Importing a Scaffold into Navisworks

You can use Avontus Designer's Export to 3D DWG function to export an AutoCAD 3D .dwg file of any scaffold. Once exported, you can import the file into Navisworks. 

NOTE: These instructions are for Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage, not Navisworks Freedom. Navisworks Freedom does not allow the import of DWG (*.dwg) files.

To import a Scaffold into Navisworks:

1. Create the Scaffold in, or close to, the lower left corner of the Drawing Page. This facilitates easier placement in Navisworks.

2.  Export to AutoCAD as 3D Scaffold Model.
     

3. Open the Navisworks file into which you want to import the Scaffold.

4. Display the Selection Tree and Saved Viewpointswindows.

   1. Click the View tab.

   2. Click Windows, then click the Selection Tree and Saved Viewpoints checkboxes (to put a check in them).
       
      

5. Zoom to desired location.

6. Right-click in the Saved Viewports popup, and select Save Viewport from the menu that appears.
    

7. Import the AutoCAD (DWG) file you exported from Avontus Designer.

   1. Click the Home tab.

   2.  Click Append and select the appropriate AutoCAD (DWG) file.
       

   3. In the Selection Tree, right-click the name of the DWG and select Focus on Item from the menu that appears.
       
      

8. Select a basepoint in the Scaffold and finish placing the model.

   1. In the Selection Tree popup, click the DWG to select it (if not already selected).

   2. Click the Review tab.

   3. Click the Measure dropdown, select Point to Point, then click a point on the model.
       

   4. In the Saved Viewpoints popup, click the name of the saved Viewpoint.
       

   5. Click the appropriate drop-point in Navis Model.
       

   6. Click the Review tab.

   7. Click the Measure dropdown and select Transform Selected Items.
       
      

9. Move the Scaffold model into place.

   1. Click the Item Tools tab.

   2. Click the Transform dropdown and select Rotate & Move.

   3. Move the object into place.