Communicate design issues using review tools

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In Navisworks, you can easily communicate design issues with comments, markups, and tags.

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You can draw directly in the 3D model using lines, shapes, or text to highlight areas of concern, such as clashes or design changes.

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These markups are saved with viewpoints, making it easy to share your comments with other team members during reviews.

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This enables everyone to see the highlighted issues and proposed solutions, streamlining collaboration and issue resolution.

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In addition to text and shapes, you can also add tags,

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which combine the features of markups, viewpoints, and comments into a single, easy to use review tool.

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A tag places a marker, rather than text, in the Scene View.

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Once the tag is placed, you can review the comments in the order in which they were added.

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Tags enable you to see who added or edited a tag and also to search for comments.

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In this example, a measurement has already been added.

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To add some context to this measurement, from the Review tab, Markup panel, click Text.

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In the Scene View, click the location where you want to place the text.

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Enter your markup text, and then click OK.

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The markup is added to the selected viewpoint.

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Note that if you change the viewpoint, you will only see the markups in that view.

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You can also use the drawing tools to further emphasize your markup.

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From the Draw drop-down, select a drawing style, such as Cloud,

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and then click in the viewpoint to begin drawing the arcs of the cloud.

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Each time you click, a new point is added.

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To terminate the cloud, right-click in the Scene View.

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The Tags panel enables you to add and manage tags.

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Click Add Tag, and then, in the Scene View, click the point or object that you want to tag.

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In the Add Comments dialog, enter the text to associate with the tag,

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and set the Status of the comment to New, Active, Approved, or Resolved.

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In this case, select New.

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When you click OK, the tag is now available for anyone to view.