Book description
The only book on Autodesk's popular and powerful architectural project collaboration software
This Autodesk Official Training Guide is the perfect detailed reference and tutorial for the powerful Navisworks software. You'll quickly learn how to use Navisworks to design, review, and collaborate while saving time, meeting budgets, and working efficiently. Covering the entire project design workflow, this book is crammed with detailed how-to instruction; real-world examples; and tips, tricks, and expertise gleaned from the expert author team.
Discover how to work with more than 60 file formats, create a single 3D model, navigate and edit it, find design problems with Clash Detection, visualize schedules, and much more in this jam-packed guide.
Covers all the Navisworks features in Simulate, Manage, and Freedom
Explains Navisworks file types and all of the 60+ other supported file types
Shows you how to navigate around a 3D model and enable snap shots and animation
Addresses using Clash Detection to test and find problems, optimizing and visualizing schedules using the TimeLiner 4D simulation tool, and more
Helps you create impressive visualizations and walkthroughs with lighting, effects, and textures
Includes coverage of advanced tools and customizing Navisworks with scripts
With an expert author team, Mastering Autodesk Navisworks 2013 is your essential guide to getting the very most out of the powerful Navisworks collaboration and design review software.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publisher's Note
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Navisworks Basics
- Part 2: Simulation and Clash Detection
- Part 3: Advanced Navisworks Tools
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Appendix A: The Bottom Line
- Chapter 1: Getting to Know Autodesk Navisworks
- Chapter 2: Files and File Types
- Chapter 3: Moving around the Model
- Chapter 4: Climbing the Selection Tree
- Chapter 5: Model Snapshots: Viewpoints, Animations, and Sections
- Chapter 6: Documenting Your Project
- Chapter 7: 4D Sequencing with TimeLiner
- Chapter 8: Clash Detection
- Chapter 9: Creating Visualizations
- Chapter 10: Animating Objects
- Chapter 11: Giving Objects Life and Action with Scripter
- Chapter 12: Collaborating Outside of Navisworks
- Chapter 13: Other Useful Navisworks Tools
- Chapter 14: Managing BIM Workflows
- Appendix B: Best Practices and Supplementary Information
- Index
Product information
- Title: Mastering Autodesk Navisworks 2013
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Sybex
- ISBN: 9781118281710
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