That’s good information to have, but to be able to correctly export data and attach it to specific individual items, I need a piece of information that is unique to each element. By default, Navisworks lists out the Item Name and the Item Type. Opening the Selection Inspector shows me a preview list of the data I am going to export.

You can right-click on a selected item in the Selection Tree and click “Selection Inspector…” or go to the Home tab and click the little button for it on the Select & Search panel. Now that we have our items selected (either from the Set we made or just because we have them selected) we are ready to move on to the next step selecting the data to export and exporting it.Ĭonfirming that you have the correct items selected in your Selection Tree, we need to now open up the Selection Inspector. Pre-requisite: Both Revit and Navisworks need to be installed on your machine to transfer the points or geometry from Navisworks to Revit.The first article in this series got us through the potentially confusing steps of selecting items in our Navisworks file based on Revit criteria. Simply snap some points using the 'Point to Point' measurement tool in Navisworks, then select the 'Points->Revit' button in the ribbon. Have you ever been working with a Navisworks model and had to reference a location in Revit? The Points->Revit tool allows you to instantly reference points used in the measurement tool into the last active Revit view. You also have the option to export all selected objects as one piece of generic geometry in Revit, or you can export each selected object separately. With the Mesh->Revit functionality you can instantly transfer the selected geometry from Navisworks to the last active Revit View. Many times, it becomes necessary to reference geometry in a Navisworks model from a file that was not provided to you. When working out of an Autodesk® Navisworks® model while using Autodesk® Revit® as your design software, Nav to Rev allows a user to instantly transfer geometry and points from Navisworks to Revit in real-time.

Exporting revit to navisworks