Discover how to streamline clash organization in your Navisworks project by learning how to assign clash status, designate clashes to specific trades, and utilize the comments field. This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough of managing each aspect within the bim361-complete-model.nwf.
Key Insights
- Each clash within your Navisworks project can be assigned a specific status. Assigning a status allows you to filter out certain types of clashes from your clash test, ensuring only relevant clashes are highlighted.
- You can assign specific clashes to distinct trades. By right-clicking on a clash group and assigning it to a trade like 'PLUM' (plumbing), you can ensure that the relevant team has visibility of the clash and can take action to resolve it.
- Use the comments column to provide additional details on a clash. Comments can include instructions for a specific trade, reasons why a clash is approved, or any other information that would be helpful in resolving the clash. These comments will be visible in the clash report.
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Welcome back to the Navisworks video series. This is part three of our clash organization series, and in this video, we’ll be covering how to assign clash status, how to assign clashes to specific trades, and also how to use the comments field. And we’ll be using the bim361-complete-model.nwf in our Lesson 6 folder.
We left off last time talking about the Structural versus Plumbing clash test, and we'll be talking about that one in this video as well. So let's select our Structural versus Plumbing and go to the Results tab. Last time, we created a number of groups and views for those groups, and then we had one leftover group called OK.
OK consists of all the clashes that are not really clashes—there is nothing really to resolve, it’s just the way the model was modeled. We can make all the clashes within this group not show up on our clash test, and we can do that by using the status. Each clash can have its own status.
We can select, say, Clash 159 for example, and then select Approved, and you’ll see that Clash 159 turns green. We can mark another one Reviewed, and that turns blue, and we can mark another one Resolved, and that turns yellow. You can use any of these clash statuses as you see fit.
The three that we’re going to leave off the test are Resolved, Approved, and Reviewed. We can assign a status to all the clashes that are within a group simply by going to the group level and selecting the Status dropdown and selecting any one of the statuses. This time, I’m selecting Approved, and you’ll see that all the clashes beneath that clash group are set to Approved as well.
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Now let’s go through the list of clash groups and see if we can be more specific with the solution for these clashes. We’ll want to make sure that our grid lines are turned on, and you can do that with your View tab by selecting Show Grid, and then let’s turn on Above and Below for the mode. This will guarantee that the grids shown above where we’re standing appear in red, and the ones below us appear in green.
Say this is a group of clashes that we want a specific trade to solve, and we know that Structural can’t move in this instance, so let’s tell Plumbing that they need to move their pipes down below these beams. So let’s right-click on the Group 1 and then go to Assign. We’ll assign it to PLUM.
Move pipes down below beams. We’ll see that we now have a comment under the Comments column, and if we scroll over to the right, this is now assigned to Plumbing. The information shown in this list will be published in our clash report.
If you’d like to see the comment that is within a selected group, you can go to the Review tab and then turn on the View Comments tool. You’ll see that the View Comments tool turns into a panel, and that the comments for the selected group show “assigned to Plumbing, ” and underneath, “move pipes down below beams.” Let’s continue down the line and fill out some of our comments here, and sometimes you’ll see that you want a better view in your clash group. If that’s the case, then you just want Viewpoint Auto-Update to be set.
So for this one, we can assign to PLUM one more time, and then, “move pipes down below beams.” Next clash, let’s assign to Plumbing, and again the next one. If you ever come to a point where you don’t know who should be moving—I’m not sure if this is one of those cases, but let’s use it as an example—you can either not assign and just simply add a comment, and you can leave it without an assignment. When you organize your list by Assigned or by Trade, then your clash group will remain in the unassigned area. Alternatively, you can assign it to a new designation of your choice.
Continuing, let’s assign one to Structural just so they have something to do, and the last one. So after that effort, we have a nicely organized series of clash groups. OK1 is now marked as Approved, and we have all the trades assigned to each of our clash groups. If we click the column heading, we can organize them ascending or descending, and all these small organizational additions we can include on each of these groups will make for a much more readable clash report.
But we’re not quite ready to publish our clash report yet. We still need to cover redline tools, and we’ll be talking about that in the next video before we publish our clash report. That wraps up this video.
I hope you enjoyed it, and I’ll see you in the next one.