Autodesk Navisworks continues its commitment to support the latest versions of design applications, including non-Autodesk products and laser scanning formats. Upgrades to the Revit exporters include support for shared coordinates, rebars, and True North.
The following is a list of updated File Readers and exporters:
A full 64-bit version of Autodesk Navisworks Manage provides users with access to the increased performance and memory available from 64-bit operating systems. This provides the opportunity to handle even larger project datasets.
Autodesk Navisworks fully supports the following operating systems:
2. Clash Detective:
You can now group clash results into folders to simplify the management of related clashes. The group can be dealt with as a single issue, while retaining an audit of each individual clash. A Group Clashes Involving Item option is available to automatically create a new group for all clashes involving the selected item. Clash reports support the new clash group functionality. Using the View In Context button, the camera will automatically transition from the clash location to a chosen vantage point "outside" of the model, allowing you to orientate yourself. The camera will then transition back into the clash location. Along with making the the new Transparent Dimming display option, this allows you to visually locate the clash within the surrounding model. You can now automatically transition to the next clash result rather than jumping straight to the next clash through the View In Context feature, thereby allowing you to keep track of your updated location. A new Reviewed clash status has been added to clearly identify those clashes that require a design change or need to be discussed with relevant trades, before being able to Approve or Resolve the clash.
3. TimeLiner:
CSV files created from external applications, such as Microsoft®Excel® software, can be linked from the Navisworks TimeLiner module. Any schedules created in TimeLiner, or modifications to linked schedules can now be exported to the common CSV format. This provides the opportunity for that data to be imported into other applications. In addition, you can now copy and paste TimeLiner dates to other tasks, or to other applications such as Microsoft Excel. The same selection of objects can also be attached to multiple tasks. This allows you to simulate multiple operations that need to be preformed, when only a single geometry source exists. Take a wall, for example, this may be modeled as a single object whereas it may be constructed of an inner and outer wall, insulation, drywall, and a finishing layer. This feature allows all of these tasks to be siulated on a single piece of geometry.
| Class Description | |
| Students will learn to create lines, arcs, circles and other AutoCAD objects. Once familiar with the basic commands, students will learn to dimension, scale, and add text and patterns. They will also study how to manipulate objects by moving, copying and rearranging, and learn to build blocks and insert them. Finally, they will learn to organize the drawings on sheets to be printed to scale.
Instructional materials are included consisting of a detailed, nationally used training manual and a CD of practice exercises. | |
| Monday, Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM; 7 sessions starting February 15, 2010, ending March 8, 2010 | |
| Class Price: $429.00 | |
| Instructor: Stone | |
| Location: EpiCenter - Business Development, Map |
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Bringing a building design to fruition requires investing long hours, planning countless details, and — most importantly — securing client approval. Before the stakeholders will give their okay, however, they must be convinced that the design meets their needs, both practical and aesthetic. This is the part of the process when architects must become fortune-tellers, conjuring a compelling vision of the building-to-be. But what happens when architect and client gaze into the same crystal ball and see two different images?
That's what occurred when representatives from Oklahoma's Selser Schaefer Architects presented their design for the Tulsa Community College Center for Creativity to an executive committee. The Selser Schaefer team relied on various 2D architectural drawings to convey the design: the site layout, floor plans, a typical building section, and four exterior elevations. The linework for these drawings was extracted from the schematic-level BIM (building information modeling) model the team had created in Bentley Architecture, with Adobe Photoshop used to add shadows, colors, textures, and annotations.
An exterior view of the Center for Creativity BIM model created in Bentley Architecture.
Unfortunately, the 2D presentation fell flat. "[The clients] understood that the solution we were presenting was meeting the needs they [had specified] but ... we could tell that they weren't quite getting the whole story of the design," said Shannon West, an architectural intern at Selser Schaefer.
