Work smarter: See how BIMrx & Naviate streamline AEC firms' Revit workflows

SHIR ERLICH: Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us today to learn how you can leverage Naviate to work smarter. Before we get started on the product demo, let's talk a little bit about what's going on behind the scenes at Microdesk and Symetri. As many of you already know, Microdesk merged with Symetri. This is exciting for us all because of the global value we can now provide all of you. Rather than me explaining this, let's hear from our CEOs Mike and Jens.

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- At Symetri, we go to work every day to challenge people to work smarter and more sustainably within the building and manufacturing industry.

- And I think from a Microdesk perspective, we realized that joining the Symetri team would give us the scale that would truly allow us to help impact the industry, to help push initiatives like sustainability.

- Together, we have a global product development team in place and more than 160,000 users of our technologies across 160 countries. And we are committed to make sure we actually make a great contribution for all of those and anyone else who want to come aboard to the community.

- So as BIMrx becomes Naviate, we'll have a product line that adds efficiency to the modeling process. But now, again, based on our scale, it will allow us to focus on moving beyond just efficiency but actually moving into more impactful things like sustainability as we gain a better understanding and are able to build more sophisticated products.

- And we urge you all to explore the full portfolio of our Naviate products and we're quite convinced that there is one or two things that might impress you. Have a look.

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SHIR ERLICH: Well, I hope all of you are just as excited about this merger as we are. And now that you got a little taste of what is happening with our organizations, let's get back to the product demo. Let's go ahead and introduce ourselves. My name is Shir Ehrlich, formerly part of Microdesk and now part of the Naviate global technology unit. I'm the Naviate accelerate product owner.

I started out as an architectural consultant where I specialized in BIM implementation and quickly realized that Revit needed some automation. So I taught myself Dynamo and became a Dynamo specialist at Microdesk. That led me to join the BIMrx team and now the Symetri global technology unit to develop products to help Revit users work smarter. Joining me today are Edward and Hans.

EDWARD LARIVIERE: Hello, everyone. I am Ed LaRiviere. I'm a strategic implementation manager and also the BIMrx/Naviate MEP fabrication product manager. I've been heavily involved with automation and BIM adoption over the years, and I've seen those struggles firsthand. Microdesk and Naviate also noticed these struggles in modeling workflows and decided to band together to fix them. So I'm here to share that with everybody.

HANS ZANDHOFF: Hi, everyone. I'm Hans Zandhoff. I'm a Naviate technology manager at Symetri. I led the way for our AEC professionals working with Autodesk Revit to work smarter and more efficiently by developing tools in Naviate that make everyday tasks easier and faster. I have a structural engineer background where I worked with implementing BIM processes and methods in organizations. Back to you, Shir.

SHIR ERLICH: Thanks. Now that you know who we are, let's get started. Some of you might have seen or heard Ed and I on previous BIMrx presentations and are already familiar with the BIMrx product line. But now that we have merged with Symetri and their products, we are Naviate.

So you might be asking yourselves, well, what is Naviate? Naviate is more than just a plug-in for Revit. We are one product for all trades, one team that you can work with, one solution to streamline your workflows, and one ecosystem for your Autodesk products. Naviate has products for Revit, for BIM 360, and Autodesk Construction Cloud, for Civil 3D, and for managing all of your licenses. We are now one Naviate product.

And as you know, we were BIMrx composed of Core, MEP, Fabrication, and Cloud Manager. But now that we are combined with Naviate, we also include products for architecture, structure, site and landscape, rebar, land use, daylight, and much more. We are Naviate, a suite of products developed by AEC professionals for AEC professionals and built a streamlined Revit project setup, model management, and documentation.

And as BIMrx merges in to Naviate, so will our products. Over the next few quarters, we are being integrated-- we are beginning to integrate all of the core functionality into Naviate Accelerate. This is great news for both Accelerate and Core users, as you will soon be able to take advantage of all the commands and features from both Core and Accelerate in one product.

Today's product demo will focus on Naviate Revit, specifically our favorite Naviate products-- Accelerate, Architecture, Structure, and MEP. Naviate for Revit is built to help Revit users work smarter and is targeted at streamlining project setup, data management, modeling, documentation, and document management.

I will get us started with showcasing how we work with Naviate as an architect. I will be using Naviate Accelerate and Naviate Architecture to show you how to set up projects faster and manage data more efficiently. Let's start with using Naviate for that project setup. As you can see here, we just started our Revit project, added all the levels and grids, and now need to start to set up all of our views so that we can then begin modeling.

With Naviate's create views, we can create all the views we need based off of which levels we need them for, which view types, and we can even assign a template for all of those views. This is really going to make setting up all the views we need so much faster and easier. We could create dependent views right now in this function, but we're going to do that a little bit later with some of our other Naviate commands.

As you can see, with a click of a button, the Create Views will create 36 views in just a couple of seconds using Naviate. And once our views are created, we can model our building. As you can see here with this model, we have two towers associated with our buildings. So we're going to want to create some dependent views for these upper levels.

We can use Naviate's Quick Dependent view, which is going to automatically create dependent views based off of the scope boxes in our view. And then, once we do that, we can use these initial dependent views as a template and copy it to all our other levels.

Using the Duplicate Dependent Views feature, we can now take that template we set up and copy it to all the other levels by selecting the original dependent views and then all the views to copy it to. In just a couple of seconds, it will create 30 dependent views for us using the Naviate Duplicate Dependent View feature. This is really going to streamline setting up our projects with all the views that we need.

So now that we have all our views created, we might want to start setting up our sheets and then placing all our tower views on those sheets. We are going to start with a template sheet. Here we can actually set up our views or our initial views exactly the way we want them, place them wherever we want, and then use that as a template for all of our other sheets. We can put it in the exact locations we want them.

So as you can see, we can actually select from any sheet within our project. It will even show us an example of the location of views on the sheet. As we start clicking to add other tower views, it will automatically match it based on the selection order. So here you can see that it's going to add all of those dependent views for Tower A on the top portion and all of the Tower B on the bottom portion.

Within this dialogue, we also have access to manage all of the parameters for all of the sheets that we're going to create. Naviate's data grids are built to mimic functions in Excel, to easily copy information and modify data in a data grid format. You can see how we can easily change values and then build incremental values across many rows. This isn't possible in out-of-the-box Revit.

We can also do a fill copy or even a mass deletion of information. This is all done because of the way Naviate has built their data grids. Once we have that data edited, with one click we can create those sheets and have our views placed on the sheets exactly like that template sheet. With these few features and many more that I didn't get to show you today, we can set up projects faster using Naviate Accelerate.

Now that we finished setting up our project, let's look at managing some model data. With Naviate's Edit Parameters feature, we're able to edit any parameter from any category or any pre-created Revit schedule. This is going to be really similar to how we just added the sheet parameters previously.

But now with the Edit Parameters function, we're able to edit any parameter within our project utilizing some of that same Excel functionality that I showed you earlier, like fill copy, fill increment, or mass deletion. And like I said before, this is impossible with out-of-the-box Revit. In just a few seconds, we're able to edit all of our wall data.

Now let's go ahead and visualize that data with Naviate's Color Elements feature. We can select from any instance or type parameters to visualize the data. In this example, we want to visualize all of the fire-rating parameters of our walls so that we can easily see which walls have the correct fire rating or not. This feature is a modeless dialog, so we can have it open and zoom in and out of the views to see if our walls are correct. We can even take these color element settings and apply it to any view template within our project.

As you can see, it will take that information and put it into the view template so we can then visualize it across all of our working plans. And now that we were able to visualize our data, let's hop into creating some model elements for our rooms, because now that we're further along in our design process we are going to want to create some finishes for our rooms.

First, in order to easily select our rooms, we want to use Naviate's Live Selection feature. This is really one of my favorite commands, and I always have it open on my other screen while I work because it makes selecting elements so much easier. Once those rooms are selected, we can use the Create Coverings feature, which is going to allow us to create either floor finishes, wall finishes, or ceiling finishes based off of our rooms.

We can select from any wall types, floor types, or ceiling types in our project and even select level offsets. With just a few clicks of a button, Naviate does all the work for us. It's going to create all of those finishes that we've selected for our rooms. This is really incredible, and it's going to save us so much time with modeling.

Let's go ahead and take a look at that in 3G just so we can really see what happened here. As you can see, all of our finishes have been created. So now that we have our rooms all modeled with all the finishes in there, let's go ahead and take a look at our doors.

Here we can see that the door numbers don't exactly match our room numbers, and this can be a problem moving forward. It isn't easy to update all our door numbers based off of our room numbers with out-of-the-box Revit. But with Naviate's door tools, this is so easy. We can utilize our Door UID feature and select from a variety of parameter to number our doors with. We can customize by adding suffixes or prefixes, choosing from numeric or alphanumeric styles, and add any door or room parameters for these numbering conventions.

Once we're happy with these settings, all we have to do is select to update, and in just a few seconds it's going to update all of the doors in the entire Revit project based off of those settings. How amazing is that? Now that our door numbers match our room numbers, let's maybe look at creating door drawings.

Door drawings typically require us to create a section or an elevation, a plan, a schedule, and then place all of these views on a sheet. And this can really be a time consuming process. Well, with Naviate we can use the Door Drawing command to do all of that for us.

Now that we finished setting up our project, let's look at managing some model data. With Naviate's Edit Parameters feature, we're able to edit any parameter from any category or a pre-created Revit schedule. This is going to be really similar to how we edited the sheet parameters.

But now with the Edit Parameter function, we're able to edit any parameter within our project utilizing some of that same Excel functionality you saw earlier like fill copy or fill increment or mass deletion, which again is not possible with out-of-the-box Revit. In just a few seconds, we were able to edit all of our wall data.

Now let's go ahead and visualize that data with Naviate's Color Elements feature. We can select from any instance or type parameters to visualize the data. In this example, we want to visualize all of the fire rating parameters of our walls so that we can make sure that the walls have the correct fire rating. This feature is a mode list dialog so that we can go ahead and zoom in and out of our views while it's open to make sure our walls are correct.

We can even take these color elements settings and apply it to any view template within our project. As you can see, it's going to take all of that information and put it into that view template so that we can now visualize it in all of our working plans. Now that we visualized our data, let's hop into creating some model elements for our rooms because now that we're further along in the design process, we're going to want to create some finishes for our rooms.

In order to easily select our rooms, we will use Naviate's Live Selection feature. Now, this is really one of my favorite commands, and I will always have it open on my other screen while I work because it makes selecting elements so much easier. Once those rooms are selected, we can use the Create Covering feature, which is going to allow us to create either floor finishes, wall finishes, or ceiling finishes based off of our rooms.

We can select from any wall types, floor types, or ceiling types in our projects and even select the level offsets. With just a click of a button, Naviate will do all the work for us. It's going to create all of those finishes that we've selected for our rooms. This is incredible and is going to save us so much time in modeling. Let's take a look at it in 3D just so we can really see what happened here. As you can see, all our finishes have been created.

So now that we have our rooms all modeled with all the finishes in there, let's take a look at our doors. Here we can see that the door numbers don't exactly match the room numbers, and this can be a problem moving forward. And it isn't easy to update all of our door numbers based off of our room numbers with just out-of-the-box Revit, but with Naviate's door tools, this is so easy.

We can utilize our Door UID feature and select from a variety of parameters to number our doors with. We can customize by adding suffixes or prefixes, choosing from numeric or alphanumeric styles, and add any door or room parameters for these numbering conventions. Once we're happy with these settings, all we have to do is select to update, and in just a few seconds it's going to update all of the doors in our entire project based off of those settings.

Now that our door numbers match our room numbers, let's go ahead and create some door drawings. Now, door drawings typically require us to create a section or an elevation, a plan, a schedule, and then place all of those views for each of our door types on a sheet. And this can be a really time consuming process.

Well, with Naviate, we can use the door drawing command to do all of that for us. It will identify all of the different door types in the project and create all the views we specified, creating the sheets and then placing all the views on the sheet. Once we select Create, it will start going through the view and sheet creation process. And just like that, our door drawing sheets are created.

So let's just take a look at it to make sure that it's exactly what we wanted. As you can see, it created all the views and placed all the drawings on the sheets, as we've specified. Now, if you think automating door drawings is impressive, wait until you see what we can do about our room drawings. We can start from selecting which rooms we want to create. Here, we're going to only select a few rooms.

And just like creating our door drawings, we can specify which views to create and which view templates to apply to those views. We can select to create floor plans, ceiling plans, 3D views, and elevations. We can customize exactly what we need and how we need it done. We can even specify some sheet values.

And then, once everything is set, we can save these settings to use at a later time. Then again, just sit back and relax and let Naviate do the work for you. It's going to create all those views, create all the sheets, and then place those views on those sheets. Let's go find our room drawings and see how they look. There we have it. It's all done. And with Naviate, managing data for our doors and rooms has never been easier.

So now that we've set up our architectural model, let's send this model off to Hans so that he can start working on the structural model.

HANS ZANDHOFF: Thanks, Shir. I've started to add structural element to my model based on the architecture work. I'm going to show you two very powerful workflows inside Naviate, one for piles and one for rebar. And there are many more workflows inside Naviate for Revit Portfolio for structural engineers.

So I've added my pile caps and piles, and I'm going to start to work with them. So the first thing I want to do is to have them the correct length. I'm going to go to Naviate, and I'm going to use the Pile Extend Trim tool to extend and trim my piles to the correct length. I can extend them to a surface inside of my current project or a [INAUDIBLE]

But I'm going to do it inside of my current project. And the piles is going to be extended or trimmed to the top of surface. If I move or change the top of surface, I can just run the tool again and get a new values for my piles. Now I'm going to go [INAUDIBLE] and I'm going to continue in my piles.

And now I'm going to number all of my piles. So I have a lot of piles. I want to number all of them. And for that, I'm going to use Pile Numbering inside Naviate. So I start pile numbering. I can add a designation. I'm going to start with number one. I'm going to add a prefix. I'm going to add padding so it's going to be two series before.

I'm going to have an arrangement pile so I know how I'm going to number all my piles. And there's also a numbering method that I can use. So when I do this, all of my piles will be updated with a number and a mark value. Now I'm going to continue and add numbers to all of my pile caps. To do that, I'm going to go to my [INAUDIBLE] for pile caps.

And I'm going to use a number of functionality inside of Naviate Accelerate. So first, I'm going to go to Annotate, and I'm going to do a detail line. I'm going to place that line on all of the objects I want to number. I'll speed it up so you don't have to see me doing that line. So now I'm going to go to re-number. I'm going to select my element on time, which is Structural Foundations. And I'm going to number them and mark.

I'm going to add a prefix and a current number. Then I'm going to select my spline. And when I do that, I can also reverse the order, but I'm happy with the order and I'm going to number all of those pile caps. So now, when I have number all of my elements, I'm going to start to create data on them.

So I need coordinate data for all of my piles. And to do that, I'm going to go to Update Project and Manage. So inside Update Project and Manage, we have all of the data you can write two categories in Revit. And as a structural engineer, I'm very interested in coordinate data and elevation data.

So this time, I'm going to write coordinate data to all of my piles. So I'm going to go into Shared Coordinates, and I'm going to decide when I want to write that data to my piles. So I can do it on Save, Print, Export, Sync. But I'm going to choose Manual now. I'm going to configure what kind of categories do I want to add the data to. I only want to add them to my structural foundation.

And I can also run the function from here. So when I run the function, all the data will be updated and the parameters will be created for the coordinates, and I will have a time and date stamp so I know when I did it. So when I go in and look at my pile, I will have coordinate data. And the coordinates data will always be from the current coordinate system in Revit from site.

So I can also now go ahead and have this data now schedule. So I can add all the created parameters to a schedule and also the pile length. We can also have other parameters having this data. So it doesn't have to be in the coordinate x. It can be a parameter of your own choosing.

So I'm going to continue now with a workflow for rebar. So I've added some rebar to my structure, and I'm going to show you some of our rebar commands to speed up the modifying process. So here I'm going to split a rebar with splitting tool. You can also split them by a line. We have functionality to move rebar, create rebar container, explode rebar.

So in this case, if I want to, I can explode that rebar and rebar set to get single rebar. I can go in in the rebar, remove rebar, and add rebar. And then I can go back with group rebar to create rebar set again. So if I select a couple of rebars, I can create the rebar set with group rebar command. So that's very powerful. So that's just a normal rebar set that I continue working.

That was modifying tools. We also have managing tools for rebars, which is rebar numbering. So when you reinforce a project, it's going to be a lot of rebar, and it's hard to keep track and control of all that rebar. So it created a function that helps you keep track and order of all the rebar. So here I'm going to a partition, and I analyze that partition.

And when I analyze that partition, I get all the rebar inside that partition. I can then start to number all of those rebars. I can select the rebar and I can find it in the drawing view. And I can do changes to that rebar. And what we do now is that we save all the data when you do analyze.

So if I change the rebars in my view and analyze again, Revit will tell me exactly what I've changed. So it will update and mark all the data that's changed since last time. And this really helps you keep control of all the reinforcement data in your project. And I can also remember from here and do a number of series. And when I'm done and happy with the result, I can do the export. So we can export to Excel and create that Excel report or to a BVBS file.

I'm going to continue with some reinforcement on the pile cap just to show you that you also can revise parts inside of this function. So I'm going to analyze the rebars inside the pile cap. When I select, I'm going to see all those rebars. It's easy to select. I can go in and take a rebar. I'm going to just change that rebar.

But first I'm going to add a new number series. So I'm going to start with a new fresh number series and go to number all those rebars and save the numbers. And then I'm going to do a change. And the power of this functionality is that it keeps track of the changes and also helps you to revise all of those rebars.

So now I'm going to go in to the rebar. I'm going to do a change. And when I do a change, those rebars are no longer going to match. So when I analyze again, I'm going to see what I've changed. And now I can go in and, for example, keep existing numbers and do not reuse used numbers and just renumbder one of those two rebars that has changed.

So that's a very powerful workflow, helps you keep track of the rebar because it tends to be a lot of changes. And now I can save a new number of [INAUDIBLE] for those parts, and I can revise and create the new revision also and save that revision as a parameter on the bar. And I also have in my schedule [INAUDIBLE].

So that's rebar numbering functionality to help you keep track of all the rebar in your project. We also have functionality to help you detail rebar. So if I go to a plan view, we have-- as we have here. So I want to see the rebar. I can go to Show Obscured just to show my rebar. And then I can use Rebar Presentation to select the rebar I want to present. So this is very powerful and time-efficient.

So I just click Rebar Presentation. I click the set and rebar I want to show. And then I just continue with the next set and the next rebar I want to show. And if I click the rebar and present the draw, I can just select that rebar again, see all of the rebars in the set, and then select another rebar.

So that's rebar detailing. I'm going to turn it over to Edward now, at Naviate as an MEP engineer.

EDWARD LARIVIERE: Awesome. Thank you, Hans and Shir. That was some pretty powerful stuff. I hope everyone here is comparing your internal workflows against what is possible when you leverage Naviate. So before we jump into it, I just want to remind everyone that I am focusing on the MEP suite of commands to help you model and manage your models quicker and easier.

As we move into this model, I'd like to note I have already leveraged Naviate to set my model up, and I am in full-blown production mode at this point. So I'm going to start out with one of our fundamental commands here, Bloom. And I'm going to link this with our Elbow Up command.

So Bloom is allowing me to immediately cause extensions out of open connectors. I'm using this here on the tee, and then I'm continuing to do some work. So what's cool about Bloom is it's even matching the slope, pipe type, and system for us. So from here, we can actually already see the rest of the system that I'm going to need to connect.

So I'm going to be using a really nifty command, Align Branch, to line the elements up and then bring them together. To note, this is two aligned slope types here. And yes, this works for any slopes you want to work with, and this also works for any trade you want to work with. So we'll see that connection happening in just a second here, showing off that we are at two different heights using that align branch, bringing them together, and then using trim extend for that final connection.

If you take a look, there's not a single transition applied that is a perfectly flat connection, and we're ready to move forward. So because it is easier to copy than recreate, I'm going to quickly show that as well. So I could copy that same exact run, bring it close, and then use our Move Connect command to bring those back together.

We could very quickly wrap that process up with that same exact Aligned Branch we were using earlier to bring those down to the correct height and connect them. But I'm going to let you know that's no fun. We frequently need to build from new. So why don't we go ahead and take a look at what building from new may look like?

So I'm going to use Bloom, that same Bloom from before, on the floor drain. And you'll notice it gives me a slightly different system, but we'll talk about that soon. So I'm also going to connect that P trap to that using move connect align. And then I'm going to bloom again and use rotate fitting to get all of these elements aimed in the correct direction.

So just to note, I'll be able to clear that sanitary system out in just a few seconds. I do want you to also know that inside bloom, there is a suite of settings that let me specify systems, let me specify work sets-- a whole bunch of stuff. So you'll see I'm lining up right now to go to the main again. And there may not have been a slope on that pipe originally, but as I use our advanced version of Align, that Align Branch Plus, I'm able to inherit that slope from the drainage when I line them up.

Speaking of inheriting, I'm also able to delete the old sanitary system out of that run and then inherit that new drainage system in when I need to. So I'd like to wrap up this little plumbing section here with a little bit of vent routing. So I've cut an open area to work with using our Split With Gap command, which does not place couplings. I can then select and copy the fittings I need over.

And they just need to be close because I'm going to use that same move connect to finish the route for me. I can then just link a few elbows together here-- you see me throwing them over on the vents over there-- and then use a little Rotate Fitting command to rotate them the direction that I need them to be.

I'm going to go ahead and do a couple of copies of these, get them around right. It's very easy to move elements around and work with them when we start leveraging BIMrx and Naviate together. So I just need to get that close, and then I can use moco-- move connect-- to bring it back together. I could use something like Align 3D to line them up across the top.

I can then go ahead and do a little convert to T here so that I have a T instead of an elbow. We can use that Move Connect again to bring these elements back together, the idea being, let's link together several small automations to do something much more complex. So I can do an elbow down 45 to get a 45 in, do a rotate fitting.

And if you're like me and you may not know the exact direction, it's OK. It's very, very quick to key that rotate fitting back up again and just rotate it to exactly where it needs to be. You'll notice it maintains the selection the entire time for me. And once I'm going the right direction, a very quick Align Branch, a Trim Extend, and that entire route is back together.

So there's just a small look at some of the features we have for plumbing. I'll promise you, though, there's a whole lot more. We just don't have time to see it. So let's move in and maybe take a look at a little bit of ductwork now. So as we start, I'd like to remind you I am not swapping out of my 3D views. I'm in the same 3D view, moving my view around with the right selecting elements and just changing the area I'm working in.

So we'll see I just used the Bloom command on that piece of equipment, and it gave me an extension out of every single open connector. We can even specify work sets for each of those so they show up for the correct trades as well. Now, from that Bloom, I used Elbow Up to give myself something to work with. And as it turns out, in 3D views, as long as you lock the view, you can even use the built-in Revit commands like Move.

So we can live in these 3D views now. We don't have to cut sections. We don't have to move around. Just toggle your links as you need them. So after doing that move over there to get these ready, I can use Align Branch If I want to go ahead and bring my ducts back to center on center. And we don't always want center on center, though, so I'll show you another workflow in a second.

I can also go ahead and take any of those air terminals, copy them over, and I can just use Move Connect to bring them back together. I can even use that Move Connect in a 2D view. I don't always have to be in 3D. All of our commands work in 2D or 3D. Whatever is more simple for you to do, that's what we want you to be able to do.

So for this final one here, I'm lining that up to get close because I know and you know that we could build it this way. Revit just really does not like attaching those. So using the Tap command, we can just immediately connect those together and move on. So the very last thing I'd like to show you, I can very easily flip multiple boots all at the same time if they're going the wrong direction.

In fact, we'll find out as we move into the electrical portion that those boots can be flipped along with anything else. It is incredibly quick to flip any element we want around. So I just showed you a little bit of ductwork over here. I do want to remind you again, everything we saw happen inside plumbing, all of those commands apply to ductwork as well as conduit and cable tray.

So let's move into electrical here and wrap up with some MEP. So I'm starting with that same exact Flip command. Again, everything is universal. You'll see me using that a little bit on a panel and on the lighting element there. So after that is a little bit of electrical modeling, specifically circuit modeling. I'm going to use a command from Core here to automatically tag my elements so you can actually see what I'm doing in the background.

So this is an incredibly powerful command, and you can actually use it to tag entire views or projects at a time if you leverage our Tag All version. So while I was doing that tagging, I am using the Add, Remove, and Merge circuits as well. This lets me modify all my circuits without menu [INAUDIBLE]. It's just there at top level for me to use, and I can even keyboard shortcut all these.

Now, I am denying the merge here just so I can keep these separate. I promise you if I clicked OK, they would have merged together. So next up is the Copy Circuits command. And you can see that not only is it going to copy these elements over for me, it's also going to copy the exact circuits as well. And we'll see that as soon as I do that real quick tag for us again.

Again, I can't get over that Tag command. It saves so much time. Those are two separate tags being placed each time I use it. So that Copy Circuits works very well within a single circuit, but we can also use it to copy entire panels and everything downstream of that panel as we go. So I've moved to an elevation view-- very specifically, an elevation view.

And we'll see that I'm copying that panel from level to level. And let's watch that copy up right here. And there we go. All those elements copied up. No warnings, no nothing. Everything is hosted against the wall because our levels are the same from level to level. Now, a very quick change to the panel name so it just doesn't say "copy" in there. And we can change that to 2.

It does give unique panel names. We just need to change them to what we need. And then a very quick tag. And we'll see that it's maintained all of those circuits, but to an entirely new panel. So this is an invaluable tool if you have repetitive models. You can copy between levels. You can set up one typical level and then copy through the entire rest of the project. So very, very time saving.

Now, we can even copy panels around within the same floor, and we'll see that happening right now. I'm actually putting these in the middle of nowhere to show exactly what happens. And all that happens is we may lose our hosting. So even if you don't have exactly the same room but you have typical circuits and layouts, we can still leverage this command to go ahead and make copies all over that floor, get everything together. And then you just need to locate those items as needed.

And there we have it. With that final tag, we can see again this is a brand new panel and circuits waiting for us to go. So now that we finished that MEP modeling and that's really well underway, I can kick this back to Shir. And she's going to show us a little bit about the project closeout process.

SHIR ERLICH: Thank you, Ed. Naviate modeling and documentation features are just incredible. We showed you how to use Naviate as an architect, as a structural engineer, and as an MEP engineer. But with Navigate Accelerate, there are features for all. Naviate is built to work throughout your entire project lifecycle.

And with Naviate Accelerate, I showed you earlier how to set up views and sheets and manage project data, but now let's take a look at how to get these drawings exported out. Once we have our sheets created using Naviate, we can also apply revisions to sheets using some other Naviate commands. This will allow us to add multiple revisions to multiple sheets at one time.

We also have the ability to remove these revisions if needed. Without out-of-the-box Revit, this is such a tedious task that could take us an entire afternoon. But with Naviate, this is made easy. Simply select which sheets to add revisions to. Then select which revisions to add. Once those revisions are added, we can then use the Naviate Publish feature to export these sheets out to multiple file types.

We can set up different configurations to export these sheets out to either a printer, an NWC file, a DWG file, IFC file, or export it to a PDF. Each configuration has its own settings for export, like which views or sheets to include and file location. We can even create customized naming conventions based off of view's or sheet's parametric information. This is going to make exporting these drawings up so fast and easy.

And we can customize which one of these configurations we want exported at any given time. For example, we can create a configuration for all of our file types, as I'm doing now. But currently, we only want to export our DWGs and PDFs. So simply select those configurations and then save the settings. We can also select to export them out to a common folder location.

Once all of our settings are complete, we simply publish them. And in a few minutes, all of our views or sheets will be exported. From creating views and sheets to getting them exported out, Naviate is here to help you work smarter so that you can get drawings out the door faster and spend time on other things that matter more.

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