BIM Tools Weekly

- [Instructor] In Navisworks it's really good to be able to save a view of any point where you are in the model. These views can be brought back, edited, deleted, and redone. I'm going to jump into my Navisworks Essential model that I used for my Navisworks Essential course. You can open up any Navisworks model that you want. I'm in an overall 3D view. Even here, I like to create a starting view. I'll click this icon here on my view cube and I'll click the isometric view. Perfect. Go to your Viewpoint tab, click Save Viewpoint. I'd like to call this Startup View. Always have one of these. 'Cause for example, if I do this and get lost, I can always bring up my viewpoints dialogue. To do that, we need to go to the View tab, we need to go to Windows, then we need to go down to Saved Viewpoints. If you see that your saved viewpoints is already turned on, let's see where it might be. Notice that we have little tabs that fly out. Over here, we have a little tab that flies out. So here's our startup view. If I click on Startup View, it brings me back to where I started. I love having those. So I'm going to zoom in. Maybe I want to get a view on my rooftop here. Pan down, maybe move over, move my mouse down a little bit, pan down just a little bit, go to Viewpoint, I will save the viewpoint, I'll call this Roof Top View, hit Enter. So now I go to Startup View, Roof Top View. Anytime I go give a presentation or have a client meeting, I love setting up tons of views. That way I know exactly where I'm going. Or if I forget to bring up a point in a certain area, I like to set up views that go to that point. For example, I can scroll over to this area here. One nice thing, if I right-click and just select this AHU, notice that in my selection tree is finds it, but also on my view cube, it will zoom in on items that I have selected. If I click on my button here, it'll bring me a 'round to an isometric view of that unit. Click Save Viwepoint. I'll click AHU View and hit Enter. Now we can go to View, I'm not sure what that one is. So we can right-click and we can just delete it. Startup View, Roof Top View, AHU View. The nice thing here in my AHU view, if we go to review, I can put text on here or anything I want. So if I click Text, pick a point here, and I'll say AHU to Remain, then click Okay. And there's my texts. Now what happens if I choose to wander away from my view, that text goes away. If I go to my saved viewpoints and go to AHU View, there it is with the text intact. So that's how you create viewpoints in Navisworks.