A couple of issues with the Navisworks Data Tools and the latest technology.
- We need Data Tools to work with NWD files. Many times the only thing we have is an NWD model from a vendor/engineering partner to work with. Data Tools simply does not work when an NWD is appended into a master NWF file. This is a must to get working.
- When setting up a Data Tools to Excel there currently is no option to recognize the Desktop Connector to set a data source. You can try to copy/paste a long file path from the file explorer and sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.
Moving forward with today's technology we must have these options at a minimum.