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Unsupported Entities
■ Keyframes (objects are currently taken from keyframe 0)
■ Texture maps in the formats: gray-scale TGA, TIF, GIF, and PNG.
■ Other maps (for example, opacity maps, reflections, and so on)
■ Wireframe meshes
■ Lines, splines
■ Points
■ Background images
See also:
■ “3DS File Reader Options” on page 453
ASCII Laser Scan File Reader
Most scanner software support exporting the point data in an ASCII text file. Providing that the data is saved in
the correct format, this data can be read by Autodesk Navisworks.
Supported formats for ASCII laser scan data are listed below. The data must be separated using one of the following
characters: comma, tab or space. The character used to signify a decimal must be a point (period).
■ X, Y, Z
■ X, Y, Z, Intensity
■ X, Y, Z, Red, Green, Blue
■ X, Y, Z, Intensity, Red, Green, Blue
Intensity, Red, Green, and Blue values are integers in the range 0-255. Intensities are not gamma corrected.
Supported Entities
■ Points
Unsupported Entities
■ No other entities are supported.
See also:
■ “ASCII Laser Scan File Reader Options” on page 454
Bentley AutoPLANT File Reader
Bentley AutoPLANT is based on AutoCAD and as such uses the DWG file format to store model geometry. Any
settings related to the DWG file format also affect files from AutoPLANT.
AutoPLANT Object Properties can be stored in external database MDB files. By default, Autodesk Navisworks also
supports these files through the DataTools functionality, and looks for Equipment, Nozzle and Piping datatools
links.
See also:
■ “
DWG/DXF File Reader Options” on page 456
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