topic Getting new Mavis works in Navisworks Forum

Getting new Mavis works

toyf — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:49:38 GMT

Hello,
I am new to Navisworks. I want to export my drawing from Autocad to Navisworks to generate the 3D model. Is it possible to do that?

Or do I have to do it in Civil 3D and then export the design to Navisworks to generate the 3D model?

Re: Getting new Mavis works

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 11:53:46 GMT

Is your AutoCAD in 3D? Navisworks will not "Generate" a model, it will only view the model your importing.

Re: Getting new Navisworks

toyf — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:55:27 GMT

The road drawing is in 2D. Not in 3D.

Re: Getting new Navisworks

DarrenP — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:02:37 GMT

like what said above Navisworks doesn't generate models

what are you trying to do in Navisworks?

Re: Getting new Mavis works

alan.johnson7YLND — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:26:13 GMT

Navisworks is a collaboration tool (or viewer), it is not a modelling tool.

if you open/append/merge 2D files then you will still only have 2D

You would generate the 3D models in the relative software - Revit , Civil3D, 3DAutoCAD etc...

Re: Getting new Mavis works

toyf — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:28:18 GMT

The cad drawing looks like the attached. I want it to look like a visualisation image

Re: Getting new Mavis works

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:47:14 GMT

Navisworks is not a "modeling tool" or a Graphics Editor, it is a tool to bring 3D models into in order to do coordination and collaboration. I believe you can bring flat, 2D, content into it, but you cant generate a 3D model form the 2D content.

if your trying to do Imagery, you need to make solid surfaces in AutoCAD or bring it into a program like InDesign or Photoshop.

Re: Getting new Mavis works

toyf — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:02:16 GMT

I want to produce something like the attached.

So I have to generate it in a 3D model using civil 3D software and then import it to Navisworks

Re: Getting new Mavis works

hmunsell — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:39:59 GMT

For something like that you would need a fully modeled Civil 3D model or from Infraworks.

https://www.autodesk.com/products/infraworks/new-features