AutoDesk Navisworks Review 2010

Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010

Whats new in Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010?
Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010 helps to improve customer's productivity and workflows, and enhances collaboration by focusing on three key areas.

1. Usability:
You will benefit from the standard Autodesk Steering Wheels tool and Autodesk ViewCube navigation widget. It will definately help you to increase navigation efficiency, which is a fundamental task of Navisworks.

2. The ViewCube:
This is an on-screen cube-shaped widget that rotates as you orbit your 3D scene and provides you with feedback about your current camera viewing angle in relation to the model world.
The ViewCube also has a clickable interface to switch between views. For example, while clicking on the front of the ViewCube you will turn the scene until you are facing the front of the model. The ViewCube can also be used to rotate the model.
Once you have clicked on a corner, face or edge of the ViewCube, an animated view transition is performed smoothly taking you from the current viewpoint to a new position and orientation.

3. Steering Wheels:
Steering Wheels are task-based floating tool palettes that move with the cursor to minimize tool access time. Tools are grouped into various wheels depending on the navigation task and user skill level.

4. In view measurements:
Autodesk Navisworks 2010 displays measurements directly in the scene view. This helps to increase efficiency as you no longer need to go to the Measure Tools control bar to read your result.

5. Workflow:
A number of functional improvements have been made to the measurement and sectioning tools.It helps both to save the time and increase accuracy.

6. Measure the shortest distance:
This new feature allows you to take more accurate measurements between two objects; you do not need to snap a vertex . This allows you to select two objects and by pushing the button make everything faster. In addition to this, Navisworks will calculate the shortest distance, regardless object complexity.

7. Cylinders:
Navisworks does not always display a centerline, however these can be calculated for parametric cylinders.
Measurements will be taken from centerlines when available and display a centerline icon by using the measure of the shortest distance characteristic.

8. Measurements as redlines:
Having taken a measurement you can now convert into a red-line and save with a viewpoint. Multiple measurements can be stored in this way on the same viewpoint. This could be used to provide necessary dimensions for the positioning of a piece of equipment, for example which could help to reduce the need for plotted paper drawings.

9. Section box and align section plane:
The new Section box tool allows you to add automatically six section planes, revealing only those objects within the box. You can set the dimensions of the section box and then iteratively move the box around the project site, until you have reviewed the whole model. When using individual section planes for more quickly and accurately position of the plane, there is an Align to plane option now. This allows you to click on any object face and the section plane will be aligned directly to that face. An Align to line option is also available allowing you to click on a point along a line in the model. The section plane will be aligned to that point, perpendicular to the line.

10. Interoperability:
Navisworks continues offering support for the latest 2010 versions of Autodesk design applications, including the AutoCAD families, the Revit-based products, and Autodesk Inventor software. Besides, support for non-Autodesk applications such as ArchiCAD 12 has been updated and the introduction of two new file formats, JT Open and CIS2.

The JT format is widely used in the automotive industry and the inclusion of this in Autodesk Navisworks Review helps to allow users to work with no need to alter their processes.
The CIS2 file reader supports the CIMSteel Integration Standards (CIS/2) adopted by the American Institute of Steel Construction(AISC) as their format for data exchange between steel related CAD software.

11. Updated File Readers and Exporters:
Autodesk 2010 design applications
AutoCAD 2010 software, AutoCAD Architecture 2010 software, AutoCAD MEP 2010 software, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 software.

- Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 software, Autodesk Revit;
- Structure 2010 software, Autodesk Revit MEP 2010 software;
- Autodesk Inventor 2010 software;
- Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 software;
- JT Open;
- Graphisoft ArchiCAD 12;
- Faro;
- CIS2.

Operating Systems:
The full 64-bit versions of Autodesk Navisworks software provide users with access to the increased performance and memory available from 64-bit operating systems. This gives the opportunity to handle even larger project datasets.

New additional features:
There are new features and enhancements in Autodesk Navisworks 2010 software; this final section identifies some of the most noteworthy.

-User Interface Enhancements;
-Fixed near and far clipping planes;
-A new manual override option specifies the distance of near and far clipping planes. This can create the effect of having dynamic section planes that update as you move around the model. It can also help you to avoid display problems when viewing large models or when your viewpoint is in close proximity to surrounding geometry.

Artificial horizon.
You can now place your model against a fixed artificial horizon so that it appears more realistic and does not float in midair. The background of the scene view is split across the horizontal plane giving the effect of the sky and ground. The resulting artificial horizon gives you an indication of your orientation in the 3D world.

Button menus.
Some toolbar buttons exist in mutually exclusive groups of which only one can be simultaneously selected. These buttons are now grouped under drop-down menus to improve accessibility and decrease interface clutter.

Site and project folder assignment at install.
You can now configure site and project folders during the install time, making deployment across an organization easier. These folders provide a shared working environment from workspaces to Global Options.

Everything stated above allows the Autodesk Navisworks team to notify you of product related up-dates and announcements. This can include information on:
- Product support;
- Subscription announcements;
- Articles and tips;
- Maintenance patches;
- Featured technologies and content.

Auto-save and recovery.
The option of automatically saving a backup of your work at regular intervals using the auto-save tool has been already added. Now, if an application error occurs, these backup files can be used for automatic recovery.

New style helps documentation and content.
The help documentation has been up-dated both in style and content, making it easier to locate information and also providing concepts to better understanding why and how features are used.