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Best practice when federating and appending ACC models into Navisworks

Ben_Finning — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 23:18:01 GMT

Hi,

I'm wanting to know what is the best method to append linked models from Autodesk Construction Cloud. My employer has shown me to methods: Method #1: Opening the .nwf file from Autodesk Docs then refreshing the links from coordination folder. Method #2: Using coordination Plugin and appending the models from a coordination folder from ACC.

What are the pros and cons from these two approaches?

Re: Best practice when federating and appending ACC models into Navisworks

a_meteni — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:26:03 GMT

In Method #1: you’re using Navisworks desktop app to Open/Append NWF/NWC files that are stored on ACC Docs via Desktop connector. (Only NW subscription required)

In Method #2: you’ll use the Model Coordination module and publish the models toBIM Collaborate pro (pretty much Naviswors but on the cloud and will require additional subscription)