Autodesk Navisworks Reader

The Navisworks Reader provides full access to the Assembly and B-rep data stored within a particular Navisworks file. A file does not need to have a particular extension to be read correctly by HOOPS Exchange however the file extension of Navisworks files that you can expect to be loaded by HOOPS Exchange is:

.NWD

Assembly

The full assembly tree definition is supported. Incremental load is not supported by our Navisworks reader.

B-Rep

The list of supported entity types is:

parametric cylinder
parametric circle

Visualization

The triangle information is parsed and provided via HOOPS Exchange. This also includes tessellated solids, shells, wires, text and point sets.

Views

All view types are supported by HOOPS Exchange. However, there are some known limitations regarding default views and zoom factors.

Markups

Markups aren’t currently supported by the HOOPS Exchange Navisworks reader.

Materials and Colors

HOOPS Exchange supports materials with Navisworks. Also, imported and overridden colors and transparencies on wires, faces, and tessellation are supported.

Metadata

HOOPS Exchange fully support Navisworks metadata (properties) with their units.

Animations

Animations aren’t currently supported by the HOOPS Exchange Navisworks reader.