3D Coordination, Explained ( Revit + Navisworks )

so hey everyone what's up welcome to another episode of bim after dark live this is episode 51 my name is jeff also known as the revit kid today we're going to be talking about 3d coordination sometimes called mep coordination sometimes called class detection but we're going to talk about the process as a whole have a discussion this is live so we're going to have a great discussion about the process and then talk about some of the tools i do know this is an area where especially in the design front uh maybe uh the experience with navisworks and how to develop a clash detection or a coordination model um from your design models is an unknown factor maybe you don't even know how to use navisworks so let this be sort of an introduction to not just the process but also some of the tools so we're gonna have a good time um for those of you new here uh thank you for joining me this is a weekly live stream that is now on episode 51 as i mentioned which is pretty wild it's been over a year and 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spiels that i plan on on chatting about but i'm hoping that it spurs conversation with you guys ask me questions jump in in the chat and let's see where this thing goes um so uh 3d coordination is one of those things so the reason the reason i decided to talk about this today is um in my in my professional life uh in my in my personal professional life um i've been dealing with quite a bit of um early on coordination so for those of you not familiar or don't know me um my certainly don't know my resume so to speak my 40 hour a week job is with turner construction as a vdc manager for for the boston and connecticut offices and so naturally in that role we do a lot of 3d coordination during construction so this is when the the subcontractors the mep the steel all the subcontractors are on board and they're building models and we're coordinating those models around the design models and so on however we do a lot of a lot of pre-construction work and a lot of a lot of constructibility reviews etc and we've been doing a lot of actual 3d coordination with design teams during early design phases and i know you know thinking back to when i worked for a larger architecture firm it's something that we liked to do whether the engineers would change or not was a whole other story but it's a process that if you are using revit if you're using bim every single design team should be doing this at some point if not multiple times during their design process so i'm hoping that i've got a lot of my architect friends out there because i do believe that you are actually the ones who need to hear this more than anything because i do know that it's really easy to let this pass by um and and the it's not necessarily an extremely difficult task to take on during the design process and it's extremely valuable downstream so i'm just checking out the chat we got indiana martin says let's get clash free class free yeah we can talk about that a little bit if you'd like awesome looks like a lot of people are either going into roles or maybe in roles right now where they have to oversee or or deal with subcontractors so um so what i wanted to do first um to set sort of the the um set the stage so to speak is walk through um the actual process some people here and and it's perfectly fine if you're one of those people may not actually be familiar with this process what is the 3d coordination process what does it look like how does it work what exactly is going on in here so i have this really cool diagram that i created a couple years ago that i'm going to use to sort of walk through the typical process and then we can roll back and talk about sort of some of the tools and the and and what happens within those processes so let me uh let me share my screen here so this diagram here um is really really cool um i'm i'm pretty proud of it because i think it's a really nice a really nice graphical uh diagram of the process and that's literally what this document was created for it was initially created for a cobie project which i'll talk about in a second but it was really to help not just our project teams but the owner understand what was meant by a final consolidated model or coordinated model or design model versus source models and and they were they were just having a really hard time understanding well aren't you giving me a model at the end of the job and we're saying yes but you're also getting 30 other models it's not just one model but so this was really meant to help the the quote unquote lay person outside of uh maybe my typical uh world um understand this process so um so what i'm gonna do is actually run through it and i'll just show you real quickly what this diagram looks like up here and we're gonna have some fun running through it in revit because if you're asking how i created this well of course i used revit to create this diagram so why not jump into it but basically what this what this is doing is um it's showing diagrammatically the flow of information and models throughout the process and then there's just a narrative for each of those steps with a little schedule on the bottom so this is actually part of our bim execution plan on every single job um and you may be modified a little bit for each job but it becomes an extremely valuable piece of the process because it helps people who let's be completely honest um don't have any idea what's happening understand what's happening more and i think it just helps it helps the whole process so here's the revit model for that for that uh image which is pretty neat so let me just jump into the diagram view there we go so these are just a bunch of uh families that i made in revit that represent and these are you know 3d 3d texts and stuff so since this is a revit channel i'm sure everyone would be interested to see that um these are actually just extrusions uh these are railings here well some of these were railings that's a railing there um with it with an arrow to it so you know kind of cool if you're interested in that let me know i'm trying to figure out how i want to share this diagram so stay tuned on the blog post tomorrow so the replay of this um if i if i share the diagram or the model or or some piece of it i just haven't figured out how i want to how i want to go about that yet but so as you can see this diagram was actually the one that was initially created for a cobie project and it was really understanding the the flow of cobie data as well as the flow of models towards the end and so what i want to do is kind of run through it um for those who may not be familiar with the process of of i mean this is honestly it's the bim process so to speak but it also has it's it's around the the the idea of of coordination and so let's just walk through this if you have questions feel free i'll walk through it and explain it a little bit and so hopefully that gives us a picture for the rest of this of this session so um a project just started right and what i've done here is i've i've divided this thing by by um i may actually use the pdf because i don't i don't think i have revit rev has the hidden lines when it's moving on this version and i don't really feel like messing with that it's kind of annoying but anyways so you can see i kind of divided this by designing construction uh but notice that line is dashed um and it's and it's half tone there's a reason for that because um the reality is um you know all this stuff affects each other and so even though there is a line um when when i when i you know when i talk to owners and and clients and we're trying to figure out you know the first a lot of times there's documents that are written as you know well when does the model hand over to construction and my argument is there is no model hand over to construction because all of these guys over here on the design side guess what all of your models are still being used on construction there's no handover i mean depending on the structure i know that but um so that's why it's a dotted line because the reality is when something changes um you know there's there's there's a loop that has to happen so we'll talk about that loop in a second first things first though right on any on any bim project um you know this is kind of the start and i'll zoom in a little more i don't know how well you guys can see this so i'll zoom in more if it makes sense let me see does it make sense to use this no i rep it's actually a better resolution because it's a vector program so hopefully uh i think you can read everything from here so you know we have architecture structure mep fp civil landscape you name it lighting food service etc right they've got all of their individual models right and then you know in whatever in whatever program they're using which is revit tecla cad uh infraworks civil 3d whatever right um and i'm going to ignore the cobie part of this right now because i just don't feel like talking about kobe so all those models are being combined into you know what we call the 3d design model which is made up of right all of the various models combined together okay so that that just kind of you know that that is the flow in the beginning of a job right it's all these things are together um they get combined and then that's that's the design model that's what's used for documentation that's what's used ideally for coordination and so on and so forth okay so that happens you guys you know the design team designs designs changes from that right they also make their construction drawings out of all of that right sometimes it's out of their individual models sometimes it's out of their individual models with other models linked into them sometimes maybe it's out of the the full combined 3d design model either way right this is when this is when um the design models are combined this one the construction documents are made okay so let's just say for argument's sake that there is a line where we say okay now we're moving into construction okay so you know turner is representing the cm on any job right now if there's a construction management um team right and so you know we we're we're the arbiters of that data we take the design information from the design team and what we do is we you know disperse it out and coordinate with the actual contractors for these various systems and i'm only highlighting some systems the more contractors that are on this list the better right right now i'm just highlighting steel hvac plumbing electrical fire protection you name it you go through the list right alfredo sorry you're late it's all good man it's it's live um and you can ask questions now but you also have the ability to go back and watch whatever you missed later so don't worry about it man um so now all of these uh subcontractors are now referencing the data from right from this 3d design model in order to create their own models using 3d cad revit uh any key cat mep um whatever crazy programs you fire protection guys use tecla uh for structural guys etcetera right and though all those models are now being combined to what we call the consolidated model the conformed model there's all kinds of names for it including the design model right so you'll notice this is this is now taking whatever information we can from the design model as well as all these subcontractors models to create what we call the consolidated model okay so whenever an owner says well you're handing over a construction model in revit i immediately put the brakes on and say no that is not the case all right we are not taking a revit file and adding more revit files on it and creating a single revit file for you to hand over maybe there's jobs like that whatever but it's important to understand that usually at the end of a job it's actually a consolidated or a confederated model of various authoring tools and that's what you're handing over to owners okay and then obviously now that gets handed over and you know we're in operations now and what do they have in operations they have a consolidated model i can move this over a little more my head's not in the way they have a consolidated model with all that information in it if they have copy data could it copy data but then they also have all those source models if they needed to okay so it's individual source models maybe those are revit models maybe those are cad mep models etc okay now that's sort of the process the information flow now let's talk about the loops and the actual coordination process within it okay so once we get to this consolidated model now we have our mep we have our plumber we have our electrician we have our steel subcontractor we have our architectural model we have ceilings walls doors windows whatever is important to it we have it all into this consolidated model usually in navisworks um or a version of navisworks maybe it's bim360 we talked about in a second now they're in one place so what are we doing we're making sure it fits we're making sure it works okay so from that process that's where clash detection comes into play which is a way of automating the process of making sure things fit as well as manually and visually seeing if things fit and from that process there's a few things that are happening shop drawings are being developed by our subcontractors i know this is over here a lot of times it's actually coming from the original model but neither here nor there but usually what happens something doesn't fit okay right and what happens when something doesn't fit well we need to change it we need to make changes so when something doesn't fit guess what happens the shop drawings and model changes come from here right we go back to the beginning they come from here and they all get fed back into the consolidated model okay so hopefully you can see my mouse so we're making this loop now with our subcontractors okay but let's say we get to this point okay and now a ceiling has to get lower that's the only possible solution to fix to make something fit shocker right a ceiling has to get lower well guess what that is going to affect what model that's going to unless we have a ceiling contractor who's modeling that's going to affect our architecture model so what happens see this dotted line here goes all the way back to here and this architecture model has to get updated right and now that architecture model goes back through the loop back to here and now we have our updates so the reason i'm trying not to pan around too much so the reason i want to point that out is there is no handover there is i did an ideal situation this whole loop this is all in sync right and so when we're doing the clash detection process it's making sure hey i want to make sure that i can fit my ducts my my uh pipes my light fixtures my you name it pneumatic tubing elevator whatever it is into the spaces and until we can make sure of that we're going to be iterating and going through these loops right this this loop right here this big change over here and this big change over here right that right there is probably the biggest detriment to the construction process ever i wouldn't say ever but it's a huge detriment and that is the part that people who aren't familiar with what i just explained don't fully understand when it comes to a building going construction and me as an architect didn't fully grasp the magnitude of that myself until i saw it in action right and this is the part where i'm going to um i'm going to plead to my to my fellow architects to think about how important this is in the process and that it is not just the contractor's problem it will be your problem so let's go through an example again okay so architect structure mep all the models are designed here right we roll it in and now remember the building's under construction or just about to be under construction by now by the time we're over here on this corner right here usually the building's under construction let's be honest okay so now we're under construction and we realize doesn't doesn't fit okay all right there's a there's a whole duct run and a bunch of pipes that need to tweak okay so what happens hopefully uh design team is in the coordination meeting right but anyways so it doesn't fit um and now we need to find a solution so immediately dr work subcontractor says hey i can't fit here i can't find any solutions we need to bring in the design team they write an rfi uh the design team comes back there's a little back and forth now it's been a week since that change was brought up right um then the design team says okay we found a solution we're going to move this we're going to move that and we're going to do this all right so go back to all the back to here right now the design team's got to update maybe it's architectural structure update okay so that information flows back to here right well now hvac guy he needs to update based on the instructions given from the architect and then they run a new clash detection and they look at it and they said okay this works so now you've already lost two weeks on one problem of while under construction right so the the plead that i'm trying to make to to design teams is yes as a contractor we are going to be doing the 3d coordination process we are going to do it and our team is going to our team of subcontractors is going to model their own models understood however however and there's reasons for that right the reasons are um you know they have a program that maybe they can fabricate directly from they're using autocad mep because they really like the library and the tools that it's given to them whatever they're using revit but maybe they're using a family setup that they have that works for them so they're going to remodel okay and this is especially for my for my engineer friends out there they're going to remodel your stuff fine however if your stuff doesn't fit they're not just remodeling it they're redesigning it okay so doing this process this loop to me should stay back here right and you know what i'm just gonna do it live i'm gonna copy this guy and i'm gonna put it here i'm gonna edit the path of this uh of this railing okay and i'm going to do this there we go remember those are railing so made easy okay that loop right should exist as much as possible on this side of the line because as you've seen and remember it will be your problem because guess what there's going to be an rfi there's going to be probably an addendum or a bulletin that you're going to have to publish there's going to be changes and there's going to be delays on the project because things don't fit okay so i urge you as much as possible to try your best um and if you have a cm on board early ask them to help because we are willing to help i can promise you that to run coordination early to run these clash detections early and use them throughout the design process the more this loop happens back here the less it happens up here and the better and the more happy the owner is okay so hopefully that was a good overview of the process i'm gonna check out the chat and then we're gonna run into some of the tools and i wanna show you uh as an architect or a designer you know how can you how can you keep the feedback loop up here as soon and early as possible what tools do we use and what's the process look like all right so before we jump into that let me just check i see a bunch of chats there um caroline says wish this video was out before i worked on a data center data center we're doing a lot of data centers i can tell you those things are monsters monsters monsters sven asked if it matters if it's designed build or not um yes and no i mean it depends on what the design build setup is but you should definitely still do it if it's design build and in fact you should in theory have more control of doing doing everything early because you're kind of all one team in the beginning depending on the design build setup scoured asked me is there any way to take point clouds from revit and be able to export navisworks um scoured i don't have any set up right now but um i will be having in the future um at some point in time somebody on talking about some tools that actually let you do that let you use point clouds for clash detection um and so keep an eye out for that in the future we just haven't scheduled it um uh let's see i've used point clouds in revit but it's a little cumbersome yeah so point clouds there there are tools that that use point clouds on the nava side to make things easier and and last thing i would also mention before i jump into the tools is um um if you have the suite of tools the autodesk tools and you have navisworks as part of them use that and don't use revit's interference check because it works but it is god-awful for the actual process of going through interferences um there's a navisworks was built for specifically this for the most part and so it's very good at doing this um um here we go oh james van is up hey james van what's up dude vanderzin um until the subs build it different from the design intent yes correct and that's a good point right um you know the the design intent versus the design versus what fits is a whole thing but um you know the as i mentioned right you're if you're building works in three dimensions you are way less likely to have um you know subcontractors or contractors deviate from design intent right because if it fits i mean i i can tell you i've i have had projects um where the subs have said i couldn't believe it i actually just traced the the path of the ductwork and that doesn't happen often but i can tell you right now that that's a very good thing right that's that's that's going to help you design a tent it's going to help with the process can help with delays etc rick just asked are there different flavors of navis works or are they all they just navisworks manage now there are different flavors and we can talk about that for a second but there is freedom still exists i believe with freedom you cannot do clash detection you can view models and you can do viewing stuff but you can't really do much of the tools themselves manage still exists and then there's manage 360 which links to the bim 360 cloud and is basically this full managed suite but it's using a cloud model which is pretty sweet um davao just said um no that's a comment there um amy amy hey amy what's up amy's from the bim after dark community hey hey this works great when you have a contractor that is working in bim or even 3d but when you don't you have to explain that this is their role and you will assist yes however if you have a contractor who is not using 3d it's even more of a reason for you to uh to do this ahead of time right um because you can you know just because the contractor is not using 3d doesn't mean that you can't run through three coordination make sure everything fits and then show the contractor the navis model or the consolidated model of here's the path here's how they fit if you build it the way it's drawn it's going to fit right um dave just asked what happens when subcontractors decide to make major changes versus the design documents well you just kind of proved my point you um you know the the contractors can't make major design changes without the approval of the design team and the reason they're making major design changes is probably because it doesn't work as designed so you're kind of proving my point that the earlier you do this the less likely that is to happen um if they if they're making design changes without your approval well then there's a whole other set of issues happening on that job um let's see what is the most common interferences in your experience between specialties oh i'll show you some common ones in a minute um james just asked i think he's asking me or is he asking the chat let's see james just asked if the design models are coordinated and the subs choose to build it differently should that be on the design team to resolve the fit um and the subs build it differently should that be in the design team i i'm not sure what you mean james let me read that again if the design has a coordinate oh if oh i see so if the design models are coordinated and the sub uh choose to you know a different route well i i would hope that the subs are choosing a route that fits and the reason they're making the changes is is for constructability or buildability type stuff you know means and methods type of stuff i'm sure there's plenty of uh i'm sure there's plenty of of examples that you can come up with james uh so uh maybe we'll have to uh have you come on the show one day and we can talk about uh these hypotheticals because i know i know you and i would have a great conversation about these things um dave just clarified that his issue was with the core and shell package um the subs weren't paying attention to what was going on in the building for the fit out well that's a whole nother issue you've got two teams and two jobs i think it's a very specific issue and and um um core shell fit out and core shell versus fit out and that coordination is an extremely challenging setup especially when there's two different um two different contractors two different general contractors etc they have to be in sync there has to be an insync and that's a really hard thing to um to get to get in sync for sure um brad just said as a subcontractor there's nothing better than opening a file and seeing that the mech systems have actually been almost coordinated um and james was just adding on that um a big discussion in his firm is how much responsibility should the design team have and keep up the design model with as built that's a great conversation and my argument with that is is is um or not argument but mike is my input on that james and and hopefully this helps maybe with your conversation a little bit is first there's a lot um you know there's there's owner responsibilities and architectural services and contracts and all that in play right so i know that always exists the second we say the word contracts it ruins all these conversations so we're not going to say it too much but but i will say that as far as as built are considered are concerned i think the the areas that aren't getting remodeled by subcontractors to me should be coordinated and updated with as built so what i mean by that is if if a if a and this is just my personal opinion on the matter and this is how i try to gauge all the jobs um if if a if a subcontractor is remodeling ductwork for this in in cad mep for their fabrication and if that thing is going to be updated in in correct versus as built conditions then there's really no reason for the mep engineer to update those those drawings um uh because the shop drawings are now sort of what's driving as well as the model etc however architecturally speaking if you have to drop a ceiling move a door or move a wall or put a soffit in etc to me those are things that make sense to to update um and and we always get in a little bit of a conversation with with architects sometimes who who say well isn't that your responsibility now as the general contractor to to update because you're taking the as built model and my argument back to that is that's fine and dandy but are you okay with me shifting a wall six inches and then reconfiguring your your tile layout of your ceilings and all the other downstream effects it has so as a designer i would personally rather do that because every change i make even the one that seems the smallest as you guys all know out there has gigantic downstream effects so um we got oh man so many questions this is awesome i was i was hoping i already get into navisworks stuff but man you guys are drilling the questions i love this um um nelson how's it going man um uh joe buck hey joe welcome welcome today uh careful to access critical items um i'm just kind of trying to read through some of these awesome okay so let's do this um you guys keep asking questions i'm going to keep up as much as i can um but i do want to jump into some some actual process items for those of you who are interested in doing this i'm hoping i kind of made my point a little bit as to why i believe this process doesn't isn't only exclusive to contractors and subcontractors this should also be in the design phase and this should be something that every design team is doing at specific milestones in their projects so hopefully i've got that uh drilled in a little bit as far as my uh my opinion there um amy just asked actually a great question before i jump into it um uh to help coordinate with consultants that don't use 3d design would you consider modeling their design in 3d to be able to clash detect against it yes as a general as a general contractor or construction manager that is something that we do all the time my team personally we do a lot of that filling in the gaps and some may argue that we're taking on risk but i argue that by not modeling it we're taking on more risk so you know that's very specific items it could be and honestly we've even done it sometimes on the architecture side if it's been a while but if we've had design teams who only use autocad 2d um we've actually built you know built their models in 3d using walls ceilings you know in revit and used those for coordination of course now we have to maintain the model versus the 2d and all bs but for sure um awesome awesome looks like james and i are on the same page i kind of figured we would be but i also like to uh to find areas where we disagree too awesome okay so let's let's jump into some some some uh some more uh um techno geeky stuff um for those of you who who maybe are interested in in in doing this you know in actually holding coordination reviews during design or or maybe afterwards if you're in construction and you're interested in taking on a role where you're overseeing this process or managing it as let's say the the gatekeeper of the of the models i want to talk a little about that um so the first thing that i will mention is that you know navisworks to me is the most robust system for clash detection slash coordination um there was a question early on in in today's stream somebody asked about bim 360 coordinate and which was also glue um and and the differences there and so i will tell you from from our experience um maybe i should just um let's just talk about that real quickly so i'm gonna be showing you navisworks and navisworks manage um locally and so we do use bim360 um i keep want to say glue i guess this chord date now whatever the name's always going to change so i don't know why the the the cloud version of of of navisworks let's say um so as far as bin360 glue is concerned or coordinate um to the extent that's using that tool for the clash detection and maybe i can do a different session on just showing that tool um it's great as long as you have um those individual models so if i not subscribe sorry guys you got a little ding there so if if i look at this process and i have this where i have every single trade has their own individual model and even within that maybe i want to have the hvac piping versus the ductwork as its own model or its own export that's where bim 360 glue is great because you don't have the ability at least not yet to filter and use sets to isolate and select pieces of a model and then clash against each other the way coordinate has worked in the past and maybe it's changing in the future is your your coordinating model to model which means if you were to use it for an mep fp model which traditionally fire protection electrical plumbing mechanically a lot of times those end up in the same model and design front it makes it very challenging to coordinate let's say plumbing against ductwork because in in the glue platform however the glue platform or the coordinate platform is great for the collaboration side of it so tagging an issue emailing someone and having it all happen online and in one platform is great the one thing that um [Music] to add to that that's great is you can still use glue as a hosting platform but then use navisworks locally to that so you're no longer going with the ftp upload download upload download upload download you're letting everyone upload to the glue server and then you can actually pull down those merge models and open them locally in navis so that's usually the case and that's usually how we are using the glue slash coordinate platform we are using it as a host of the models so all of the subcontractors and design teams can upload their current models to the server um obviously you know now we we know the bim 360 docs and the whole platforms tying together whatever but for the most part we're using navisworks as the tool to to do the coordination someone locally is doing that and that's just because people prefer the navisworks coordination thing so let's jump into navisworks and talk about how you get into it etc i see there's a couple of chats on here [Music] i just want to make sure i don't miss anybody uh dave just uh mentioned i tend to also hear the argument that design teams shouldn't provide models at all due to the risk of being sued by cms have you ever heard of cm playing the design team for the no no paying for them no no no um that's again that's contracts coming into play and um um i i i've never heard of uh see a design team charging a cm for for the models um that to me is an extremely anti-collaborative approach to this process and i can imagine that most owners would be extremely upset by that um so in most of our contracts it's design bid build and so we are contracted with the owner the architect has contracted with the owner and so there's a relationship there that exists that that needs to be maintained and um you know it's more of a collaborative collaborative discussion about the importance of us as the cm having that information that would be wild actually i don't think i've ever seen that okay so real quick so so as far as um the revit versus navisworks uh uh connection and how how we work it me personally i like to uh export revit files as nwc's um you can bring in a rvt file to navisworks as well as up to bim360 glue um it's just the weight of it is is is is always a challenge and with the with the export process um you have some control over how you want that to export and so anyone who has never done that before um i just want to let you know that by default when you if if revit was installed when you installed navis it will install the add-ins if it does not um you can just google or i'll put the links in the description afterwards the the navisworks exporters you can install them at any moment in time and oh i just lost my chat hold on okay and those will usually exist under add-ins external tools and you can see i'm actually in 2019 right now because this diagram was in 2019 i didn't upgrade and so this is navisworks 2019. if you're using other tools there's other add-ins that are third-party that people have created for the export um you could use those um but uh in this tool here what you'll notice is it exports as what's called an nwc and um you have a bunch of settings so if i go into navisworks settings right here you'll see you do have a lot of settings and this is why i like to use the navisworks exporter versus the rvts is that you have the ability to modify things like um you know what coordinate system you're going to use do you want to convert lights do you want to bring in cad files do you want to export the room geometry do you want to slice the model by levels do you want to slice it by whatever you want to slice it by and so you have all these options for the export so if you're a design team and when i'm doing design team coordinations i take the architecture model the mep model and structural model and i'll export them to nwc as you see in this file folder right here if you can't see it i'll zoom in a little you can see i have a 3d room names an architecture an mvp and a structural so that's it i just took the models i opened them i exported them as nwc's that's all i need to do and grab it just export them and again you could use rvts you'll notice i have 3d room names um i'll post a link to it but i did a tutorial a dynamo script that i have that and i think i gave the family to that places 3d room names in in your location that's very helpful for for this process and so we'll talk about that when getting to navis so the revit side of things simple export open export to uh to navis and you're good to go so once you're in navis works um you know the the process of bringing in the files is pretty simple so this is navisworks manage 2020. on the top left you would just click append and you would select your nwc files and then click go click open and you can see here they are so i have architecture structure and mep files in this in this uh in this navisworks file okay and what i wanted to do today is i don't want this to be a um i don't necessarily want this to be a navisworks one on one 101 full-on class but what i want to do is just show you you know as an architect if you're like okay i want to do this now with my teams i want to take our designs and i want to coordinate them at least an overview i want to show you how to do that i want to get you to that point so i'm not going to show you every tool in navisworks i'm just going to show you the ones i think you need to know to get to that point because you really don't need to know that many to get to that point okay the 3d room names by the way this is why it's so cool and invaluable is as you can see um you know i've got 3d room names now which is anyone who's dealt with the coordination process knows that finding the location of where you are if you don't have those um can be pretty sucky um i didn't bring in grids but that's okay okay uh real quick i'll check questions before i jump into more um you should always provide your models a contract just yes you should always provide navis into revit works as well yes but you can't really do much with it after the fact it's great that they gave us the ability to bring in the consolidated models to rev it but they're just kind of there you can't really do much with them um one more question here um for navisworks do you prefer to export link as separate or combined i prefer to export them as separate as much as possible because it just makes it a little easier but what i'm going to show everyone right now is how you can modify and select different things within it but definitely the more separate the better because then the more you have the ability to just select an entire model for clash instead of doing fine items and all these crazy things the easier it ends up being but as you can see this model actually has mep structure and architecture right here okay so the only tool is that you really need to know when navisworks for this particular process are the sectioning tools so if i go under home by default actually i should turn that off so you guys can see so by default you're going to be like oh jeff you just showed me the sectioning tool but i actually don't physically see a sectioning tab what the heck is going on here um sectioning tools is super cool and super useful because obviously you can section the building it's kind of like a section box but by default they're off and so uh if you go under viewpoint and you click enable sectioning that's how you get your sectioning tab and from there you have the ability to create six planes if you turn them all on you can make a box right there's six sides to a cube and so you can assign any one of these section um planes to top bottom left right right so this one is set to top all right so if i go like this it's top if i go down to plane two you'll see it's set to bottom right so it goes up and down so you can just set up whatever section planes you want and then you can mess around with moving them and and so on and so forth but they become extremely valuable for just getting around a model because you know you you don't necessarily have your floor plan section tools your your the way you might normally um iterate through a model in revit don't always exist in navis so being able to use a section tool like this is is absolutely huge right um so sectioning is huge uh play with those the key there is making sure that you go to viewpoint and turn on enable sectioning and then you can have some fun with it there is a section box too but it's kind of weird because it uh it's like scaled instead of push pull i don't know i don't like it okay so that's you know that's one of them there um and then you know that's really it i'm not gonna say transform model i was gonna say transform model because i think that's an important one but we won't talk about that that goes all the way back to discussions we've had in the past about coordination of of lines the other tool that's extremely valuable before we jump into clash detection but pretty much necessary for class detection is the find items tool okay and this is a really cool one because it's super powerful um but um and it's actually a lot of work but what you'll see is once you set it up once you don't have to necessarily tweak it all that much in the past so if you're not seeing um all the bars that i'm seeing here in navisworks what i suggest you guys always use is under view you go to load workspace and use navisworks extended and that's going to give you all the tools that you really need honestly um so i'm sorry i'm just reading some of the chats here um um somebody mentioned you know that's providing all the consultants are still in revit it's a shame some are still using cad yes um it is a shame but um as much as possible even in cad maybe they're using 3d cad at least it's three-dimensional that's that's super helpful parallax is here what's up uh i knew you would enjoy this conversation so sorry if that's aaron on the line um um the uh i knew aaron would enjoy this conversation check out the the first hour before we can chat about it next time you're on here um yeah so and aaron just mentioned if you have a filter set up for something in revit you can use a search set in navisworks boom correct correct so let's just talk about the basics of the find item tools and what it what it means and why it's important so what i'm going to do real quickly is i'm going to so we have our mep file so i'm just going to select mep and i'm going to um i'm going to hide unselected so i'm just looking at my mep file okay and this is where when you're doing design coordination it can be challenging because all of the mep stuff is um is in one model right so you can't just say i want to clash mep model versus mep model if you want to say like let's say you want to do pipes versus ducts that's not going to happen so you need the ability to select and tell navisworks hey what is it that was that were clashing so you need the ability to select objects using rules automatically otherwise what would it be it would be me holding ctrl and selecting all the ductwork on the project and then saying i'm going to save this selection so i never lose it again okay so that's where find items comes into play so i'm going to pull open find items and i'm going to pin it so you guys can see it and i'm probably going to have to move my face no actually you know my face won't be in the way i'll move it over a little bit okay so how does find items work well everyone on here is probably a revit user i would assume or at least somewhat experienced in revit or at least tried it once and so you know that in revit you have the ability to select objects and isolate and filter by properties right categories parameters subcategories phases all this cool stuff find items is your way to select objects kind of like a control f if you're on a pdf or on on on the internet and you want to find a word in a document it's the same idea except you're using properties and data that exists inside your model so at the very basics i'm not going to get into the super detailed parts of this because again this is supposed to be kind of an introduction i just want you guys to do it is really what you're going to do is you're going to search for items using a specific property in our case today we're going to use categories because it's the easiest thing for revit for us to understand and then you save that selection that search you save that search so that when you're clash detectioning or when you're clash clashing coordinating you're actually coordinating instead of selecting elements you're coordinating using that search and what's key about that is if i say hey navisworks i want you to search this model for all of the ductwork category right that's fine that works right but the problem is if you were to just save that selection let's say there's 8 000 items whatever you save those 8 000 items then the model gets changed and you want to rerun it if you were just using the selection of items it would only be those 8 000 not the 8 the 180 more that were modeled by using the search it's always going to look at the latest because it's actually searching for a property so that's really important to understand by using search and find items i should say we're actually looking at the current iteration of the model and we're searching for properties so today we're going to use categories because i think it's just the easiest to understand as aaron mentioned uh in in the chat from parallax team you can use anything you want so if you have a lot of filters set up in your revit models that means you have parameters that you can search through and you can use those right if you wanted you can even select objects have a parameter called no clash in revit and say i don't want these to be shown in the clash and then you could use that as a as a a a way to exclude things in the clash whatever you get the idea so you can go above and beyond but today we're just i'm just going to show you how to actually set them up and so what i have actually here is i'm just going to load one really quickly so if i load and we'll talk about what i just clicked over there but if uh if i load a current search set and i don't know if you guys are going to be able to see this i don't and i can't scroll into it unfortunately so hopefully you can see it if not i'm actually going to read it for you my search says i want to search an element for the property category and i'm going to say it equals and i'm going to look for ducts let's just say ducts ducks all right so we all know categories in revit walls doors windows ducks blah blah blah so that's what we're doing and then i can say do i want to search all the models do i want to search the just this model etc and i can just click find all right and now you'll notice right it's selected it's kind of hard to see here if i do um so that's what it selected it selected all my ducks okay so we're using this to search through a model for specific items that's great but as i mentioned before we want this to be a save so that we can actually go back to it right because if i update this model i want to select the new ducks as well so under sets so we talked about sectioning tools we talked about find items and now we're talking about sets which is called for lack of a better term call them selection sets but i don't want to say that because there's multiple kinds so if i open up the sets tool i'm going to pin this as well what you'll notice here before i expand that is i have on the top and hopefully you guys can see my mouse i just realized it's pretty small i have a save selection save search a new folder and this is the key here changing save selection versus save search saving a selection right saves what i just selected if i save a search if i click this and i call this ducts there's a little uh binoculars there that means from now on moving forward anytime i bring in a new model here it's going to search for all of the ducks that all of the items that are category ducked so now when it's updated it's going to go through it and what's cool about this is you can set this up for every single category every single filter every single property that you want and then you can save them and so if you'll notice i have one in here called search sets general and let me unhide everything and i have every single category in revit already set up and then i have specific project specific ones depending on what it was so if i want to if i want to click ceilings i can bring in any project from revit from any architect i can click ceilings and look at this it just it grabbed all of the ceilings casework you know there's all the case work right because i'm just using categories and this will work on any file and so the way you would do that is once you go through the process of setting up all of the search sets that you want you can just export this as a as an xml file um right here and then you can import that into a new model and so what i'm going to do with this is i am actually going to give you guys access to this one which has all the categories and i'll post that in the blog post tomorrow so keep an eye out for that so you won't have to go through the process that i went through painstakingly of setting up element category equals pipe insulation save search element category equals pipes safe search element category equals roofs safe search because that is literally what i did back in 2015 or so when i set these up originally okay so now let's say we've done that now so we've created all these find items we've created the way to actually select things um the next step is now we can use the clash detective tool to actually um to coordinate one search or more searches against another search or more searches which means what model elements versus model elements real quick before i um before i jump in i see there's some discussions there so i want to uh so i want to just check to make sure i'm not missing anything important um oh yeah what aaron was saying there is if you make a filter in revit you can actually export those for xml for reuse which is which is pretty sweet um i'm just reading through the comments they're awesome awesome okay more designers need to see this i agree so hopefully more designers will watch this sweet so hopefully at a minimum you guys at least learn something from these search sets and how to export them and then i will make my xml file available to you guys because mine right now is really just all the categories and subcategories i will tell you that some of them for example you can't see this but this is a specific project that we were using at the time and it's called walls exterior and so the the fine items for this um because you can't see it maybe i'll just snip it or something um let's do this hopefully that maybe maybe you can see a little better not really huh yeah sorry it's um so it's element category equals walls so it's looking for all elements to equal wall and then its element name contains ext so this architect had a standard where all their exterior walls had a name called ext and we actually trusted that more than the function at the time so from that we were actually able to isolate the ext the exterior walls using that so you can see how you can use this to select whatever you need depending on what it is that you are doing okay um so it looks like amy was doing this um manually so i'm glad that uh i you might have learned something with saving the xmls and stuff awesome great okay so so now we have search sets um we have our models in there we have our sectioning tool we have our search sets i'm actually going to hide find items for now because we don't need it so let's talk a little bit about clash detection the clash detection tool itself um and and i'll show you how to actually run one so when you open it up it's called the clash detective okay and um it's pretty simple uh when you go through it but just to show you sort of how it works um on the bottom here i should probably get rid of all the tests um yeah so you know what it looks like from the beginning because a lot of people for some reason and i i get it you know it's a new program whatever a lot of people open up like what do i do everything's gray um and maybe this is a ui problem not a personal problem on the top right uh you can see it says add test you can't do anything until you click add test because you need to create a test okay so you're testing x versus y ducts versus pipes ducts versus structure etcetera so i'm going to click add text test sorry i usually give it a name right away and we'll say duct v struct so we'll just do duct versus structure and so now you'll notice it automatically went from rules to select if you want to mess with the rules you can select is the big piece so now it's telling you selection a and selection b what do you want to compare a versus b so as i mentioned by default right if you did model to model if i just did all mep versus all structural that's fine but it's a little hard to to to navigate through all that um so that's the initial thing is using the using the the um the models themselves and the breakdown um but we created sets right so if i pull down look it says sets here if i pull this down it says sets notice there's my search set for ducks so if i pull down all of them which are just by category right i can select all the things that i want to clash against each other so let's do ducts versus structure so i'm gonna hit ducts duct lining duct fitting duct duct accessories air terminals and maybe even for the sake of it i'll do mechanical equipment right so on the left hand side i'm grabbing basically all of my mep systems that relate to what i'm calling ductwork just for the sake of argument simplifying now i'm looking over here and i'm saying okay well now let me do structural things so what do i want to do i guess i'll do structural columns um i'll do framing structural so sometimes you can see in here i have sets for structural versus architecture if they may be modeled structure in both but so framing structural and i guess we'll just keep it like that for now let's make sure i'm not missing anything yeah so right now we'll just do columns and framing and then i can click run test and now it's just clash detected there are 145 new clashes between duct work and structural that's it we just did class detection just like that some things i did want to note you'll notice mine actually is is a magenta in orange or like a blue and orange i personally red and green just look crummy to me and they also look really negative and so i like to cheer things up a little bit with nicer colors so that's just a personal preference that i changed right here um but the one thing that i wanted to mention is that so we've got our clashes here and you can go through every single clash and you know zoom into them uh look at them name them you know find the locations do whatever you want with these clashes right feel free to have a ball with with clashes what i like to do especially on the design front and this is where all the tools i just mentioned kind of tie together i actually like to check a little box here that says highlight all clashes so hopefully you see my mouse it's right here i have to get i have to get aaron you got to send me the parallax tools for the screenwriting thing because i use it on zoom all the time but when i'm by myself i don't have it so i'll reach out to you bud um so uh so if i select highlight all clashes it's under items and highlighting check this out right highlighting all clashes gives you this little view give it a second there and it shows you all the clashes which i really like because then it starts highlighting like for example this area here is going to show as maybe 30 clashes 10 clashes but really by highlighting all you can examine it and say oh it's one duck that just needs to be shifted down you know 100 times and that's where the sectioning tool comes into play what i'll do and this is how i analyze design models especially but any clash detection i'm doing is i'll start from the ground up with my section tool and i'll just sort of move through the building until i hit a clash in that area and i'll start examining them and so you see here there's this one there's this one there's this one and what's cool about it by using this tool is i can jump out of clash detective by just going to select and i can be in that location in that in that zoomed in area and analyzing the model without all that annoying clash detection stuff now if i go to results it jumps right back into it okay so this is how you're digging in yes if you're getting really deep into the coordination then you want to analyze every single item name it assign it make views out of it etc right but for the sake of design intent or design models this is huge like being able to look through this and say well i know we have a problem here but you know this may come up as 30 clashes but the reality is it might be a simple solution of these four beams changing or maybe these need to be all beam pens i don't know um okay and then from there so that's the clash detection it's real simple you want to make a new one uh go back to add test right here let's do duct the pipe and i know there's some questions i'll get you guys in one second before we wrap up go to sets and let's do so on this side i'm going to do i'm going to do pipes pipe insulation pipe fitting pipe axis whatever maybe we want to do fire protection doesn't matter and then i'll just do ducts duct lining duct fittings ducts themselves and let's do air terminals click run test and so now just like that we've also clashed between pipes and ducts and i can look overall i can zoom into different levels different floors and i can start examining those clashes as they are right so now i'm just looking around i'm looking around and i can do some things so then what do i do with this information right in a normal clash or coordination process if you guys are familiar with the one that happens on construction right we basically need to dive into every single one of these during a meeting and and and ideally the teams are doing this on their own and you're coming to the meeting just with the big problems and you're resolving these in time on the design front right uh you might be looking for a big picture and and saying you know well there's a design element that's causing all these clashes okay so what's an example of that and so you just to continue with the process what i would do if i'm the one reviewing this is i may go to this area and usually i like to on on you know get out of the clash detection thing you know in this view here maybe something and i'll just create a view you know i'll mark it up so if i go under um uh review maybe i draw a cloud around here and make a note whatever um and then it'll it'll actually save a view over here if not you can just go to view and you can save a view set and so what i'm doing with these is during the meeting or or sending out to folks whatever you want to call it i'm creating these viewpoints over here okay and so you'll notice if i go on this one this is a light cove if i go here um i wanted to get to an example where's the slanted steel hold on here's one so this is a great great example here of a design-oriented clash detection that could be solved pretty easily ahead of time right so this a steel angle that's supporting this larger deeper beam over there and notice it's being slanted it's like a rigid support um and so that's an that's causing a ton of clashes right but this is something in design where you could say hey structural engineer i'm the architect on this job and we're running out of room in here um is there a way that we can stiffen this beam over here without having all of these purlins or whatever you want to call them supports these braces and that's just it's such a simple little thing that um that you know you can show by doing this process and that'll solve probably 70 clashes right um so yes so uh so we went through so we talked about um the sectioning tool we talked about find items and saving sets or saving searches we talked about running clash detection and then when you create a markup it automatically creates a saved viewpoint like i was showing you there but if you want you can save your own viewpoints too and by just going to uh what is it view i don't remember now yeah view save viewpoint or right clicking over here actually and just saying save viewpoint um oh my face is there hold on over here right clicking and saying save viewpoint there we go sweet okay so man look at that i was like 15 minutes of clash detection or teaching you navi so hopefully that was useful i just want to check out some of the chat questions before i log off um um i always get lost in the gray mush of lines yes amy uh that's why you could see some of the visibility things that i like to set up um um let's see here um so good video thanks juan awesome uh ruben said he's been wanting to know navisworks so look at that see in 15 minutes now any architect who's watching this can actually run clash detection navisworks so that tool that you've got with your package of your building design suite that you've never installed and used now you have a use for it and you can use it what happens with the differences between architecture and structure is the same i'm not sure what you mean there joe so clarify that a little bit ken just asked um are clashes found and fixed in navisworks no uh uh also fixed in revit no so navisworks is a model viewer yes you can grab elements and move them if you wanted to just to like suggest or test things out but you still have to make the changes in your authoring tool revit cad civil 3d i don't care what it is so there is a process of trying to understand where those are and how to make those changes that's why everyone needs to be part of this process and that's why when i when i've talked about my dynamo journey in the past one of the most uh one of the biggest things that that jumped me into dynamo uh was using um the tool to connect um dynamo and revit er sorry navis works in revit to actually place clash points in revit so it showed you exactly where a clash happened because that's sometimes half the battle is explained to someone where they need to go fix these things clay asked if turner ever outsourced modeling of 2d drawings no we if we have to model uh model things in three dimensions we we do it all in-house everything everything in-house um rick just said i think some people over complicate navas works i'm glad that um i i broke it down really well so hopefully that was helpful for everyone um it's one of those things that you can overcomplicate because there's a lot more that navisworks does i will completely be completely honest with you it does a ton of things but at the bare minimum you know those four or five tools and steps that i showed you will get you using the program and that's the start right it's getting getting your feet wet and getting over the edge amy just said i never thought about coming out of the class to show the class yes yes because most people unless you're really familiar with the project most people see that gray mush that you were talking about and get super confused um how do you distribute the items and that that's a great question actually so cole just asked how do you distribute these clash items to teams after you found them a couple different ways um sometimes it's it's it's a viewpoint um with with the red mark and then we distribute it almost always and the most successful ways is to have a meeting open the model and walk through the points easiest way but i will tell you that a lot of times i'll take those save viewpoints export them as images and just put them on a pdf and at least that's your pdf to show the things but by opening the model it's always way easier to to give people context and move around etc um naming is for sure what did we get this is great awesome so many people learning navisworks sweet sweet sweet sweet um is there a plugin to view all of your clash tests at once in a floor area there's a ton of different plug-ins for this um i have there's a program called bim track out there and so maybe carl and some of the guys and ladies are here on about bim track but um and and maybe we'll do an episode on that since there seems to be a ton of interest in this right now which is pretty sweet since you guys are all here so maybe we'll talk about how that ties into this whole process um but there are third party programs that help you connect all the work you're doing in navis to your authoring tools to help people understand where the clash is how to fix it how to get to it etc amy asks do i ever use the actual report export no um so what amy's what amy is mentioning uh is when you have clash detections um you know you can actually go to report so if i wanted to export this i can click write report and there's a reason why i don't use it and i'll show you in a second so i'm just going to quickly make a report here oh i should've done the uh the uh html thing hold on carl is here what's up carl yeah bim track i i will i will uh attest to bim track as being if this is something you do all the time um an extreme extremely helpful program does naviswork have its own dynamo variant good question um navisworks if you use dynamo studio or dynamo revit there is a package by adam schieder called dyno works where you can access most of the dynamo most of the navisworks api that you may need to do certain things so take a look at that i don't remember if i made a blog post on it i may have if i did i will make sure to link it down below but um i'm exporting xml so let's see i should have exported html because i think it'll look better but let's see the reason i don't use the reports is oh there's all the images first you get this which is an image of all 700 clashes um that are not in context but i'm actually going to open the html version because i think it's a it's easier to read so let's just do that hey jeff dynaworks is very cool yes it is [Music] how do you get all the different models to be working in the same accuracy i always run into issues with getting models to work together um i'm not sure what we mean by accuracy i think maybe you're talking about alignment and that is an issue and that goes all the way back to the discussions you have heard on this show if you've watched it in the past about coordinate systems and shared coordinates and setting up models in the in the very beginning it sucks when they don't line up and odds are you're going to have models that don't line up and so for that you have two options um i'll go into my face while it's exporting one option is to make sure they all line up by talking with the people who are authoring the models and fixing them the other option is you can transform models and i'm saying this and i'm cringing as i'm saying it because it's such a bad practice but you can transform models in navisworks to align with certain things so what we do a lot of times is we try our best to make sure everything is aligned but we always have what's called a coordination cube which is just a and a three-dimensional item it's i don't know why it's called the cube because we actually use a pyramid for it but whatever um it's a three-dimensional item objects whether it's a family or an object in cad and that is placed at a specific benchmark location in every single file that a subcontractor makes so if for some reason after many many phone calls we can't get that person to understand coordinates and move their stuff there is a object in the model that we can use to align all the models too so it becomes like your benchmark if you're a survey or nailed into the ground so we are are big fans of that because no matter how hard i try um models will not align all the time so real quickly i just wanted to show you amy asked a question about using the report this is what the report looks like that yep so it says clash name distance location uh c so the location is at c point two and seventeen point five basement um and then you know this is it and so if you send this to anybody they're gonna be like what the hell do you want me to do with this because the reality is yeah you have this but without going you know clicking this button and bringing to the location um it's pretty useless so no we don't really ever use the reporting tool all right wow it's already 142 cool you guys are going here um uh pierce pieter peter i guess uh how do you communicate clashes with external parties that don't use navisworks well one is you can have a meeting and just open navisworks and share your screen the other is making sort of uh your own kind of report which may be search sets etc or using tools like bim track and third-party tools to um to uh to show people who are not using it um oh yes uh tilestone mentioned clash grouping i didn't talk about that but um you can group clashes in the clash detective which is very helpful um for like i meant like i mentioned there if there's a bunch of clashes that um maybe there's 30 clashes but it's really one item you know it's like it's like one beam that's causing it you can group all of those into one location which is super helpful um let's see a couple more questions then we'll wrap it up here um you can export uh report as save viewpoints and navis yes you can great point um and that's about it all right sweet man that was a lot this was awesome you guys um you guys were into this i appreciate it thank you for joining me today i'm so glad you enjoyed the conversation um there's a ton of chat and great questions and so i think this is definitely a topic that we will carry on um in in other live streams um if you have any ideas of how to continue this conversation shoot me an email or you can go to submit.bimafterdark.com that's where you can submit ideas um for for live streams as well as if you want to be on a live stream if you have something to talk about um you know feel free to submit it there and um yeah i think i think this the the amount of you here today and the amount of chat going on i think kind of proved to me that um this is a topic worth diving in more so um thank you for joining me today i appreciate it if you have more questions feel free to reach out to me um at the revit kid on twitter or shoot me an email um jeff therebykid.com um you guys are amazing don't forget to subscribe here on the channel hit the notification bell um let's try and hit 40 000 because that'd be pretty sweet and i will also mention that next week we're going to be live on a special day it's going to be on tuesday so stay tuned for anyone paying attention to what's going on in in the autodesk world you'll know why we're going live on tuesday um and uh we'll have a special guest or two and it's gonna be a lot of fun so stay tuned to the channel as well as um my various uh social media streams and um yeah hopefully you guys learned a little bit of navisworks learned a little bit of the process for 3d coordination um learned my opinions on some of these things and i'm going to put it all together in a blog post for you tomorrow and i'll share whatever i can maybe the diagram maybe the search sets everything so keep a lookout for that at the revitkid.com um you guys are amazing thank you so much have a great week and weekend um and i'll see you guys on tuesday so stay tuned all right have a uh have a lovely night bye you

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Length: 76min 10sec (4570 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021