Discover techniques on how to organize and manage clash groups efficiently in Navisworks using the select box tool. The discussion provides a step-by-step guide on how to group related clashes, select appropriate filters, and create a clash view for each group for a comprehensive clash report.
Key Insights
- The select box tool in Navisworks can be used to efficiently group related clashes. This feature requires the box to completely surround all the clashes intended for selection.
- After selecting all the clashes using the select box tool, the select filter 'inclusive' can be used to manage the clashes, after which the clashes can be right-clicked and grouped together.
- Navisworks allows the creation of a clash view for each group, which will be the views exported and published in the clash report. The viewpoint needs to be set to 'auto update' for this feature.
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Welcome back to the Navisworks video series. This video is part 2 of our clash organization series and also part 2 of our clash grouping series. And in part 2 we will be using the same bin361 complete model.mwf in our lesson 6 folder.
If you're not already in the results of your structural versus plumbing, then make sure that your clash detective is open, select structural versus plumbing, and then select results. We have a few groups already. And we are just going to continue to organize the remaining clash groups.
So let's get a little closer to this series of clashes, and I'd like to start focusing on this column here. And we're going to start talking about our select box tool. We have a few pipes running into this column, and they're all related clashes.
In fact, they're on the same run. If we turn on demo other, we'll see that the only thing separating them is a small fitting. So the three of these clashes are like clashes,
They deserve to be grouped together. And we can quickly select all three of them by using our select box tool. With select box, it's looking for a window around your clashes.
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It's not just a crossing, but your box has to entirely surround all the clashes that you want to select. Once you have them selected, we can use our select filter inclusive, expand unsorted, select all three of your clashes, and then right click and go to group. This is group three.
When you select unsorted, Navisworks will ask you if you want to remove the filter; and that's okay. Now that clash is out of our unsorted, and we can move on to the next. We have another similar clash.
We can select all of these, filter them, right click, group them all, and we have clash four. Actually, this is group four. You don't have to name them as you go.
You can actually leave them till the end, as long as you're not using new group for anything else. Here's the next group. This is inclusive
It's all part of the same group. Next group. And that takes care of those groups of similar clashes.
Next one I'd like to look at are these vertical pipes running against these beams. Now this is the same thing as one of the first clashes that we looked at. A simple move of one of these in either the X or Y direction would resolve the clashes for every one of these floors.
In that case, these are similar clashes. So I'm going to get into a good view looking straight down at them, so we can use the select box tool. So once I have all those pipes selected with my select box tool, I can use inclusive and take all of those clashes to group.
Similarly, we have these four clashes against this column. One, two, three, and four. Group all those together, and then the final ones in this area are these vertical clashes.
One change would solve all of these. So let's select box, select all of those pipes, and then we can group all of them together. And now we just have a few left.
I see four on screen, and I see four in my unsorted group. So for the rest of these, I can assume that each of these clashes refer to each one of these clashes on my clash test, in which case I can individually select them and then group. Now, the way that we're going to publish these reports requires us to have each of our clashes in groups, none of them loose.
Let's go down the line here. I stopped renaming them after that point. And just a quick note, if you select your group and hit F2 on your keyboard; then Navisworks will quickly drop you into renaming.
And then I have OK1, and then group 1 through group 13. We'll see that structural versus plumbing now has 14 clashes, and this is a much more accurate representation of how many clashes actually exist. If we go down the line, we'll see each of the clashes that are represented by the groups.
And the next step will be to create a clash view for each of the groups. So far we don't have any clashes, a clash view set. See how there's no cameras underneath the camera column? That's because our viewpoint is set to manual.
We want to change this to auto update now, and then we'll go to each of the clash views. I'm going to turn on demo other, so I have a better view of where in the model I am, and then just navigate to a view where you're comfortable. These views that we're saving are going to be the views that are published in our clash report.
Make sure you grab one that's well representative of the area that you are talking about. This one's a little difficult to find. And then when you get to the end, you can go down your list of groups and see the views that are going to be exported.
That concludes the introduction to clash grouping. We will still be using grouping in future videos, but we'll also be looking at other tools that we can use to continue to organize our clashes. Thanks for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you in the next one.