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
3. Clear the Enable check box if you do not require any geometry compression.
4. Select the Coordinates check box if you want to reduce the precision of coordinates.
Enter the value to which you wish coordinates to be precise to in the Precision box. The larger the
value, the less precise coordinates will be and the smaller the .nwd will be.
5. Select the Normals check box to reduce the precision of normals.
6. Select the Colors check box to reduce the precision of colors.
7. Select the Texture Coordinates check box to reduce the precision of texture coordinates.
8. Click OK to set these options or Cancel to exit the dialog without setting them.
NWC Files
Cache files (.nwc) are used when reading native CAD files, such as files from AutoCAD or MicroStation.
By default, when Autodesk NavisWorks Simulate 2009 opens a native CAD file, it first checks in the same
directory whether there is a NavisWorks cache file present with the same name as the CAD file but with a
.nwc extension. If there is, and this cache file is newer than the native CAD file, then NavisWorks will
open this file instead as it has already been converted to NavisWorks format and therefore will open much
quicker. If, however, there is no cache file present, or the cache file is older than the native CAD file, then
NavisWorks will have to open the CAD file and convert it. At this point, it will by default write a cache file
in the same directory and with the same name as the CAD file, but with the .nwc extension, for speeding
up the opening of this file in future.
See “ File Exporters ” for more information on why you might want to use the .nwc file exporters, which
CAD applications you can export from and how.
Converting Files
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