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Notice that theres much more depth to the shadowing as the light is being cast and bounced from every
direction, much like the real world. Also the background and objects in the scene area are all reflected in
any reflective materials, like the glass windows, again further adding to the realism.
To take your renderings further, you may wish to consider adding in a few RPC people and trees to add
some life to the scene.
9 Auto Hide the Presenter window once youre finished.
Create Punch/Snag Lists
Although Autodesk Navisworks can produce a single, compressed and secure NWD file for distribution to all
stakeholders, allowing each of them to review the project individually, many customers will hold regular review
sessions with all major stakeholders in the same room. By collaborating in this way, they are able to review the
project together and identify potential issues, which they can discuss and agree on a course of action, there and
then.
Autodesk Navisworks makes this significantly easier by presenting the entire project in a single 3D scene which
everyone involved can relate to. The real time navigation enables the review team to explore every inch of the
project, with immediate access to the inherent building information.
Being able to select a group of search sets and hide everything else at the click of a button, quickly isolates a
specific part of the project for detailed review. Similarly using the sectioning tools enables you to isolate a specific
region of the project for review. You can then use this section window to systematically traverse the entire model
effectively breaking a large project into more manageable sections.
During such a review session you need a way to record your findings along with any discussions and resolutions
reached, and then be able to communicate these to a wider audience, including the CAD engineers for example,
if design changes be required. The Autodesk Navisworks Tag tool enables this communication, and well look at
this now.
1 Open the file, Conference Center.nwf.
2 Click Review tab Tags panel Add Tag.
3 To add a tag, left-click the item you wish to tag and then make a second click away from the item, (preferably
where the background is less busy). The tag will be drawn on screen and will be identified as number 1. The
Add Comment dialog box opens automatically, allowing you to type details of why youve added this tag,
or instructions to team members and so on. (Simultaneously a new viewpoint will be created named Tag
View 1.)
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