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September 2022 – Release of the Publish NWC Add-in for Revit

marcoramolla
September 21, 2022

We are pleased to announce a new application to batch export Revit 3D views into NWC file format in Autodesk Revit 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023; the Publish NWC Add-in for Revit.

The add-in is available for installation from the Autodesk Desktop App Autodesk Desktop App as a free download. As a prerequisite, you need to install the Navisworks NWC Export Utility .

The new Publish NWC Add-in for Revit enables design partners and subcontractors to efficiently share specific 3D views from their Revit projects as an NWC, include NWCs in coordination workflows, and update individual views for coordination meetings.

What it means for you…

  • Efficient export of Revit View Sets to NWC in a batch process
  • An alternative coordination workflow with NWC
  • Ability to fully engage in coordination workflows whilst retaining intellectual property within RVT files
  • Automatic upload of the NWC files into ACC or BIM 360 using Desktop Connector
  • Customizable file names per exported view

Once installed the Publish to NWC Add-in is available from the Add-ins tab in Revit.

Select the view set that you want to export from the drop down list. The views associated with the view set will be displayed. Views that cannot be exported to NWC format will be unchecked and disabled.

If a specific view is not required for export then it can be deselected by unchecking the tickbox on the left side of the window. To change the file names of the exported views, click on each view name and type in the name to use for export.

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Marco Ramolla is a Senior Product Manager in Autodesk Construction Solutions leading the Workflow group to provide pre-construction configurations and workflows. This includes Design Collaboration, Revit Issue Add-in and configuration of Design Collaboration and Model Coordination.

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  1. AvatarTimothy Smith

    I can confirm this add-in has also caused an issue with BIM 360 linked models for us. We had one user, where every time he opened 3 particular projects, the links were ‘Not Loaded’ and when opening Manage Links > Reload From, BIM360 just showed as empty. All 3 projects were in Revit 2020, and support suggested disabling add-ins to try and pinpoint the cause of the issue (since the user was able to access those projects on a different computer). This add-in was found to be the culprit. Very frustrating trying to track down this issue, especially given that it is an add-in provided by Autodesk to users in the Autodesk Desktop App.

    1. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Thanks Timothy for sharing feedback and confirmation (Revit 2020). We identified the problem and solution is on the way. In the meantime we removed the 2020 version from the Autodesk Desktop-App.

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

  2. AvatarBrooke Liles

    I just sent a case to support, but we also ran into this issue of the addin preventing revit from loading linked Revit models from BIM360. After disabling the addin, our links reload successfully.

    1. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Thank you. Can you confirm that this happened in Revit 2020?

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

  3. AvatarJean-Marc Couffin

    Like Simon mentionned, the addins prevents revit from loading the external ressources files (BIM360)
    It is breaking Revit @Marcoramolla _ in many versions

    1. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Hi Jean-Marc, thanks for clarification. We are still investigating on this. Could you please share more details to me by email? Thank you.

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

    2. AvatarKris Dimovski

      Confirming the issue and resolution of uninstalling the add-on fixed the external links issue that arose.

    3. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Thank you. Can you confirm that this happened in Revit 2020?

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

  4. AvatarSimon Crisp

    In principal this update is great, though it currently causes an issue with BIM360 linked models from loading in, for version 2020.

    1. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Hi Simon, thank you for the feedback. Linked models are currently not supported. We are planning to enhance the export options in the future.

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

  5. AvatarJustin Martin

    This add-in does not export linked models, despite having the “Include linked files” setting checked in the export settings. It would be helpful to include that functionality.

    1. Marco RamollaMarco Ramolla (Post author)

      Hello Justin, thank you for the feedback. We are planning to enhance the NWC Export with more export options in the future.

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

    2. AvatarBrian King

      This Add-in is absolutlely worthless without the ability to publish linked models.

    3. marcoramollamarcoramolla (Post author)

      Hi Justin, thanks for sharing feedback. We will provide ability to included linked models in the future.

      Marco Ramolla
      Senior Product Manager

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