Group Elements

Viewpoints and colour-coding by property

The groups on one chosen level of a Group Elements tree carry a colour in the model. Isolate a group, recolour one or several groups, or export the tree as saved viewpoints that mirror the grouping structure, so a level-by-level or system-by-system walkthrough is ready before the coordination meeting starts.

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Tri-pane viewport with 3D, plan, and section views colour-coded by building level — Navisworks Manage · Group Elements

What it does

Isolate and color-code viewpoints from any property

Colour the model by property value and export saved viewpoints that keep the group tree and its colours.

Colours come from an 8-colour and a 16-colour palette you can edit in Settings; groups with the same name share a colour across the tree
Change Colors on a multi-selection recolours several nodes at once
Exported viewpoints keep the folder structure and the colours of the grouping
Click a group to isolate it, hide the rest or show it grey and transparent, clip the view to its bounding box, select it or zoom to it
Export Viewpoints sets the camera for every viewpoint: Top, Front, Right, Standard isometric or the current direction, perspective or orthographic, framed on each group or kept on the current camera
Viewpoint generation can be cancelled part way and keeps what was already created

From grouping to a viewpoint deck

Right-click a grouping in the Group Elements pane and export it to saved viewpoints. Each lowest-level group becomes a viewpoint and each group above it a folder, so the Saved Viewpoints window follows the tree. When the grouping is coloured, the viewpoints carry the group colours. The same tree drives the Image and HTML reports, so the viewpoints, the images and the report pages agree with each other.

The default walk-mode transparency and the two colour palettes live in Settings. Up to sixteen names are coloured in palette order, alphabetically, so the same set of values gets the same colours on every run.

Watch it run

Group Elements, inside Navisworks.

Generate selection and search sets automatically from property hierarchy. All tutorials

At a glance

Where it lives and what it needs.

Ribbon panel: Group Elements
Commands: Group Elements
Editions: Navisworks Manage and Navisworks Simulate
Navisworks releases: 2021 to 2027
Availability: On the App Store, version 3.0.0

Pressing F1 on any of these ribbon buttons opens the help page for that command on this site, which forwards to the section of the user guide that documents it.

Group Elements

Selection and search sets from property rules, rerun on every model update

Nested selection and search sets generated from property rules, coloured in the model, exported as XML and rerun on the next model.

Manage and Simulate
Image Report, HTML Report, Clash reports

Render every group to images or a printable HTML report

One rendered image per group, an HTML report that prints one group per page, and Excel clash reports with a summary, a pivot, a set-by-set matrix and a history.

Manage and Simulate
Explode Model

Explode the model by property for targeted review

Spread a grouping's elements apart along up to three axes so a breakdown can be inspected piece by piece, then reset it.

Manage and Simulate

Try it on your next coordination run.

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