect ratio 6 74 Chapter 5 Navigating Choose Refresh to redraw the thumbnail based on the current setting Thumbnail drawing uses soft ware OpenGL and so can take a couple of seconds for large models 75 Chapter 6 Selecting Items With large models it is potentially a very time consuming process to select items of interest NavisWorks makes this a much simpler task by providing a range of functions for quickly selecting items both interac tively and by searching the model manually and automatically The main groups of functionality con cerned with selecting items are The selection tree Interactive selection e Selection sets Also connected with selecting items is finding items which is covered in Chapter 7 In NavisWorks there is the concept of an active selection set the currently selected items or the current selection and saved selections sets Selecting and finding items makes them part of the current selec tion so you can hide
109. ks will use when opening dwg and dxf files Note that NavisWorks cannot If the units turn out to be wrong the model can be easily rescaled using the File Transform function see Section 8 9 for more details Check the Merge 3D Faces check box if you want to reduce the complexity of the model as seen in the selection tree by interpreting ajoining faces with the same color layer and parent as a single item Leaving unchecked leaves these entities as separate items in NavisWorks Check the Merge Lines check box if you want to reduce the complexity of the model as seen in the selection tree by interpreting ajoining lines with the same color layer and parent as a single item Leaving unchecked leaves these entities as separate items in NavisWorks Check the Convert Off check box if you want to read layers that are switched off in dwg and dxf files They will be converted but hidden in NavisWorks Check the Convert Frozen check box if you want to read layers that are frozen in dwg and dxf files They will be converted but hidden in NavisWorks Check the Convert Entity Handles check box if you want to read entity handles as a property at tached to the item in NavisWorks Check the Convert Groups check box if you want to retain the groups from dwg and dxf files adding another selection level to the selection tree See Chapter 6 for more information on selecting objects and the selection tree Check the Convert Xrefs check box if you want
110. l time Click on the Record button o on the Animation toolbar 2 Navigate around in the main navigation window while NavisWorks records your movement You can even move the section plane s through the model during your navigation and this will be recorded into the animation too 3 At any point during the navigation you can click on the Pause button 00 This will pause the recording while you maneuver into a new position Click on the Pause button again to continue recording the animation The resulting animation will contain a cut for the duration of the pause 4 When finished click on the Stop button 0 5 A new animation called AnimationX where X is the latest available number will be added to the Viewpoints control bar The name will be editable at this point if you want to name it yourself This animation will also become the current active animation in the Animation toolbar s drop down 133 Chapter 12 Animating While the above method is useful for creating quick animations on the fly sometimes you need more con trol over the animation camera To do this in NavisWorks you need to set up several viewpoints and add them to an empty animation When playing back the animation NavisWorks will then interpolate between these viewpoints Creating an animation frame by frame Right click on the Viewpoints control bar and select Add Emtpy Animation from the context menu A new animation called AnimationX where X
111. le Reader Options Setting the IGES file reader options Go to Tools Global Options IGES The IGES dialog is displayed 27 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E E x Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smat Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks 305 DWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Faceting Factor fi 000 blas Facet Deviation 0 000 Enter the Faceting Factor the value must be greater than 0 The higher the value the more Navis Works will facet rounded entities and therefore the smoother they will appear See Faceting Factor for more information Enter the Max Faceting Deviation This will facet entities to within the specified tolerance This number uses the units of the model See Max Deviation Factor for more information 28 Chapter 3 Converting Files Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 3 1 9 STEP Files NavisWorks Roamer uses the Open CASCADE libraries to read and tessellate stp and step files up to and including AP214 CC2 and AP203 Supported Entities Assemblies e Colors e Planes e B spline and rational B spline Bezier conical cylindrical offset rectangular trimmed linear extrusion bounded manifold spherical toroidal uniform and quasi uniform surfaces e Shells Advanced and facetted boundary representations BReps Unsupported Enti
112. ll NavisWorks again choosing the Custom Install option and choose the relevant version of Viz The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you See Section 3 1 5 for information on the supported and unsupported entities for the Viz exporter Exporting nwc files from Viz and Max Go to File Export The Export dialog is displayed Set the File Type to NavisWorks File nwc and choose the location and name of the nwc file to be exported Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to Viz without exporting it Note Any textures applied to the Viz model will be saved in a directory with the same name as the ex ported file but with a _presenter suffix All textures will be converted into bmp files and saved into this directory for use with Roamer Viz and Max nwc Exporter Options You have some control over the items that are exported from Viz to NavisWorks Setting the Viz and Max exporter options 44 Chapter 3 Converting Files Go to the Utilities tab and click on More Select NavisWorks from the list and click OK The NavisWorks command panel containing four buttons will open pS AA OT E E me More Sets E Asset Browser Camera Match Collapse File Link Manager Measure Rescale World Units bass cript Panorama Exporter Navisworks Options Editor Preview Preview Selecti
113. ll be a short delay while the geometry is exported into Freedom Click on Grab Viewpoint to set the Viz camera to simulate the viewpoint within the NavisWorks 52 Chapter 3 Converting Files Freedom window 53 Chapter 4 Publishing NavisWorks Roamer has an optional plugin called NavisWorks Publisher a plugin that enables you to take a snapshot of the model at a certain time for issuing for use by other members of the design team who perhaps are not CAD users but who have a need to view the 3D model NWD files published by NavisWorks Publisher can be read by NavisWorks Roamer for full design review or by the NavisWorks Freedom free viewer for simple real time walk through You can publish files directly from NavisWorks Roamer or by exporting from AutoCAD or MicroStation 4 1 Publishing from Roamer NavisWorks Publisher nwd files are files published by NavisWorks Publisher and are snapshots of the model at a certain time Publishing a NavisWorks nwd File Go to File Publish The Publish dialog box is displayed 54 Chapter 4 Publishing AAA S ti lt C Title Hartlik Library Subject Sheffield University extension to main library Author Steve Parnell Publisher Steve Parnell Published For Sheffield University Copyright Architectrios keywords library extension Comments Issue 4 For review only Password MMM AMM F Display at pass
114. mation on this 12 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 1 3 NWC Files Cache files nwc are used when reading native CAD files such as files from AutoCAD or MicroStation By default when NavisWorks Roamer opens a native CAD file it first checks in the same directory whether there is a NavisWorks cache file present with the same name as the CAD file but with a nwc ex tension If there is and this cache file is newer than the native CAD file then NavisWorks will open this file instead as it has already been converted to NavisWorks format and therefore will open much quicker If however there is no cache file present or the cache file is older than the native CAD file then Navis Works will have to open the CAD file and convert it At this point it will by default write a cache file in the same directory and with the same name as the CAD file but with the nwc extension for speeding up the opening of this file in future See Section 3 2 for more information on why you might want to use the nwc file exporters what CAD ap plications you can support from and how Caching Options NavisWorks allows you to enable and disable the reading and writing of cache files This describes the default process The options here enable you to enable and disable the reading and writing of cache files For example you may want to disable reading cache files to ensure that Navis Works converts every native CAD file each time it is read even though
115. mats gray scale tga tif gif png e Other maps e g bump maps opacity maps reflections etc e Wireframe meshes e Lines splines e Points e Background images 3DS File Reader Options Setting the 3ds file reader options Go to Tools Global Options 3DS The 3DS dialog is displayed 20 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options 2 E xj Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks 305 DwGDxF Presenter DaN ies Convert Hidden E Bitmap File Search Paths Default Units Inches k Check the Convert Hidden check box if you want to read hidden entities from the 3ds file They will be converted but hidden in NavisWorks The paths of texture map files are not stored with the texture maps in the model so enter a semi colon separated list of paths in Bitmap File Search Paths that the reader will search in when it finds texture maps in the model 21 Chapter 3 Converting Files From the Default Units drop down choose the type of units that NavisWorks will use when opening 3ds files If the units turn out to be wrong the model can be easily rescaled using the File Trans form function see Section 8 9 for more details Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 3 1 6 DGN and PRP Files NavisWorks Roamer can read 3D dgn and prp
116. ments Find Comments menu or from the Workspace con trol bar by pressing the Find Comments button E f The Find Comments control bar looks like this 91 Chapter 7 Finding Find Comments 7 ES Comments Date Modified Source Text Author fs teve l Match Case Name Comment Date Author Finding comments If it s not already open open the Find Comments control bar as outlined above 2 Type in the text that you want to search for in the Text box Note You should use the wildcard without the quotes to match an arbitrary series of letters either before or after the text you enter here For example if you want to find all comments containing the word redline you should enter redline in the text box otherwise you will only find com ments that contain only the redline word which probably won t be many 3 If you want to restrict your search to comments made by a single author then type in the name of that author in the Author text box 4 Check the Match Case check box if you want the search to respect lower and upper case characters in the search 5 You can refine the search further by clicking on the Date Modified tab to select a date range within which the comment must have been made 6 Clicking on the Source tab and check the relevant check boxes for Clash Detective Selection Sets 92 Chapter 7 Finding or Viewpoints to restrict the search by the source
117. n files Check the Convert TriCAD check box if you want to read object information from Triplan s TriCAD while reading the dgn files Check the Convert Triforma check box if you want to read object information from Bentley s Tri forma while reading the dgn files Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 25 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 1 7 MAN Files NavisWorks Roamer can read man files from Informatix s MicroGDS version 6 0 or later MicroGDSTM projects are not supported The workaround is to first export the desired project window as a man file Supported Entities e Clump primitives e Light styles e Material styles e Views e Layers e Instances e Object data structure Unsupported Entities e Line primitives e Text primitives Photo primitives 3 1 8 IGES Files NavisWorks Roamer uses the Open CASCADE libraries to read and tessellate igs and iges files up to and including IGES 5 3 Supported Entities e Groups e Colors e Planes e Parametric spline ruled B spline offset bounded trimmed and plane surfaces and surfaces of revo lution e Tabulated cylinders Solids and manifold solids e Shells Faces 26 Chapter 3 Converting Files Unsupported Entities e Points e Lines e Circular or conic arcs e Compsite parametric spline B spline or offset curves Boundaries Attributes IGES Fi
118. n the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button pans the model up down left and right Holding down the Shift or Control keys or spinning the mouse wheel temporarily puts this mode into normal Zoom mode 5 1 6 Orbiting The orbit mode enable you to orbit the camera around the model ensuring that up is always up The camera always orbits around the focal point of the model To orbit a model Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Orbit or e Click Orbit gt on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button or using the cursor keys rotates the camera around the model Holding down the Shift key or spinning the mouse wheel temporarily puts this mode into normal Zoom mode Holding down the Control key glides the camera left and right and up and down As walk mode is cam era centric this mode differs from the normal pan mode in that the camera is moved rather than the model 5 1 7 Examining The examine mode enables you to rotate the model about To examine a model 66 Chapter 5 Navigating Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Examine or e Click Examine a on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button or using the cursor keys rotates the model about Holding down the Shift key or spinning the mouse wheel temporarily puts this mode into normal Zoom mode Holding down the Control key temporarily puts this mode into normal Pan mode If the mouse is moving
119. ndering Hidden Line or e Click Hidden Line aa on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 3 Display Primitives The second part of the rendering style toolbar allows you enable and disable the drawing of surfaces lines points and snap points Points are real points in the model whereas snap points mark locations on other primitives for example the center of a circle and are useful for snapping to when measuring 9 1 3 1 Surfaces Surfaces are the triangles that make up the 2D and 3D items in the scene To toggle the rendering of surfaces on or off e Goto Viewpoint Display Surfaces or e Click Surfaces on the Rendering Style toolbar a 9 1 3 2 Lines As well as turning all lines on and off it is possible to change the width of the lines See Section 9 4 for details on how to do this To toggle the rendering of lines on or off e Go to Viewpoint Display Lines or 110 Chapter 9 Display Modes e Click Lines _ on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 3 3 Points Points are real points in the model for example the points in a point cloud from a laser scan As well as turning all points on and off it is possible to change the number of pixels used to draw them See Sec tion 9 4 for details on how to do this To toggle the rendering of points on or off e Go to Viewpoint Display Points or e Click Points a on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 3 4 Snap Points Snap points are implied points in the model fo
120. ns Profile 7 2 Finding Items In NavisWorks searching the model for items based on their properties is quick and simple using the Find Items control bar This bar is also a dockable bar accessed as usual through the View Control Bars menu or from the Workspace control bar by pressing the Find Items button W Alternatively go to Edit Find Items The Find Items control bar looks like this Search in Category Property Condition Value ltem Name Contains BRANCH east04 dwg BRANCH EABITS E4CHIM E4GRASS 3D Face Set Z E4LEAF EAPAVE E4PPET FARIITF D B B EBB 0 B B B M Case Sensitive V Prune Below Result Standard Properties Sets Seach Deak ST FindNext Findan Notice that the selection trees occupy the left half of this bar allowing you to refine your searches further within a specific hierarchy See Section 6 1 for more information on the selection trees Simply click on the selection tree tab that best suits your current search H Abort Search Finding items based on properties If it s not already open open the Find Items control bar as outlined above Choose the selection tree tab that best suits your search For example if you know you are limiting your find to within a specific selection set then choose the Sets tab Choose the items where you want to start the find from For example if you know you want to search the whole m
121. nted in This is most useful when measuring items setting tolerances for clash detection or sizes of textures There is a single scene unit that is set from the Global Options dialog and this unit is used throughout the interface whenever appropriate There is a default unit setting for each file type so that when files are opened they are scaled appropri ately to the scene s units They can of course be rescaled after if the units turn out to be wrong for the scene Units Options Setting units options Go to Tools Global Options Units The Units dialog is displayed 160 Chapter 14 Interface Global Options E 3 E x 305 OWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Linear Units Angular Units Centimeters Feet Feet and Inches Feet and Inches Fractions Inches Inches Fractions Kilometers Degrees Minutes and Secor Radians Micralnches Micrometers Miles Miles Yarde Feet Inches F Accuracy Decimal Places 3 Fractional Display Precision 17256 Defaults Choose the Linear Units from the list You should be able to choose the exact format you wish Choose the Angular Units from the list Enter the number of decimal places you want to see throughout the interface for your units in the Decimal Places box lf the
122. nter a new name and location to store the file Chapter 2 File Management Click Save to save the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without saving 2 7 Publishing Files Publishing a NavisWorks nwd file takes a snapshot of the current scene that cannot then be changed i e files cannot be deleted from a published nwd file The file can also be used with the NavisWorks Freedom free viewer This command is only available if you have the NavisWorks Publisher plugin See Section 4 1 for more information 2 8 Printing As you would expect you can print a hard copy of the current viewpoint to any printer or plotter 2 8 1 Printing the Current Viewpoint When the print option is selected it prints the current viewpoint scaled to fit and centered on the page Printing the current viewpoint Go to File Print or e Click Print E on the Standard toolbar Check the printer settings are as required and click OK to print the viewpoint or Cancel to return to NavisWorks without printing anything Note The maximum image size is 2048x2048 pixels The Properties button controls printer specific ink and paper settings 2 8 2 Previewing Printouts Before you print out a copy of the model you are working on you may wish to see how it will appear Previewing a model before printing Chapter 2 File Management Go to File Print Preview Use Zoom In and Zoom Out to do just that with the preview image
123. odel then choose the file or files from the Standard tab that comprise the model You could also select several selection sets to limit your find to these items in the sets 88 Chapter 7 Finding Note You can right click on the selection tree and choose from Import Current Selection to quickly select the items currently selected for the search or conversely Set As Current Selection to set the current selection to that you have already selected in the find selection tree The right hand side of the bar contains a list box with four columns Category Property Condition and Value This is where the find specification is set up In this list box you define a series of condi tions which are by default logically ANDed together as follows e Each condition is started by clicking on the next available line under the Category column and from the ensuing drop down choosing which category the property you wish to search for is in Only the categories that are contained in the scene are available in the drop down e After choosing the category then choose the property you wish to test for in the Property drop down which will then be available Again only the properties in the scene within the category cho sen will be available Then from the following Condition drop down choose the condition you wish to test for This will depend on the type of property you are searching for For example you can choose Contains to search for a s
124. ome video cards may work better with batch fill enabled 7 In the Point Sizetext box enter a number between 1 and 9 to set the size in pixels of points drawn in the main window See Section 9 1 3 3 for more information on points 8 In the Line Size text box enter a number between 1 and 9 to set the width in pixels of lines drawn in the main window See Section 9 1 3 2 for more information on lines 9 In the Snap Point Size text box enter a number between 1 and 9 to set the size in pixels of snap points drawn in the main window 10 Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them See Section 9 1 3 4 for more information on snap points 9 5 Presenter Options This dialog is used to control the appearance of Presenter materials in the main navigation window during navigation You may want to adjust these settings to get optimum performance from your graphics card when navigating around heavily textured scenes For a list of recommended graphics cards visit www navisworks com http www navisworks com Setting Presenter options Go to Tools Global Options Presenter The Presenter dialog is displayed 117 Chapter 9 Display Modes Global Options E x Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints 35 DWG DxF Presenter DaN imes Smoothed textures Filtered tex
125. on resolution without having to go to the options dialog or the selection tree You do this by holding down the Shift key when selecting an item This selects an item one level more specific each time you select the item until the resolution gets to geoemtry at which point it will revert back to model The selection resolution remains as set in options for the next selection As well as being able to set the default selection resolution in the Selection options tab in Global Op tions a quicker way is to right click on any item in the selection tree and choose the menu item Set Se lection Resolution to X where X is one of the above selection resolutions 6 5 Selection Options Use the Selection options to configure how you select items in the NavisWorks scene You can set the level at which you select items selection resolution the distance from an item you have to be for it to be selected useful for lines and points and also the color in which selected items are displayed Setting selection options 84 Chapter 6 Selecting Items Go to Tools Global Options Selection The Selection dialog is displayed Global Options E x 305 DWG DxF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Display Units Caching Undo Display Frofile Smat Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Highlight Resolution Model O Laper W None Color First Object C
126. on Only Grab Viewpoint Click on Options Editor The NavisWorks Options dialog is displayed 45 Chapter 3 Converting Files AE Convert Hidden ltemz Jw Convert User Data a Pre Render Scene E Defaults Check the Convert Hidden Items check box if you want to export hidden entities from the Viz scene They will be exported but hidden in NavisWorks Check the Convert User Properties check box if you want to attach any user properties you have defined in Viz to the converted NavisWorks items Check the Pre Render Scene check box if you want to ensure that all texture maps are exported with the model In some rare cases they can be missed so if you experience this try checking this box It will force Viz to do an internal render and so catch all texture maps 46 Chapter 3 Converting Files 3 2 4 ArchiCAD nwc Exporter While NavisWorks Roamer cannot directly read ArchiCAD files there is an addon for ArchiCAD v6 5 v7 0 and v8 0 that will export the model to an nwc cache file that can then be read into Roamer The export add on for ArchiCAD is available from both the 2D and 3D windows All standard ArchiCAD elements and library parts can be exported as long as they have a 3D representation and any others will be ignored The exporter will save both standard materials and custom GDL script materials Note Only the plugin for the currently active version of ArchiCAD the one that runs when you double
127. on frame and choosing edit this dialog allows editing of the currently selected view point s or frame s attributes as outlined below Editing a viewpoint e To edit a saved viewpoint right click on the viewpoint in the Viewpoint dialog and choose Edit from the context menu e Alternatively to edit the current main navigation viewpoint go to Viewpoint Edit Current View point e Or to edit a thumbnail s viewpoint right click on the thumbnail and choose Edit Viewpoint from the context menu The Edit Viewpoint dialog box is displayed 125 Chapter 10 Viewpoints Edit Yiewpoint Chapel x Camera Y E Position rn 5 634 171 65 453 Look At m 138 354 635 327 64 285 Vertical Field OF View 5 46 000 Horizontal Field OF View 5 30 733 Roll jooo Motion Linear Speed m sec Angular Speed rzec Saved Attributes 4 Hide Required M Override Material Cancel Help Set the camera position s x y and z coordinates using the Position boxes Set the focal point s x y and z coordinates of the camera using the Look At boxes Enter the Vertical Field Of View and Horizontal Field Of View If the units are set to degrees then these numbers should be between 0 1 and 90 and if in radians between 0 002 and 3 124 See Field Of View for more details on what field of view means Enter the Roll of the camera about its viewing axis This value is not editable where the world
128. oose Add Cut to add a cut to the end of the animation Cuts are pauses in the animation and are 1 second long by default 4 Choose Add Copy to add a copy of the element If you ve right clicked on an animation the whole animation will be copied and named the same but with a copy suffix If you ve right clicked on a cut or a frame then the cut or frame will be copied 123 10 4 4 Chapter 10 Viewpoints 5 Choose Add Comment to add a comment regarding this viewpoint See Section 13 1 for more infor mation on comments 6 Choose Edit to edit the element Editing a frame will open the Edit Viewpoint dialog See Sec tion 12 2 for more information on editing animations frames and cuts 7 Choose Update to update all frames in the animation with the current render style lighting and navi gation mode Choosing Update on a single frame will only update that frame with the current modes 8 Choose Delete to remove the animation from the list of saved viewpoints or in the case of a frame or cut to remove the frame or cut from the animation 9 If you ve right clicked on a frame you can also choose Update to make the frame the same as the current viewpoint Folders Managing Folders Right click on the folder in the Viewpoints control bar 2 Choose Save Viewpoint if you want to save the current viewpoint A new viewpoint will be created in the folder with its default name ViewX editable 3 Choose Add Animation
129. orks hexamples bathcitpeast bmp Browse Size Type Explicit z Anti Width 720 Miang E Height 404 Cancel 2 Enter a new file name to export if you wish to change from the existing filename 3 l Select the required type width and height options and set the required anti aliasing from drop down list see Section 2 11 5 for more details 4 Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 2 11 2 Exporting to a JPEG Exporting the current viewpoint to a JPEG From the File menu choose Export Jpg The JPEG Export dialog box is displayed Chapter 2 File Management C Program FilestNavisuforks 3 examples bathcity east pg Browse Size Type Width Height Explicit z 720 484 Quality Low High Compression J Smoothing pa Anti aE Aliasing Cancel Enter a new file name to export if you wish to change from the existing filename xl Select the required type width and height options and set the required anti aliasing from drop down list see Section 2 11 5 for more details With a JPEG file you can also trade off compression against quality The higher the compression and therefore smaller the file the worse the image quality is and vice versa Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 2 11 3 Exporting to a Piranesi Epix format Exporting an epx file for rendering in Inf
130. ormatix s Piranesi From the File menu choose Export Piranesi EPiX Enter a new file name to export if you wish to change from the existing filename Click Save to export the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 2 11 4 Exporting to a an avi Exporting an animation to an avi file Chapter 2 File Management With an animation selected from the File menu choose Export Avi The AVI Export dialog box is displayed Avi Export eee Browse Size Dutput Type Explicit y AntiAliasing 4x Z Width fi 276 RES fe Height 538 Compression Cancel Enter a new file name to export if you wish to change from the existing filename Select the required type width and height options and set the required anti aliasing from drop down list see Section 2 11 5 for more details For animations you should also enter frames per second FPS values and any file compression required Note Clicking Compression will open a standard Windows dialog box that allows you to choose which codec to use as well as its configuration Only those codecs currently installed will be shown and the PC that the avi file will be run on will also need the same codec installed Click OK to export the file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 2 11 5 Controlling the size of an image The size of the exported image animation can be set in various ways Explicit allows you full control of the width and
131. ose OK 103 Chapter 9 Display Modes The Rendering Styles toolbar controls the appearance of the model in the main navigation window From this you can control the lighting effect the rendering type and enable or disable the different types of primitives drawn Linked with the display options see Section 9 4 later in this chapter and file options see Section 16 1 this enables you to fully control the appearance of the NavisWorks main navigation window 9 1 Rendering Styles The rendering process interactively draws the scene s items in the main navigation window You have a choice of one of four interactive lighting modes full lights scene lights head light or no lights four ren dering modes full render shaded render wireframe or hidden line and you can individually turn each of the four primitive types surfaces lines points and snap points on and off The Rendering Style toolbar looks like this ts Elo gt aaa If it is not already displayed you can display it from the View Control Bars Rendering Style menu 9 1 1 Lighting Lights come through from various CAD file formats as scene lights The intensity of the head light and scene lights can be set using the File Options under the Tools menu see Section 16 1 for details on this 9 1 1 1 No Lights This option turns off lighting The models are shaded with flat rendering To turn off all lights e Go to Viewpoint Lighting No Lights or e Cli
132. r example the center point of a sphere or end points of a pipe As well as turning all snap points on and off it is possible to change the number of pixels used to draw them See Section 9 4 for details on how to do this To toggle the rendering of snap points on or off e Go to Viewpoint Display Snap Points or e Click Snap Points on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 4 Background Color This option allows you to select or mix a background color for the main view Setting the background color is equivalent to setting a Plain Color in the Background tab of the Presenter dialog This option is only available if you have the NavisWorks Presenter plugin Setting the background color Go to Tools Background Color Select the color from the Windows color palette 111 Chapter 9 Display Modes Click OK to set the background color or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting it 9 2 Culling Options There are three methods of culling objects in NavisWorks backface by area and by near or far plane All of these options are configurable using the Culling options tab Backface culling only draws the front face of every polygon in NavisWorks which is clearly faster Some times however the conversion process mixes up the front and back face of polygons and so you have to tell NavisWorks to draw both sides in order to not see right through some objects Area culling options allow you to set the size of objects within a mod
133. reset the distance to zero and restart the calculation To calculate an angle between two lines choose the Measure Angle measurement type s on the Measure Tools control bar and click on a point on the first line followed by the intersection of the two lines followed by a point on the second line The Angle will show the angle between the three points Right clicking will enable you to select a new first point To calculate an area on a plane choose the Measure Area measurement type on the Measure Tools control bar and simply click on a series of points to describe the perimeter of the area you wish to calculate The Area will show the area of the perimeter described since the first point as projected 144 Chapter 13 Reviewing onto the plane of the viewpoint This means that all your points should lie on the same plane for your area calculation to be perfectly accurate Right clicking will enable you to select a new first point To clear the view of all measurement lines and restart the measurement choose the Clear button An on the Measure Tools control bar This is the same as right clicking during a measurement Snapping The measure options dialog allows you to set the cursor to snap to the nearest vertex edge or line end Points and snap points are automatically snapped to Different cursors feed back what is being snapped to No snap but a point on a surface is found l A vertex point snap point or line end
134. rks engine is still attempting to maintain the guaranteed frame rate and so some drop out may still occur just as in real time navigation However you can export the animation to an avi file for playback with Windows Me dia Player and this will render each frame without any drop out Of course you don t have the option of pausing the playback half way through to look around the mode using this method See Section 2 11 4 for details on how to export an animation to avi Playing back an animation Select the animation you wish to play back from either the Viewpoints control bar or from the drop down on the Animation toolbar 2 You can use the slider to quickly move forwards and backwards through the animation Full left is at the beginning and full right is at the end The text box next to the slider shows the point in time in seconds through the animation that the camera is You can type a number into this box to set the camera at a certain point in the animation and play back from that point 3 Notice how the frame in the animation in the Viewpoints control bar is highlighted when the anima tion is playing You can click on any frame to set the camera to that point in time in the animation and continue playing back from there 136 Chapter 12 Animating Use the buttons on the Animation toolbar to step and play forwards and backwards through the ani mation Rewind EN will rewind the animation back to the beginning
135. rlinks further away than this distance will not be drawn The default value of O means that all hyperlinks will be drawn Check the In 3D check box if you want to draw the hyperlinks icons in 3D in the main view They then float in 3D space just in front of their attachment points to the items If this box is unchecked then all hyperlink icons are drawn in 2D over the top of the all geometry Enter the maximum number of icons to draw in the main view in the Max Icons box Hyperlinks can be drawn with leader lines arrows pointing to the attachment point on the item that the hyperlink is attached to Enter the X and Y distance in Leader Offset for the number of pixels to the right and up that these leader lines will use Each hyperlink is a member of a category This enables you to easily manage sets of hyperlinks Use the Visible check box to switch a category on or off in the main view Some categories also have comments associated with them Use the Hide Icons Without Comments check box if available to do eactly that only draw hyperlinks that have a comment attached to it so that you can see any ar eas of issue in the model See Section 13 1 for more information on comments Use the Image and Text radio buttons for each category to tell NavisWorks how to draw that cate gory of hyperlinks If text is drawn rather than the icon the hyperlinks description is used as a toolitp style text box in the main view instead of an icon Click OK
136. rmation on these file formats and their options To open a model file Go to File Open or e Click Open E on the Standard toolbar Note The standard Open dialog use of Shift and Control keys allows multiple files to be selected and appended to the current set of models 2 4 Appending Files NavisWorks enables you to build up a complex scene from smaller models by appending or uniting mul tiple model files together which can be of any type that NavisWorks Roamer supports See Chapter 3 for more detailed information on these file formats and their options Each file has its own units and when appending more files to the scene each file is automatically scaled to match the units of the first file loaded into the scene Each file type has a default unit associated with it that it uses when loading files of that type You can change this associated unit in the Units tab of the Global Options dialog see Section 14 7 for more detailed information However once a file is loaded you can change its unit scaling using the Edit File Transform function See Section 8 9 for more infor mation The combined set of models may be published as a single NavisWorks nwd file using the NavisWorks Publisher plugin These models can then be viewed with NavisWorks Freedom free viewer See Sec tion 4 1 for more information You can also save the combined set of models as an nwf file No geometry is saved in this format but a list of appende
137. rride Item e Reset Item e Reset All File Units and Transform The two main editing functionalities not available from the Edit menu are hyperlinks and moving items 8 1 Holding and releasing objects When navigating around a model in NavisWorks it is possible to pick up or hold selected items and move around with them in the model For example you may be viewing a plan for a factory and would like to see different configurations of machine layouts Holding and releasing items Select the item s to be held for moving Go to Viewpoint Navigation Tools Hold Selected or 94 Chapter 8 Editing e Click Hold Selected En on the Navigation Tools toolbar 3 The selected item s are now held and will move with you through the model 4 Use the normal navigation modes i e Walk Fly etc as normal 5 To release the held item simply click Hold Selected Ln on the Navigation Tools toolbar again To reset the item to its original position see Section 8 7 3 8 2 Undo Redo You can undo or redo your actions in NavisWorks The Edit Undo and Edit Redo menu item states what type of action you will undo redo To undo an action Go to Edit Undo or e Press Ctrl Z or e Click Undo on the Standard toolbar Repeat as many times as required or your options allow To redo an action Go to Edit Redo or e Press Ctrl Y or 95 Chapter 8 Editing e Click Redo on the Standard toolbar R
138. rt Text check box if you want to read text from the dgn file Text will be converted into smart tags in NavisWorks Enter the Shape Merge Threshold into the box See Shape Merge Threshold for more information on Shape Merge Threshold Check the Convert References check box if you want to read reference files from the dgn file Check the Ignore Unres References check box if you want to ignore unresolved reference files from the dgn file If this check box is unchecked then you will be presented with a dialog to find any unresolved reference files at run time Check the Use Level Symbology check box if you want to use the level symbology from MicroSta tion so that items in NavisWorks take their color from level rather than the default element color in Mi croStation Check the Use Materials check box if you want to use MicroStation s materials in place of its colors in NavisWorks If you choose not to export materials NavisWorks will assign the same colors as in the MicroStation scene Assigning materials will assign the same textures diffuse ambient and spec ular colors to the elements as in the MicroStation scene Enter a semi colon separated list of paths in Material Search Path that the reader will search in for MicroStation palette pal and material mat files in order to convert its materials Check the Convert PDS check box if you want to read object information from Intergraph s Plant De sign System while reading the dg
139. s will be exported This is only applicable to exports from 2D views as 3D views will ex port everything contained within the view 3 3 CAD Previewing NavisWorks Roamer comes with plugins for AutoCAD 2000 and above and Viz and Max for quick and simple previewing of the models that are being built in those applications These previews help in setting up viewpoints within the CAD application and also for previewing what the model will look like inside Nav isWorks Freedom once published 3 3 1 NavisWorks Navigator for AutoCAD NavisWorks Roamer comes with an ARX plugin for products based on AutoCAD 2000 and above that enables you to walk through your model in real time inside a dockable dialog in the AutoCAD interface Not only that but it enables you to easily import and export viewpoints between Navigator and AutoCAD so that you can quickly and easily get to where you want in the model Note NavisWorks Navigator is not available for AutoCAD R14 or previous versions If you install AutoCAD after NavisWorks then install NavisWorks again choosing the Custom In stall option and choose the relevant version of AutoCAD The NavisWorks installer will find the right place for the plugin and set up all relevant registry entries for you Navigating AutoCAD models in real time Type nwnavigator at the command line or go to NavisWorks Navigator The Navigator dockable dialog is displayed 49 Chapter 3 Converting Files
140. sWorks Roamer It is designed to work with NavisWorks Publisher by allowing you to distribute published nwd files to your clients and other non CAD users for free and easy viewing of your models Simply publish the nwd file give them Freedom and let them walk around your model Note Only NavisWorks v3 nwd files will work with Freedom It is available as a stand alone viewer or as an ActiveX control for insertion into web pages Once in stalled Freedom looks like this 59 Chapter 4 Publishing _ 5 x Sets Orbit ZL Functionality is limited to the navigation modes the view all perspective and orthographic modes and restoring viewpoints The buttons on the Freedom interface work in the same way as the NavisWorks buttons e Open E Simply opens the standard Windows Open dialog for you to choose an nwd file to open into Free dom Walk gp 2A Puts Freedom into Walk navigation mode Look Around an Puts Freedom into Look Around navigation mode 60 Chapter 4 Publishing e Puts Freedom into Zoom navigation mode Zoom to Box oe Puts Freedom into Zoom to Box navigation mode Pan amy Puts Freedom into Pan navigation mode Orbit iy Puts Freedom into Orbit navigation mode Examine h oy Puts Freedom into Examine navigation mode Fly Rr Puts Freedom into Fly navigation mode Turntable l Puts Freedom into Turntable navigation mode View All tal Zooms
141. selected The property can be any thing from Material Hyperlink or any other searchable property attached to the item Note Selecting Same property works by comparing items properties If you have multiple items se 80 Chapter 6 Selecting Items lected when you perform a selection command of same name or type etc all the types names and properties of the items in the current selection are compared with all items properties in the scene Those matching any of the current items selected will be selected 6 3 Selection and Search Sets Selection sets are useful for saving a group of items that you might want to regularly perform some action on such as hiding or changing transparency They simply store a group of items for later retrieval There is no intelligence behind this set if the model changes at all the same items will be selected assuming they are still available in the model when recalling the selection set Search sets work in a similar way except that they save search criteria instead of the results of a selec tion so that you can re run the search at a later date as and when the model changes See Chapter 7 for information on searching the model for items Selection and search sets can be named and contain comments They can also be highlighted with icons in the main navigation window so that when you click on one the selection set is restored to the active set and all the items within it are re selected
142. te to set the selected selection set to the currently selected items or if it s a search set it will update it with the current search 7 Choose Delete to delete the selected selection set 83 Chapter 6 Selecting Items 6 4 Selection Resolution Selection resolution affects what geometry you select when selecting items in the main navigation window using Select mode When you click on an item in Select mode NavisWorks doesn t know what level of item to start selecting at do you mean the whole model or the layer or the instance or group or just the geometry The se lection resolution tells NavisWorks what level in the selection tree to start selecting items at by default The options are e First Object Selects the first item in the selection tree path that isn t a layer This is the default selection resolution setting e Geometry Selects the last item in the selection tree path most specific but may be multiply instanced e Last Object Selects the most specific item furthest along the selection tree path that is marked as a composite object If no composite object is found the geometry is selected Last Unique Selects the most specific item furthest along the selection tree path that is unique not multiply in stanced e Layer Selects all items on a layer Model Selects the whole model If you find you have selected the wrong level of item you can interactively cycle through the selecti
143. ter animation to com pose more complex combinations of animations just like dragging and dropping viewpoints onto an animation as a frame 12 2 Editing Animations Once an animation is recorded you can edit it to set the duration the type of smoothing and whether it loops or not Editing an animation 134 Chapter 12 Animating Right click on the animation you want to edit in the Viewpoints control bar The Edit Animation dialog is displayed Edit Animation Animation6 xj 473 Duration OR Loop Playback Synchronize angular linear speeds Smoothing 2 Type in the duration in seconds in the Duration edit box 3 If you want the animation to play back continuously check the Loop Playback check box 4 From the Smoothing drop down select the type of smoothing you want the animation to use None means that the camera will move from one frame to the next without any attempt at smoothing out the corners The speed of movement between frames of an animation is dictated by the angular and linear speeds of the individual frames and so choosing Synchronise angular linear speeds will smooth the differences between the speeds of each frame in the animation resulting in a less jerky animation 5 Click OK to set these options or Cancel to return to NavisWorks leaving the animation as it was There is also nothing to stop you copying animations hold down the Control key when dragging an ani mation in the
144. th this option off items with transparency of more than 50 are treated as completely transparent and not rendered at all Check the Use Texture Anti Aliasing check box if you want procedural materials such as some bricks and tiles you can tell a procedural material in Presenter because it has a ball style preview icon to be rendered using anti aliasing With this option on it will take longer to open files containing procedural textures but the quality will be better Check the Auto Exposure check box if you want the final render to give a nice brightness and con trast balance The render will then render twice firstly to establish the render s intensities and then with the adjusted final render Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 119 Chapter 10 Viewpoints Viewpoints are an important feature of NavisWorks They not only allow you to save and return to views of the model which are of importance but they can also be used for design review audit trails and for set ting Up animations of the model 10 1 Saving Viewpoints Viewpoints contain more than just the camera information each viewpoint can also contain redlines and comments In fact you can use viewpoints as a design review audit trail They can be used as hyperlinks in the main navigation window to click on and zoom to the viewpoint which will also bring up the redline and comments associated with it The viewpoints redl
145. that the comment is attached to Note If the Text and Author fields are left empty the search will return all comments within the Date Modified and Source restrictions Click Find to search for the comments If any comments are found they will be listed in the box at the bottom of the control Selecting a com ment will also select the source of the comment For example selecting a comment which originated from a saved viewpoint will select that viewpoint lf new comments are added the results list will be cleared 93 Chapter 8 Editing As NavisWorks is a design review tool editing is restricted to simple temporary overrides of items prop erties so that they can always be reset to the state they were in when imported from the CAD file You can override an item s position by holding onto the item while navigating and then dropping it in a new po sition as well as color transparency and hyperlinks In addition you can hide and reveal items and make them required and unrequired to control their drop out during navigation Finally you can also edit a file s transform or in other words its origin location scale rotation and so on so that it fits within the scene when appending multiple models from potentially different sources and CAD applications Most editing is done from the Edit menu which includes the following items Undo e Redo e Select Hide Item Item Required e Hide Unselected Items e Ove
146. the effect that you are moving your head around 64 Chapter 5 Navigating To look around a model Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Look Around or e Click Look Around 25 on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button or using the cursor keys looks left right up or down Holding down the Shift key speeds up this movement Holding down the Control key rotates the camera around its viewing axis 5 1 3 Zooming Zoom mode enables you to zoom into and out of the model Cursor up zooms in and cursor down zooms out To zoom Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Zoom or e Click Zoom G on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button up and down or using the up and down cursor keys zooms in and out re spectively 5 1 4 Zooming to a Box The zoom to a box mode enables you to drag a box so that the contents of the box fill the view To use the zoom box Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Zoom Box or e Click the Zoom Box on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging a box with the left mouse button over the main navigation view fills the view with the contents of the box 65 Chapter 5 Navigating Holding down the Shift or Control keys or spinning the mouse wheel temporarily puts this mode into normal Zoom mode 5 1 5 Panning The pan mode enables you to pan the model rather than the camera To pan a model e Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Pan or e Click Pan Mm o
147. the Move Up and Move Down buttons or by dragging them to their new position in the list This way you can prioritize a hyperlink to become the default hy perlink that is followed when click on in the main navigation window 6 Click OK to confirm the edit or Cancel to return to NavisWorks leaving the hyperlink as it was Note You can also edit any original hyperlinks that have been converted from the native CAD files If you do this save in an nwf then change the hyperlink in the original CAD file and reopen the nwf file in NavisWorks then your edit overrides will remain If you haven t edited the hyperlinks in NavisWorks however the updated links from the CAD file will appear 13 4 5 Deleting Hyperlinks You can delete all hyperlinks from an item by right clicking on any tab in the Properties control bar and choosing Delete Hyperlinks from the context menu You can reset all the hyperlinks on an item to those that were originally converted from the CAD file by going to Edit Reset Item Hyperlinks with an item selected Likewise you can reset all the hyperlinks on all items in the scene to their original state by going to Edit Reset All Hyperlinks 151 Chapter 13 Reviewing Deleting a single hyperlink from an item Either e Select a single item see Chapter 6 for more details on how to do this from which you want to delete a hyperlink and go to Review Hyperlinks Edit Hyperlinks e Right click on the item
148. this control bar has a tab for each property category of the se lected item Whenever a single item is selected this dialog will be updated to show the properties of that item Note If more than one item is selected the Properties bar will only show the number of items selected and won t show any property information The Properties control bar looks like this ES Item Entity Handle Material Mame AutoCAD Color Index 9 mbient Red 0 750 Ambient Greer 0 750 Ambient Blue 0 50 Diffuse Red 0 750 Diffuse Green 0 750 Diffuse Blue 0 750 Specular Red 0 000 Specular Green 0 000 Specular Blue 0 000 Emisalve Red 0 000 F missive Greer nana To activate it click on the Properties button E on the Workspace toolbar or go to View Control Bars Properties Hyperlinks are also classed as a property category and so can be added and edited from this control bar using the context menu See Section 13 4 for more details on hyperlinks NavisWorks will also convert many different CAD application object properties such as those from Archi tectural Desktop or MicroStation Triforma Every property has a type associated with it for example an item s Name is a string and so on Some 87 Chapter 7 Finding properties are dependent on the current profile so if you are more technically oriented and wish to see more detailed property information such as a file s transform check the profile level in Global Optio
149. ties e Points e PCurves B spline rational B spline Bezier trimmed uniform or quasi uniform curves e Circles or ellipses e Hyperbola STEP File Reader Options Setting the STEP file reader options Go to Tools Global Options STEP The STEP dialog is displayed 29 Chapter 3 Converting Files Global Options E i x 305 DWGDXF Presenter DGN IGES Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Inventor Solid Edge STEF Solidworks Faceting Factor fi 000 blas Facet Deviation 0 000 Enter the Faceting Factor the value must be greater than 0 The higher the value the more Navis Works will facet rounded entities and therefore the smoother they will appear See Faceting Factor for more information Enter the Max Faceting Deviation This will facet entities to within the specified tolerance This number uses the units of the model See Max Deviation Factor for more information 30 Chapter 3 Converting Files Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 3 1 10 SolidWorks Files The SolidWorks file reader reads SolidWorks display lists directly from SolidWorks part sldprt and as sembly sldasm files This is the same technique as SolidWorks own viewer and has the same limita tions The SolidWorks files must contain valid and up to date display lists The faceting level of t
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151. to align with the world up vector when it is already close to the world up vector To straighten the camera 70 Chapter 5 Navigating e Goto Viewpoint Navigation Tools Straighten or e Click Straighten E on the Navigation Tools toolbar Note This button is not on the toolbar by default but can be added by customizing it see Section 14 3 5 9 Set World Up These functions set the world up vector to align with the selected orientation To set the world up vector to the current view Go to Viewpoint Set World Up Current View or e Click Set Up ot on the Navigation Tools toolbar Alternatively to set the world up vector to one of the orthogonal axes Go to Viewpoint Set World Up and choose one of the pre defined axes X Axis X Axis Y Axis Y Axis Z Axis or Z Axis Note Navigation modes Walk Turntable and Orbit all use the World Up vector so navigation will occur at whatever angle is set using this function This button is not on the toolbar by default but can be added by customizing it see Section 14 3 5 10 Preset Viewpoints 5 10 1 The orthogonal viewpoints are preset inside NavisWorks and can be accessed from the Navigation Tools toolbar and the Viewpoints menu Aligning With The X Axis This function toggles between Look From Front and Look From Back views To align the viewpoint with the x axis 71 5 10 2 5 10 3 5 10 4 Chapter 5 Navigating
152. to convert any external reference files contained within the dwg file Unchecking this will give you more control over which files you append into Nav isWorks Check the Convert Views check box if you want to convert the named views from the file into Navis Works viewpoints Check the Convert Points check box if you want to read any points from dwg and dxf files See Section 9 4 for more information on how to display these in NavisWorks Check the Convert Lines check box if you want to read any lines and arcs from dwg and dxf files See Section 9 4 for more information on how to display these in NavisWorks Check the Convert Snap Points check box if you want to read any snap points from dwg and dxf files See Section 9 4 for more information on how to display these in NavisWorks 18 Chapter 3 Converting Files Check the AutoCAD 2000 Compatibility check box if you want to read AutoCAD 2000 dwg files this provides support for any AutoCAD 2000 based object enablers that may be in use If unchecked ObjectDBX 2004 is used to read all files You should use AutoCAD 2000 compatibility mode until you ve upgraded your Autodesk products and or object enablers to AutoCAD 2004 based ones Clicking the Advanced button will open a dialog which giving you the option to read object informa tion from various third party applications that are built on AutoCAD Convert Object Properties Ied e AutoCAD Architectural Desktop BS L
153. to extents so that the whole model is visible in the Freedom window Perspective ai Puts the Freedom view into perspective viewing mode This is mutually exclusive with orthographic mode Orthographic Al Puts the Freedom view into orthographic viewing mode This is mutually exclusive with perspective mode Viewpoints ES This drop down shows all the viewpoints that have been set up and published with the nwd file Click on one of the viewpoints from the drop down to recall that viewpoint into the Freedom window 61 Chapter 4 Publishing About p Shows the About box offering a link to the NavisWorks web site 62 Chapter 5 Navigating NavisWorks enables intuitive and interactive navigation around your 3D models at a guaranteed frame rate The nine navigation modes give you complete flexibility to navigate around the model in real time In addition to these navigation modes there are selection and measuring tools which are mutually exclusive to the navigation modes so that when you re navigating you can t select or measure and when your mea suring you can t navigate or select The navigation tools allow you to do things such as focus on objects and change the view parameters There are also options to look from predefined views set the world up vector to a direction different than the one brought through from the CAD model The tilt bar enables you to tilt the model or the camera depending on if the na
154. to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 13 5 Smart Tags Smart tags pop up information on the item hovered over by the cursor in a tooltip style window without having to select the item itself The smart tag will disappear after a few seconds This is a useful way to quickly get information about an item in the main navigation window when navigation has ceased The de fault information shown is the name and type of the item but you can define which properties to show us ing the smart tags options Note If the item hovered over doesn t have the property requested smart tags will search up the selec tion tree for a parent that does so maximising the useful information you get To turn on smart tags or Click Smart Tags on the Workspace toolbar m Go to Tools Smart Tags 154 Chapter 13 Reviewing 13 5 1 Smart Tags Options Setting smart tags options Go to Tools Global Options Smart Tags The Smart Tags dialog is displayed Global Options x 305 OWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Smart Tags Display Units Caching Undo Display Frofile Behavior ltem LINI OF Cancel Apply Help 155 Chapter 13 Reviewing For every item in the list you can change the Category and Property by clicking on the item and choosing the relevant entry from the drop
155. tures Interactive materials a lt 1 4 41 Interactive lighting Max Texture Size Max Background Texture Blend transparent textures Use Texture AnteAlasing Auto Exposure Check the Smoothed Textures check box if you want textures to look smooth but take longer to ren der Uncheck it if you want textures to appear pixelated but render faster Check the Filtered Textures check box if you want to turn on mipmapping This will improve the ap pearance of textures in the distance Check the Interactive Materials check box if you want to turn off texture display during navigation 118 Chapter 9 Display Modes The materials reappear automatically when navigation ceases as long as the Full Render rendering style is on Unchecking this will ease the load on less capable graphics cards and give less drop out in heavily textured scenes Use the Max Texture Size drop down to set the maximum size that any texture can be The higher the value the more memory will be taken and thus performance could be affected on less capable graphics cards Similarly use the Max Background Texture drop down to set the maximum size that the back ground texture can be The higher the value the more memory will be taken and thus performance could be affected on less capable graphics cards Check the Blend Transparent Textures check box if you want better quality but slower rendering of transparent items in the main navigation window Wi
156. types for example poly gons 3D Solids and so on The selection resolution is the level in the selection tree you start select ing at You can cycle through items in the tree by holding down the shift key during a selection Each category and property name has two parts a user visible string which is localized and an internal string which isn t and is mainly used by the API By default when matching names in the Smart Tags and Find Items dialogs both parts must be the same but you can use the flags to match only on one part You might use ignore user name if you wanted to match something irrespective of which localized version was being used Viewpoint Terminology Angular Speed Aspect Ratio Anti aliasing Camera Centric The speed that the camera moves when turning right and left in any navi gation mode Aspect ratio is the proportion of x axis to y axis size For example in ex porting a bitmap of a viewpoint maintaining the aspect ratio would keep the proportion of the view even if the number of pixels was different Anti aliasing improves image quality by softening the jagged edge ap pearance of sharp lines 2x to 64x refers to the extra number of frames that are required for the anti aliasing process The greater the number of frames the finer the effect with the consequent increase in rendering time Navigation modes in which the camera is moved around the model c f model centric 174 Glossary
157. unit chosen is a fractional unit rather than decimal unit then you have the choice of what level of fraction to display the units from the Fractional Display Precision drop 161 Chapter 14 Interface down Click OK to set the options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 14 8 Profiles You can select a profile that best fits your level of CAD technical knowledge There are 3 levels of profile Manager CAD User or Developer This option controls the number of properties that are visible and whether the more technically oriented parts of the interface are available The default level is CAD User Developer gets most information and the most complex interface whereas Manager gets the least Setting the user profile Go to Tools Global Options Profiles The Profiles dialog is displayed 162 Chapter 14 Interface Global Options E E 4 x 305 OWG DXF Presenter DGN IGES Inventor SolidEdge STEP SolidWorks Selection Hyperlinks Measure Viewpoints Display Units Caching Undo Display Profile Smart Tags Profile Manager CAD User Developer Defaults Select the level of profile from Manager least technical to Developer most technical Click OK to set the profile or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting it 163 Chapter 15 Tools The Tools menu in NavisWorks gives access to a series of useful tools plugins and options If you have
158. up vec tor stays upright i e in walk orbit and turntable modes Enter the speed of motion in a straight line for the viewpoint in the Linear Speed box the minimum value is O and the maximum is based on the size of the scene s bounding box 126 Chapter 10 Viewpoints 6 Enter the speed of turning for the viewpoint in the Angular Speed box 7 If the viewpoint being edited is a saved viewpoint i e selected from the Viewpoint dialog check ing the check box of a saved attribute will store that attribute with the viewpoint See Section 10 6 for more details 8 Click OK to set the viewpoint or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting it 10 6 Viewpoints Options Two view attributes can be saved with a viewpoint Hide Required whether items are hidden or required e Override Materials the color and transparency of items You can set a viewpoint to save either attribute by editing the viewpoint To update changes to overridden material or hide required use Update in the viewpoints context menu Be careful though as this also up dates the point of view as well which may disrupt any redline information stored with the viewpoint By default these attributes are not stored with new saved viewpoints If you do wish them to be saved by default then this can set in the Viewpoints Options Setting the viewpoints options Go to Tools Global Options Viewpoints The Viewpoints dialog is displayed 127
159. value you type into the Furthest distance text box Similarly in the Far Clip Plane area check the Automatically generated check box to tell Navis Works to constrain the far plane to give the best view of the model it possibly can Alternatively uncheck this box to manually constrain the far clip plane NavisWorks will put the far clip plane no closer than the value you type into the Closest distance text box Check the Backface Enable check box to enable backface culling If you find that parts of items are missing in the NavisWorks scene you might want to disable this option Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them 113 Chapter 9 Display Modes 9 3 Speed Options The basis of NavisWorks Roamer is its ability to walk through any size model in real time NavisWorks guarantees a user defined frame rate using a unique algorithm which automatically calculates which items to render first during navigation based on the size of items and distance from the viewpoint Items which NavisWorks does not have time to render are therefore sacrificed or dropped out in the name of interactivity These items are of course rendered when navigation ceases The amount of drop out de pends on several factors including hardware in particular graphics card and driver performance for a list of recommended graphics cards visit www navisworks com http www navisworks com as well as the size of the Navis
160. vigation mode is camera centric or model centric and has the same effect as spinning the wheel on a mouse Two thumbnail views also give you a good overall view of the scene allowing you to see whereabouts you are in the whole model and quickly jump from one end to the other 5 1 Navigation Modes There are nine navigation modes to control how you move around the main navigation view six camera centric modes and three model centric modes In a camera centric mode the camera moves within the scene whereas in a model centric mode model moves inside the scene For example the Orbit and Ex amine modes essentially do the same thing except that Orbit moves the camera around the focal point and Examine moves the model around the focal point Movement in each mode is based on the cursor keys the Shift and Control keys and mouse drags The mouse wheel is also supported allowing quick and easy zooming or tilting depending on the current navigation mode Note Dragging with the left mouse button while holding down the Control key performs the same ac tions as dragging with the middle mouse button which is useful if you only have a two button mouse The Shift and Control keys modify the movement for example holding down Shift in Walk mode speeds up movement and holding down Control in this mode glides the camera left right and up down Note Gliding the camera is opposite to panning the model Gliding is a camera centric motion and pan
161. w to do this e Go to Edit Hide Unselected Items or e Click Unselected Hidden on the Standard toolbar 8 6 Overriding Item Properties Various item properties such as material color and transparency and hyperlinks can be temporarily overridden in the scene for design review These overrides are saved into nwf files for future use and any material overrides can be optionally saved into viewpoints see Section 10 6 8 6 1 Overriding Color This option allows a user defined color to be added to an item in the scene The old color is saved in case it needs to be reset later 99 Chapter 8 Editing Overriding an item s color Go to Edit Override Item Color Select a color from the color chooser and click OK 8 6 2 Overriding Transparency This option allows a user defined transparency to be added to an item in the scene The old color is saved in case it needs to be reset later Overriding an item s transparency Go to Edit Override Item Transparency Use the slider to select level between opaque and transparent and click OK 8 6 3 Overriding Hyperlinks As well as hyperlinks being converted from the native CAD files you open in Roamer you can also over ride an item s hyperlinks by attaching multiple additional hyperlinks to it Because hyperlinks are treated as such a property by NavisWorks they can be searched on with the Find Items tool and displayed in the Properties bar They are also saved into
162. wer your query try the Support area on www navisworks com http www navisworks com The next port of call would be the reseller from whom you purchased the software The NavisWorks Bond is an optional subscription program and gives you access to support via your re seller after 30 days after purchase You also gain access to the Bond web site bond navisworks com http oond navisworks com where you can download the latest patches and upgrades for you product get useful tips and tricks about NavisWorks and join the online forum 17 1 What s This NavisWorks contains full context sensitive help If you want to find out more about any item in the inter face Click h2 and click over the toolbar button window or menu command that you want to know more about The appropriate Help topic will then be displayed 17 2 License Opens the NavisWorks License Manager where all licensing operations are done For more information on this see the book called 1icMan patf in the manuals directory 17 3 System Info Opens a dialog giving you detailed information about your system which can be helpful in support situa tions 169 Chapter 17 Getting Help i OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 Build 2600 Processor Mobile Intel R Pentium R 4 M CPU 1 70GHz Type 0 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 Processor Speed 1695 MHz Memory 767 MB OpenGL Vendor NVIDIA Corporation OpenGL Renderer GeForce4 420 Go
163. when you let go of the button the model keeps spinning Click on it to stop Hold ing the Shift key allows you to zoom in and out 5 1 8 Flying The fly mode enables you to fly around the model like in a flight simulator To fly through a model e Go to Viewpoint Navigation Mode Fly or e Click Fly isa on the Navigation Mode toolbar Holding down the left mouse button moves forward As in a flight simulator the left mouse button banks left right when dragged left or right and tilts up down when dragged up or down The up and down cursor keys will zoom in and out respectively and the left and right cursor keys will spin the camera left and right respectively Holding down the Shift key speeds up this movement Holding down the Control key rotates the camera around its viewing axis while still moving forward 5 1 9 Spinning on a Turntable The turntable mode enables you to spin the model around the up vector This navigation mode behaves as though the model is sitting on a turntable ensuring that up is always up To use the turntable e Goto Viewpoint Navigation Mode Turntable 67 Chapter 5 Navigating or e Click Turntable l on the Navigation Mode toolbar Dragging the left mouse button left and right or using the left and right cursor keys spins the turntable left and right respectively Holding down the Shift key or spinning the mouse wheel temporarily puts this mode into normal Zoom mode Hold
164. whole scene and to quickly move the camera to a location in a large model There are two thumbnails available in NavisWorks so you can have one showing a section and another showing a plan view if you wish The thumbnails show a fixed view of the model with a triangular marker representing your current viewpoint This marker moves as you navi gate showing the direction of your view The marker may also be dragged by holding the left mouse but ton over it and dragging to move the camera in the main navigation view Note The marker changes to a small dot when the thumbnail view is in the same plane as the camera view 73 Chapter 5 Navigating Plan Yiew Ki By default the Section Thumbnail shows the view from the front of the model and the Plan Thumbnail shows a plan view The thumbnail view can be manipulated by right clicking on the view You can select from the following options Look From Edit Viewpoint Update Viewpoint Lock Aspect Ratio and Re fresh Manipulating a thumbnail s view Right click on the thumbnail to open the context manu 2 Use the Look From menu item and choose from Top Bottom Front Back Left or Right to set the thumbnail view to any of these pre set viewpoints You can also choose Current Viewpoint to set the thumbnail view to the active navigation viewpoint 3 Choose Update Current Viewpoint to set the current active navigation viewpoint to be the same as that of the thumbnail 4 Choose Ed
165. word W Expires 20 02 2003 E May be re saved l Display on open Cancel Complete as much information in as you wish Title Subject Author Publisher Published For Copyright Keywords and Comments are all optional text boxes to be completed by you Password gives you the opportunity to password protect nwd files On clicking OK you will be asked 55 Chapter 4 Publishing to re enter the password to ensure you have not mis typed it 4 If the Display at password checkbox is checked this will force NavisWorks to display the publication entries in a dialog on asking for the password so that the recipient is able to know whose password to enter 5 If the Expires checkbox is checked this will time bomb the file so that it will not be openable in NavisWorks or NavisWorks Freedom after the date set 6 If the May be re saved checkbox is checked this will allow NavisWorks to re publish the file with new publication information If this checkbox is not checked the publication information in the nwd file will never be changeable 7 The checkbox Display on open if checked will force NavisWorks to display the publication entries in a dialog on opening the file 8 Click OK to go to the File Save dialog where you can type in the name and location of the published file or Cancel to return to NavisWorks 4 2 Publishing from AutoCAD NavisWorks Publisher comes with ARX plugins for any AutoCAD base
166. y Modes e Click Full lights Gg on the Rendering Style toolbar Render Modes The four render modes affect how the items are rendered in the main navigation window Full Render This option renders the model with smooth shading including any Presenter materials that have been ap plied using NavisWorks Presenter or have been brought through from the native CAD file although Nav isWorks does not convert all native CAD file s textures see Chapter 3 for more details To select full render Go to Viewpoint Rendering Full or e Click Full Render a on the Rendering Style toolbar Shaded Render This option renders the model with smooth shading and without textures To select shaded render Goto Viewpoint Rendering Shaded or e Click Shaded CA on the Rendering Style toolbar Wireframe Render This option renders the model in wireframe As NavisWorks uses triangles to represent surfaces and solids all triangle edges are visible in this mode To select wireframe render Go to Viewpoint Rendering Wireframe or 109 Chapter 9 Display Modes e Click Wireframe E on the Rendering Style toolbar 9 1 2 4 Hidden Line Render This option renders the model in hidden line This requires a two pass rendering algorithm so is equiva lent to rendering shaded and wireframe at the same time The output is low quality as all the facet edges in the model are visible To select hidden line render e Go to Viewpoint Re
167. y while selecting items This will add them to the current selection Alterna tively if the items are already in the current selection holding down Control while selecting them again will remove them from the current selection To select multiple items using a draggable box Go to Viewpoint Navigation Mode Select Box or 79 Chapter 6 Selecting Items e Click Select Box py On the Navigation Mode toolbar 6 2 3 Selection Commands Selection commands enable you to quickly alter the current selection using logic You can select multiple items based on the currently selected items properties or quickly invert the set select everything or noth ing Selecting items with selection commands Go to Edit Select Choose the required selection command Standard selections are Select All All items contained within the model are selected e Select None Deselects everything in the model e Select Invert Every selected item becomes deselected and vice versa e Select Multiple Instances Selecting an item then selecting Multiple Instances will select all instances sometimes called inser tions of that geometry group that occur in the model Select Same Name Every item with the same name as the selected item will also be selected Select Same Type Every item of the same type as the selected item will also be selected e Select Same property Every item with the same property as the selected item will also be

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