Create a Viewpoint Animations in Real Time

1. Click Animation tab > Create panel > Record .

   To the far right of the Animation tab, notice that the Recording panel displays.

2. Navigate around in the Scene View while Navisworks records your movement. You can even move the section planes through the model during your navigation, and this will be recorded into the viewpoint animation too.

3. At any point during the navigation, click Animation tab > Recording panel > Pause .

   This will pause the recording while you maneuver into a new position. To continue recording the viewpoint animation, click Pause again.

   The resulting viewpoint animation will contain a cut for the duration of the pause.

4. When finished, click Animation tab > Recording panel > Stop .

   The animation is saved automatically in the Saved Viewpoints window (click View tab > Workspace panel > Windows drop-down > Saved Viewpoints). Your new viewpoint animation is called “AnimationX”, where “X” is the latest available number. The name will be editable at this point if you want to name it yourself. This viewpoint animation will also become the current active animation in the Available Animations drop-down list on the Playback panel of the Animation tab.

While the above method is useful for creating quick viewpoint animations on the fly, sometimes you need more control over the viewpoint camera. To do this in Navisworks, you need to set up several viewpoints and add them to an empty viewpoint animation. When playing back the animation, Navisworks will then interpolate between these viewpoints.