Publish Dialog Box

Use this dialog box to adjust security settings for a published NWD file.

Publish

Title

Displays the document title. The title doesn’t have to be the same as the file name.

Subject

Displays the document subject.

Author

Displays the author of the document.

Publisher

Displays the publisher of the document.

Published For

Displays the party for which the document is being published.

Copyright

Displays copyright information.

Keywords

List of keywords that can be used to search for this document.

Comments

Displays additional information about the document.

Password/Confirm Password

You can limit access to an NWD file by entering a password into this box. You are asked to confirm the password when you click OK.

Now anybody who wants to open this NWD file must type in the password you specified.

Important: If you forget your password, you cannot recover it from the published NWD file.

Note: If you set a password, the resulting NWD file will not be able to be uploaded to Autodesk Forma.

Display at Password

This checkbox indicates whether the Publish dialog box is shown to users who are trying to open password-protected NWD files.

Selecting this checkbox gives users read-only access to document properties, enabling users to find out the details of the person they can request a password from.

Clear this checkbox if you don’t want to provide the document information to users.

Expires

Select this checkbox to set an expiration date for the published file. This activates the Calendar box, where you can pick the required date. After the selected date is passed, the file cannot be opened.

Note: Evaluation copies of Navisworks can publish NWD files, however, these files have the same expiration date as the evaluation software. To remove the expiration date from an NWD file created by an evaluation copy, you must republish the file with a full Autodesk Navisworks license.

May be Re-saved

This checkbox controls whether users can republish this file as an NWD or not.

If this checkbox is clear, the review changes made to the published file can only be saved as an NWF file.

Note: If this checkbox is clear, the resulting NWD file will not be able to be uploaded to Autodesk Forma.

Display on Open

This checkbox indicates whether the Publish dialog box is shown to the users as soon as they open the file.

If the file is password-protected, the dialog box is shown after the users have entered the correct password.

Embed Database Properties

Select this checkbox if you want to embed all properties accessed through external databases in the published file.

By default, this checkbox is clear, and only the database links are stored in the published file.

Options

Exclude hidden items

Select this checkbox if you want hidden objects to be removed from the NWD on publish.

Embed ReCap and Texture Data

Select this checkbox if you want to embed externally referenced files, including textures and ReCap files into NWD on publish. This enables you to password-protect referenced files. Any textures applied to the published file are saved in a folder with the same name as the published file. You can choose how the ReCap files get embedded by using the Options Editor (File Readers > ReCap page).

Prevent Object Property Export

Select this checkbox if you don’t want to include object properties that come from native CAD packages in the published file. This enables you to protect intellectual property.

Navisworks Version

Use the drop-down list to specify the file format version that you want to save the NWD file as.

Ribbon: Output tab > Publish panel > NWD

Ribbon: Application button > Publish