In Autodesk Navisworks, you can manipulate objects’ transforms (translation, rotation, and scale), and also change appearance (color and transparency) of objects. All object manipulation is carried out in the Scene View.
Any changes that you make to object attributes are considered to be global, (as if they’d been changed in the original CAD model), and can be saved with Autodesk Navisworks files. You have an option of resetting object attributes back to the state they were in when imported from the original CAD files.
You can temporarily modify position, rotation, size, and appearance of geometry objects for animation purposes. These changes are not global, and can only be saved (or captured) as animation keyframes.
In Autodesk Navisworks Freedom, you have an option of resetting object attributes back to the state they were in when imported from the original CAD files. This will remove any color, transparency and transform overrides that may have been applied in Autodesk Navisworks Manage or Autodesk Navisworks Simulate.