BIM Coordinator for Mechanical

Bim Coordinator

Getting Started

• Product Overview
• Understanding user interface
• Opening and Appending Files in Navisworks
• Saving, Merging, Refreshing, and Publishing Files
• The Autodesk Navisworks Engine
• Selection Tree and Selecting Objects
• Object Properties
• Animations, Sectioning, and Hyperlinks

3D Model Review

• The Autodesk Navisworks Engine
• Navigation tools
• Selection Tree & Selecting Objects
• Search Sets
• Hiding Objects & Overriding Materials
• Object Properties
• Creating viewpoints
• Adding Comments and Redlining
• Measuring and Moving Objects
• Sectioning
• Comparing Models
• Switchback

Clash Detective

• Creating clash matrix and creating the clash tests from it.
• Setting Clash Rules .
• Performing Clash Tests and updating the tests with the updating of Revit
• Creating the hard, clearance and duplicates clash
• Export and Import Clash Tests .
• Using the search sets for automating clash tests.
• Using Switchback tool to automatically select the elements in Revit to solve the clash.
• Performing Time-Based Clash test to find clashes with temporary elements in the time of
• Manage and review Clash
• Grouping clash results and adding comments to it.
• Assigning tasks to specific members regarding clash
• Produce Clash Reports with data of location and elements clashed and image, ….
• Auto update clash tests when updating

Quantification

• Setting up a Quantification Project
• Creating the Item’s catalog with the required work break down structure.
• Creating the resources catalog and linking re-

sources to items catalog.

• Perform model takeoff using the automatic and manual techniques .
• Editing the way Navisworks translates Revit param-
eters and controlling the way Navisworks calculates quantities.
• Perform virtual takeoff and assigning viewpoints and manual measurements to it.
• Using sheet browser to link 2d sheets with the 3D BIM model.
• Performing 2d takeoff’s from Autocad files or PDFs or even images.
• Using 2d takeoff tools to find quantities of count, linear and area elements.
• Export takeoff data to Excel and make use of pivot tables.
• Applying and disapplying quantification coloring code .
• Update and analyze data
4D simulation and time liner
• Overview of TimeLiner Tool
• Creating and managing TimeLiner
• Creating the WBS of tasks using indentation and sorting
• Using Gantt chart to control planned dates and actual
• Managing Time liner costs .
• Importing and managing data from Primavera and Ms
• Auto update tasks data like dates and costs when updated in Primavera file.
• Attaching Element to time liner tasks using manual and automatic
• Checking the quality of the planning schedule by finding the unmentioned
• Checking the quality of 4D model by finding ele- ments not attached to tasks or attached to mul- tiple
• Creating and editing task types and their visuali- zation
• Exporting TimeLiner Schedules
• Creating and reviewing construction 4D simula-
4D simulation and time liner
• Controlling the Text data attached to the 4d
simulation like dates active tasks, cost, …
• Controlling the 4D simulation duration, resolu- tion and
• Attaching a walk through animation to the 4D BIM
• Attaching an object animation to each
• Exporting images and videos from TimeLiner 4D
Additional tools
• Rendering and visualization
• Using data tools to add databases to
• Using appearance profile to automate the apply- ing of color codes to
• Using patch utility to automate creating .NWCs, NWFs, NWDs .
• Using selection inspector tool to analyze selec-
• Exporting elements BIM data to
• Importing data from excel or access to Navis-