Category: Navisworks

By Xiaodong Liang In the past, we have to use COM interop to override the transformation of the objects by the method State.OverrideTransform. Here is a blog on how to transform the whole model. It is similar if you transform an object. http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/08/transform-nodes-of-a-loaded-model.html 2014 .NET API provides the direct ways. DocumentModels.OverridePermanentTransform (                              IEnumerable<ModelItem> items, …

By Xiaodong Liang Continuing from the last post, we talk about the enhancements in the point cloud and clash detective in the Navisworks Simulate and Manage. Enhanced Point Cloud Engine and File Support An improved point cloud engine has been added to the Navisworks family supporting more formats (.rcs /.rcp) and enabling greater accessibility to large amounts…

By Xiaodong Liang Continuing with the last post, we talk about the measurement tools feature in the Navisworks Simulate and Manage. Measurement Tools The new feature enables greater control with better measuring tools. Improvements to the Measure tool provide greater accuracy and control when taking dimensions from the model. Improved snapping enables higher accuracy when selecting…

By Xiaodong Liang Continuing with the last post, we introduce more features of desktop software Navisworks Simulate and Manage. Autodesk Rendering The ability to use the Autodesk rendering engine instead of the legacy Presenter Rendering has been added. Autodesk Rendering will enable customers to work with Autodesk consistent materials supporting visualization workflows across multiple Autodesk applications.…

By Xiaodong Liang We’d firstly say sorry to anybody who were struggling to look for the SDK of Navisworks 2014 in the past few weeks. The SDK was not packaged with product . It is an independent installer which is now available at ADN Open . You can also download it directly from the link…

By Xiaodong Liang The Autodesk Navisworks Manage and Simulate 2014 have been released. My colleagues Paul and Lee have given the introduction about the new releases on their blog: http://beyonddesign.typepad.com/posts/2013/03/whats-new-in-navisworks-2014.html I'm going to provide series of articles with an overview of some of the enhancements, which are of interests to us before I explain about their APIs. Today we…

By Xiaodong Liang In the last post, we have seen how to create an application of WPF with .NET control. As mentioned, WPF could be looked as the successor of Win Form. But it is much more powerful and flexible.  One of its unique features is Data Binding.  WPF has a built-in set of data…

By Xiaodong Liang WPF is widely used nowadays. Navisworks .NET API supports it. I plan to write the posts to dig some useful cases with WPF. I’d also like to hear any of your suggestion or I’d appreciate if you could share your use case. The first post is to demo how to create a…

By Xiaodong Liang As we know, currently only COM API supports adding. The two posts introduce in detail: http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/05/create-attributes-and-properties-for-model-objects-using-net-api.html http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/08/addmodifyremove-custom-attribute-using-com-api.html We got a question recently. In one workflow, the program asks the user to select one item, and adds some custom properties to the model item. It works well. But the developer wants to add…