A complete Navisworks reference for BIM coordination, written around the job rather than the menu. The opening chapters make the software's place clear — Navisworks does not model, it reads models built elsewhere and lets you view, search, measure, mark up and check them — then cover the three editions (Freedom, Simulate, Manage) and what each can and cannot do, the file formats it reads, installation, licensing and the exporter add-in that lets Revit or AutoCAD write .nwc files.

Federating multi-discipline models gets a chapter of its own, because it governs everything that follows: the three Navisworks file types (.nwc as raw material, .nwf as the workbench, .nwd as the packaged product), the two routes into the software, and the coordinate and unit mismatches that leave federated models tens of metres apart or a storey out — including why the fix belongs in the source model, not in Navisworks. A five-minute set of checks to run after every append is spelled out.

Navigation and viewing covers every mode (Walk, Fly, Orbit, Examine, Turntable, Pan, Zoom, Look Around), walking with Gravity and Collision, SteeringWheels and the ViewCube, viewpoints saved for coordination meetings, sectioning with planes and section boxes, render styles, splitting the view to compare two model revisions, and the navigation shortcuts. The Selection Tree chapter covers its four display modes, Select Same, Selection Resolution, reading properties carried from Revit and CAD, and building selection sets, search sets and Find Items filters that update themselves.

Measuring, commenting and markup covers every measurement mode and how accuracy is set, Redline markup on a viewpoint, comments and their tracking status, tags for assigning work, links to attach documents and drawings, and a full coordination meeting workflow from clash to report. Clash Detective is treated in depth: what a clash means, preparing search sets before running a test, clash test types and what Tolerance really means, reading results, grouping to cut the number to handle, using rules to remove false clashes and SwitchBack to fix at source, and exporting weekly clash reports.

TimeLiner covers 4D: importing a programme from scheduling software or CSV, task structure and Task Type, attaching tasks to objects with search sets and Auto-Attach rules, running the simulation, comparing planned against actual, and exporting animations and milestone images — along with what 4D is really used for and its limits. Quantification covers 5D: what it does and does not do, building item and resource catalogs on the company coding system, manual takeoff and Auto Takeoff by search set, the quantities available from the model, virtual takeoff, updating when the model changes, and exporting to Excel to reconcile with the estimate.

Animation, scripting and rendering covers Animator, camera animation and walkthrough paths, Scripter event-to-action wiring, materials and lighting, export settings, and where Navisworks rendering stops being the right tool. The export chapter separates NWC, NWF and NWD, gives the standard route from source model to issued file, covers Publish with a password and expiry, exporting clash reports, viewpoints, images and quantities, sharing the model with people who do not have Navisworks, exporting to DWF, FBX and KML, reusing sets and tests, and assembling the coordination package for handover. The final chapter covers performance and troubleshooting: why a federated model runs slowly, exporting a lean NWC, Options Editor performance settings, cleaning up file size, common problems, and file and folder naming for coordination.

Appendices give the full keyboard shortcut tables by task and a Vietnamese–English BIM coordination glossary covering process and documents, clash detection, files and coordinates, selection and display, navigation and programme simulation.

Written bilingual Vietnamese–English side by side, so you can follow in your own language while still matching the exact English names Navisworks prints on screen. Version 1.0, September 2026.