Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010

What’s new in Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010?
Autodesk Navisworks Review 2010 helps improve customer productivity and workflows, and enhances collaboration by focusing on three key areas:

- Usability:
Users will benefit from the standard Autodesk® SteeringWheels® tool and Autodesk ViewCube navigation widget, helping increase navigation efficiency, which is a fundamental Navisworks task.

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 provides a clickable interface to switch between views. For example, clicking on the front of the ViewCube will turn the scene until you are facing the front of the model. The ViewCube can also be dragged 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 the new position and orientation.

SteeringWheels:

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

In-view Measurements:

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

- Workflow:
A number of functional improvements have been made to the measurement and sectioning tools, which help to both save time and increase accuracy.

Measure Shortest Distance:
www.rand.com/imaginit/navisworks This new feature allows you to take more accurate measurements between two objects, without needing a vertex to snap to. This allows you to more quickly
select two objects and at the push of a button, Navisworks will calculate the shortest distance, regardless of object complexity. Measure Between Centerlines—Utilize the Benefit of Parametric

Cylinders:

Many engineers require measurements to be taken from the centerlines of pipes. Navisworks does not always display a centerline, however these can be calculated for parametric cylinders.

When using the measure shortest distance feature, measurements will be taken from centerlines when available and display a centerline icon.

Measurements As Redlines:

Having taken a measurement, it can now be converted into a redline and saved 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 reduce the need for plotted paper drawings. Section Box and Align Section Plane The new Section Box tool allows you to automatically add 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 to more quickly and accurately position
the plane, there is now an Align to Plane option. 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.

- Interoperability:
Navisworks continues to offer support for the latest 2010 versions of Autodesk design applications, including the AutoCAD® families, the Revit®-based products, and Autodesk® Inventor® software. In addition to this, support for non-Autodesk applications such as ArchiCAD® 12 have been updated, and the introduction of two new file formats, JT Open and CIS2.

The JT format is widely used the automotive industry, and the inclusion of this in Autodesk Navisworks Review helps allow those users to work without needing 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.

Updated File Readers and Exporters

- Autodesk 2010 design applications
o AutoCAD 2010 software, AutoCAD Architecture 2010 software, AutoCAD MEP 2010 software, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2010 software
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- 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 provides the opportunity to handle even larger project datasets.

- Additional New Features
There are a host of other new features and enhancements in our Autodesk Navisworks 2010 software, and this final section identifies some of the most noteworthy.

User Interface Enhancements
Fixed near and far clipping planes
A new manual override option allows you to specify 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 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 a sky and the 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 at a
time can be 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 at install time, making deployment across an organization easier. These folders provide a shared working environment, from workspaces to Global Options.
Core Product Enhancements Communication Center

This allows the Autodesk Navisworks team to notify you of product related updates and announcements. This can include information on:
- Product support
- Subscription announcements
- Articles and tips
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- 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 added. Now, should an application error occur, these backup files can be used for automatic recovery.

New style Help documentation and content The Help documentation has been updated in both style and content, making it easier to locate information and also providing concepts to better understand why and how features are used.