Add-ons for NavisWorks?

[david.kingham]

There seems to be a lot of potential for taking advantage of the API in NavisWorks to build external applications as mentioned here https://customer.navisworks.com/slxw...sourcesAPI.php
But does anyone know of anything that has already been developed?
I haven't been able to find anything.

[dgorsman]

Nothing offhand; as CAD Admin, I genernally don't have the hours to put into that sort of thing which is a shame. Theres a few things I'd really like to do.

Something that I *have* done is create a little stand-alone DOS-box application in VB.NET that keeps an eye on a network folder so when certain file types are copied in, it calls Roamer via the command line with arguments to convert the file to NWD format. Another thing I've looked into is using a Navisworks control in a Word document as a "JPEG on crack" image replacement. Worked well, but hasn't gotten beyond just figuring it out.

[dtownsend]

I built an application using the ActiveX control. Basically just embedded into an application and duplicated most of the navisworks navigation tools and was able to make it select certain items based off layer name and was able to get the layer name of an object that was selected.

It has some potential...just needs better documentation

[spadaro]

hi,
together with a friends in England (he is developing sw) we sell an API application , called Surveyor, able to gengerate Materil Take OFf from navisworks writing all information (properties) directly into an excel sheet.
Further we have a script able to generate the NWD and NWF in a batch mode

bye
mauro

[steve.perkio]

Wouldn't your software be better utilized in Autocad?

Revit seems to do all of this on its own.

Cad is the lacking creature here.

Perk

[Aaron.Wright]

A "surveyor" or report generated from the Find Items Search would be extremely important. Or at least know a certain number of items found or contained during a search or selection. Does anyone know if something close to this exists now?

[mitch.cornelius]

The properties tab will show the number of items selected in a search.

[Aaron.Wright]

Yes? Cool. But would you be able to report on that, i.e. "Send to Excel"? Thanks, Mitch.

[mitch.cornelius]

Not that I know of, but I could see the benefit. Maybe a "report number of items in each search set" function?

[rick.hall]

I built an application using the ActiveX control. Basically just embedded into an application and duplicated most of the navisworks navigation tools and was able to make it select certain items based off layer name and was able to get the layer name of an object that was selected.

It has some potential...just needs better documentation

My company (see www.arkitectonix.com) has been recently established specifically to develop add-ons for NavisWorks. We have detailed knowledge of NavisWorks API functionality and the first 'product' we have developed is called Surveyor. This enables the user to produce Excel reports based on object properties associated with Search and Selection Sets. We are also developing other add-ons and would welcome enquiries from users with needs or just ideas for add-ons.