The plugin "Export to Navisworks" will help Bim specialists to do batch unloading to ".nwc" format of models and Revit. This plugin will allow you to save a lot of time on the routine operations of uploading your models from ".rvt" format to ".nwc" format in order to collect summary models by object and to perform collision checks. Just build a table with the models you want to export and run the plugin. By the way, the plugin will allow you to process models lying on both local storage and Revit Server.
1. Preparing Excel file for plugin operation
To work with the plugin, you will first need to set up an Excel file in ".xlsx" or ".csv" format as follows:
Obligatory starting from the 2nd row!
Column A - Model Name must have the extension ".rvt"
Column B - Path to the location of the Revit model. This can be either the path to local storage or the path to Revit Server. In the case of Revit Server, you need to specify the path in the following format:
RSN://*server name*/*folder name*/.
Column C - Specify the path to the folder where the plugin will need to upload the model in ".nwc" format.
Column D - (optional field) Specify, if necessary, a new name for the model in ".nwc" format.
Column E - (optional field) Enter, if necessary, a list of names of the species from which you want to do the upload. You can specify a list of species here and the plugin will do an upload for each of them. The uploaded file will have the species name in the prefix. As a delimiter use three # signs. You may not specify the species name here, if it is one, but specify it in the plugin window.
Save this file, we will need it for the plugin to work.
2. Plugin operation
After the Excel file is prepared, you can run the plugin. To do this, open Revit, and then either in an open document or just in an open Revit application, go to the BS_Bim tab and run the "Export to Navis" plug-in.
In the opened window you will have to specify a lot of settings. Let's analyze them.
1. Select the ".xlsx" or ".csv" file collected in the previous step.
2. Specify the type of export in ".nwc" format - it will be a specific view or the whole model.
3. In case we are going to export only elements from a certain view, enter its name here. In general, it is a preset view, the name of which is "Navisworks".
4. Specify the coordinates for export.
5. Check the box if it is necessary to convert linked files.
6. Specify whether it is necessary to export the geometry of the rooms that are in the model.
7. Specify if we will convert the rooms as an attribute.
8. We specify if we need to transform the properties of the elements.
9. Set the facetization factor.
10. Specify whether we will split the file by levels.
11. Whether we will transform URLs.
12. Whether it is necessary to check and find missing materials.
13. Specify whether we need to convert item id's.
14. Whether we are converting construct elements.
15. If the model has several sites and you want the upload to be done for each of them, then check the box and the upload to NWC will be done several times. The final file name will have the site name in the suffix.
16. Check the checkbox if we want the plugin not to open any working set that has values in the field below with a comma. This functionality is mainly necessary so that the plugin when opening a model does not open work sets that you do not need for this task, and thus the process was faster. Therefore, if you have related files in separate working sets, specify the name of this/these working sets and the plugin will not open them when opening the model itself.
17. Check the checkboxes for the models that we want to upload to Navisworks.
18. We can select or deselect all models using this checkbox.
19. Check the box if we want the plugin to immediately open the folders where the models were exported.
20. And finally, after all the settings, click on the "Export" button.
As a result, we get the exported models in ".nwc" format.
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