I thank everyone for attending my webcast where I presented some new and enhanced features of AutodeskNavisworks 2025.
The webcast covered the following topics:
- The new Home Screen
- Enhanced Properties interface
- Civil Alignments
- Enhanced Dataset
- Clipping Revit models
I then demonstrated these topics in Navisworks.
The new Home Screen
The Home Screen provides consistency among other Autodesk products, such as Civil 3D, Revit, InfraWorks, AutoCAD and its verticals, etc. It offers the following features:
1. Open an existing file or project.
2. Create new Navisworks project.
3. Review and open recent documents.
4. Access Help (online).
5. Open various online tools and support.
6. Browse to Autodesk Docs.
7. Tiles (or list) of recently opened projects.
8. Search for files / projects.
Enhanced Properties interface
- Enhanced properties to investigate full range of properties for selected items in Navisworks. These properties are divided by categories accessed through a series of tabs. One can add custom fields in form of User Data Tabs. (See Q&A section regarding this).
- There are various settings for configuring the Properties panel, in terms of single lists vs category tabs, automatically zooming to selected items, etc.
- Ability to step through selected objects and zoom to object.
Civil Alignments
In Civil 3D, Roadways are known as corridors and are composed of Alignments. In Navisworks, when importing or appending Civil 3D drawings, you can navigation along such roadways / alignments. In order to be able to view such alignments, a Civil 3D Object Enabler (or the Civil 3D program itself) needs to be installed.
This feature was introduced last year. One can step along road or “drive”. There are various settings for controlling camera, target, speed, etc. One can toggle viewing the alignments on or off. (See Q&A section regarding this).