BIM COORDINATION USING AUTODESK NAVISWORKS

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•  Introduction to BIM Coordination concepts. 
• Role of BIM Coordination within the project lifecycle. 
• Coordination workflows in design and construction projects. 
• BIM Coordination vs BIM Modeling. 
• Introduction to Autodesk Navisworks products: 
  • Navisworks Manage. 
  • Navisworks Simulate. 
  • Navisworks Freedom. 
• Understanding federated models. 
• Real project coordination workflows. 
• Coordination roles and responsibilities. 
• Supported file formats (RVT, IFC, NWC, NWD, DWG, FBX, etc.).

• Understanding the Navisworks interface. 
• Workspaces and UI customization. 
• Navigation tools and view control. 
• Orbit, walk, fly, and inspect tools. 
• ViewCube and SteeringWheel tools. 
• Visual styles and rendering modes. 
• Selection Tree and Scene View. 
• Properties panel and object information. 
• Units, transforms, and coordinates. 
• Saving viewpoints and navigation settings.

• Importing and appending models. 
• Working with: 
  • Revit models. 
• Creating federated coordination models. 
• Managing linked and appended models. 
• Understanding model origins and shared coordinates. 
• Model alignment and positioning workflows. 
• Organizing models for coordination. 
• NWC vs NWD workflows. 
• Export workflows from Revit to Navisworks.

• Visibility and appearance management. 
• Hide/unhide/isolate workflows. 
• Transparency and color overrides. 
• Appearance Profiler. 
• Sectioning tools and clipping planes. 
• Reviewing crowded MEP areas. 
• Object inspection and properties review. 
• Reviewing discipline-specific models. 
• Saved viewpoints and annotations. 
• Redlining and markup workflows. 
• Review comments and coordination communication. 

• Creating manual Selection Sets. 
• Search conditions and rules. 
• Organizing coordination workflows using sets. 
• Grouping systems and disciplines. 
• Reusable coordination templates. 
• Best practices for large projects.

• Introduction to clash detection workflows. 
• Hard clashes vs clearance clashes. 
• Understanding clash tolerance. 
• Creating Clash Tests. 
• Clash detection between disciplines: 
  • Architecture vs Structure. 
  • Structure vs MEP. 
  • MEP vs MEP. 
• Clash test setup and optimization. 
• Running clash tests. 
• Reading and analyzing clash results. 
• Clash viewpoints and saved coordination views.

• Clash grouping workflows. 
• Clash status management: 
  • New. 
  • Active. 
  • Reviewed. 
  • Approved. 
  • Resolved. 
• Clash prioritization and severity analysis. 
• Clash matrix creation. 
• Clash rules and filtering. 
• Coordination meetings workflows. 
• Assigning coordination responsibilities. 
• Coordination issue tracking workflows. 
• Reducing false-positive clashes. 
• Coordination reporting standards.

Architectural Coordination

• Space coordination. 
• Ceiling coordination. 
• Architectural clearances. 

Structural Coordination

• Structural openings coordination. 
• Beam and slab penetrations. 
• Concrete and steel coordination. 

MEP Coordination

• HVAC coordination. 
• Plumbing coordination. 
• Firefighting coordination. 
• Electrical coordination. 
• Cable tray and containment coordination. 

Infrastructure & Landscape Coordination

• Utility coordination. 
• Site coordination workflows.

• BIM Coordination standards overview. 
• Naming conventions. 
• Model segregation strategies. 
• Clash management procedures. 
• Coordination meeting workflows. 
• QA/QC workflows for coordination. 
• BIM Execution Plan (BEP) coordination requirements. 
• Coordination deliverables and documentation.

• Creating professional coordination reports. 
• Exporting clash reports. 
• HTML and viewpoint exports. 
• Coordination presentation workflows. 
• Managing review comments. 
• Coordination communication strategies. 
• Reporting for consultants and contractors. 
• Coordination dashboards and summaries.

• Navisworks and ACC integration. 
• Coordination workflows using ACC. 
• Model Coordination module overview. 
• Cloud-based issue tracking. 
• Coordination approvals and workflows. 
• ACC vs local coordination workflows. 
• Best practices for cloud collaboration.

• Full federated model coordination project. 
• Clash detection and reporting assessment. 
• Coordination workflow presentation. 
• Team coordination exercise. 
• Final coordination report submission. 
• Practical assessment and review. 
• Autodesk course completion requirements.