Exporting 3D View From Revit to Navis

[Shaun1119]

I have a 3D view set up in Revit where i export out to .NWC. It is set up to just export the 3D elements and has the color profile i want in the view. When loading the .NWC into the Navis file, it does not maintain any of the colors. Any idea?

Thanks
Shaun

[acad2015]

You either have to set up an appearance profiler inside of Navis to color your models or you set up materials inside of revit with your colors, apply those materials to your elements and export. Then your elements will have colors inside of Navis.

[Jwisniowski]

You either have to set up an appearance profiler inside of Navis to color your models or you set up materials inside of revit with your colors, apply those materials to your elements and export. Then your elements will have colors inside of Navis.

Appearance Profiler is the way to go. You can have a "template" one setup for 95% of your typical services, service types etc...

[Shaun1119]

I have a appearance profile that I can work with that changes the colors. But if i am exporting out a .NWC for coordination purposes to a GC, they either have there own setup of dont have mine. Was hoping there was a way to just hold the appearance in that export view

Thanks
Shaun

[craigjonnson]

Not currently possible. There are posts about creating a Material Parameter and adding a Material name that gets confused in the export, claiming to colourise the Fabrication elements. I've spent a lot of hours trying to achieve what you are tryin to achieve. The Appearance profiler is the only current way post export. You could either run the profiler and supply a NWD file to your GC or give them your profiler for colours.

[PipeFitter72]

I currently use a dynamo routine that adds a material. The material added will be named something generic like CHWS (for chilled water supply services. CHWR, CWS, Cond, etc. Then if the service name contains the name of the material, the material will be added to all parts in that service. This way the color is there for anyone who opens the Navis files. I have my developer writing a ribbon button for us so we don't have to rely on Dynamo as much going forward.

[acad2015]

I currently use a dynamo routine that adds a material. The material added will be named something generic like CHWS (for chilled water supply services. CHWR, CWS, Cond, etc. Then if the service name contains the name of the material, the material will be added to all parts in that service. This way the color is there for anyone who opens the Navis files. I have my developer writing a ribbon button for us so we don't have to rely on Dynamo as much going forward.

I did the same. I used dynamo at first and then made a tab for our company with buttons, and that is one of them.

[mdomer]

What is the view name supposed to be? Navisworks Export?

My memory has faded after being away from Revit for a while. I thought the program was particular about name of view.

[PipeFitter72]

In Revit go to the navisworks settings. You can set what you want to export.