Revit assemblies in Navisworks

[Anonymous]

Dear all,

I'm thinking about the best way for selecting my trusses (created as assemblies) in Navisworks.

I figured selection would be possible after assigning a mark to these families and make selection according to these marks in the Navisworks selection tree.

Yet, I can't find these marks for assemblies in the selection tree… Hence I can't select my assemblies. Only other marks made, for example on doors and gates, are visible under 'mark' in th selection tree (see screenshot).

I know an alternative would be to assign a phase or worksets for these elements, but I thought via mark it would be way more convenient.

Thanks for your reply!

Joris

[mariah.ferranti]

Hello @Anonymous ,

I was able to test this, and it looks like the Marks I assign to the assembly doesn't partition it out in the Selection Tree either. 

The easiest way I was able to select assemblies was through searching for assembly name: 

• Open 'Find Items'
• Set Category to element
• Set Property to assembly name
• Set Condition to =
• Value will show you the names of all assemblies that exist in the file. Select one.
• Select Find all, this selects all items in that assembly. 
• The selection can then be saved as a search set, or a selection set
  • Selection sets are static, and will only report items that were in the assembly at the time of the selection set creation
  • Search sets will re-search the file when selected, for those parameters. So if anything is added to the assembly, it will show up in the search set. 
• You can gives these the names of your assembly, and then whenever you need to pick them, you can select the set which will select all the items. 
• If you have consistent naming conventions for your assemblies you can import/export the search sets as well, for use in other files, and this should prevent all of them needing creation every time. 

I hope that helps! 

[mariah.ferranti]

Hello @Anonymous ,

I wanted to check in and see if you had any questions about my last post. Feel free to select "Accept solution" if the information was helpful (This allows other users with the same issues to find it higher in search results), or reply back if you need more help!

[Anonymous]

Hi Mariah,

thanks for your time and help!

Indeed, with your proposed method I can select one type of assembly  in the 'Find Items' dialog box and Navisworks will show me all elements in the project with this assembly.  However, I have let's say 100 times this assembly in my project and hence my wish was to be able to select some of them individually. Therefore I hoped that the mark would appear in the selection tree.

I informed a bit further and apparently it's not possible. I had to select those assemblies individually as a search set.

Thanks again for your time.

Kind regards

Joris

[mmunoznieto]

Hi Joris,

Why don't you tried a combined rules, using the Assembly Name what mariah suggestend and also adding a second rule with Element / Mark (then, the Mark you added on Revit to the particular assemblies)

Maybe I don't catch exactly what do you want to do it, If I do, I hope this is useful. 

Regards,

Manuel