Topic: Building System or Navis Issue...

[pmvliet]

I am working in Building systems (2007) running pipe. I am also using Navisworks Simulate (2011).

The issue that I'm having is I was working on some pipe yesterday and all of a sudden, it shows up in Navis as just plain lines. I lost all 3D visualization. This is hit and miss and part of the pipe appears correctly. I add a "tee", reducer and then those newly added parts are lines. The pipe I added these entities too, still appears correctly.

I've redrawn it twice already and at some point of adding parts, the visual display changes

Anyone run into this issue? It kind of concerns me a little as I've got an entire mechanical room drawn up and I'd hate for all that to turn to just plain linework.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Pieter

[Davie J]

I hit that very same wall last week.
It's a bug in navisworks. Autodesk are aware of it but have no timescale for a fix.
Between trying to fix the problem and then looking for a reason for it happening I spent a good few hours on a complete waste of time.
I hadn't come across it before because I didn't usually put flanges on for renders/flythroughs of plantrooms.


When I started a render on Friday evening using MEP 2011. I had a Heidi module load error waiting on me. Nothing rendered.

bugsbugsbugs are all I seem to be finding the last few days.