Scene View

This is the area where you view and interact with your 3D models.

When you start Navisworks, the Scene View contains only one view, but you can add more views if needed. Custom views are named “ViewX” where “X” is the next available number. The default view cannot be moved.

Looking at several views of your model simultaneously is useful when you compare lighting and rendering styles, animate different parts of your model, and so on.

To interact with the model in the Scene View, you can use the ViewCube, the Navigation Bar, the keyboard shortcuts, and the context menu.

Only one view can be active at a time. A view becomes active as you work in it. If you left-click a view, it is activated and whatever you click is selected, or, if you click an empty area, everything is deselected. Right-clicking a view activates it, and opens a context menu.

Each view remembers the navigation mode being used. The recording and playback of animations only occurs in the currently active view.

Each view can be resized. To resize scene views, move the cursor over the view intersection and drag the splitter bar . By setting the content size to the same proportions as your intended output, you can visualize exactly how it will look.

You can make custom views dockable. Dockable views have title bars, and can be moved, docked, tiled, and auto hidden the same way as dockable windows. If you want to use several custom views, but don't want to have any splits in the Scene View, you can move them elsewhere. For instance, you can tile your views on the Viewpoints control bar.