When preparing views before a meeting Saved Viewpoints are great because they will keep your section cuts, redlines, and hide properties so you can set up views that will clearly display an issue.ĭuring a meeting I recommend having the Section Plane Settings window open even when sectioning is turned off.įigure 3: The sectioning planes window can be turned on under View/Windows/Sectioning Plane Settings There are quite a few tools for sectioning, but I will only cover the ones I have found most applicable to BIM coordinations. Sometimes you will have the luxury of sectioning before a meeting and preparing views, and other times you will need to section on the fly while everyone is waiting. Sectioning can be a very useful tool during coordination. The measurement can be very different from the shortest distance measurement as shown in Figure 2įigure 2: Reading the difference Speed Sectioning The measurement will be at an angle which is not what we were looking for, but if you look in the Measure window in the Difference row you can see the flat measurement along the X axis. After selecting the two pipes I can hit the Shortest Distance measurement and Navisworks will (frustratingly) change my view and then pull that measurement. I would either need to zero out my rotation in Navisworks by selecting the entire model and opening its Units and Transform, or I could change the exported setting in Revit to export using Project Internal coordinates.Īnother way I could get that measurement if my model was not rotated is by using the shortest distance tool. But what if my Autodesk® Revit® model was rotated 15 degrees and I exported using Shared Coordinates? The X,Y axis in Navisworks would be off, so if I tried this measurement with a rotated model it wouldn’t work. After selecting a point on my first pipe I can hit X or Y on my keyboard and Navisworks will lock the measurement to that axis. This is important to remember because if you want to pull certain measurements from your Navisworks model, you need to pay attention to how you export your models or how you position them in Navisworks.įor example, if I want to get the flat dimension between two pipes running straight but at different elevations, I could use the Point to Point measuring tool. Navisworks gives you the option to lock your measuring direction to the X,Y,Z axis and parallel or perpendicular to a surface. These columns represent from left to right the X,Y,Z coordinates of your measurements based on where your 0,0,0 point is in the project. The Start and End rows have three columns. The measuring tool is pretty straightforward, but there are a few things you should understand before measuring. These same tools can be found under the Review tab. At the very top are all the measure tools: Point to Point, Point to Multiple Points, Point Line, Accumulate, Angle, Area, Shortest Distance, Clear, Transform Objects, and Convert to Redline. The measure window consists of four rows: Start, End, Difference, and Distance. But first we’ll look at the measure window and how to read it. The measuring tools in Navisworks have some simple commands that make them very powerful. And because these features are also in Navisworks Freedom and 360 Glue, you can help lighten your workload by empowering your team to find the information themselves. Thanks to the measuring and sectioning tools in Navisworks® Manage, it is easier and faster than ever to provide your team with the information they need. Visualization and quick precise measurements are the things I have been asked to provide more than any other piece of information during my career. From the beginning, some of the most valuable information that comes from 3D models is also some of the simplest to retrieve.
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