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Navisworks - Revit Work Flow

kadriyemelisa_aytekin
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Navisworks - Revit Work Flow

kadriyemelisa_aytekin
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Hi, I am an architect and novice revit user. I am helping a friend on his electrical project.
We have a navisworks architectural model from a client and we need to deliver the electrical fixtures as revit format. I link the navis model as coordination model. I need to adjust my levels according to this model and start modeling on top of it but I am unable to snap on the navis model. As far as I understand from my research, Navis model doesn't allow snapping.
I converted the model to IFC but the file is just blank, so that didn't work either. Couldn't get help from Autodesks help.
What is the smartest way to work on this or do I need to find a different approach?

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SteveKStafford
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Do you have Navisworks too? If so you can measure in Navisworks. If not you can adjust your levels so they are very close, use some intuition about what the elevations would likely be relative to each other. You could request the Revit version of the architecture model if one exists.


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kadriyemelisa_aytekin
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Hi Steve,
I see that I need a Revit file of the model to be accurate, and I will request it. Altough I wanna know, is there another option? In order to be in coordination with them, which approach would be best? Do I model on DWG drawing or should I find a way fix the IFC export?

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SteveKStafford
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The intended way to coordinate other discipline work within Revit is linking their Revit models. You can also request PDF files for their documentation so you can adjust your levels to be the same as shown in their elevation drawings.

 

Navisworks provides a way to combine multiple models and formats in its own viewing environment (and markup), no modelling work is possible. The ability to link a Navisworks file to Revit is also a visual not modeling option. IFC is intended to be a neutral format to share files from one software to another but in practice it is much like telling someone you speak Spanish when you just know some Spanish words. Nobody speaks IFC natively so it is all translation in whichever software you load such a file into. Translation is always risky. Linking supported alternate file formats into Revit will all have some lesser degree of usefulness compared to linking a Revit file.


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