Description

Autodesk has released Navisworks 2025. This release has been focused on addressing product issues and a particular focus to enhancements for users and workflows.

What’s New in Navisworks 2025

Navisworks Home Screen

Navisworks Home strives to provide a consistent and welcoming experience for users of our products. Dropping you directly into a working space upon opening an application can be a jarring and unforgiving experience. It often does not match your desired task and assumes a relatively high level of knowledge of the product. Navisworks Home highlights your most common needs and provides easy access to required resources.

Enhanced Properties Panel

The existing properties panel was overdue a redesign and in need for many requested features. As such we are introducing the new enhanced properties panel into product for Navisworks 2025.

There are many improvements to the properties panel allowing for additional functionality such as:

– Stacked category tabs

– Combined category / single list

– Favorites

– Multiple selection traversal

– Auto zoom to selected

– Hyperlink support

– Column sorting

– Category sorting

– Find matching items

– Create search

– Add to existing search

Autodesk Translation Framework for IFC Import

Previously many applications in Autodesk used similar but different IFC loaders. This has led to different outcomes based on the application. As a result, the Autodesk Translation Framework is being adopted for IFC import in Navisworks 2025. This brings benefits such as:

– Support for IFC v4.3

– Platform centred approach allowing to get the latest and greatest updates across the Autodesk products.

– 50% decrease in load time compared to the previous v3 version

– Improved geometric fidelity

– Improved large coordinate support

We will continue to monitor and update this framework as new versions become available and ensure we remain up to date on the latest versions of IFC.

Section Above And/Or Below Grid

This new feature adds the ability to create section planes to the top and bottom heights of a grid levels. It is currently possible to fit selection when creating sections, but with these new buttons, you can fit to grid above and/or below.

To use this feature, the mode must be set to Fixed then select an Active Grid and Display Level and finally click Above and/or Below to section to the selected level.

Find Items

Find items has had some long-standing issues with the way properties are managed. In Navisworks 2025, we introduce a fundamental change to the way find items works. We also introduce highlighting a found property in the properties panel.

As a result of these changes, many long standing defects have been resolved:

– Find item search not respecting file units

– Cannot find items when the search criteria involve “Element” property category on German Navisworks

– Cannot find dimension properties in the list of “Find Item” dialog

– Not all Find Item Values are exposed

– Duplicate name parameter in “Quick Property Definitions”

– Values displayed instead of source units in selection tree rather than UI units

– Duplicated entries of the same categories in the selection inspector

– Duplication of property names in the Find Items property list in Navisworks

– Automatic change of values in the Find item tree in Navisworks from feet to meters

– Find Items shows different results with typed in value vs chosen value

Autodesk Navisworks is a comprehensive project review solution that supports 5D simulation, coordination, analysis, and communication of design intent and constructability. Multidisciplinary design data created in a broad range of Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital prototype, and process plant design applications can be combined into a single, integrated project model. Comprehensive schedule, quantification, cost, animation, and visualization capabilities assist users in demonstrating design intent and simulating construction, helping to improve insight and predictability. Real-time navigation combines with a review toolset to support collaboration among the project team. Entire project models can be published and viewed in NWD and DWF file formats to provide valuable digital assets from design through construction. Interference management tools help design and construction professionals anticipate and avoid potential problems before construction begins, minimizing expensive delays and rework. Entire project models can be published and viewed using Autodesk Navisworks Freedom software. The distributable NWC file exporter lets project teams using Navisworks software generate whole-project models for simulation and analysis. Team members can generate optimized NWC files directly from design applications. The NWC File Export Utility works with a range of products, including AutoCAD and Revit software, as well as 3ds Max, Bentley MicroStation and Graphisoft ArchiCAD software. The NWC File Export Utility file format supports transfer of both object geometry and associated metadata.

Learn about new features in the latest release of Autodesk Navisworks.

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