Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 User guide

Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012

User Guide

April 2011

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Contents

Chapter 1 Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 . . . . . . . . . 1

What Is New in This Release? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How to Get Assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Find Information Using InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Overview of InfoCenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Search for Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Access Subscription Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Use Communication Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Save and Access Favorite Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Use the Help System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Specify InfoCenter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Get More Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Learn the Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

View the Product Readme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Join the Customer Involvement Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 2 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Prepare for Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

System Requirements for Stand-Alone Installation . . . . . . 30

Install Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Understand Administrative Permission

Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Locate Your Autodesk Navisworks Serial Number and

Product Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Avoid Data Loss During Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Install Multiple or Bundled Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Install and Run Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 . . . . . . . 36

Install Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Launch Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

How to Launch Autodesk Navisworks in Another

Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Add or Remove Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Repair Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 . . . . . . . . . 42

Uninstall Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 . . . . . . . . 42

Move to Autodesk Navisworks from a Previous Release . . . . . . 43

Install Autodesk Navisworks for Multiple Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Quick Start to Network Administration and Deployment . . . . . 44

Deployment Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Set Up Network Tools and Your License Server . . . . . . . . 50

Distribute the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Distribute an Autodesk Navisworks Product . . . . . . . . . 54

Set Up a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment . . . . . . . . 55

Choose a Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Your Deployment Choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Create a Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Modify a Deployment (optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Point Users to the Administrative Image . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Uninstall an Autodesk Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Installation Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

General Installation Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs

to be updated? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network

or network to stand-alone? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

When performing a Typical installation, what gets

installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site

Folder? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a

site and project basis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

How do I change which exporter plugins are

installed? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

How do I register and activate Autodesk Navisworks? . . . . 75

When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing

it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

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When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my

system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Deployment Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Is there a checklist I can refer to when performing a

deployment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Where should deployments be located? . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Where can I check if service packs are available for my

software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

How do I choose between 32-bit and 64-bit

deployments? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

What are information channels? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

What are additional deployment configuration

options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Licensing Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

What is the difference between a stand-alone license and

a network license? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

What is the benefit to using a network licensed version

of the software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

What is Internet Explorer used for? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Networking Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Where do I find my server name? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

If I choose to create a log file, what kind of information

does the log file contain? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

What is an administrative image (MSI) file? . . . . . . . . . 82

What is the impact of selecting all products to be included

in the administrative image? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

How should I configure a network license server for a

firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Uninstall and Maintenance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

When adding or removing features, how can I tell what

features get installed by default? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Is it possible to change the installation folder when adding

or removing features? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

When should I reinstall the product instead of a

repair? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my

system? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Chapter 3 Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Start and Quit Autodesk Navisworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Automatically Save and Recover Autodesk Navisworks Files . . . . . . . 86

Command Line Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Parts of Autodesk Navisworks Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Application Button and Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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Ribbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Tooltips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Keytips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

The Classic User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Scene View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Dockable Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Undo/Redo Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Autodesk Navisworks Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Default Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Navigation with the Wheel Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Autodesk Navisworks Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Location Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Graphics System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Display Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Search Directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Gizmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Chapter 4 Work with Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Native File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Compatible CAD Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Supported CAD File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Supported Laser Scan File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Use File Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

3DS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

ASCII Laser Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

CIS/2 File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

DWG/DXF File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Overview of Object Enablers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

DWF/DWFx File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

DGN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Faro Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

FBX File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

IFC File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

IGES File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Inventor File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

JTOpen File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Leica Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

MAN File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Parasolid File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

PDS File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Pro/ENGINEER File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Riegl Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

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RVM File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

SAT File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

SketchUp SKP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

STEP File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

STL File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

VRML File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Z+F Scan File Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Use File Exporters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

AutoCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Add the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

Use the ARX Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

CAD Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Revit File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

MicroStation File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Load the MDL Plugin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Export Files from the Key-In Command Line . . . . . . . . 202

Export Files from the Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Customize the DGN File Exporter Options . . . . . . . . . 204

Viz and Max File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

ArchiCAD File Exporter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Manage Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Open Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Create Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Save and Rename Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212

Add Sheets/Models to the Currently Opened File . . . . . . 213

Project Browser Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Work with 2D and Multi-Sheet Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Add Geometry and Metadata to the Current

Sheet/Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218

Complex Datasets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Append Geometry and Metadata to the Current

Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Delete Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Adjust Units and Transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Refresh Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Merge Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Email Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Receive Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Use Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

Command Line Options for Batch Utility . . . . . . . . . . 235

View Scene Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Chapter 5 Explore Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Navigate a Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

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Orientation in a 3D Workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

Product-Specific Navigation Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Navigation Bar Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

SteeringWheels Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Classic Navigation Modes and Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Overview of ViewCube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

ViewCube Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Reorient the View of a Model with ViewCube . . . . . . . 277

Set the View Projection Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Home View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Examine Individual Objects with ViewCube . . . . . . . . 283

Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Overview of Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Reposition and Reorient the Navigation Bar . . . . . . . . 285

Control the Display of Navigation Tools on the Navigation

Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Overview of SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Wheel Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

View Object Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292

Tour Building Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294

Full Navigation Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296

2D Navigation Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

3Dconnexion 3D Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Set Camera Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Control the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Position and Focus Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302

Navigation Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Head-Up Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306

Reference Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Control the Realism of Your Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Crouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Third Person View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313

Chapter 6 Control Model Appearance and Render Quality . . . . . . . . 317

Control Model Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Select Render Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317

Full Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Shaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318

Wireframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

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Hidden Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Add Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Full Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Scene Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320

Head Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

No Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Select Background Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Adjust Displaying of Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325

Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Snap Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Control Render Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Use Culling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327

Make Objects Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Control Rendering of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Adjust Scene Rendering During Navigation . . . . . . . . . 331

Accelerate Display Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

Adjust Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Stereo Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334

Chapter 7 Review Your Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Select Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Interactive Geometry Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

Selection Tree Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Selection Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Selection Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

Set Selection Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Set Highlighting Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Hide Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Find Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Find Items Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Quick Find . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355

Find All Sheets and Models Containing the Selected Object . . . . . . 356

Find Items in Other Sheets and Models Window . . . . . . . . . 357

Create and Use Sets of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Sets Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360

Create and Manage Selection and Search Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 362

Compare Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Object Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Properties Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

Custom Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

External Database Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

Manipulate Object Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382

Transform Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383

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Change Object Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388

Snapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389

Reset to Original Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390

Measure Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Measure Tools Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391

Measuring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393

Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Use Comments, Redlines, and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399

Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400

Redline Tools Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402

View Redlines and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

Tags Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410

Edit Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411

Edit Redlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412

Find Comments and Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Find Comments Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413

Quick Find Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417

Find Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418

Manage Comment and Tag IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419

Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Link Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420

Display Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421

Customize Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422

Add Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425

Find and Follow Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427

Manage Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428

Quick Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

SwitchBack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433

Appearance Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

Chapter 8 Use Viewpoints and Sectioning Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Create and Modify Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Overview of Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439

Saved Viewpoints Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440

Save Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445

Recall Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Organize Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 446

Edit Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447

Default Viewpoint Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 449

Share Viewpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 452

Sectioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453

Enable and Use Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454

Customize Section Plane Alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . 457

Move and Rotate Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459

Link Section Planes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462

Enable and Use Section Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

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Chapter 9 Record and Play Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Create and Edit Viewpoint Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469

Play Animations and Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473

Share Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

Chapter 10 Work Within a Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Collaborate Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Collaboration Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477

Chapter 11 Share Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Print Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Print Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481

Print Current Viewpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Import Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 482

Search Criteria Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

Search Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 483

PDS Display Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 484

PDS Tag Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485

Viewpoints Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486

Export Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

3D DWF/DWFx Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487

Google Earth KML Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488

Autodesk FBX Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490

Export Images and Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Export an Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492

Export a Rendered Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Export an Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 494

Piranesi EPix Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495

Current Search Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Search Set Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Viewpoints Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 496

Viewpoints Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497

TimeLiner CSV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

PDS Tag Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498

Chapter 12 Animate Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499

Overview of the Animator Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

Animator Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

The Animator Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500

The Animator Tree View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502

The Animator Timeline View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506

The Manual Entry Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509

Scripter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

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The Scripter Tree View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

The Events View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

The Actions View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515

The Properties View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516

Create Object Animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523

Work with Animation Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524

Work with Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Add Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527

Update Animation Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528

Manipulate Geometry Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 529

Work with Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532

Work with Section Plane Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533

Work with Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Capture Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535

Edit Keyframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Play Animation Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 536

Add Interactivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Work with Animation Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 538

Work with Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540

Work with Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542

Enable Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544

Chapter 13 Create Photorealistic Visualizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Overview of the Presenter Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Presenter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545

Use the Presenter Archives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547

Photo-Realistic Scene Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549

Use Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Materials Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Apply and Remove Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552

Organize and Manage Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 555

Edit Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557

Advanced Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

Use Presenter Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Lighting Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564

Add and Position Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565

Organize and Manage Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567

Edit Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569

Shadow Casting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572

Advanced Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Soft Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Physically Accurate Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 574

Volumetric Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575

Image-based Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576

Use Presenter RPCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

RPC Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

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Use Presenter Rendering Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Effects Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

Background Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584

Foreground Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589

Use Presenter Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Rendering Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Predefined Rendering Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592

Auto Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Use Presenter Texture Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 594

Use Presenter Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Rules Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596

Predefined Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597

Custom Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598

The Presenter Rules Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600

Chapter 14 Simulate Construction Scheduling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

Overview of TimeLiner Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603

TimeLiner Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604

Tasks Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605

Data Sources Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Configure Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 611

Simulate Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613

Choose TimeLiner Columns Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

TimeLiner Rules Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615

Field Selector Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 616

Refresh from Data Source Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Simulation Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620

Overlay Text Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626

Appearance Definitions Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628

Get Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629

TimeLiner Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633

Create Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635

Edit Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637

Use Gantt Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639

Attach Tasks to Geometry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640

Attach Tasks Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641

Use Rules to Attach Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642

Validate Project Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645

Link to External Project Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646

Supported Scheduling Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647

CSV Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Add and Manage Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650

Import Data from an External Project Schedule . . . . . . 650

Edit a Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

Delete a Data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654

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Build Tasks from Data Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

Synchronize Tasks with Project Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655

4D Simulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Play Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656

Configure Simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Simulation Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Simulation Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657

Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Add Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660

Add Animation to an Entire Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661

Add Animation to Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663

Add Scripts to Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664

Chapter 15 Use the Autodesk Vault Add-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

About the Autodesk Vault Add-In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 665

Launching the Vault Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Log into a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 666

Log out of a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Understanding the Working Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667

Check Out a File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669

Get Files from a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670

Refresh a Vaulted File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Check a File into a Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671

Undo File Check Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672

Vault Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Log In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673

Check In Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674

Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Select Vault Location Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675

Create Folder Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Select File Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 676

Chapter 16 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Animation Export Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

Appearance Profiler Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 681

Background Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Collision Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

Convert Object Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Culling Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 685

Customize Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Toolbars Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 686

Commands Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Options Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687

Default Collision Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 688

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Edit Key Frame Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690

Edit Link Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692

Export Rendered Image Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694

File Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Culling Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696

Orientation Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Speed Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 698

Headlight Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Scene Lights Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

DataTools Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

Units and Transform Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700

Image Export Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701

InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702

General Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Communication Center Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Autodesk Channels Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703

Balloon Notification Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

RSS Feeds Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704

New Link Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705

Options Editor Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

General Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706

Undo Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Locations Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Auto-Save Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 707

Interface Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708

Display Units Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Selection Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709

Measure Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 710

Snapping Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Viewpoint Defaults Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 711

Links Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 712

Quick Properties Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 714

Developer Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

Display Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 715

3Dconnexion Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

Navigation Bar Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720

ViewCube Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 721

SteeringWheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723

User Interface Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Model Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725

Performance Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726

NWD Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

NWC Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 728

File Exporters Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729

DWG Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 730

Contents | xv

Revit Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 733

DGN Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 735

Viz/Max Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737

Publish Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 738

Piranesi EPix Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740

QTVR Object Movie Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Section Plane Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741

Chapter 17 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 749

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Welcome to Autodesk

Navisworks Simulate

2012

Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 software provides advanced tools for and

powerful features to help you better communicate project information.

Multidisciplinary design data created in Building Information Modeling (BIM), digital

prototype, and process plant design applications can be combined into a single,

integrated project model. Comprehensive 4D scheduling, animation, and

photorealism capabilities enable users to demonstrate design intent and simulate

construction, helping to drive insight and predictability. Real-time navigation

combines with a review toolset to support collaboration among the project team.

Entire project models can be published and viewed in NWD and DWF

™

file formats

to provide valuable digital assets during and after construction.

What Is New in This Release?

Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012 contains many new features and

enhancements.

Installation

The installation screen provides links to the installation options, deployment

options, installation tools and utilities. You also have the option of selecting

the DWG file readers that require installation, plus the exporter plugins that

you require and the Autodesk Navisworks Freedom viewer.

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User Interface

Easy access to commonly used review and navigation tools to increase review

productivity.

■ The Viewpoint tab now includes the Navigate pane, providing access

to tools such as walk, pan, zoom, and orbit; SteeringWheels tracking

menus, 3Dconnexion 3D mouse, and the realism settings.

■ The gizmos have been updated, making it easier to manipulate objects and

section planes.

■ Section planes have also been enhanced to provide greater visual feedback

of their position and orientation.

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■ Selection sets can now be created faster with the addition of the Save

Selection option (Home tab ➤ Select & Search panel).

Appearance Profiler

The Appearance Profiler allows you to set up custom appearance profiles

based on sets (search and selection) and property values, and use them to

color-code objects in the model to differentiate system types and visually

identify their status. Appearance profiles can be saved and used on other

projects, or shared between other Autodesk Navisworks users.

See Appearance Profiler (page 435).

What Is New in This Release? | 3

TimeLiner

The TimeLiner tool has been enhanced to provide you with greater control

and flexibility when working with 4D simulations. A new interface and

integrated, editable Gantt chart allow you to create, edit and communicate

your construction schedule more effectively. The new TimeLiner API allows

you to extend and tailor the 4D toolset to meet your project and business

requirements.

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