BIM software for architects
Overview
What Navisworks does
Autodesk Navisworks is a project review software that helps architecture, engineering, and construction professionals coordinate, simulate, and analyze projects before construction begins. It enables clash detection, 4D scheduling simulation, and project analysis to reduce errors and improve project outcomes.
What people use it for
- Clash detection
- Construction sequencing
- Project coordination
- Cost analysis
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Navisworks.
- Sold in two named editions, Navisworks Simulate and Navisworks Manage, each licensed for install on up to 3 computers per subscription (Internet Archive capture, 7 January 2023)
Pricing
What Navisworks costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Navisworks Manage
$145 /mo
- Clash detection
- 4D simulation
- Model aggregation
- Quantification
Navisworks Simulate
$100 /mo
- 4D simulation
- Model aggregation
- Rendering
- Animation
Capabilities
Features
Clash detection
Clash detection capability
4D scheduling
4D scheduling capability
Model aggregation
Model aggregation capability
Quantification
Quantification capability
Visualization
Visualization capability
Revit
Integration with Revit
AutoCAD
Integration with AutoCAD
BIM 360
Integration with BIM 360
3ds Max
Integration with 3ds Max
Civil 3D
Integration with Civil 3D
Data encryption
Data encryption security feature
Access controls
Access controls security feature
Behind it
Who makes Navisworks
- Company
- Autodesk Inc
- Based in
- San Rafael, CA
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