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Use Viewpoints and
Sectioning Modes
Viewpoints are an important feature of Autodesk Navisworks. They allow you to
save and recall different settings related to the view of the model and settings for
navigation. You also have the option to save item visibility and appearance
overrides within viewpoints.
Create and Modify Viewpoints
Overview of Viewpoints
Viewpoints are snapshots taken of the model as it is displayed in
the Scene View. Importantly, viewpoints can be used for more than
just saving information about the view of the model. For example,
they can be annotated with redlines and comments, allowing you
to use viewpoints as a design review audit trail. Viewpoints can also
be used as links in the Scene View, so that when you click on and
zoom to the viewpoint, Autodesk Navisworks also displays the
redlines 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 217 for more
information on links, comments and redlines and “
Native File
Formats
” on page 111 for more information on the NWF file format.
Viewpoints encompass a range of different information about the
view of the model, navigation settings, and annotations in the form
of redlines and comments. See
Default Viewpoint Options on page
286 for more information.
View of the Model
■ Camera position, projection mode, field of view and orientation
■ Lighting mode, render mode and toggles for the display of
different geometry types (surfaces, lines, points)
■ Sectioning configuration
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