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Message 1 of 22
jasonbayer7965
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Navisworks stereo 3d

I am trying to get the stereo to work on navisworks witht he discover (red/cyan) glasses.  I have enabled my stereo view for my Nvidia quadro 4000, and running the tests from the Nvidia control panel works fine.  The problem is, the Navisworks stereo button never becomes enalbed.  I have tried to reduce my resolution, and tried multiple settings within the Nvidia control panel.

Nothing seems to do it.  I have scoured the internet looking for any information about this, but am coming up empty.  Can anyone tell me if they have gotten the red/blue 3d anaglyph to work on Navis?

 

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Message 2 of 22

Thank you for visiting our forum!

 

To enable the stereo 3d you will need to have the right hardware, drivers and set up.

 

Please check out this thread:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Navisworks/Enabling-3D-stereo-mode/td-p/3941535

 

Hope that helps!



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Message 3 of 22

Already saw that.
Does not help me at all.

Message 4 of 22
DarrenP
in reply to: jasonbayer7965

i've actaully never seen this work

i haven't heard or seen anybody that has gotten this to work sucessfully

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Message 5 of 22
dgorsman
in reply to: DarrenP

I don't think I've encountered anybody with all the required elements, usually they are short by one or two (usually the monitor doesn't support 3D display).

 

I'm kind of curious if this has ever been tested on the development/tech support side at AutoDesk...

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Message 6 of 22
jasonbayer7965
in reply to: dgorsman

The red/cyan glasses dont need a special monitor, the nvidia demo works fine.

I will try to contact autodesk I guess

Message 7 of 22

I believe the best thing would be to contact our developers directly, so I am including the following link. It is setup for you to submit feature requests, or feedback, directly to our development team:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=1109794

 

Hope that helps.



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Message 8 of 22

Did it, no reply

Message 9 of 22
merijnvaw
in reply to: jasonbayer7965

We got Stereo 3D to work, with active stereo.

Setup: Nvidia Quadro fx4800 + 3D capable television (samsung tv with active stereo)

We use navisworks 2013. we encountered problems with 2014, the plugin used for stereo rendering crashes.

 

regards,

 

 

 

Message 10 of 22
jasonbayer7965
in reply to: merijnvaw

we have since gotten new monitors, dell u3014, and the stereo button now works in 2014.

It will run active, but i am looking to do re/blue anaglyph passive.

 

Message 11 of 22
ypatil
in reply to: jasonbayer7965

I have got this to work on my HP8760w laptop with Nvidia Quadro 4000M graphics. Needs tweaking of the default seeting in the NVIDIA control panel-

1. Go to Manage 3D settings and in global settings select 3D app Global settings

2. No go to Program Settings tab

3. Add Navisworks (Roamer.exe) to the list of applications, if it is not there already

4. In (2) specify settings, scroll down to Enable Stereo - this is off by default- turn it ON.

5. Restart Navisworks. The stereo button should now be enabled.

 

A 60Hz monitor, like the one on this laptop, will cause flicker as one would expect.

Message 12 of 22

Hi Merijn,
which glasses do you use ? The nVidia ones or Samsung ones ?
Message 13 of 22

Hi

 

We used the NVidia glasses for the experiment.

We have also solved the issue with the crashing of Navisworks 2014.

You have to disable the directx driver (in settings of naviswork -> options - drivers : select an open GL driver)

 

regards,

 

Merijn

Message 14 of 22

have you gotten it to work with red/blue anaglyph (80's style) passive glasses?

Message 15 of 22

No, we have only tried with active stereo glasses.
But perhaps you can try the trick with the drivers I described in my previous post. We heard from autodesk that is was a common issue when it comes to stereo in Navisworks 2014 and 2015.
Only in 2013 we did not experience problems.

Kind Regards

Merijn
Message 16 of 22

Digging through the internet for success stories in enabling Navisworks stereo mode surely was an adventure. We have gotten lucky to the point that the enable stereo button is not greyed out and we see that the "double images" interlaced together. However we were not able to get it to work with the 3D DLP projector. We first have set the 3D display mode in the Nvidia Control panel to "3D DLP Projector" yet I could not find a display mode on the 3D DLP Projector that pick up the signal from Naviswork Stereo function. While uncertain if the roadblock is at the junction between Nvidia and 3D DLP Projector (actually side by side 3d content was viewable on the Projector) or between Navisorks and Nvidia setting. 

Any guidance and experience sharing is greatly appreciated.

 

Dickson

Message 17 of 22

Hi,

 

We also use 3D DLP projection (Barco F35 series) for visualizing our navisworks models in 3D. together with a workstation with a Quadro FX4800 from Nvidia.

 

The projector is connected to the workstaion with a dual dvi cable and a coax cable for transmitting the right eye- left eye puls.

For the gasses, we connected to projector to a stereo infrared emittor that synchronises the glasses.

With this kind of connection, you can set the nvidia 3D stereo to onboard din connection to enable 3D.

 

We choose Barco as our partner in this effort. Please find the reference case on this project here:

http://www.barco.com/en/References/2014-09-19---Sicoplan.aspx

 

Kind regards,

 

Merijn Vanalderweireldt

Message 18 of 22

Dear Merijn,

 

Thank you very very much for your reply. It definitely feel good to find out there are indeed successful case out there who has made that work. I have gone through your successful case studies at Sicoplan per the link your have provide (thanks again), and realised that we may be able to learn a bit more from you.

Workstation -

CPU:INTEL XEON E5-1650 3.20GHZ;   32GB RAM;   GPU: NVIDIA QUADRO K5000 4GB 1ST GFX

Software: Navisworks Manage 2014

Display: SMART Board SB885ix2 interactive whiteboard with SMART UX80 projector

 

Regarding Projector, comparing to the BARCO F35 one you are using, SMART UX80 Projector surely has much lower resolution, 1280 X 800 vs. 2,560 x 1,600. But then UX80 also is a 3D-ready projector using DLP Link technology with Single chip DLP technology by Texas Instruments, I imagine this is the same as the BARCO. In terms of projector connectors, it has one VGA input and two HDMI 1.4 input, as for audio and visual signal, we are only using the HDMI connection as we were told that the stereo signal is being transmitted through the HDMI, as many 3D TV and 3D blueray player do.

 

I understand there is no HDMI connection in BARCO F35, thus you are tranismitting visual via DVI port and 3D sync signal via coax cable. But again based on my queries with Nvidia and SMART technologies support previously, the HDMI has the bandwidth to trasmit both + audio signal. Therefore I hope that it not a problem.

 

I am interested in your set up with the 3D glasses, as we have purchased SainSonic SSZ-200DLB 144HZ 3D Active Shutter Glasses for DLP-Link Projectors, and it works when we view stereo video clip on youtube (side by side mode). That led us to believe that the Quadro K5000 communicate successfully to the SMART UX80 Projector both visual and stereoscopic signal. But the problem is that we were not able to find the correct mode to view the Navisworks model stereoscopic image, considering we successfully enable stereo mode in Navisworks and in fact seeing an interlace "double images" on both the computer monitor of the workstation and the projection from UX80. We are sure that the onboard IR emitter within the projector is working fine with the glasses based on the demonstration of the youtuve testing video. But not sure what type of stereo signal codex is Navisworks using when outputing the "left" and "right" eye signal to Nvidia graphics card...

 

Does youe BARCO F35 projector have different stereo mode for you to choose from? If so which one works with Navisworks signal?

 

Regards,

Dickson Mak

 

 

 

Message 19 of 22

As you have a proper 3D connection between te computer and the projector, it seems there is no configuration problem on the projector.

If there was, i think you wouldn't be able to see stereo on Youtube either.

So i think it is in Navisworks or in Nvidia control settings.

 

I think its the setting in NVidia, I don't think the settings to view stereo in movies and stereo in navisworks are the same.

Perhaps you could try to decouple the monitor from the workstation, and only view on the projector. 2 output signlals could be messing with the stereo sync.

Another thing: is the stereo emittor connected to the workstation or to the projector, with our setup, both are possible, but it only works when the emittos is connectod to sync output of the projector.

 

I know it is a real hussle to get it together as there are many key parameters, and you can't test anything. it either works or it doesn't.

 

Sorry I can't be of any more assistance.

 

regards,

 

Merijn

 

 

Message 20 of 22

Dear Merijn,

You have already been a GREAT help just by letting our team knows that indeed there is successful implementation out there. And we totally agree that it is a shame that Autodesk not able to provide better support regarding what settings would best suit for this function, after all Nvidia is indeed one of the most popular graphics card in the market. 

 

Can you take a snapshot of the 3D setting in the Nvidia control panel for our reference? May be both the General setting, and / or a sepcific program setting for Navisworks? this would be a tremendous help for us.

 

Look forward to your reply,

Dickson Mak

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