Overview
Recent Reviews
Reviewer Sentiment
Awards

Popular Features
View all 36 featuresCollaboration & approvals (12)
Plan distribution & viewing (12)
Issue tracking & punchlists (12)
Plan markups & sharing (11)
Reviewer Pros & Cons
View all pros & consVideo Reviews
Leaving a video review helps other professionals like you evaluate products. Be the first one in your network to record a review of Navisworks, and make your voice heard!
Pricing
View all pricingSimulate
$115.00
Manage
$285.00
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Features Scorecard
Human Resource Management
Payroll Management
Asset Management
Reporting & Analytics
Construction Project & Field Management
Estimating
Product Details
What is Navisworks?
Navisworks Video
Navisworks Technical Details
Deployment Types | SaaS |
---|---|
Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Comparisons
View all alternativesCompare with
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Navisworks?
What is Navisworks's best feature?
Who uses Navisworks?
Reviews and Ratings
Reviews
(1-16 of 16)- Popular Filters
- Clash detection
- Collaboration
- Simulation
- The free version of Navisworks is unable to append new files.
- One thing about Navisworks is that it doesn't have the facility to go to the 3D view of a particular area, autodesk may take a look over that.
- Sometimes it shows many clashes for a single clash thus increasing the number of clashes in the final report.
Incredible Coordination Tool
- Easy navigation through virtual representations of projects
- Integration with other programs
- Easy to create and model
- The take-offs work really well and can be very quick and easy
- Clash Detection, which is incredibly helpful
- There is no mobile app
- Overkill of toolsets certain times
Best BIM Coordination Tool
- Clash detection
- Timeline creation
- Comments through markups
- Rendering
- Graphics hardware required to run it
- Refreshing through the mother file
- Detects clashes of different building systems.
- 3D viewing and navigation of compiled Revit models.
- Cloud accessibility.
- The ability to fix multiple (similar clashes) at once needs to be adopted and fully integrated.
- Elements filter could use some improvements.
Identify Issues Early
- Clash detection
- Integration with other programs
- Viewpoints
- No mobile app
- Large files
- Provides supplemental visuals
- Easy to navigate
- Easy to create a model
- Annotations/markups are difficult to add in
Navisworks is widely recognized in the Construction Industry as the go-to product for 3D coordination.
- BIM/MEP Coordination
- Clash Detection
- Difficult to navigate models at times
- Overkill of toolsets at times
Navisworks the Model Collaboration and Coordination Supertool
- Model Viewing, the navigation tools are really easy to use for walking through the model, especially if viewpoints are set up for key locations.
- The take-offs work really well and can be very quick and easy if the model was built right.
- I think the biggest con to Navisworks is that it has a pretty steep learning curve, the basics are pretty straightforward but getting into the advanced features does require a bit more time dedicated to learning.
- I would like to see bit less lag while navigating the larger files and models but overall it is not too bad.
Great Features of Navisworks
- Clash Detection
- Time line
- Combining different design models
- Better resolution of timeline
- Way to find out the location in a big building when getting lost inside the model
Navisworks - Trusted clash detection for AEC coordination.
- Clash detection.
- Reading multiple file formats
- Handles massive sized models
- File sizes are small which enables easy distribution
- Clash reporting is very limited.
- Tracking solutions and responsibilities almost non-existent
- Not cloud based
- Dated compared to contemporary software
Navisworks, What a time saver!
- Model coordination. Navisworks supports a large number of file formats.
- Easy search tools to find model portions.
- Very good appearance profiler to set up configurations for view properties.
- A link to BIM 360 Model Coordination is a serious shortcoming. It used to be easy to link to models loaded to BIM 360 Glue for more in depth clash detection.
- I would have liked the ability to export a simulation created in Navisworks to 3DS Max for a more immersive animation with decent material mapping and better animation tools.
- I would like to be able to view/create BIM 306 Docs/Field issues directly in Navisworks. In the current workflow we have to use other file formats to work within BIM 360. It would be more productive to be able to navigate the model through Navisworks and to create viewpoints and issues from within Navisworks.
Great for project understanding during pre-construction
- When flying through the model, it's very smooth unlike the web-based application Assemble or the heavy application Revit.
- Creating saved views and search sets is very easy.
- The quantification aspect is a little "clunky" and not all that intuitive.
- Creating search sets can be difficult and cumbersome (saving them is nice and easy). It would be nice to be able to simply search out an item using key words.
Naviswork's not the hero Bim Baboons need
- Saved viewpoints.
- Search sets.
- Navigation.
- Saved viewpoints sometimes don't work across different users with different versions (especially newest version).
- Clash grouping is cumbersome. It gives me carpal tunnel in the wrist.
- Sometimes viewports and clipping plans can get funky and mess up the view.
Navisworks
- Section buildings to explore virtually
- Clash Detection among building elements and disciplines
- Communication tool
- I do not have any cons for this software
Essential tool for all BIM users
I work for a large mechanical contracting firm and we are awarded lots of extensive jobs that require heavy amounts of coordination. Our primary tool is Revit and we use Navisworks as a viewer for portrayal to the field and owners what the building will look like in future phases. We can easily call out all clashes through detection tests and manage screen captures through the viewpoint functionality which saves the field time and money.
I would recommend this tool for all firms that work in the BIM industry but would like to see Autodesk make some changes to the product. Unlike Revit and AutoCAD, every time Navisworks is updated it seems to remain the same with no improvements.
- Clash detections
- Sectioning and measuring tools
- Saved Viewpoints folder management system
- User Interface has remained the same for at least the last 8 releases. Something new would help users feel like Autodesk didn't forget about this software.
- The amount of time it takes to export larger Revit files as an NWC is the biggest drawback which is no fault of Navisworks but if they figured out how to incorporate a "Live Sync" function I believe users would fall in love.
Navisworks - Great for Coordination
- The program allows you to open, view and navigate through many different file types. This is great for working with several other companies that rarely model in the same programs.
- Navisworks Manage will allow you to create clash reports showing you exactly where the issues are in the model that need to be addressed. This speeds up coordination time and helps with being accurate in this process.
- Navisworks allows you to pull dimensions and create viewpoints in the model. This allows you to create markup drawings of the issues that can, in turn, be accessed by team members on the project.
- I would like to see Autodesk add more information to the elements in the models that imports. Many of the models contain a lot of data and I have found it difficult to consistently access that data in Navisworks.
- I would also like to see Autodesk offer more connections in the program to the Autodesk 360 online platform. It would assist in our process if we could directly connect to our models on the cloud without doing an export first.