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4 Click OK.
Location Options
These options enable centralized sharing of global Autodesk Navisworks settings, workspaces, datatools, avatars,
Clash Detective rules, Presenter archives, custom Clash Detective tests, object animation scripts, and so on, with
other users.
The settings can be shared across an entire project site, or across a specific project group depending on the
required level of granularity.
To configure location options
1 Click Tools ➤ Global Options.
2 Expand the General node in the Options Editor, and click the Locations option.
3 In the Project Directory box, browse to the directory that contains the Autodesk Navisworks settings specific
to your project group.
4 In the Site Directory box, browse to the directory that contains the Autodesk Navisworks settings standard
across the entire project site.
5 Click OK.
NOTE When you run Autodesk Navisworks for the first time, the settings are picked up from the installation directory.
Subsequently, Autodesk Navisworks examines the current user profile and the all users profile on the local machine,
and then checks the settings in the Project Directory and the Site Directory. The files in the Project Directory take
precedence.
Display Units
Display units determine the scale of your model in Navisworks.
Display units are used to measure geometry in your scene, align appended models, set tolerances for clash
detection, set texture sizes and so on.
When you open CAD and laser scan files, Autodesk Navisworks reads the file units directly from the files. If this
is not possible (for example, the file is unitless), Autodesk Navisworks uses the default file units configured for
that file type in the Global Options whenever possible. Loaded files are scaled appropriately to the configured
display units.
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