Navisworks Freedom - File size:
- 1.2 GB
- Date added:
- Apr 15, 2024 | Last update check: 1 minute ago
- Licence:
- Freeware
- Runs on:
- Windows 10 64-bit / 11 See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information
Navisworks Freedom is a free viewer for NWD (Navisworks drawing file) and DWF (Autodesk Design Review) file formats. Navisworks doesn’t create models but it combines them and allows them to be viewed and navigated, measured and analyzed, all together in one environment.
Before we can do anything in Navisworks we need a model. Each trade or each design team member makes his own model and they do that with their own software. Each one of this software has their own proprietary format. Navisworks takes all those different formats (CAD/BIM data) and puts them together into one model.
About Navisworks versions
Navisworks Freedom is one of three versions of Navisworks (the others are Simulate and Manage).
- Navisworks Freedom allows you to view, navigate, measure and section a model that has been compiled. It is a free viewer.
- Navisworks Simulate does everything that Freedom does but it also allows you to do quantity takeoff, put annotations, save viewpoints and export combined models. Most project managing companies and construction companies would purchase Navisworks Simulate.
- Naviswork Manage is the highest version and it does everything Freedom and Simulate does plus it adds the ability to do clash detection and clash management. Navisworks Manage will be purchased by your principal agents that are coordinating project.
Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate has integration with Model Coordination module of Autodesk Construction Cloud, that provides web access to models and federated views. Users can open models in Navisworks directly from coordination spaces in Model Coordination using the Coordination Issues for Autodesk Navisworks add-in.
The Navisworks original developer was UK-based developer NavisWorks. However, the company was acquired by Autodesk in 2007.
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Navisworks Freedom: Home tab. ©Alphanetrix Webinars
Navisworks Freedom: Viewpoint tab. ©Alphanetrix Webinars
Navisworks Freedom: Review tab. ©Alphanetrix Webinars
Navisworks Freedom: Review tab, Measure options. ©Alphanetrix Webinars
Navisworks Freedom: View tab. ©Alphanetrix Webinars