To Use SwitchBack with Revit

Note: This functionality is not supported for linked files.

To use SwitchBack with Revit

1. For Revit or products based on it, open the product in the usual manner, and initialize the Navisworks SwitchBack add-in:
   1. Open any existing project, or create a new one.
   2. Click Add-Ins tab External Tools Navisworks SwitchBack to enable it. You can now close the project, but don't close Revit.
2. Return to Autodesk Navisworks and open the desired file. As long as you are working with an NWC file exported from Revit, or a saved NWF or NWD file, you can SwitchBack to Revit.
3. Select an object in the Scene View, and click Item Tools tab SwitchBack panel SwitchBack .

   Revit will load the relevant project, find and select the item, and zoom to it. If SwitchBack was unsuccessful with the selected object, and you receive an error message, try selecting further up the Selection Tree in Autodesk Navisworks.

   Tip: Alternatively, in the Clash Detective window, on the Results tab, you can click the SwitchBack button. The Clash Detective feature is available for Autodesk Navisworks Manage users only.

Note: If you try to use SwitchBack and the RVT file is not in the same location as when it was saved, a dialog box will appear asking you to browse to the RVT file. When using SwitchBack for the first time to load a Revit file, a 3D view based on the chosen projection view mode is created inAutodesk Navisworks. The next time SwitchBack is used to load a Revit file, the same projection view mode loads, unless the projection view mode is changed in Autodesk Navisworks.

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