Let me preface this post by saying that my teams are working exclusively in Revit. There are no other software platforms involved in our in-house clash detection procedures. Our workflows, processes, and custom search sets have been built around Revit and nothing else.
What I am most curious about is the ways in which subsequent clash tests are updated after changes have been made in the Revit model. I have done some googling and all I've discovered are some convoluted procedures that seem to involve a lot of "Save As" and switching, replacing, and renaming files.
As of right now, clash tests are performed in an .nwd file that includes the date of the test. That file contains both a custom search set XML and a custom clash test XML. I have been able to "see" the results of resolved clashes by creating another .nwd file, importing the clash test XML, and running each batch again. Clashes that registered in the first .nwd that were resolved in the Revit model no longer appear. So I've been able to see the drop in number of clashes but I am not sure if there is a logical way to make Navisworks retain all of the clashes from the initial .nwd but mark them "resolved" in the next .nwd.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA.