From the course: Navisworks Essential Training 2023

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Choosing render styles

Choosing render styles

- [Presenter] Navisworks has come a long way, in terms of how realistic your model looks. It's also come a long way in the actual materials that are carried over from the authoring applications, such as Revit or AutoCAD. As we walk through our models, we can make some choices as to how the buildings or your site actually looks. This exercise will take a look at the four different render modes. To get started, I am going to open up my Navisworks Essentials dot NWD file. Now, notice that we have a certain look. We didn't really do anything to make it that way, other than a couple properties, but what we need to do is go to the view port tab, and notice that we have mode right here. So, 'full render' means that it's going to show our materials. So, if we walk into our model, and look at it, these are the materials that are coming from the actual Revit. Not that you would shingle a roof that way, but Navisworks doesn't know…

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