Key details

Comprehensive NavisWorks training for newcomers, teaching how to combine 3D models from cross disciplines into one scene, enabling effective review and analysis.

Sessions include:

• Generating visual project model reviews.
• The TimeLiner – creating construction simulations of project models to check the validity of schedules.
• Using the Animator and Scripter features to create interactive animations.
• Using the Presenter, adding true-to-life materials, lighting and backgrounds to project models.
• Clash detection.

This course is ideal for new users of NavisWorks Manage or NavisWorks Simulate.

NavisWorks training is most effective when it’s provided ‘on-request’, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed’ course for your group. Rather than just teach you generic techniques, we can base the training on your project models, showing you specifically the work you need to do. For this reason, we don’t offer scheduled (public) NavisWorks courses.

In-class or live online training

In-class NavisWorks courses are available at your venue anywhere in the UK, or at our centres at Birmingham, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Reading and Sheffield. Click here for further details.

Our live online NavisWorks training option lets you participate as a ‘virtual delegate’, from your place of work or home. For a limited time, we’re offering discounts off the usual course price. See Live online training for details.

Accredited NavisWorks training

Armada is an Autodesk authorised Training Centre (ATC), and our NavisWorks training courses are accredited by Autodesk.

NavisWorks courses are hosted by Martin McCann, an Autodesk Certified Instructor, industry expert, with vast experience of using the application professionally.

How will I learn?

NavisWorks training is hands-on and practical.

Our trainers teach the necessary theory then demonstrate techniques step-by-step. You then practice the techniques taught on a computer running NavisWorks.

There is plenty of time to ask questions, and you can keep all the files you create.

Training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive an e-certificate confirming successful completion of an accredited NavisWorks training course. This is emailed to delegates directly from Autodesk. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

Because this training is typically bespoke, tailored to each client’s specific project models, there isn’t an appropriate training guide. Delegates take their own notes through the course.

After course support

Following NavisWorks training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their NavisWorks trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a good working knowledge of an Autodesk application, such as AutoCAD or Revit.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this course for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

NavisWorks version

Training can be based on any recent version of NavisWorks to suit you.

Payment

Payment for NavisWorks training can be made bank transfer or card. View training course payment options.

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request NavisWorks course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request NavisWorks course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainer

Martin McCann

NavisWorks courses are hosted by Martin McCann.

Martin qualified as an Architect in 1986, and he holds a teaching certificate (further and adult education).

He is a long-established Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI), a capacity in which he has taught Revit and BIM to thousands of professionals, including Architects, Structural Engineers and Mechanical Engineers, for over 20 years.

Martin has been commissioned by Autodesk on multiple occasions to host sessions for them at locations including New York, Chicago, Moscow, Milan and Munich. He has trained Autodesk’s staff and many other Autodesk Certified Instructors, and has operated as a visiting Lecturer at the University of Northumbria and Cambridge School of Art.

Martin is the author of the McCann’s BIM Guides series of published Revit training manuals.

Course content

Getting started with NavisWorks

• Workspace
• Opening and appending files
• Saving, merging and refreshing files
• About file types
• Database support

Visual project model reviews

• Navigation
• Absolute coordinate display
• The NavisWorks engine
• Performance indicators
• Selection tree and selecting objects
• Hiding objects and overriding materials
• Object properties
• Measuring and moving objects
• Selection and search sets
• Viewpoints
• Comments and redlining
• Animations
• Sectioning
• Hyperlinks
• Comparing models
• Switchback
• NavisWorks real-time rendering

TimeLiner

• TimeLiner overview
• Creating tasks
• Importing tasks from an external project file
• TimeLiner simulation
• Configuring and defining a simulation
• Simulation export

Animator

• Animator overview
• Creating a basic animation
• Cameras and camera viewpoints
• Manipulate geometry objects in an animation set
• Section plane sets
• Controlling animation scene playback

Scripter

• Scripter overview
• Creating and managing scripts
• Events
• Creating and configuring actions

Presenter basics

• Presenter overview
• Apply materials to model items
• Adding lighting effects to a scene
• Adding background effects
• Rendering effects
• Outputting rendered images
• Outputting animations (videos)

Presenter advanced features

• Editing and managing materials
• Advanced material editing
• Ground planes
• Individual light effects
• Image-based lighting
• Environment backgrounds and reflections
• Custom environments
• Light scattering
• Rich Photorealistic Content (RPC)

Clash Detection
(NavisWorks Manage only)

• Clash Detection overview
• Selecting items to be clashed
• Clash test settings
• Setting clash rules
• Clash results
• Clash test reporting
• Audit checks
• Create and save batches of clash tests
• Export and import clash tests
• Custom clash tests
• Setting up custom clash tests
• Laser scan data clashing
• Holding and releasing objects
• SwitchBack in clash detective
• Time-based clashing

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Navisworks course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Navisworks.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online NavisWorks courses…

• Are presented by Autodesk Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Navisworks.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Navisworks installed. If you don’t have a current subscription to Navisworks, you’re entitled to a 30-day trial that’s ideal for participating in training. We’ll send you a link to this. If you’ve already used your trial, we can lend you a license for the duration of your course.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Navisworks doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t be able to assist with your Navisworks installation, but we can provide details for Autodesk support who’ll be able to help you with this.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time