Dynamo and Navisworks

[Pawel_Krezel]

Hi guys,

is there a possibility to override the graphics of items that are in collision directly from dynamo in the navis model?

 

So far I’am creating spheres in a Revit file based on the clashing point and exporting them again to navis. to have in Viewpoints a graphic notification.

 

Thanks in advance for help

 

[Andrew_Hannell]

Hi Pawel

I am not sure if you could do this in Dynamo- you would need to:

• get all the clash tests
• get all the clash results
• get the 2 objects from each clash
• select the objects (I don't think a Dynaworks node exists for this)
• Override appearance in Navisworks (I don't think a Dynaworks node exists for this)

I have done something similar using the Navisworks data tools:

• Extract object ids from the Navisworks XML clash report
• Link into Navisworks using data tools
• Create search set based on object attributes & apply colour override
• note- this is not foolproof- the objectIDs are not necessarily unique across models.

Refer below- you can see clashing objects in pink and the clash results in the object properties. Some objects are in involved in 40+ clashes i.e best to focus here.

You might be interested in this post

Many people get a bit caught up with the whole ‘clash detection’ thing- best to design it properly in the first place…!: refer my blog

Andrew

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Daniel_Hurtubise]

Look into the DynaWorks package. It does create a link between Navsiworks and Dynamo

[Pawel_Krezel]

Thanks guys for your help!

I did explore the DynaWorks package and as Andrew says, there are unfortunately no nodes to play with the graphics on specific objects.

I was thinking that there is a way through Python scripting to access the Navis API, but i guess there’s no :<

I will try to go through your idea Andrew

[zhao.zp]

Hi Krezel
Do get any solution that can use Dynamo access the Navis API, I also meet this issue want to explore weather Dynamo can do it.