Extension

BimNv SDK

Read, view and create Navisworks® files — no dependencies

Desktop & Web

NWD NWC NWF
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Features

Accès

Full hierarchy with geometries, render and BIM data of NWD/NWC/NWF files

Voir

  • Standard viewing controls: Pan, zoom, rotate, move, and more
  • Progressive interactive viewing based on the spatial hierarchy

Créer

Create new NWD/NWC files from scratch

Modification

  • Add saved viewpoints, selection sets, and light items to the model
  • Add property/hyperlinks or appearance overrides
  • Change the clip plane set

Writing

  • Valid writing to supported versions (2016 and 2026) into NWD/NWC/NWF formats
  • Geometry compression for vertices during writing

ODA Platform for BimNv

Conversion
Importer
  • NWD
  • NWC
  • NWF
BimNv
Exporter
  • DAE (collada)
  • Raster Formats
  • XML/CSV of BIM data (clash, timeliner, viewpoints, search sets) in Navisworks style
  • NWD & Publish NWD
Intégration

All ODA Products

Supported versions of NWD, NWC, NWF

  • Reading
    • Complet: 2016 - 2026
    • Partial: 2009 - 2015
    • Limité: 2006 - 2007 (JetStream v5)
  • Writing
    • 2016 and 2026

See it in action

Viewing of nwd with huge scene, appearance overriding

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Roadmap

  • 2023
    • Full support for reading/writing Navisworks elements: clashes, timeliner, animations, materials
    • Up to 75% faster spatial hierarchy generation
    • Integration with ODA Visualize: export of materials, lights, cameras, saved views
    • Enhanced rendering: normal mapping, GPU clip planes, reflection textures
    • Partial viewing, CPU/GPU culling, and smart erasing in BimNvApp
  • 2024
    • Property tree with advanced search by category/property/value
    • Material editor with support for advanced textures
    • .nwf override support for appearance, attributes, and links
    • Color/transparency overrides for model items and selections
    • Async geometry loading with caching for faster scene setup
    • Up to 2× faster loading, 53% faster rendering, 55% fewer duplicate materials
    • Optimized export: SavedItems, Collada improvements
    • GPU instancing & block reuse for memory savings and FPS boost
  • 2025

    Already implemented (26.1–26.6)

    • GPU instancing & block inserts for faster Gi/Gs rendering
    • SSE2–AVX2 / NEON-based CPU occlusion culling for partial viewing
    • Direct .nwf xref reading from stream buffers

    Planned for 2025 (v26.7–26.12)

    • Procedural & custom textures from .adsklib
    • Further async loading improvements
    • Optimized point cloud rendering
    • Background-threaded CPU occlusion culling
    • Ray tracing in BimNv viewer
    • Export to IFC and PDF
    • Compressed geometry writing (colors, textures, normals)
    • Save to .nwc format

More ODA toolkits for BimNv

Feature BimNv SDK Visualize SDK
Platforms
Focus on Support for NWD/NWC/NWF including traversing hierarchy, getting render/BIM data, visualization, creating, and saving High-performance graphics engine. Visualize multiple formats in one project using a simplified API
Intermediate Formats — VSFX
Editing capabilities Appending saved item data (viewpoints, lights, selection sets), appending override properties or appearance VSFX editing
Visualize capabilities Integrated visualization with interactive partial rendering (frustum culling). Accelerated rendering via GPU instancing and block inserts.
Optimized partial viewing with CPU occlusion culling (SSE2-AVX2 / NEON) 		Advanced high-performance rendering
BIM data obtaining Direct access to properties, hierarchy, clash, timeliner, animation, and selection data, with export to CSV/XML —

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