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Ellipsis is the official blog of Autodesk's Technical Evangelist Team. We will discuss all things design and manufacturing related with a focus on industries such as automotive and transportation, consumer products, industrial machinery and building product manufacturing and fabrication. We also have resident experts who will blog about specific product developments in CAD, Simulation, Industrial Design and Data Management.
We look forward to providing you, our user community, with the most relevant and up to date developments in our industry, and hopefully with information that will assist you in doing your job better, faster, and more precisely.
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Navisworks for Manufacturing
August 21, 2009, 08:19 AM Brian SatherNavisworks has been used in the architecture, engineering, and construction world for quite some time to bring in huge amounts of multi-cad data to visualize what a building is going to look like, coordinate large projects, and interference detection. More recently we introduced Navisworks for Manufacturing - which brings the same tools to help with factory floor layout. There are some really powerful tools in there - including the ability to import pretty much any time of geometry from AutoCAD and Inventor to even Google SketchUp. You can also bring in point clouds of 3D laser scanned data to see how well a new workcell or machine will fit into an existing space and take virtual walkthroughs of your building...some very cool stuff in there and much more to come. Check out the video below...
Comments
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August 21, 2009 05:16 PM Brian Hall
Can you create geometry in there? Can you dimension to or from the Scan point cloud data?
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August 24, 2009 10:42 AM Shibai Bagchi
Navisworks MFG is an aggregation tool that will bring in and combine data from different 2D & 3D design systems, it cannot create any geometry of its own. Yes, you can dimension to or from the point cloud scan, what's cool is that you can run a collision check between the point cloud scan (the current as-built state of your factory) and a 3D model (machine, layout etc) Let us know if you have further questions. Shibai Bagchi Product Manager, Autodesk
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