Navisworks Visual Style

[craigh_bim]

Hello,

In 2018 you introduced the Navisworks underlay in Revit. Thank You. Linking these in provides a new Visual Style display. It mirrors what's seen in Navisworks. Due to its display style it displays much faster than Revit geometries. This is consistent with Navisworks.

Please create a Navisworks View Style for use in Revit. It would allow for easy geometry viewing.

Thank you for your consideration.

[dgorsman]

Not quite certain what you are asking for here.

The speed of Navisworks isn't in a "visual style" but how it works.  Navisworks doesn't work with original geometry but rather converts it to triangulated surfaces first, then creates an indexed structure so they can be regenerated on-screen in a specific order.  In order for Revit to do this it would have to export to Navisworks first then display that content, rather than directly display the Revit content.  Along the way it loses precision which is bad from a design standpoint.

Or are you asking for something else?

[craigh_bim]

@dgorsman I don't want Revit to export to Navis.

In 2018 Navisworks files can be linked into Revit. During the webcast they mentioned that it does not slow down the perceived speed of use, actually it is a far faster render than that of Revit native components.

When using Navis, most will find this similar. The program has a very simple rendering engine. The person on the 2018 webcast mentioned they're utilizing that engine for the rendering for the link within the .rvt project.

Since they've implemented that engine within Revit, I'm asking them to make that a Visual Style option available for general use.

[craigh_bim]

@dgorsman

Just to clarify the language. From the Autodesk powerpoint....

"Coordination models render using native Navisworks engine which currently supports a consistent shading display."

While Revit has "Consistent Colors" it doesn't match those created in Navisworks. It would be good to either unify those, or create a second type for easy viewing.