Known Issues in Navisworks 2026

Navisworks 2026 does contain some known issues that are listed below. The development team are is currently investigating fixes for these issues, and they are anticipated to be resolved in an upcoming release.

• BIM 360 Glue can't currently save NWD files using the new 2026 file format. Instead, use the 2016-2025 file format, which you can specify using the Default Format Version option on the Options Editor dialog box > Model node > NWD page (NW-61545).

• DWG files don't load correctly after opening Navisworks directly from Inventor using the Factory Design Utilities feature (NW-61547).

  • Work-around - Before selecting Factory tab > Open in Navisworks in Inventor, open an instance of Navisworks 2026. Then, when you select Open in Navisworks in Inventor, the currently open Navisworks instance is used, rather than a new Navisworks instance being started by Inventor. Loading a DWG file then works as expected.

• The Output tab > Export Scene panel > Export NWD option can sometimes output corrupt files when using the Exclude hidden items option (NW-61566).