Autodesk Navisworks®

The Autodesk Navisworks Add-in integrates clash detection workflows with Newforma Project Center’s issue tracking and RFI capabilities, enabling coordination teams to convert Navisworks clash results directly into Newforma Project Center workflow items for resolution tracking. This desktop integration eliminates the manual overhead of documenting clash detection findings in separate systems, allowing teams to transform Navisworks clashes into Newforma Project Center issues and RFIs with full 3D context, model viewpoints, and clash metadata—streamlining the path from clash detection to design resolution while maintaining complete coordination history within Newforma Project Center’s construction administration workflows.

The Navisworks Add-in eliminates this disconnect by enabling direct creation of Newforma Project Center issues and RFIs from within Navisworks, automatically transferring clash metadata, 3D viewpoints, affected model elements, and clash status directly into Newforma Project Center workflow items. The add-in integrates with Navisworks’ clash detection interface, allowing users to select clash results and create corresponding Newforma Project Center issues with a single operation that preserves full 3D context, model element properties, and clash grouping information. Users work within their established Navisworks coordination workflow, marking clashes for escalation to design teams through Newforma Project Center’s RFI system without leaving the Navisworks environment, while Newforma Project Center maintains the complete issue lifecycle from creation through design response and verification. This integrated approach enables coordination managers to

focus on analyzing clash results rather than documenting them, automatically establishing the link between 3D coordination findings and construction administration workflows while maintaining Newforma Project Center as the central system of record for all design issues and resolutions.

Benefits

Eliminate Manual Clash Documentation and Data Entry

Clash results flow automatically from Navisworks into NPC issues without manual transcription or screenshot capture.

Preserve 3D Context for Design Team Clash Resolution

Viewpoints and model element metadata ensure design teams understand clash locations without requiring Navisworks access.

Accelerate Coordination Cycles Through Automated Issue Creation

Coordination managers focus on analyzing clashes rather than documenting them, reducing time from detection to resolution.

Maintain Complete Coordination History in Project Center

All clash-related issues and resolutions remain in NPC's central system of record for audit and reference.

Enable Efficient Multi-Clash Resolution Tracking

Batch issue creation allows systematic coordination problems to be addressed through consolidated design responses.

Features

Create Project Center Issues Directly from Navisworks Clash Detection

The Navisworks Add-in enables users to convert clash detection results directly into NPC issues and RFIs without leaving the Navisworks environment, eliminating manual documentation and data entry overhead.

Preserve 3D Context and Model Viewpoints in NPC Workflows

Issues created from Navisworks automatically include 3D viewpoint captures and model element context within NPC workflow items, ensuring that design teams receive visual clarity about clash locations and affected building systems without requiring Navisworks access.

Maintain Bidirectional Status Synchronization Between Platforms

The add-in can maintain synchronization between Navisworks clash status and NPC issue resolution state, ensuring that coordination managers view current design team responses without manually checking NPC for updates.

Streamline Multi-Clash Issue Creation with Batch Operations

The add-in supports batch creation of NPC issues from multiple related clashes, enabling coordination managers to escalate entire clash groupings or clash test results to design teams through single operations rather than creating individual issues one at a time.