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Get started with BCF Manager Navisworks

This Quick Start Guide describes the basic online workflow of the BCF Manager for Navisworks. It will get you up and running in no time.

Updated over 3 months ago

The BCF Manager for Navisworks is available for Navisworks Manage and Simulate.
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If you have not yet installed it, download and install the BCF Manager for Navisworks here.

Online workflow BCF Manager

  1. Start Navisworks

  2. Load the model(s) for which you want to create or review issues in Navisworks

  3. Choose the BIMcollab tab in the ribbon

  4. Click on the BCF manager icon to open the BIMcollab BCF manager pop-up window
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    If you are a first time user, you first need to Activate your BCF Manager
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  5. Connect to a project on BIMcollab from the BCF Manager (1)

  6. If there are already issues present in the project you connect to, they will be displayed in the issue list (2)

  7. Create new issues manually (3), or import issues from clashes and saved viewpoints in Navisworks (4)

  8. Select issues in the issue list to see its details (6).

  9. When an issue is selected, you can quick edit it (6), or add a new comment to it (7)

  10. Double click the issue to zoom to its viewpoint in the model in Navisworks

  11. When you have made all the necessary changes, synchronize the project to BIMcollab, to share the issues with your team members (8)

📝 Note: To know how to use the BCF manager without connecting to a project in BIMcollab, consult the article about the offline workflow with the BCF Manager.

⚠️ Warning: IFC GUIDs in models appended from Autodesk Construction Cloud via the Coordination add-in may differ from those generated by the BCF Manager. This is caused by the conversion method used during the append process and can result in issues not being linked to the correct components.

👉 To prevent this, please avoid using this model loading method.

The BCF Manager window

  1. New offline project

  2. Import and save a BCF file

  3. Connect to a project on BIMcollab

  4. Synchronize project

  5. Display settings issues list

  6. Search

  7. Edit, create or delete an issue

  8. BCF options

  9. Name of the project you are connected to

  10. Active filter and Filter issues

  11. Issue list

  12. Import Issues

  13. Create a section box around selected elements

  14. Add viewpoint to the comment (only visible when comment is selected)

  15. Edit snapshot of the comment (only visible when comment is selected)

  16. Delete viewpoint of the comment (only visible when comment is selected)

  17. Zoom-to options

  18. Viewpoint information

  19. Show snapshot of the selected issue or comment

  20. When an issue is selected: Description of the issue
    When a comment is selected: Edit the selected comment

  21. Snapshot of the selected issue

  22. Quick edit of the selected issue

  23. Add a comment

  24. View comments of the selected issue

  25. View details of the selected issue

  26. Comments or details of the selected issue

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