Improved Revit Interoperability
Interoperability enhancements help to increase your productivity when working with Autodesk® Revit® software products and Navisworks.

• Read native .RVT files directly within Navisworks and utilize the Navisworks Batch Utility automation toolset.
• Organize model components using the Revit hierarchy of Category, Family, Type, and Instance.
• Import Revit gridlines and levels into Navisworks when you visualize and analyze your projects.

TimeLiner Enhancements
Gain greater control and flexibility when creating 5D simulations.

• Add cost data to your project schedule to simulate, visualize, and better understand accumulated costs during construction.
• Drag and drop objects and selection sets onto your schedule to quickly and easily create associations between the model and tasks.
• Add and edit parent and child tasks in the TimeLiner hierarchy for greater flexibility when creating and maintaining your project schedule.
• Export to ProjectXML to support interoperability with common scheduling applications, such as Primavera and Microsoft® Project software.

Clash Detection Enhancements
Clash detection enhancements enable better support management and resolution of project clashes.

• Group and filter clashes using level and grid location.
• Improved filtering and sorting tools to better manage large volumes of clashes.
• Extend and tailor the clash toolset to help meet your project and business requirements with the new Clash Detective API (application programming interface).
• A new Clash Detective interface for better accessibility and discoverability of clash features.

New Grid and Level Support
Use grids and levels imported from your design application to visualize, analyze, and coordinate your project.

• Import multiple grids and levels from Revit software products and select the grid system you want to use for your review session.
• Use the grid navigation and orientation toolset when undertaking real-time walk-throughs of models.
• Sort, group, and report clashes found during coordination by grid location and level.

Additional Construction Project Review Enhancements

• Use the new Selection Inspector to quickly list, report, and export selected objects and properties you define.
• Enhanced integration with Autodesk Vault software for project data management, including Vault project browser, extended file format support, advanced search, and document status.
• Additional features in Navisworks Freedom include sectioning and embedded Datatools properties.
• Autodesk RapidRT rendering and improved Autodesk Consistent Materials support.

Improved File Interoperability
Autodesk Navisworks 2013 software supports complementary Autodesk 2013 software products and the following third-party applications:

• Siemens NX
• Dassault Systèmes CATIA®
• Dassault Systemes Solidworks®
• Graphisoft® ArchiCAD® 14, 15
• Faro® 4.8
• Oracle® Primavera P6 v8
• Asta Powerproject 12
• Microsoft Project 2010

Model File & Data Aggregation
Autodesk Navisworks products for project management, model aggregation, and model publishing enable you to combine design, construction, and other project data into a single integrated project model.

• Incorporate files in many major 2D & 3D design or laser scan file formats.
• Integrate all project models, even the largest data sets.
• Read intelligent data from original design files and view it beside the model.
• Import live data from external databases and display it within the model.

File and data aggregation capabilities are available in Autodesk Navisworks Manage software and Autodesk Navisworks Simulate software.

Review Toolkit
The review toolkit offers a host of tools that facilitate whole-project review.

• Measure distances, areas, and angles.
• Store, organize, and share camera views of a design and export them into images or reports.
• Add cross sections and section plans to inspect details closely.
• Use NWF reference files to view the latest version of a CAD design while maintaining previous review data.
• Open current model and viewpoint in many original design software packages.
• Automate tasks or extend functionality using extensive APIs (application programming interface).

The review toolkit is available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate. Measure and section tools are also available in Autodesk Navisworks Freedom software.

NWD & DWF Publishing
Publish your entire project for a whole-project view.

• Publish and store complete project models in a single distributable NWD or DWF™ file.
• Embed or exclude object properties.
• Compress file size by up to 90 percent, compared to original design files.
• Help to secure files with password encryption, time expiration, and read-only format.
• Include all authorship and copyright details in files.
• Store all review data with the model.
• Enable viewing of NWD models from a web browser or within Microsoft® Office documents and presentations via ActiveX® control.
• Use the free* Navisworks Freedom viewer to open any NWD model.

NWD and DWF 2D and model publishing capabilities are available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate.

Collaboration Toolkit
Communicate design intent and encourage teamwork with help from the collaboration toolkit.

• Add markups to viewpoints with advanced redlining tools.
• Comment on viewpoints with searchable notes, and include a date-stamped audit trail.
• Record animated walk-throughs for real-time playback, or export as AVI files.
• Stream large models and content from a disk or the Internet, navigating the design as the model loads.

The collaboration toolkit is available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate.

Photorealistic Model Visualization
Autodesk Navisworks project scheduling software products enable you to develop compelling 3D animations and imagery for project presentations.

• Customize and configure every render aspect, including materials, lights, backgrounds, and rendering styles.
• Use environmental backgrounds to add real-world scenery.
• Choose from more than 1,000 built-in materials to create a photorealistic look.
• Add rich photorealistic content (RPC), such as people and trees, to scenes.
• Add smooth shadows and natural lighting with HDRI lighting.
• Use real-time shaders that support the OpenGL® 2.0 shader language for real-time lighting and shadows.
• Create believable nighttime imagery with light-scattering effects.
• Create your own transparent materials with support for PNG files with transparency.

Photorealistic model visualization capabilities are available in Autodesk Navisworks Manage software and Autodesk Navisworks Simulate software.

Object Animation
Animate and interact with models for better design simulation.

• Create animations showing object movement, operation, assembly, and disassembly.
• Create interaction scripts that link animations to specific events, triggers, or key commands.
• Link object animations to tasks in a 5D schedule.
• Include animated objects in a clash detection and interference analysis.

Object animation capabilities are available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate.

5D Project Scheduling
Simulate construction schedules and logistics in 5D to help visually communicate and analyze project activities and minimize delays and sequencing problems.

• Verify building or demolition viability by developing construction or demolition sequences that link model geometry to times and dates.
• Import times, dates, costs, and other task data from project management software to dynamically link schedules with project models.
• Set up planned and actual times to visualize deviations from the project schedule.
• Export 5D simulations as AVI animations or sequential images.
• Customize simulation behavior and overlay text.
• Use CSV Import/Export for 2-way interoperability with other applications.
• Copy and paste dates from spreadsheets and specialist planning tools.
• Use tools to associate geometry and tasks quickly and easily.

The 5D project scheduling capabilities are available in Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate.

Clash Detection & Interference Checking
Autodesk Navisworks products enable you to anticipate and avoid potential problems before construction, minimizing expensive delays and rework.

• Perform clash detection tests against specified geometry to find and resolve conflicts.
• Check as-built laser scan data against 3D designs.
• Open current clash in many original design software applications.
• View clashes in context with geometry in the model and in relation to other clashes.
• Make all non-clashing items transparent to more easily locate clashes in the model.
• Transition between clash results to maintain orientation in the model.
• Create Hard, Clearance, and Duplicate clash tests to support multiple coordination scenarios.
• Analyze space and time by linking clash tests to 5D simulations and object animations.

Clash detection and interference checking capabilities are available only in Autodesk® Navisworks® Manage software.

Clash & Interference Management
Manage and track clashes and interferences through to resolution.

• Track the status of clashes as they are found and resolved.
• Group clash results to address multiple results as a single issue.
• Export reports with results of clash tests, including comments and screenshots, to communicate issues to the project team.
• Share clash scenarios with other Navisworks Manage users with XML import/export for reuse on similar projects.

Clash detection and interference management capabilities are available only in Navisworks Manage.

Real-Time Navigation
Autodesk Navisworks products enable you to explore your integrated project model using advanced navigation tools.

• Enable gravity, solid-object recognition, and customizable third-person avatars for a more realistic, real-time experience.
• Use comprehensive navigation tools, including Walk, Look Around, Zoom, Zoom Box, Pan, Orbit, Examine, Fly, and Turntable.
• Access the Autodesk ViewCube and Autodesk SteeringWheels 3D navigation widgets and the navigation bar for a consistent user experience across Autodesk applications.

Real-time navigation capabilities are available in Autodesk Navisworks Manage software, Autodesk Navisworks Simulate software, and Autodesk Navisworks Freedom software.

Whole-Team Project Review
Extend the whole-project view to all project stakeholders, improving communication and collaboration.

• View all simulations and output saved in 2D & 3D DWF™ and NWD formats.
• See model hierarchy, object properties, and embedded review data, including viewpoints, animations, redlines, and comments.

Whole-team review capabilities are available in Navisworks Manage, Navisworks Simulate, and Navisworks Freedom.