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Use Viewpoints and
Sectioning Modes
Viewpoints are an important feature of Autodesk Navisworks. They not only allow
you to save and return to views of the model which are of importance, but they
can also be used for design review audit trails, and for setting up animations of
the model.
Create and Modify Viewpoints
Overview of Viewpoints
Viewpoints contain more than just the camera information - each
viewpoint can also contain redlines and comments. In fact, you can
use viewpoints as a design review audit trail. They can be used as
hyperlinks in the Scene Area to click on and zoom to the viewpoint,
which will also bring up the redline and comments associated with
it. The viewpoints, redlines and comments are all saved into an .nwf
file from Autodesk Navisworks, and are independent of the model
geometry. So, if the native CAD files are changing, the saved
viewpoints remain the same, appearing as an overlay on top of the
base layer of model geometry. This enables you to see how the design
has evolved. See “
Review Your Model” on page 179 for more
information on hyperlinks, comments and redlines and “
Native File
Formats
” on page 87 for more information on the .nwf file format.
Viewpoints also retain the section planes active at the time of
viewpoint creation, which can be useful in animating sliding
sections. See “
Sectioning” on page 244 for more information on
sections. Viewpoints can optionally retain saved attributes too, so
that on returning to a viewpoint, overridden colors, transparencies
and hidden items are reinstated. This can be used to great effect to
create animations where items appear and disappear from the scene
in time. See “
Default Viewpoint Options” on page 242 for more
information on options, and “
Record and Play Animations” on page
251 for more information on viewpoint animations.
Saved Viewpoints Window
The Saved Viewpoints window is a floating window that enables
you to create and manage different views of your model so that you
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