Bonjour à tous,
Pour info, quelques retours (en anglais) sur la question issues du Navisworks User Group sur Linkedin :
Sean Zook R.A:
Sort of, yes, you can create model views that look very much like drawings. Use the ortho camera. Top view. White background. Use wireframe or hidden line view mode. Cut one or more sections to create a drawing slice. Print to pdf or save a view. You can not print to a scale though.
Shawn Weir :
Hi Francois,
Our iConstruct Dev Team is currently working on this feature, we should have a beta version ready soon so let us know if you would like to try out.
Shawn
Simon Boyd :
Yes this is a great quick solution and can be automated a lot using the Audit tools to auto generate viewpoints from different angles, with varied visibility and coloring options, including MTO's of what is visible in the view.
Great for quickly creating work packs, reports, status visulisations, and combined with overnight BIM-Flow routines you have a up to date model to use each day, with an option to create PDF and Excel reports for users, Also export selected cropped models with optimized hierarchy, grouping and naming to using the 'Reconstruct' module. Making models easily available to all using the Free viewer, Navisworks freedom.
As Navisworks is a vector based environment and the image is captured from a raster 'bitmap' screen, we only have the pixel resolution available on screen to use.
It is possible to render out in more detail using the in-built Navis/ Autodesk render engine but lighting affects may look funny within a line drawing environment, however, it would give you more pixels.
In future we may explore the option of using the Cartesian coordinates of nominated snap points to define vector geometry but for now you are stuck with a pixel output, that can be easily read directly back into native CAD applications with editable lines, paths text etc, unless scanned and auto traced first, but that give varying results depending on quality of input images.
The iConstruct dimension tool will help making mark ups from your navis model, and with report designer you can add logos, tables, and data to your reports. Note that viewpoint reports and screen grabs will be at viewpoint resolution, so hiding extra panels, going into full screen mode (F11), and zooming in as close as possible will give you best results.
Having a 4K or larger monitor/s will give you more pixels in your screen grab or viewpoint export than with a normal HD monitor so this is a good way to get more resolution in your image.
When in Orthographic mode you can zoom in and freely pan around without perspective changing, this means you can zoom in, screen grab, paste into Photoshop or other editor and keep layering different screen grabs after panning around. Be aware you final out out as a pixel based (Bitmap/jpeg/tiff) image (possibly in a pdf container) Play around with compression options and color modes, as its easy to save it with too much compression and ruin your image.
Be careful with scaling on drawings from screen grabs.
You can save viewpoints and export them to xml when you have them perfect, you can then reload them into your new model and not have to set them all up again each time.
Good luck.. let us know how you go!