For Your Consideration…

Autodesk University has introduced voting for its courses this year, and I have made a handful of submissions that I would love you to think about voting for.  It’s just …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Part 5 Wrapping Up

Time to put a nice bow on this whole package. We did a full round trip of exporting data from Navisworks, adding some more data, and then bringing it back …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Part 4 Connecting Excel to Navisworks

This is the last stop on our journey. We have made selection sets in Navisworks, exported a custom list of data to a .CSV file, opened that file and added …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Part 3 Editing Data in Excel

Back in Part 2 we were able to export data from the items in our Navisworks model, with the critical step of adding a key to each item, a unique …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Part 2 Exporting Data

The first article in this series got us through the potentially confusing steps of selecting items in our Navisworks file based on Revit criteria. Now that we have our items …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Part 1 Selecting Elements

Let’s work with collecting some information from an appended Revit model in Navisworks. For my example, I need to add hardware and keying information to all of my doors. This …

Linking Excel Data Into Navisworks – Intro

We all know Navisworks mainly as an amazing aggregator of various model formats, but you can also link in data straight to items within the Navisworks file. This might feel …