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Collaboration
The NavisWorks Collaborate Bar enables multiple users to participate in a single design review session
across a Local Area Network (LAN). This utilizes the shared program features of Windows NetMeeting,
available to all Windows users.
To get access to the collaboration tools, right-click anywhere in the toolbar area of the screen, and click
Collaborate Bar on the shortcut menu.
All meeting participants require access to a NavisWorks .nwf or .nwd file, in a shared location. One of the
participants will 'host' the meeting and place a call to invite the others to join the meeting. Any of the
participants who have joined the meeting can take control and drive the session. All navigation performed
by the driver will be displayed in the main NavisWorks window on each participants machine. Any
viewpoints or markup (for example) added during the session can be updated on all participants
machines at the click of a button.
Note:
If a collaborative review session, as outlined here, is not conducted in single room, then additional
tele-conferencing provisions could be necessary. This may be using the NetMeeting Whiteboard,
or your own telephone system.
To start a collaboration session:
Open the NavisWorks file that you wish to collaborate on from a shared directory (see Opening Files
).
Click Collaborate on the Collaborate toolbar.
This will initialize Windows NetMeeting:
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