Navisworks Add-Ins and API Tutorials

Navisworks® API Series

Navisworks® API exercises & tutorials – line by line & step by step guidance with comprehensive explanation …

  • Find Intersect & Override Color – this post will be covered one of Navisworks® SDK exercise which task is ” to create an Add-Ins that find the items which intersect with the currently selected items and highlight the intersect items ” …
  • Search ModelItem & Collect Properties – this post will be covered how to Search ModelItem & collect ModelItem Properties. The task is ” to find a ModelItem by its Id and collect the properties data of ModelItem‘s Element category. “ …
  • COM Interface & Adding Custom Property – this post will be covered a new topic called Navisworks® COM (Component Object Model) Interface & how to add custom property to selected ModelItems …
  • Find Intersect and Override Color & Transparency (v2) – this post is an upgraded version of the previous post : Find Intersect and Override Color which was released a few months ago …
  • Event & EventWatcherPlugin – this post will be covered how to subscribe/unsubscribe the Application & Document Events and an another type of plugin called EventWatcherPlugin that can’t be seen from the Navisworks® user-interface…
  • Viewpoint (Part-1) – this post will be covered how to manipulate Viewpoint’s Camera, we’ll create an add-ins that move and rotate the position of the camera …
  • Adding Property to Existing Category – this post will be covered how to add custom property to the existing category via  Navisworks® COM (Component Object Model) API …
  • Transform ModelItems – this post will be covered how to transform the selected ModelItems, we will create an add-ins which includes a WPF window for user to interact with transform’s Axis and Value.