Extracting PDS component Line ID data from Clash Detective

[Anonymous]

I am using Navisworks Manage (Version 2016)

What I’m trying to achieve is the ability to pull the PDS Component data “Line ID”  from the CLASHES in the clash report from Navisworks.

When the clash report is run, It identifies two objects that hit each other and returns a clash no.

What I need is to pull the “line ID” data from these items (if either of the two objects have a value for the Line ID) from clash.

 

What this will do for us is now we can report that a specific line has a clash on it, and the line can be put on hold until the clash has been resolved.

I think if we had the ability to add a specific field to these content items under the ‘report’ tab in our case the PDS component “Line ID”, we would be able to write a report and extract the data field from the report.

Any suggestions on how to get an export of this particular data would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,

Dale

[dgorsman · Accepted solution]

Given that there is a nearly infinite number of possible object properties, that could get a little difficult to specify as a standard option.  You might want to check if that line ID is part of your current Quick Properties setting.  If so, then it should come out on the standard report per the check box.

If you want the report listed by that property rather than clash... I don't know of any direct way of doing that.  You could set up clashes by line number; takes a lot of time, but the bulk of the work would only be done once with a few changes as line numbers are added.  If you are OK moving the work downstream of Navisworks maybe consider generating the report as XML.  If you can get the line number property in there then you should be golden - an XSLT transform can be constructed to transform the XML contents to HTML (this one can be done with simply adding the proper header so the XML file can be viewed in human-readable format in a browser), or a CSV file, or a more structured XML organization.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply.

I found that the data I needed was included in the report HTML (Tabular) format, and after exporting to excel and a little manipulation, I was able to get what I needed.

Thanks Again.