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Product: NavisWorks Manage 2009

Topic: Editing Viewpoint Settings

Written by: Nick Bower, Assoc. AIA BSD Techncial Engineer

Date: February 17, 200

When working in NavisWorks Manage 2009, the need may arise to change the default Avatar or walking speed

when using the navigation tools. You can easily change any of these settings by modifying the Edit Current

Viewpoint Settings.

Unless changed otherwise, NavisWorks Manage will start with a default avatar to be used when working with the

walk tool. In the instance below (Figure 1), the avatar is the “Dummy” avatar. This default avatar may not be the

one that you would like to use for the purposes of recording an animation. It can be changed by going to

Viewpoint > Edit Current Viewpoint… (Figure 2).

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Once the Edit Viewpoint – Current View has been opened, click on

Settings… to edit the Collision Detection Settings (Figure 3). The Collision

Detection dialog will allow you to change the Third Person Avatar settings

for this particular viewpoint. It is worth noting that if you have multiple

viewpoints saved you can right click them in the viewpoints menu and edit

their settings (Figure 4).

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The Collision Detection dialog will provide you the ability to change the way that the Third Person avatar looks

and behaves. The following descriptions explain the various options:

Controls whether the avatar can walk through objects such as walls. Also controls whether the

avatar can walk up and down stairs when Gravity is turned on

Pulls the avatar to the ground. This setting must be turned on to walk up or down stairs.

Will automatically make the avatar crouch down if there is something at head height such as a

pipe or soffit

Controls the roundness of the avatar. Making this number smaller will make the avatar appear

thinner.

Controls the height of the avatar. Typically set between 5’-8” – 6’-0”

Controls the distance above the height that will be seen as eye level when using the Auto Zoom

feature. This value is typically set to 0’-0”.

Will automatically zoom closer to the avatar if in a small space or when an object obstructs the

Third Person camera view. If required NavisWorks will switch back to First Person mode until

the avatar leaves the restricted space. This is useful for doing walkthroughs/redlines in plenum

spaces.

Controls the distance the camera is behind the avatar. A good rule of thumb is to start out with

the same value as the Height.

Allows you to control the camera angle behind the avatar. If this value is set to 0, you will be

looking directly at the avatar. If the value is set to 90 you will be looking down on the avatar.

Control the avatar’s appearance