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Email Files
You can send and receive Navisworks files by email.
To send an open Autodesk Navisworks file, click the application button
➤ Send by Email .
Autodesk Navisworks saves your file first, and then opens the available mail software and attaches your file to a
blank email message.
You can email both NWD and NWF files, although the size of an NWD file will be considerably larger.
Ribbon: Output tab ➤ Send panel ➤ Send by Email
Toolbar: Standard ➤ Send by Email
Receive 3D Mail
To open a received file, save the attachment on your disk, and then double-click it.
If it’s an NWF file, Autodesk Navisworks searches for the referenced files first using the absolute path that the
sender originally saved the file with. This is useful if a team is on a local network and the files can be found using
the Universal Naming Convention (UNC).
TIP A team not sharing a server can organize a project using the same file hierarchy and drive letter, and Autodesk
Navisworks can find the files this way.
If Autodesk Navisworks is unable to find the referenced files, then you need to save the attached NWF file in a
directory where all referenced files are located. Autodesk Navisworks can then search for the files relative to the
master NWF location.
TIP You can use the same method to move a whole sub-directory from your projects directory to a completely new
location. Save the master NWF file in this new place, and Autodesk Navisworks will be able to search for the referenced
files from there.
Batch Utility
You can now use the Batch Utility to automate common file importing/conversion processes.
The Batch Utility is integrated with Windows Task Scheduler to allow you to set up tasks to be run automatically
at set times and intervals.
Use Batch Utility
You can use the Batch Utility to run and schedule the following commands:
■ Create a list of all design files in the currently open Autodesk Navisworks file.
■ Append multiple design files into a single NWD or an NWF file.
■ Convert multiple design files into individual NWD files.
IMPORTANT You can use any of the currently supported file formats when you append or convert files with the Batch
Utility. However, if you use any published NWD files as input, they must have been created with the May Be Resaved
option selected, otherwise when you run the Batch Utility, no NWD output files can be saved. It is still possible to
create an NWF output file.
All events can be recorded in a log file.
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