Revit 2011, add-ins? navisworks?

[rsloyer]

Not seeing it. What am I missing?

[cporter.207875]

Not seeing it. What am I missing?

Did you install any add-ins?

[rsloyer]

Did you install any add-ins?

Apparently not.

This is a computer that already had Navisworks 2010 and Revit 2010 on it. I didn't exactly read the boxes that popped up because I was trying to do other things while Revit 2011 was installing.

[cporter.207875]

Apparently not.

This is a computer that already had Navisworks 2010 and Revit 2010 on it. I didn't exactly read the boxes that popped up because I was trying to do other things while Revit 2011 was installing.

Extensions and add-ins are exactly how they sound. They are added on to Revit, which means you install them separately.

[D.Williams]

Apparently not.

This is a computer that already had Navisworks 2010 and Revit 2010 on it. I didn't exactly read the boxes that popped up because I was trying to do other things while Revit 2011 was installing.

All you need to do is go into Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs and click on Change/Remove for Navisworks 2011 Exporter Plugins. Click on Add/Remove Features, make sure your flavor of Revit is picked, and then let it reinstall the exporter plugin.

[rsloyer]

All you need to do is go into Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs and click on Change/Remove for Navisworks 2011 Exporter Plugins. Click on Add/Remove Features, make sure your flavor of Revit is picked, and then let it reinstall the exporter plugin.

Thanks.

Only problem is that it doesn't show Revit 2011.

[ron.sanpedro]

Thanks.

Only problem is that it doesn't show Revit 2011.

For 2010 there was a subscription only plugin that allowed for Navis export without owning Navis. I dearly hope Autodesk has realized that they will sell a lot more Navis to contractors if everyone who makes content can export to Navis for free. Expecting all the disciplines to buy Navis just to export is absurd, at best.

Gordon

[Scott D Davis]

www.autodesk.com/navisworks (http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks)

Look for link to NWC File Export Utility under Product Information. No Subscription (or absurdity) required.

Of course, without the NWC exporter, in 2011 you can export to FBX, and Navisworks will import it. Or DWF. Or DWG. Or IFC.

[dbaldacchino]

983MB for an exporter?! I call that an absurdity :D

[ron.sanpedro]

www.autodesk.com/navisworks (http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks)

Look for link to NWC File Export Utility under Product Information. No Subscription (or absurdity) required.

Of course, without the NWC exporter, in 2011 you can export to FBX, and Navisworks will import it. Or DWF. Or DWG. Or IFC.

Well I would call THAT a "feature" of Revit 2011 that should have been mentioned somewhere! Certainly something that all Revit users should be aware of.

Thanks!
Gordon

[dbaldacchino]

There was an exporter available also for 2010 (I think only for subscription customers, which is what Scott was alluding to). Played with it a bit and it's great. Produces amazingly small file sizes.

[tknapp]

Is there a Navisworks 2010 exporter for Revit 2011? If not there should be, because some people are not upgrading to Navis 2011 & the 2011 nwc is not compatible with 2010.

[sfaust]

983MB for an exporter?! I call that an absurdity :D

No kidding that's huge. What I find really funny is that the exporter is 983MB, and Navisworks Freedom is only 622MB. Seems like the exporter should be smaller than the program! :shock:

[heath.simone]

The exporter isn't just for Revit it's for a massive range of Autodesk products... Hence the size, it's also the 64Bit and 32Bit versions.

[dbaldacchino]

I understand, however perhaps the strategy of lumping everything in one download is not a smart idea. Imagine if Canon or some other printer manufacturer lumped every single driver for every single platform in one download and you end up with a printer installer of 1GB. I bet there would be a lot of eye rolling going on :)

[cphubb]

I understand, however perhaps the strategy of lumping everything in one download is not a smart idea. Imagine if Canon or some other printer manufacturer lumped every single driver for every single platform in one download and you end up with a printer installer of 1GB. I bet there would be a lot of eye rolling going on :)

Well since it finds all of your other applications including Bentley ArchiCAD etc. and can install exporters for any version it is not really a big deal. The big deal is these used to be included only in NW and you had to spend $$$ just to export a nwc.

BTW the IFC and FBX work, but both create large file sizes, NWC is much more compact and quicker to export. For a single instance use IFC or FBX, but regular NW updates should use NWC.

[dploof.233232]

Have you had any problems with exporting large models out of Revit. I have 8 GB of memory on a 64 bit machine, and it is crapping out on 3/4 of the way through. Revit is already holding all of the RAM, then the converter gets starved.

[ajayholland]

www.autodesk.com/navisworks (http://www.autodesk.com/navisworks)

Look for link to NWC File Export Utility under Product Information. No Subscription (or absurdity) required.

Scott,

We would like to use Navisworks Freedom to examine exported files before they go out.We've installed the 2011 exporter and it seems to yield only NWC files, although there are settings for NWD. Freedom does not open DWG.
Is all this correct?

~AJH