Lynda – Navisworks Essential Training (Updated: June 2019)

Navisworks spans the design and the construction worlds. This course was designed for residents of both: construction personnel, architects, and engineers who are looking to integrate design with the as-built world. Join instructor Eric Wing as he shows how to use Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate to gain control and get a holistic view of your projects. Eric shows how to manage models, clash the models for interference, and virtually construct a building using a construction timeline. He also shows how to create material takeoffs and conduct interactive walk-throughs. On the surface, Navisworks might look like just a file viewer, but with this course, you can learn things about its analysis and simulation tools that would be either impossible or impossibly expensive any other way.

Topics include:

Appending and merging models
Looking around your model
Working with viewpoints
Finding the shortest distance between objects
Selecting, hiding, and animating objects
Adding links to objects
Creating a clash test and setting rules
Adding a timeline with the TimeLiner
Creating a script
Adding lights and materials