Quick Start Guide 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.
The BCF Manager for Navisworks is available for Navisworks Manage and Simulate.
Online workflow BCF Manager
- Start Navisworks
- Load the model(s) for which you want to create or review issues in Navisworks
- Choose the BIMcollab tab in the ribbon
- Click on the BCF manager icon to open the BIMcollab BCF manager pop-up window

If you are a first time user, you first need to Activate your BCF Manager
- Connect to a project on BIMcollab Cloud from the BCF Manager (1)
- If there are already issues present in the project you connect to, they will be displayed in the issue list (2)
- Create new issues manually (3), or import issues from clashes and saved viewpoints in Navisworks (4)
- Select issues in the issue list to see its details (6).
- When an issue is selected, you can quick edit it (6), or add a new comment to it (7)
- Double click the issue to zoom to its viewpoint in the model in Navisworks
- When you have made all the necessary changes, synchronize the project to BIMcollab Cloud, to share the issues with your team members (8)
The BCF Manager window
- New offline project
- Import and save a BCF file
- Connect to a project on BIMcollab Cloud
- Synchronize project
- Display settings issues list
- Search
- Edit, create or delete an issue
- BCF options
- Name of the project you are connected to
- Active filter and Filter issues
- Issue list
- Import Issues
- From Clashes
- From Saved viewpoints
- Create a section box around selected elements
- Add viewpoint to the comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Edit snapshot of the comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Delete viewpoint of the comment (only visible when comment is selected)
- Zoom-to options
- Viewpoint information
- Show snapshot of the selected issue or comment
- When an issue is selected: Description of the issue
When a comment is selected: Edit the selected comment - Snapshot of the selected issue
- Quick edit of the selected issue
- Add a comment
- View comments of the selected issue
- View details of the selected issue
- Comments or details of the selected issue
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