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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 (page 696) for further
details on time-based clashing.
■ Linking together Clash Detective, TimeLiner, and Object Animation
enables clash testing of fully animated TimeLiner schedules.
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