As an AutoCAD 3D user of nearly 30 years in industry (yes, all the way back before R12 with AME) and a regular Accurender 20 years ago (until I decided not to bother with rendering since the third-worlders can do it cheaper and it mostly just requires time making adjustments to setting and re-rendering), I have to say Autodesk really has outdone themselves in making a complete dog of a program with Navisworks insofar as animations go. I've just produced an animation of a simple mechanical disassembly/reassembly with Manage 2021 and I have to say it's a total dog to use. There's no option to snap objects with mates - all object positions are absolute, so it's a lot of back and forth trying to align anything. It seems to struggle with honouring objects on layers for use in creating selection sets from the selection tree, often missing some. There's no object acceleration curve so when it moves between keyframes it goes from stationary instantly to the single full speed required to travel between the two locations based on the timing. What's more, if you go over 20fps for the output, it doesn't output anything you can use - it's just complete garbage. And when you output a video, your choices of format is limited to AVI container with crappy codecs. AVI? Seriously? It's not 1998, Autodesk. If you happen to have any objects selected when you output the video, it shows as being selected in that video. WTF is the point of that? I've seen some complete turds come out of Autodesk over the years (looking at you R13c3) but this really takes the cake. What an unrefined pile of junk.
they never evolved it (animator) in 10 years. In general i can tell you they boughted it (once navis.. was called Jetstream) and almost never enhanced features. Big companies sometimes act as elephants that breed not more than little mouses
Thanks, Its extremely useful for a scheduler to generate 4D/5D schedules. Just a quick check, do we need Navis work Autodesk license to work on this as the Navisworks Freedom 2024 version doesn't shows options of adding tasks
Navisworks Freedom 2024 is a free viewer and doesn’t require a license to use, but if you need to perform tasks beyond just viewing, such as model coordination, clash detection, or other advanced features, you will need a licensed version of Autodesk Navisworks. For more detailed information or support, please visit our website: www.hagerman.com/contact
Hi, thanks for your tutorial. Just wonder whether you can have dependecies/relationships between the tasks in Navisworks Simulate? Can you create the logic in the schedule like in other project planning software (Primavera, MS Project) or do you select only the dates? If one activity is delayed, do you have to manually change the rest of the schedule, which is dependent on the delayed activity?
How do I keep my entire model there while executing the demolition simulation? I've selected a few components and saved them as sets, but when I go to execute the sim, it only shows the components in the sets and not the rest of model. How do I show progress of deconstruction if the rest of the model disappears too? I'm a bit of a novice so anything helps, thanks.
Luke, thanks for the question. An issue like that usually eludes to how your elements are in their sets and configured to appear and/or disappear. It's all in the sets and sequencing. Although it's not desired, sometimes it helps to redo your sets, sequencing, etc. basically redo it from the ground up to flush out any backwards or unwanted behavior. In order to address this I would need to see your model to know exactly what you're dealing with. So if you'd like to open a support case with us I'd be happy to help you out. Regards
Thanks for the question. Unfortunately that is not something that Navisworks does out of the box. The focus is on the design models. However, Navisworks will consume a project schedule from software such as Microsoft Project or Primevera, so that kind of information can be simulated. Setup is required for that though, and was not covered in this video. Hope this helps.
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Great! Thanks for video!
Additional tips for 43:40 - save file as "NWF" if you want to delete or change 3d models in the Selection Tree.
Very well done, thanks for making this public
As an AutoCAD 3D user of nearly 30 years in industry (yes, all the way back before R12 with AME) and a regular Accurender 20 years ago (until I decided not to bother with rendering since the third-worlders can do it cheaper and it mostly just requires time making adjustments to setting and re-rendering), I have to say Autodesk really has outdone themselves in making a complete dog of a program with Navisworks insofar as animations go.
I've just produced an animation of a simple mechanical disassembly/reassembly with Manage 2021 and I have to say it's a total dog to use. There's no option to snap objects with mates - all object positions are absolute, so it's a lot of back and forth trying to align anything. It seems to struggle with honouring objects on layers for use in creating selection sets from the selection tree, often missing some.
There's no object acceleration curve so when it moves between keyframes it goes from stationary instantly to the single full speed required to travel between the two locations based on the timing.
What's more, if you go over 20fps for the output, it doesn't output anything you can use - it's just complete garbage. And when you output a video, your choices of format is limited to AVI container with crappy codecs. AVI? Seriously? It's not 1998, Autodesk.
If you happen to have any objects selected when you output the video, it shows as being selected in that video. WTF is the point of that?
I've seen some complete turds come out of Autodesk over the years (looking at you R13c3) but this really takes the cake. What an unrefined pile of junk.
they never evolved it (animator) in 10 years. In general i can tell you they boughted it (once navis.. was called Jetstream) and almost never enhanced features. Big companies sometimes act as elephants that breed not more than little mouses
Great video, thanks.
You are absolutely superb !
Thanks, Its extremely useful for a scheduler to generate 4D/5D schedules. Just a quick check, do we need Navis work Autodesk license to work on this as the Navisworks Freedom 2024 version doesn't shows options of adding tasks
Navisworks Freedom 2024 is a free viewer and doesn’t require a license to use, but if you need to perform tasks beyond just viewing, such as model coordination, clash detection, or other advanced features, you will need a licensed version of Autodesk Navisworks.
For more detailed information or support, please visit our website: www.hagerman.com/contact
nice explanations
Hi, thanks for your tutorial. Just wonder whether you can have dependecies/relationships between the tasks in Navisworks Simulate? Can you create the logic in the schedule like in other project planning software (Primavera, MS Project) or do you select only the dates? If one activity is delayed, do you have to manually change the rest of the schedule, which is dependent on the delayed activity?
No. Logic like that is not a feature of the software. However, you can set that up in your authoring tool (Primavera, etc.) and then import it.
How do I keep my entire model there while executing the demolition simulation? I've selected a few components and saved them as sets, but when I go to execute the sim, it only shows the components in the sets and not the rest of model. How do I show progress of deconstruction if the rest of the model disappears too? I'm a bit of a novice so anything helps, thanks.
Luke, thanks for the question. An issue like that usually eludes to how your elements are in their sets and configured to appear and/or disappear. It's all in the sets and sequencing. Although it's not desired, sometimes it helps to redo your sets, sequencing, etc. basically redo it from the ground up to flush out any backwards or unwanted behavior. In order to address this I would need to see your model to know exactly what you're dealing with. So if you'd like to open a support case with us I'd be happy to help you out. Regards
Can you extract resource graphs from Navisworks? Like lets say how many workers are on the field each day
Thanks for the question. Unfortunately that is not something that Navisworks does out of the box. The focus is on the design models. However, Navisworks will consume a project schedule from software such as Microsoft Project or Primevera, so that kind of information can be simulated. Setup is required for that though, and was not covered in this video. Hope this helps.
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