Use Animator for Soft Clashing
Soft clashing combines the main functions of Animator and Clash Detective.
Project models can include the dynamic representation of temporary items, such as work packages, ships, cranes, installations, and so on.
You can use the Animator window to create animation scenes with these objects, so that they will be moving around a project site, or change their size, and so on. It is possible that some moving objects could collide.
Setting up soft clashing enables the automated checking of this. When a soft clash session is run, at each step of a scene sequence, Clash Detective is used to check if a clash has occurred. If it has, a time of when the clash took place is logged, along with the event that caused the clash.
You can review the soft clash results and, for example, reschedule objects' movement to eliminate such clashes.
Prepare Dynamic Work Packages for Soft Clashing
- Each object that you want to animate needs to be modelled in the project model covering the area or volume required; for example, you can use semi-transparent blocks.
- Animated scenes with the desired objects must be created by using the Animator window in Autodesk Navisworks.
Link to Object Animation for Soft Clashing
In Navisworks open the project model file, which contains the object animation scenes.
If the Animator window is not already open, click Home tab > Tools panel > Animator
.Play the animation. Check that the animated objects are shown in the correct location, in the correct size, and so on.
If the Clash Detective window is not already open, click Home tab > Tools panel > Clash Detective
.Click the Select tab.
In the Selection A and Selection B panes, select the objects you want to test.
In the Link drop-down box, select the animation scene you want to link to, for example Scene1.
In the Step box, enter the Interval Size to use when looking for clashes in an animation.
Click the Run Test button. Clash Detective will check at each interval in the animation to see if there are any clashes present. The number of found clashes is displayed at the top of the Clash Detective window.
Note: If the animation scene is large in size, running this type of clash test will invariably take more time to complete than a normal clash run.You can now review the found clashes.