{"id":104,"date":"2015-01-06T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/in-the-pipes\/2015\/01\/06\/extending-plant-3d-data-in-navisworks-using-datatools\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:11:13","slug":"extending-plant-3d-data-in-navisworks-using-datatools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/in-the-pipes\/2015\/01\/06\/extending-plant-3d-data-in-navisworks-using-datatools\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Plant 3D Data in Navisworks using DataTools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year and welcome back!&#160; We here&#160;at &quot;In The Pipes&quot; have just completed our annual &quot;week of rest&quot; at Autodesk and are looking forward to an exciting year ahead&#160;sharing tips and tricks here with you on the blog.&#160; The first tip I&#039;d like to share was actually part of a class I taught at Autodesk University last month and involves setting up Navisworks to view data from Plant 3D or P&amp;ID that has been exported out using Data Manager to an Excel spreadsheet.&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/in-the-pipes.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d835007d0b69e201bb07d2cdc2970d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DataTools for Blog\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d835007d0b69e201bb07d2cdc2970d image-full img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/in-the-pipes.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d835007d0b69e201bb07d2cdc2970d-800wi\" title=\"DataTools for Blog\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Screencast video below shows the basic procedure for using Navisworks&#039; DataTools to create this connection: <a href=\"https:\/\/screencast.autodesk.com\/Embed\/Timeline\/1d1469ec-d712-4e19-9f52-d3df73c5adca\">https:\/\/screencast.autodesk.com\/Embed\/Timeline\/1d1469ec-d712-4e19-9f52-d3df73c5adca<\/a>.&#160; Login to Screencast using your single sign-on Autodesk login name and password.&#160; If you don&#039;t already have an Autodesk login, you can register on the Screencast site and instantly have access to all of the free video content on the site.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in viewing the complete class, titled &quot;<em>PD5816-P : Plant Design Suite Ultimate Data and Modeling Tips from Technical Support<\/em>&quot;, you can access it via Autodesk University Online at the link below: <a href=\"http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/au-online\/classes-on-demand\/class-catalog\/2014\/autocad-plant-3d\/pd5816-p\">http:\/\/au.autodesk.com\/au-online\/classes-on-demand\/class-catalog\/2014\/autocad-plant-3d\/pd5816-p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We hope you have a productive and successful 2015 and that you visit here regularly to get the latest AutoCAD Plant 3D and P&amp;ID news!<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year and welcome back!&#160; We here&#160;at &quot;In The Pipes&quot; have just completed our annual &quot;week of rest&quot; at Autodesk and are looking forward to an exciting year ahead&#160;sharing tips and tricks here with you on the blog.&#160; The first tip I&#039;d like to share was actually part of a class I taught at Autodesk University last month and involves setting up Navisworks to view data from Plant 3D or P&amp;ID that has been exported out using Data Manager to an Excel spreadsheet.&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4],"tags":[161,125,14],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autodesk-university","category-plant-3d","tag-datatools","tag-navisworks","tag-plant-3d"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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