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Locate and Manage
Interferences
The Clash Detective tool enables you to search through your total project model,
identifying cross-discipline interferences (clashes) earlier in the design process.
Overview of Clash Detective Tool
The Clash Detective tool enables effective identification, inspection,
and reporting of interferences (clashes) in a 3D project model.
Using Clash Detective can help you to reduce the risk of human
error during model inspections.
Clash Detective can be used as a one-off “sanity check” for a
completed design work, or it can be used as an ongoing audit check
of the project.
You can use Clash Detective to conduct clash tests between
traditional 3D geometry (triangles), and laser-scanned point clouds.
You can combine the Clash Detective functionality with other
Autodesk Navisworks tools:
■ Linking Clash Detective and Object Animation together gives
you the ability to automatically check interferences between
moving objects. For example, linking a Clash Detective test to
an existing animation scene would automatically highlight
clashes for both static and moving objects during the animation,
for example, a crane rotating through the top of a building, a
delivery lorry colliding with a workgroup, and so on.
■ Linking Clash Detective and TimeLiner together enables the
time-based clash checks on the project. See “
Select Items for
Testing
” on page 442 for further details on time-based clashing.
■ Linking together Clash Detective, TimeLiner, and Object
Animation enables clash testing of fully animated TimeLiner
schedules.
Clash Detective Window
The Clash Detective dockable window enables you to set up the
rules and options for your clash tests, view the results, sort them,
and produce clash reports.
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