2009
Table Of Contents
- Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Contents
- Part 1. Welcome to Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009
- Part 2. Installation
- Chapter 3. Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Chapter 4. Move to NavisWorks from a Previous Release
- Chapter 5. Install NavisWorks for an Individual User
- Chapter 6. Install NavisWorks for Multiple Users
- Quick Start to Network Installation
- System Requirements for a Deployment
- Creating Network Deployments
- Preliminary Tasks for a Network Deployment
- Use the Installation Wizard to Set Up a Deployment
- Start the Deployment Process
- Create a Deployment
- Enter Product and User Information
- Specify Log File Locations
- What Is Silent Mode?
- Customer Involvement Program (CIP)
- Select a License Type (optional)
- Select the Installation Type (optional)
- Final Review and Complete Setup
- Register the Product
- Modify a Deployment (optional)
- Point Users to the Administrative Image
- Uninstall the Program
- Chapter 7. Installation Troubleshooting
- What are the minimum system requirements?
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- What is the difference between a stand-alone license and a network license?
- What is the benefit to using a network licensed version of the software?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Where are my product manuals?
- Deployment Issues
- Networking Issues
- Maintenance Issues
- Part 3. Basic NavisWorks Functionality
- Chapter 8. Overview
- Chapter 9. File Management
- Chapter 10. Converting Files
- File Readers
- NWF Files
- NWD Files
- NWC Files
- DWG and DXF Files
- DWF Files
- Bentley AutoPLANT Files
- 3DS Files
- DGN and PRP Files
- MAN Files
- PDS Files
- IGES Files
- STEP Files
- Inventor Files
- VRML world files
- Riegl Scan Files
- Faro Scan Files
- Leica Scan Files
- Z+F Scan Files
- ASCII Laser Scan Files
- STL Stereolithography files
- AVEVA Review RVM and RVS files
- IFC files
- Sketchup SKP files
- File Exporters
- CAD Previewing
- File Readers
- Chapter 11. Publishing
- Chapter 12. Navigating
- Chapter 13. Selecting Items
- Chapter 14. Finding
- Chapter 15. Editing
- Chapter 16. Display Modes
- Chapter 17. Viewpoints
- Chapter 18. Sectioning
- Chapter 19. Animation
- Chapter 20. Reviewing
- Chapter 21. Object Manipulation
- Chapter 22. Interface
- Chapter 23. Tools
- Chapter 24. Options
- Chapter 25. DataTools
- Chapter 26. Getting Help
- Part 4. Using Presenter
- Part 5. Object Animation
- Part 6. Using TimeLiner
- Glossary
- Index
13. Select the Use Level Symbology check box if you want to use the level symbology from
MicroStation so that items in NavisWorks take their color from level rather than the default element
color in MicroStation.
14. MicroStation has the concept of a “global origin”, which is where (0, 0, 0) is located (assuming there
are no active ACSs). Changing this global origin in MicroStation doesn't actually move anything; it
simply changes the reporting of coordinates. However, when attaching references in MicroStation,
you can tell it to align global origins.
Select the Align Global Origins check box if you want to use this functionality when loading DGN
files into NavisWorks. When two DGN files are appended together with this check box selected, their
global origins will be in the same place.
15. Select the Use Materials check box if you want to use MicroStation's materials in place of its colors
in NavisWorks. If you choose not to export materials, NavisWorks will assign the same colors as in
the MicroStation scene. Assigning materials will assign the same textures, diffuse, ambient and
specular colors to the elements as in the MicroStation scene.
16. Enter a semi-colon separated list of paths in Material Search Paths that the reader will search in for
MicroStation palette (.pal) and material (.mat) files in order to convert its materials.
17. Select the Convert PDS Data check box if you want to read object information from Intergraph's
Plant Design System™ while reading the .dgn files. PDS information is read from Intergraph's .drv
files. NavisWorks looks for a .drv file with the same base name as the .dgn file in the same directory.
18. Select the Convert TriCAD Data check box if you want to read object information from Triplan's
TriCAD™ while reading the .dgn files.
19. Select the Convert TriForma Data check box if you want to read object information from Bentley's
TriForma™ while reading the .dgn files.
20. Enter a semi-colon separated list of paths in TriForma Dataset Search Paths that the reader will
search for Triforma data set files. User defined datasets will need their directories adding to this list.
21. Enter a View Number if you want to use a specific view for loading. The loader will use the level
visibility of this view when converting items. If you want to use the first active view, set this value to 0.
22. Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them.
MAN Files
NavisWorks can read .man files from Informatix's MicroGDS™ version 6.0 or later. MicroGDS™ projects
are not supported. The workaround is to first export the desired project window as a .man file.
MicroGDS Renderer materials are shown in their flat-shaded colors in NavisWorks Shaded display. In Full
Render or Presenter rendering, the full shaders are used. Only the standard LightWorks shaders are
available - those which are unique to MicroGDS are not available inside NavisWorks - a compromise is
made for shaders which are not available inside NavisWorks.
• height band color shader is treated as plain grey
• wrapped random color shader is treated as a plain color using the flat-shaded color from MicroGDS
• wrapped stencil transparency is ignored
Converting Files
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