I admit it, I'm lazy. I've always wished there was a way to just drag the entire model into the workbook and be done with it. Of course you can. Little did we know, but when we set up our workbook, we also added a Quantification category to the right-click context menu. We can use this to wholesale add our model to the take off. By selecting the project from the tree, we will simply right-click and add the model to the workbook. We will then investigate how the workbook will be broken down. To get started, let's open up our Navisworks model. Browse to where you're keeping your files.
Go to Navisworks, make sure Files of Type is Navisworks.nwd. Let's go to Navisworks Essential. On the Home tab, make sure your Quantification button is on, and your panel is down here. Let's go to the project setup. Click Remind Me Later. For catalog, let's use None and see what we get. Click Next. Let's go Imperial, click Next. Let's use all of these items, click Next. We're finished, click Finish. Now, let's hover over the selection tree. Let's right-click on the nwd model.
Let's go to our new Quantification Category. Let's take off the entire model. This might take a couple seconds. There, it's a lot easier to drag than everything individually. I'm going to expand my quantification workbook, and I'm going to scroll up to the top of my list, and I'm just going to click on Case Work. We can go to Ceiling Trims. Let's go down to Curtain Panels. Let's select System Panel. Notice that we're getting every single system panel, and we get a count underneath. So we see our system panels. We can scroll down.
We get a count, 176 of them. We can go down to each individual one and take a look at them. We've just taken off our entire model. We can look at our base boards, anything that we have. This is a great way to take off an entire project in one shot. Generally, we'd have to redo this every single time to get these items quantified the way we just did in about five seconds. I'm sure there's also a way to publish this takeoff to the rest of the world.
Author
Updated
3/21/2017Released
3/27/2014- Appending and merging different file types
- Walking through your model
- Working with viewpoints
- Reviewing and marking up a model
- Manipulating and finding objects
- Adding links to objects
- Sorting and grouping
- Creating clash tests
- Adding a timeline with the Timeliner
- Creating material takeoffs
- Creating custom animations and scripts for an interactive movie
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
Views
Q: This course was updated on 05/09/2016. What changed?
A: We added one new tutorial on BIM 360 and a whole new chapter of videos on rendering in Navisworks.
Q. This course was updated 03/21/2017. What changed?
A. Three videos were updated in the first chapter. The following topics were also updated in chapters 8 and 12: creating a simluation for the TImeLiner, changing the survey point and project base point in Revit, finding and running Civil 3D Object Enablers, and combining Civil and Revit.
Related Courses
-
Revit MEP 2014 Essential Training
with Eric Wing3h 31m Beginner
-
Introduction
-
Welcome35s
-
-
1. The Navisworks File System
-
Navisworks file types2m 3s
-
Opening files directly5m 50s
-
Working with Revit directly3m 47s
-
Appending and merging models2m 51s
-
BIM 3601m 56s
-
2. Navigating in a Model
-
Walking through your model3m 55s
-
Looking around your model2m 28s
-
Using the Gravity tool2m 51s
-
Using the ViewCube3m 32s
-
3. Working with Viewpoints
-
Saving a viewpoint3m 31s
-
Choosing render styles1m 54s
-
Changing the background2m 32s
-
-
4. The Review Tab
-
Getting measurements5m 30s
-
Creating redlines3m 53s
-
-
5. Dealing with Objects
-
Selecting objects5m 8s
-
Moving items1m 45s
-
Rotating items1m 31s
-
Scaling items2m 3s
-
Adding links3m 34s
-
Switching back to Revit2m 59s
-
Holding objects2m 15s
-
-
6. Sorting and Grouping
-
The Selection Tree3m 41s
-
Finding items3m 10s
-
Saving selections as a set3m 53s
-
Using the Quick Find tool1m 39s
-
-
7. Clash Detection
-
Running the clash2m 35s
-
Creating reports: Viewpoints2m 27s
-
Creating reports: HTML2m 7s
-
8. The TimeLiner
-
Configuring appearances3m 3s
-
Creating tasks1m 47s
-
Simulating settings1m 11s
-
Exporting the TimeLiner1m 28s
-
Adding a data source2m 14s
-
-
9. Quantification
-
Setting up your workbook1m 35s
-
Taking off the entire model2m 20s
-
Exporting the takeoff3m 17s
-
-
10. Presenting, Animating, and Exporting
-
Animating saved viewpoints4m 44s
-
Animating objects4m 44s
-
Creating a script3m 59s
-
-
11. Rendering
-
Adding lights5m 1s
-
Adding materials2m 7s
-
Adjusting the sun3m 11s
-
Rendering2m 53s
-
Appearance Profiler3m 6s
-
-
12. Combining Site and Buildings
-
Combining Civil and Revit3m 40s
-
Conclusion
-
Next steps20s
-
- Mark as unwatched
- Mark all as unwatched
Are you sure you want to mark all the videos in this course as unwatched?
This will not affect your course history, your reports, or your certificates of completion for this course.
CancelTake notes with your new membership!
Type in the entry box, then click Enter to save your note.
1:30Press on any video thumbnail to jump immediately to the timecode shown.
Notes are saved with you account but can also be exported as plain text, MS Word, PDF, Google Doc, or Evernote.
Share this video
Embed this video
Video: Taking off the entire model