2012
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Welcome to Autodesk Navisworks Freedom 2012
- What Is New in This Release?
- How to Get Assistance
- Installation
- Quick Start to Stand-Alone Installation
- Installation Troubleshooting
- General Installation Issues
- How can I check my graphics card driver to see if it needs to be updated?
- How do I switch my license from stand-alone to network or network to stand-alone?
- When performing a Typical installation, what gets installed?
- Why should I specify the Project Folder and Site Folder?
- How do I share the Autodesk Navisworks settings on a site and project basis?
- When should I reinstall the product instead of repairing it?
- When I uninstall my software, what files are left on my system?
- Uninstall and Maintenance Issues
- General Installation Issues
- Quick Start
- Work with Files
- Explore Your Model
- Control Model Appearance and Render Quality
- Review Your Model
- Use Viewpoints
- Play Back Animations
- Work Within a Team
- Share Data
- TimeLiner Playback
- Reference
- Background Settings Dialog Box
- Collision Dialog Box
- Default Collision Dialog Box
- Edit Viewpoint Dialog Box
- File Options Dialog Box
- InfoCenter Settings Dialog Box
- Options Editor Dialog Box
- Glossary
- Index
Full Navigation Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
2D Navigation Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
3Dconnexion 3D Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Set Camera Projection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Control the Field of View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Position and Focus Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Navigation Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Head-Up Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Reference Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Control the Realism of Your Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Crouching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Collision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Third Person View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Chapter 6
Control Model Appearance and Render Quality . . . . . . . . 181
Control Model Appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Select Render Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Full Render . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Shaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Wireframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Hidden Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Add Lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Full Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Scene Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Head Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
No Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Select Background Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Adjust Displaying of Primitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Snap Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Control Render Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Use Culling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Make Objects Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Control Rendering of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
Adjust Scene Rendering During Navigation . . . . . . . . . 194
Accelerate Display Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Adjust Presenter Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Stereo Rendering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
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