1. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk

2. Navisworks Fibonacci
® 2010 Autodesk

3. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud

4. Nondisclosure Agreement
Today’s discussion is covered under your ADN Agreement with Autodesk.
The information we will be providing is highly confidential, and is to be shared within your company on “need to know basis” and to NO ONE outside your company.
Autodesk makes no guarantees that anything presented or discussed will actually appear in the future.

5. Agenda Navisworks Fibonacci 2012 Features APIs Timing
The Rice (must do)
The Wine (value add)
Timing

6. Agenda Navisworks Fibonacci 2012 Features APIs Timing
The Rice (must do)
The Wine (value add)
Timing

7. Areas of Product Enhancements
Timeliner
Clash Detective
2D file format support
Interoperability
OGS / Consistent Materials
Direct Manipulation
Integration of Subscription features

8. New Timeliner New interface – more intuitive, Task + Gantt tabs
Interactive Gantt tab – editable, drag & drop start/end date
Gantt chart integrated with 4D simulation – view progress
Add/edit tasks in hierarchy – add parent/child tasks
Timeliner API
New interface
- Intuitive new interface, consolidation of Task and Gantt tabs
Interactive Gantt tab
- Editable Gantt chart, drag and drop task durations and start and end dates
Gantt chart integrated with 4D simulation
- View Gant chart progress whilst 4D construction simulation is progressing.
Add/edit tasks in hierarchy
- Add and edit tasks in the schedule directly within Timeliner. Add parent and child tasks
Timeliner API
- More detail later in this presentation

9. Updated Clash Detective
Clash usability enhancements
‘Assigned To’ clash attribute – support team workflow, add comments
Clash summary columns on the Batch tab–totals new/active/approved/resolved
Current clash displayed on each tab
Manually update and reset clash viewpoints – ease of orientation
New tabular XML clash report that can be opened in Excel - improved reporting
Assigned To’ clash attribute
- Better support team workflow by assigning clashes to project participants for resolution. Add comments detailing additional clash assignment information.
Clash summary columns on the Batch tab
- Improvements to the Clash summary tab to add summary data including totals for: new, active, review, approved, resolved
Current clash test displayed on each tab
- See the current clash test details when using all of the available clash tabs
Manually update and reset clash viewpoints
- Allow users to quickly reset to the original clash viewpoint if they navigate away to support ease of orientation when reviewing clash results
New tabular XML clash report that can be opened in Excel
- Export clash results to a tablular Excel format for improved reporting.

10. New 2D File Support
2D Sheet support for DWF/DWFx – dimension w/ 2D data, review/nav. tools
Project browser – access/manage multi-sheet
2D / 3D object association* - identify w/ 2D and 3D rep. w/ the same obj
2D Sheet support for DWF/DWFx
- Extend the range of dimensions supported by Navisworks to include 2D data. Support for 2D DWF and DWFx files including a range of review, navigation and collaboration tools.
Project browser
- A new project browser allows users to access and manage their multi-sheet files, supporting both 2D and 3D data.
2D / 3D object association
- Associations between 2D and 3D objects is maintained, allowing users to identify and switch between 2D and 3D representations of the same object (*not yet completed or guaranteed for releas)
(*) not yet completed

11. Interoperability
Support for Autodesk Vault – login, check in/out, open/save, merge
Support for latest of Autodesk products – file format
Area and volume property support for Revit – more meta data
Revit Construction Modelling support*
Revit linked files
AutoCAM spaceball support – enhanced. Consistent user experience
Added support for Autodesk Vault
- Login, Check in / out, Open, Save, Merge Navisworks data with the Autodesk Vault data management solution
Support for latest of Autodesk products
- Updates to support interoperability with the latest version of Autodesk file formats
Area and volume property support for Revit
- View and search for additional object metadata passed from Revit, including area and volume properties
Revit Construction Modelling support
- Support for Revit model splitting and object assembly for more accurate 4D scheduling that accurately reflects the objects and build sequence of site activity. (*not yet completed or guaranteed for release)
Revit linked files
- Users can select to automatically include Revit linked files when using the NWC exporter.
AutoCAM spaceball support
- Enhanced support for spaceball navigation devices to provide a consistent user experience across Navisworks and Autodesk design application.

12. Direct Manipulation Tools
Improved gizmos and section planes – more intuitive
Improved gizmos and section planes
- More intuitive object gizmos and visible representation of sections plans

13. Integration of Subscription features
New Avatars – better exploration/communication
Appearance Profiler – override based on user-defined classification. Color-code information for identifying visually
Integration – Sketchup v7, Primavera P6, ProEngineer, enhanced Inventor support
New Avatars
Select from an extended range of third-person avatars to better explore project models and communicate stakeholder perspectives.
Appearance Profiler
Override the appearance of multiple/all objects within the model based on user-defined classifications. Color-code property information to differentiate system types and visually identify status.
Integration
- Sketchup v7
- Primavera P6 v7
- ProEngineer support
- Enhanced Inventor support

14. Agenda Navisworks Fibonacci 2012 Features APIs Timing
The Rice (must do)
The Wine (value add)
Timing

15. Navisworks .NET API Introduced in 2011
Continues to expose more through .NET API in 2012

16. Navisworks .NET API Migration should be straightforward.
No intended changes to the existing classes and methods.
Not binary compatible – you will need to rebuild your app with 2012 assemblies.

17. Navisworks .NET API
Enhancements

18. Accessing Document Information
Api.DocumentInfo
Allows you to get information about a document without having to load the entire document
You can query the sheets stored in the document.
Api.SheetInfo
Contains information about a sheet inside a document.
Allows access to information such as the sheet ID, name, type and thumbnail.
Api.DocumentParts.DocumentInfoPart
Document part that provides access to the document and sheet info for the currently loaded file.
Allows you to modify the currently loaded sheets (add/remove/rename/reorder).

19. Accessing Document Information
Api.FileResolution
Access to Navisworks file resolution – both API to resolve a file reference and events to report and allow override of file resolution.
Api.Comment
Access to Comments on folders, selection sets and Timeliner tasks

20. Selection Api.SelectionSet Api.DocumentParts.DocumentSelectionSets
Represents a saved selection set or search set.
Allows access to the search used (if defined) and the model items in the selection set.
Is derived from SavedItem and can be nested in FolderItem objects.
Api.DocumentParts.DocumentSelectionSets
Document part to provide access to the selection sets currently defined in the document.
Allows you to add/remove/edit selection sets, including creating folders for grouping selection sets together.
Could be used to create a whole set of search sets based on some external data source for instance.

21. Selection Api.SelectionSource Api.FolderItem
Represents an implicit selection (equivalent to selecting something on Sets or Properties tab of Selection tree in UI)
Api.FolderItem
Used to represent a folder of saved items. Gives you access to the hierarchical structure of the selection sets window.

22. Search Api.DocumentParts.DocumentCurrentSearch
Document part to provide access to the search displayed in the Find Items window

23. Transaction Api.Transaction Represents a single “transaction”.
Can be used to batch up a group of operations as a single operation that will get recorded for undo.
Should be used with the “using(...)” paradigm.

24. Timeliner Api.DocumentParts.IDocumentTimeliner Api.Timeliner
Allows access to the Timeliner document data.
Implemented as an extension method on the Document class.
Api.Timeliner
A new namespace that gives access to the Timeliner plugin.
Functionality available includes:
Create, query, and modify tasks.
Create, query, and modify task types.
Create, query and modify simulation appearances.
Query the model items attached to tasks.
Define your own data source for tasks.

25. Plugins Api.Plugins.AddInPlugin Api.Plugins.CommandHandlerPlugin
Specify addins that appear on Import/Export/Help and Context menus in addition to AddIns tab
Specify icons and shortcuts for Addins
CanExecute logic for AddIns – disable/toggle AddIns
Api.Plugins.CommandHandlerPlugin
Allows you to create a plugin with multiple commands.
You can add the commands onto a custom ribbon that will be added to the main product ribbons.
Provides more sophistication than the existing AddInPlugin.

26. Plugins Api.Plugins.EventWatcherPlugin Api.Plugins.DockPanePlugin
Special type of plugin that is not delay loaded, but instead is loaded at application start-up.
Allows you subscribe to events without having to explicitly load the plugin.
Api.Plugins.DockPanePlugin
Allows you to create your own docking pane that can be docked in the main product window alongside the other docking windows.
Supports creation of either a .NET Control object or a basic HWND object.
Api.Plugins.CustomPlugin
Allows you to define your own plugin types and use Navisworks plugin system to search for and demand load plugins.

27. Agenda Navisworks Fibonacci 2012 Features APIs Timing
The Rice (must do)
The Wine (value add)
Timing

28. Timing
Beta 1 Mid January Beta 2 Early February Beta 3 Late February RTM Late March FCS April Will be posted to the ADN site

29. Nondisclosure Agreement
Today’s discussion is covered under your ADN Agreement with Autodesk.
The information we will be providing is highly confidential, and is to be shared within your company on “need to know basis” and to NO ONE outside your company.
Autodesk makes no guarantees that anything presented or discussed will actually appear in the future.

30. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud

31. Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
Developer Days 2010
Choosing the Right Tool for the Job Up in the Cloud
® 2010 Autodesk