Quick and Easy Software for Project Coordination
It's been more than 3 years since I've been using Navisworks for my BIM project coordination. It's really very fast and easy to use. …
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What is Navisworks?
Autodesk's Navisworks is a 3D model and construction project review and coordination software allowing the user to combine design and construction data into a single model, and identify and resolve clash and interference problems before construction.
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Navisworks Simulate - Monthly
$135
On Premise
per month per user
Navisworks Manage - Monthly
$335
On Premise
per month per user
Navisworks Simulate - Yearly
$1,080
On Premise
per year per user
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What is Navisworks?
Autodesk's Navisworks is a 3D model and construction project review and coordination software allowing the user to combine design and construction data into a single model, and identify and resolve clash and interference problems before construction.
Available in two editions, Both Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage include the following functionalities:
But clash detection is only available in Navisworks Manage:
Navisworks can be bought standalone, or as part of the Architecture Engineering Construction Collection, which bundles Navisworks with Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and InfraWorks. The AEC Collection is designed to provide designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that facilitates project delivery from early-stage design through to construction.
Available in two editions, Both Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage include the following functionalities:
- Model file and data integration
- NWD and DWF publishing
- 5D project scheduling
- Photorealistic model rendering
- BIM coordination with AutoCAD
- BIM 360 integration
- Model aggregation
- Integrated model takeoff
- 2D sheet takeoff
But clash detection is only available in Navisworks Manage:
- Clash detection and interference checking
- Clash and interference management
Navisworks can be bought standalone, or as part of the Architecture Engineering Construction Collection, which bundles Navisworks with Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, and InfraWorks. The AEC Collection is designed to provide designers, engineers, and contractors a set of BIM and CAD tools that facilitates project delivery from early-stage design through to construction.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Autodesk's Navisworks is a 3D model and construction project review and coordination software allowing the user to combine design and construction data into a single model, and identify and resolve clash and interference problems before construction.
Navisworks starts at $135.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 7.4.
The most common users of Navisworks are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Navisworks, a widely accepted standard in the AEC industry, offers a range of use cases based on user experiences. Users have found Navisworks Manage particularly useful for grouping and creating clash detection against other trades models, allowing them to identify and resolve issues with other trades. Construction teams have utilized Navisworks Freedom to navigate through 3D models and review currently modeled elements. Additionally, operations teams have found value in using Navisworks to design, coordinate, and execute work in the field, minimizing rework.
Navisworks has proven crucial in various departments within organizations. In the building information modeling department, it has been instrumental in coordinating mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and fire trades prior to construction, streamlining the construction schedule and reducing costs from rework. Self-perform concrete departments have relied on Navisworks for planning concrete lift drawings, estimates, and embed layouts, resulting in easier execution and reduced mistakes. Pre-construction activities have also benefited from Navisworks as it helps with service coordination and model verification.
Beyond coordination and clash detection, Navisworks has been used for model visualization, timeline management, and integration of multiple stakeholders into one platform for conflict identification. The software's ability to read various file types and its effectiveness as a collaboration tool have been widely praised by users in the AEC industry. Furthermore, some organizations have even experimented with 4D modeling and logistics planning using Navisworks. Overall, users appreciate Navisworks for its versatility in handling different use cases across design and construction phases.
Convenient Cross-Platform Compatibility: Users have praised Navisworks for its ability to open, view, and navigate through different file types from various modeling programs. This feature has been mentioned by multiple reviewers and is considered a major advantage of the software.
Efficient Clash Detection: Several users have highlighted the usefulness of Navisworks Manage in creating clash reports. This feature not only saves time but also improves accuracy during the coordination process. The ability to identify issues in the model that need attention has been appreciated by a number of reviewers.
Enhanced Visualization and Communication Tools: Reviewers have expressed satisfaction with Navisworks' visualization capabilities, including pulling dimensions and creating viewpoints in the model. These features allow users to create markup drawings and easily share them with team members working on the project. The appearance profiler, sectioning tools, and measuring tools are also highly regarded for aiding in understanding designs and identifying potential clashes within virtual representations of buildings.
Difficulties accessing data: Several users have encountered challenges in consistently accessing data within Navisworks, particularly in models with a large amount of information.
Lack of mobile app: The absence of a mobile app is seen as a drawback by some users, as it makes it inconvenient to access and work with models on the go.
Performance issues with larger files: Some users have experienced lag while navigating larger files and models, which can impact productivity and efficiency.
Users commonly recommend using Navisworks for clash detection and coordination, 3D model visualization, and coordination in BIM implementation. They find Navisworks to be a valuable tool for detecting clashes and coordinating various elements in large-scale BIM projects. The software allows users to identify clashes, view clash viewpoints, and generate reports, helping to ensure clash-free models and streamline the clash resolution process. Navisworks also enables users to review and visualize 3D models effectively, which is highly appreciated by those who need to assess the accuracy and integrity of the models before construction or implementation begins. Additionally, users find that Navisworks offers robust coordination capabilities, including coordinating Revit files, utilizing selection sets and the selection tree functionality. This greatly facilitates collaboration among team members involved in the project.
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April 15, 2024
Quick and Easy Software for Project Coordination
Score 9 out of 10
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It's been more than 3 years since I've been using Navisworks for my BIM project coordination. It's really very fast and easy to use. Mainly I'm using this software for clash coordination. It also has options like distance measurements, appearance profile, elements Move, and section views which really helps to review the models. Also, the NWC file extraction and append process is very fast.
- Creates the sets on the basis of element parameters
- Create clash report very quickly and also gives multiple options to export the report
- Gives the accurate distance between objects
- Create a 4D real-time model
- Need more options for clash detection, e.g. clash between only the top and bottom faces of an element
- For applying different appearance profiles users need to remove previous sets first. Which is not good. They should just provide an ON/OFF button
- The use of Section planes are bit tricky for new users, they should add options like Revizto
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
As a BIM Engineer, we did the modeling of metro stations, substations. Navisworks helps us to combine all the models i.e architecture, structure, electrical together for collaboration and do thorough clash detection at the early stage of our design so that we can remove the clashes by combining all the models and design a clash-free model.
- 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.
April 27, 2021
Incredible Coordination Tool
I have used Navisworks to look at electrical drawings and to further clarify the location of specific lights during a project. Our company is a lighting vendor so I have used Navisworks to communicate with our contractors to clarify where our product is to be placed within the building. I find it incredibly useful especially when there has been confusion in the past about lighting placement and what is required.
- 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
April 27, 2021
Best BIM Coordination Tool
Navisworks is being used across the whole organization. It helps our numerous teams for clash detection purposes in BIM services. We can easily navigate through the 3D model and look out for any problem in the building model. Also, we can run clash detection in almost any category of elements and resolve the issues that might affect while actually constructing a building. It has whole lot of options to play with 3D models and finalize a building design and its MEPF services.
- Clash detection
- Timeline creation
- Comments through markups
- Rendering
- Graphics hardware required to run it
- Refreshing through the mother file
Naviswork is usually used throughout all design offices within all departments. It helps engineers bring all Revit models together and figure the LOD and the intensity of clashes at the final stages. It is mainly used to determine the interdepartmental clashes that occur throughout the design stage and aims to mitigate these clashes, it also helps to navigate the compiled Revit models.
- 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.
April 19, 2021
Identify Issues Early
We use [Navisworks] on our operations teams to design, coordinate, and execute work in the field. It minimizes rework.
- Clash detection
- Integration with other programs
- Viewpoints
- No mobile app
- Large files
We use Navisworks in our VDC department for all visual 3d coordination needs. We also use Navisworks to create supplemental visuals to accompany RFI's and other submissions as needed to support other divisions within the company making their jobs easier. A Visual goes a long way to help explain the issue at hand.
- Provides supplemental visuals
- Easy to navigate
- Easy to create a model
- Annotations/markups are difficult to add in
February 27, 2020
Navisworks is widely recognized in the Construction Industry as the go-to product for 3D coordination.
Navisworks is used for MEP/BIM coordination on commercial construction processes. It is used to pull in the different 3D computer-generated models from the design team, consultants, and subcontractors to coordinate the MEP routing through the building. We have been experimenting as a company with some 4D modeling and logistics planning with Navisworks as well.
- BIM/MEP Coordination
- Clash Detection
- Difficult to navigate models at times
- Overkill of toolsets at times
February 04, 2020
Navisworks the Model Collaboration and Coordination Supertool
We use Navisworks in our building information modeling department, largely it is used for coordinating our mechanical, plumbing, electrical, and fire trades prior to the building being built. This allows us to prefabricate a lot of the things we do that otherwise would have to be measured and built after the structure is up. This streamlines our construction schedule and reduces costs from re-work since we have routes figured out prior to install so we don't have to worry about redoing something when things don't fit. It also is used by our self perform concrete department to plan concrete lift drawings, concrete estimates and embed layouts. This has made things significantly easier for our self perform crews and has greatly reduced the amount of mistakes that are made.
- 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.
October 01, 2019
Great Features of Navisworks
My current company uses Navisworks for ongoing construction mainly for clash detection and timeline. It is also used in pre- construction as a selling point for the company.
- 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
September 27, 2019
Navisworks - Trusted clash detection for AEC coordination.
We use it for coordination in both design and construction phase. We are using it in our department and manage the coordination process on multiple projects with large project teams. The business case is that it is accepted as standard by the industry so it is easy to get people on board.
- 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
September 27, 2019
Navisworks, What a time saver!
We use it in teams to do service coordination and model verification.
- 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.
September 27, 2019
Great for project understanding during pre-construction
It's used across the whole organization. It's used by operations for clash detection and in some rare cases, it's used in estimating for quantification and project understanding.
- 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.
September 26, 2019
Naviswork's not the hero Bim Baboons need
For Clash Detection and model visualization, it solves for integrating multiple different stakeholders into one platform where conflicts can be identified. The Virtual Construction Department are heavy users of the software. However, many non-VDC people are using Navis to get a grasp on what a project really looks like.
- 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.
September 26, 2019
Navisworks
Arden Building Companies is Design/Build MEP/FP Firm. We use Navisworks to coordinate Designs, communicate with clients and perform Clash Detection for our Construction Projects. We use this software across all four of our companies. There is no better way to explore a building virtually than with Navisworks. It is such a powerful program that reads so many different file types. It is the ultimate collaboration tool in the AEC Industry.
- Section buildings to explore virtually
- Clash Detection among building elements and disciplines
- Communication tool
- I do not have any cons for this software
September 20, 2019
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.
September 20, 2019
Navisworks - Great for Coordination
We use Navisworks Manage in our BIM department at Ludvik Electric. We also use Navisworks Freedom with our construction teams in the company. Navisworks Manage allows us to group all the other trades models and create clash detection against them. It shows us exactly where our issues are and with what other trades. Navisworks Freedom gives the rest of our team the ability to fly through the 3D model and look at everything that has been currently modeled.
- 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.