topic Re: Insulation Ignoring in Navisworks Forum

Insulation Ignoring

lwhite — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:55:26 GMT

Hi there, I am a bit of a newbie to navisworks and i was wondering the best way to set up a rule in navisworks where insulation is completely ignored from my clash tests without turning it off?

Many thanks

Re: Insulation Ignoring

dgorsman — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:37:37 GMT

That's highly dependent on the software used to create the model. Is this Revit? Plant3D? Or something else?

Re: Insulation Ignoring

lwhite — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 10:29:00 GMT

The model was created in Revit

Re: Insulation Ignoring

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 08:10:11 GMT

If you have nwc file of that revit file try to append nwc file instead it work for me.

Re: Insulation Ignoring

lwhite — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:29:16 GMT

Thank you, while this is helpful, i am still left with insulation left on in my navisworks file and i'm still struggling to find a way to ignore this from my clash tests without turning it off

Any other ideas?

Many thanks

Re: Insulation Ignoring

dgorsman — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 14:44:28 GMT

In most cases, you would build your clash tests by search set. Can you create search criteria which allows you to select the host objects independently of the insulation object(s) with it?

Re: Insulation Ignoring

mark.ryanV3F5A — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:27:19 GMT

Hello @lwhite,

I am doing a quick check-in with you to see if you were helped by any of the comments below. I would agree 100% with the comment by @dgorsman, in that creating individual search sets for ONLY your materials (i.e. piping, piping fittings, duct, duct fittings, etc.) and disregarding the insulation material would be the way to go about performing the clash detection that you described above.

If any of the information you received was helpful, feel free to hit "Accept Solution". If you would like any further assistance, I would be more than happy to help you!