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
Chapter 12. Navigating
NavisWorks enables intuitive and interactive navigation around your 3D models at a guaranteed frame
rate. The nine navigation modes give you complete flexibility to navigate around the model in real time. In
addition to these navigation modes, there are selection and measuring tools that further facilitate the
interrogation of model data.
The navigation tools allow you to do things such as focus on objects and change the view parameters.
There are also options to look from predefined views, set the world up vector to a direction different than
the one brought through from the CAD model.
The tilt bar enables you to tilt the model, or the camera (depending on if the navigation mode is
camera-centric or model-centric) and has the same effect as spinning the wheel on a mouse. Two
thumbnail views also give you a good overall view of the scene, allowing you to see whereabouts you are
in the whole model and quickly jump from one end to the other.
Navigation Modes
There are nine navigation modes to control how you move around the main navigation view - six
camera-centric modes and three model-centric modes. In a camera-centric mode, the camera moves
within the scene, whereas in a model-centric mode, model moves inside the scene. For example, the
Orbit and Examine modes essentially do the same thing, except that Orbit moves the camera around
the focal point and Examine moves the model around the focal point. Movement in each mode is based
on the cursor keys, the Shift and Control keys and mouse drags. The mouse wheel is also supported,
allowing quick and easy zooming or tilting, depending on the current navigation mode.
Note:
Dragging with the left mouse button while holding down the Control key performs the same
actions as dragging with the middle mouse button, which is useful if you only have a two-button
mouse.
The Shift and Control keys modify the movement, for example holding down Shift in Walk mode speeds
up movement, and holding down Control in this mode, glides the camera left/right and up/down.
Note:
Gliding the camera is opposite to panning the model. Gliding is a camera-centric motion and
panning is a model-centric motion.
Right-clicking on any item in the main navigation view or selection tree displays a context menu that
shows a list of commands relevant to a particular item.
Below is shown the Navigation Mode toolbar and the navigation modes available:
Walk
Look Around
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