PUBLISH TOOL VS SAVE AS NWD

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone, I'm trying to understand what is the difference between publishing a navisworks file via the publish tool and save the file as NWD apart from having the ability to set a password and a deadline for the file. I want to figure out more benefits of the publishing tool and understand all its benefits and capabilities. If anyone knows more about this difference that would be great! Thanks so much!

[alan.johnson7YLND · Accepted solution]

When you publish, you create a snapshot of the model which you can specify metadata to be saved in the NWD, choose whether to omit model data from the NWD (to protect intellectual property), add password protection, set an expiry date (prevents old - out of date files being used) and most importantly make the NWD read-only so that it cannot be modified and re-saved.

[lumbera_darwin]

Hi @Anonymous ,

In addition to @alan.johnson7YLND solution, Publishing to NWD will always keep you from working on your NWF file all the time (which is your working file). It means anything you've done (e.g. viewpoints, clash detection, mark-up, animation, timeline etc.) will be saved in NWF. In case you need to send an NWD file, then you just have to Publish it to NWD.

If you do the Save As NWD, then you'll be working on a new NWD file (not your working file). You cannot refresh the models appended as it is already binded in the model. Anything you've done will be saved inside the NWD file.

NWF - working file

NWD - publish model

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Dar