As always, download from argyle.build/download

Navisworks Export

1. Before You Start: Add Yourself as a User

   1. Enter your email address and click "Add User"

   2. Click the user icon in the top right corner

   3. Add yourself as a project user by clicking "Add user"

   4. Portal.argyle.build: Register and log in to ensure you have a project slot on the Argyle Portal for your export.

      

      

      

2. Create a New Viewpoint

   1. Viewpoint tab, Save viewpoint camera on the left - name it AR export or Argyle export

      

      1. It exports by viewpoint as well

   2. Right click on viewpoint

      1. edit - saved attributes “hide and required”

   3. Why? Navisworks saves what you’re doing by viewpoint

   4. Make sure the changes you made are on the viewpoint

   

   1. Render style - there are five little boxes, one with a line - turn off lines and points

      

3. Filter and hide small stuff

   1. Why: We want models to render rapidly on site and we want there to be no processing of models we’re not interested in

      

   2. What to hide:

      1. Super fine details that aren't necessary for your job
      2. Thin lines
      3. High-polygon objects

   3. Examples of high-polygon items to filter:

      1. Threaded rods
      2. Bolts and nuts
      3. Cable tray
      4. Unimportant elements within categories you don't need
      5. Unnecessary curved objects like cylinders
      6. Duplicate elements across trades (you don't need multiple versions of the floor)
      7. Keep high-polygon items that you actually need to view

   4. How to hide

      1. Click the item with single select then click “Select same name > HIDE”

      2. For generic models you may need to select same type ID

      3. OR Select a group of items in a location by “hide unselected”

      4. Examples:

         1. Find pdf or 2d dwg data and hide at the file level.

         2. Look through the model for tiny things like threaded rods, nuts, screws, bolts and other small things with detailed 3D models that you don’t care to inspect individually.

         3. Select one, then Home > Select Same > Same Name

         4. Hide by right clicking one of the selected pieces or ctrl + h

         

Even a small amount of cleanup of repeated curved elements significantly improves the app's stability in the field and reduces export and download times!

1. Organize into Buckets
   1. Buckets function like layers—you can toggle them on and off
   2. They're called "buckets" because each element ID can only exist in one bucket at a time
   3. Why buckets? Without them, your model imports as one large mass, preventing you from toggling different model categories
   4. Elements not assigned to buckets will still export—they'll default to their original Revit top-level category (like mechanical or doors) or be filtered elsewhere
   5. How to bucket
      1. Use the selection tree to place entire links or parts of links into buckets
      2. Use selection sets to organize elements
   6. Bucket tips
      1. Break out your trade-specific content in detail
         1. Example: Electrical could be broken into underground, cable tray, cable bus, power, security, telecom
2. Save Before Export
   1. You've done a lot of work cleaning up that model, so save your Navisworks state before clicking export
   2. This is important because Navisworks can crash!
3. Recommended: Do a test export
   1. Errors can happen that are only visible in the export process, it’s easiest to find those errors fast by exporting a tiny location of the building
   2. You do a test export in the same way a full export, just selecting a tiny bit of model

Export your Content to the Argyle Cloud

1. Make sure the project exists in the Portal and that you, the exporter, are a user on the project. portal.argyle.build
2. In Navisworks we need to export from the 3D window. Everything visible and selected will be exported
3. How to export

   1. Go to Viewpoint tab

   2. Enable Sectioning

   3. Use box, not planes

   4. Box Select on the center view screen–you need to select in 3D, in both the X and Y axis

• Shift select works best. You’ll want all the elements highlighted.
  • Have it set to “select last object”

1. Did you try to select with the selection tree or on the ribbon? OOPS. You can’t export except via the box select on the center view screen.

TIP: “...the way I see people make mistakes in their export is not selecting 3D content, they'll try to select it on the tree or in the ribbon, and for whatever reason, Navisworks, just doesn't know how to interpret what you're talking about, EXCEPT on that 3d window.”

Export Options

If you’d like to export metadata or color by material,  it is an option at the beginning of the export

Maret’s Favorite Bucket Tips

1. General how to:

   1. Right click in selection tree and make sure your selection resolution is set to Last Object

   2. Select all the items for a bucket, click Argyle > Assign to Bucket

   3. Choose which bucking in the dropdown then click Assign

      

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