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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 (page 337) for more
information on links, comments and redlines and
Native File Formats (page 163)
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 (page 449) for more information.
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