Dive into the specifics of organizing clash views within Navisworks, including how to effectively use redlining to enhance communication and maintain a record of model updates. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to apply redlines and arrows to clash views, imparting a deeper understanding of how this tool can improve your clash organization process.
Key Insights
- The article emphasizes how redlining can be utilized in Navisworks to visually communicate specific changes or updates you want to see in your model, thereby enhancing the clarity of instructions given to your team.
- It walks the reader through the process of creating redlines in clash views, recommending using distinct colors that won't blend with the model elements and demonstrating how to use the arrow tool to indicate desired movements.
- Details about how redlines and arrows are incorporated into clash reports were discussed, explaining that these elements are automatically retained and visible in the report if the auto-update feature is activated.
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Welcome back to the Navisworks video series. This video is a continuation of our clash organization series of videos, and in this video, we’ll specifically be looking at how to redline clash views. And we’ll be using the bim361-complete model located in your Lesson 6 folder.
Last time, we left off under the Structural versus Plumbing clash batch. In the Results tab, we’ll see that we have a series of groups, we added some comments, and we’ve assigned some trades to each of these clash groups, and we’ve also assigned a status to at least one of our clash groups. The OK1 group we’ve set to Approved so that it won’t show up in our clash test. You can get even further down into the organization of these clash views and more specific about what you’d like done visually with redlines.
Just like viewpoints, each clash view can take and retain redlines, and these redlines can be useful for communicating with your group more specifically on screen what you would like to see done. It also keeps a small record of where things were before your model was updated. As a good example, let’s go to Group 2, and I’m going to make a line where this pipe is.
My comment is that we want to move the pipes down below these beams. So I’m going to take a color that is not shown on screen. If I used red, it might blend in with the beams, and if I used green, it might blend in with the pipe. But I’m using a magenta color right now.
And I’m just going to draw a line—click-click-click-click—to outline the pipes. Then I’ll use the arrow tool to indicate that I’d like these to move down. You can put arrows in a couple of places if you’d like.
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So what happens when this clash report is generated is that it includes this viewpoint along with the redlines and arrows. And the one thing that you’re going to see on the report on the left-hand side of the clash are the objects and the redlines. And these redlines are saved if Auto-Update is turned on and you don’t have any other redlines already in the view.
If I go to Group 3 and then back to Group 2, I’ll see that my redlines are maintained. If you need to change any of your redlines—for example, if you need to remove an arrow like this one—you can use the Erase tool and then make a window around the arrow. Let’s go through the model and make some redlines.
I’m going to trace the pipe here and another one going through the column, and then I’ll use the arrow tool to point away from the column. You could do the same thing with the next few that are similar to the earlier ones. And this is your final opportunity before adjusting your viewpoint.
So you want to make sure your view is set in a good place so that you’re not going to update it and lose your redlines later. If you’d like, you can add some text to your viewpoint. To move your text, you’ll need to erase it and then start again.
I’m going to add a text note to this one that says “move.” And that’s all there is to redlining clash viewpoints. This step is optional.
You do not have to redline if you don’t want to. It can be helpful when reviewing records later, and I will show you how that works when we save our report to viewpoints. That concludes this short video.
Make sure you save your file, and I encourage you to go through your other viewpoints and use these organizational tools to redline them as well and become real familiar with all the ways that you can organize your clashes.