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Navisworks Support (beta)

Launching Revit Files in Prospect

1. Open your file in Navisworks Manage (2017-2019)

2. If possible, use the selection tree to hide geometry that contains particularly large, dense or complex elements, or any layers you don’t need in VR.  This will help your experience run smoother.

3. Navigate to the IrisVR tab on the Ribbon > click View in VR

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4. Prospect will automatically collect, export, and optimize your file’s geometry

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5. After processing, your file will be ready to enjoy in VR! For Prospect Basic users the experience will immediately load, and for Prospect Pro, Pro Plus and Team users the experience will open in the Prospect Library.

Materials and Textures

Textures are not supported. Instead, textured faces are assigned color values.

Objects with multiple materials from Revit will get split into unique building elements when they’re imported into Navisworks.

  • Example: If a wall in Revit (single building element) has a different color on each side, it will get imported to Navisworks, and then Prospect, as two elements.
  • This means in Prospect, both sides of the wall will be individually selectable and appear to be unique, independent objects.

Layers

The plugin will automatically use the top-level of the “Selection Tree” hierarchy and map those to the Prospect concept of Layers. Layers in VR are based on the elements placement in the selection tree in Navisworks. Geometry not marked as being on a layer will be put on the default layer.

File Types

Navisworks supports the import of dozens of different 3D and BIM file formats. To support Navisworks, we need to build and test each Navisworks supported format individually. Beta currently supports imported geometry from:

  • SketchUp
  • Revit
  • Rhino
  • 3DS Max
  • FBX, IFC, OBJ
  • SolidWorks

Sun Position

Geolocation, if available from the native file, is exported to Prospect for the Sun Settings tool. If none exists, the default is 0,0,0.

Features

  • All file geometry is exported to Prospect (excluding hidden geometry, elements or “layers” from the selection tree that are specifically toggled off)
  • Individual object definitions are preserved and can be selected in-VR
  • Saved Viewpoints are imported as Prospect Viewpoints

Supported Versions

  • Navisworks Manage 2017-2019

Notes:

  • Large files will experience long load times. If the process takes longer than 10 minutes consider canceling and reducing the file complexity via the Selection Tree.
  • Imported viewpoints are camera positions only. Layer states, section boxes, visibility settings, etc. are not yet supported.
  • Geometry hidden in the Selection Tree window will not be exported to Prospect.
  • Sections are not supported, the full extents file will load into VR regardless of viewpoint.
  • Full Navisworks support (coming in Prospect 2.4) will support views, section cuts, and crop boxes. This will allow users to export small subsections of their model (which will decrease export time and provide for a more comfortable VR experience)

 

We appreciate your feedback on our beta as we continue to build it out, please share any feedback with our team by writing to support@irisvr.com

 

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