It’s no secret – the challenges of designing and constructing factories and manufacturing plants in this day & age are tremendous. Because of the scale of these projects, it is necessary to use digital prototypes to visualize and optimize factory models well before construction begins. However, there are still significant issues to overcome, including:
•Difficulty in aggregating data from multiple CAD systems
•There are no easy ways to visualize large factory models
•There is a need to simulate the real-life experience and appearance of manufacturing plants and factory layouts using 3D digital review
•The need to check for factory model interferences before construction, and…
•The desire to give all stakeholders access to the complete factory model in a robust but lightweight format to promote collaboration
One of the great strengths of the Navisworks product of course is visualization. This not only helps in coordinating activity and showing potential problems that may occur, it can also be used to help sell an idea or give a real life look at movement inside a factory, building or even a robotic work cell. In the short video I have provided I take a look at how to set-up the first step in a animation. The creation of the scene, selection of geometry and capturing of the start and end point of a moving object. Next week I will take it a step further by adding in the automated part to activate the animation while doing a walk thru. Again, if you have any questions about this blog or any other blog posted to this site please feel free to contact us or submit ideas for future blogs by selecting the cadgeek on this site.
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Let's take a look!!!
http://www.screencast.com/t/NjZjOTI0MTct
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
One of the major challenges today is working on a single project that is developed from multiple data sources. Many companies who have to coordinate this type of activity own several different cad systems to accomplish this task. With owning the different cad packages comes the cost of not only purchasing them but also the maintenance that comes with it year after year. Navisworks allows you to perform these same activities with the investment in a single cad package.
Navisworks is compatible with all major native design & laser scan file formats so data from various sources can be combined together to create a single digital model for review, regardless of size.
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Let's take a look!!!
http://www.screencast.com/t/rejX7BQdEo
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
As we all know Navisworks is a great tool for bringing in large amounts of data from multiple cad systems and viewing in a single file. Many companies today take advantage of Navisworks for overall project management. Navisworks offers some great tools to help us communicate areas of the project to be considered for review or just need to electronically mark-up possibly during a project review. These red line tools give us the ability to add text, comments, tags and revision clouds to allow others to understand areas of the project in question. My favorite feature within these tools is working with the tags themselves. They allow us to track each tag created with a status much like a data management system. Our options are - new, active, approved and resolved. These four options are also search able for anyone to easily find.
Let's take a look!!!
http://www.screencast.com/t/Rrx0drAAt74b
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
Autodesk Navisworks Manage can find clashes or interferences between any of the 3D file formats that it can read. This enables more effective identification, inspection, and reporting of interferences in a 3D project. Navisworks Manage can do this in seconds instead waiting until its being built.
Let's take a look at how easy and fast this can be accomplishedhttp://www.screencast.com/t/gflri9Sfmi
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
As were all aware that Navisworks is a great tool for handling large amounts of data for visualization, timeline reviews and animation. One item we often over look is how much extra information we can link to our file. Today's example is adding hyperlinks to our data. The use of this feature adds great benefits to our data giving us the ability to link photos, office documents and websites to various components within our data set. Making the use of Navisworks that more compelling to be used for a Master File for any project.
Let's take a look!!!
http://www.screencast.com/t/XN6VBTy8
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks
One of the key features when working with Autodesk Navisworks is being able to animate items like a walk thru or fly thru. Today I will show a quick example of creating a walk thru inside of Navisworks. This will give us the ability to look at paths inside our large assemblies and we have the ability to export this information into a avi file if needed, by simply going to our file pull down menu and selecting the export option from their. In a future blog I will go into greater detail of working with animations.
