As with any meeting, XR design reviews also benefit from some prior planning. You may be wondering: how do I best prepare?

To make the most of your time and your model, ask yourself a few general questions:

• How will I structure the meeting?
  
  Meeting objectives, time allotted, areas to cover.

• What is being reviewed?
  
  Points of interest, systems, identified issues, levels.

• What is not being reviewed?
  
  Out of bounds areas, duplicate geometry, unnecessary assets.

With those things in mind, consider the following ways to add an extra layer of polish and efficiency to your next design review.

How Will I Structure the Meeting?

Before starting your meeting, it is always beneficial to make a plan. If you’ve prepared a certain number of views, issues, or points of interest, consider how much time can be spent with each designated area before moving on to the next.

You can always check the time on the outside of your non-dominant hand controller to keep the meeting on pace.

What is Being Reviewed?

In Revit or Navisworks

• Save your 3D View or Viewpoint.
• Create new view or views specifically for XR and identify existing 3D views or Viewpoints that are relevant to your upcoming review.

For easier identification, you may want to append view names with a special naming convention.

In Autodesk Docs

Workshop XR lets you share Revit and Navisworks models directly from Docs to a workshop for review.

The console maintains your Docs project hierarchy, including folders and subfolders, making it an easy and familiar interface to access the models you’ve prepared.

Leverage this project and folder structure to ready any number of models or views, then sequence between during a review.

Place Issues

Pre-Identified Issues or Focus Areas

Placed issues can be used as waypoints in your model to add focus and direction. These are true ACC issues available both in Workshop XR and in your traditional 2D workflows. Taking some time to create or curate placed issues ahead of a meeting can help increase efficiency, both by making getting around easier, as well as simply acting as a curated list of focus areas to address.

In Workshop XR

Get ready to benefit from your upfront effort.

Share Views and Files

Start by sharing a model or 3D view you’ve prepared to the Workshop table. Note that the sections and majority of settings curated are maintained and displayed based on what model or view has been shared.

Within a project, Workshop XR Admins and Editors can share:

• Revit .rvt Files
• 3D Views
• Navisworks: .nwd Files

Go-to Placed Issues

If you’ve created any placed issues within the model, you can use the “go to issue” feature within the issues panel to jump directly to that 1:1 view of the issue.

Use the People menu to gather all other participants to your location to continue the conversation and review.

Filter Geometry

Control visibility of your model geometry using the Model tab. The visibility settings you can further curate in real time are visible for all users and persist until changed.

What is Not Being Reviewed?

In Revit or Navisworks

• Filter Geometry: Be intentional with what is uploaded and visible. Linked and appended models sometimes contain duplicate reference geometry for other disciplines. Identify opportunities to hide elements, categories, selection sets, linked models, or disciplines that don’t add value to your review.
• If your project features multiple floors that are identical, consider reducing duplicate geometry within them by hiding it.

Use standard workflows within Revit and Navisworks, prior to uploading or updating your published model, to hide identified geometry for a better visual experience in XR.

Why This Helps

Reducing unnecessary geometry makes for faster load times, better performance, and more space on your headsets, all while ensuring meeting participants are seeing and focused on what’s intended. Additionally, overlapping of duplicate geometry can cause Z-fighting (flashing as the two coplanar surfaces compete to be displayed). Currently, this light prep is the best way to significantly reduce this possible discomfort and distraction.

Navisworks Users Also Note:

Be aware of highly fragmented geometry.

Find Fragments in Navisworks:

• Go to Home > Selection Tree > Properties > Geometry > Fragments.
• Under Fragments, search for geometry with a count of 1000 or greater.

Identified geometry that is not high value or relevant to your review, consider hiding by highlighting, then right-clicking to hide before updating your saved viewpoint.

Why This Helps

Fragments represent pieces of appended 3D geometry that are currently very resource-intensive to render in XR.

Section Box

A simple ‘geo-fence’ area for your design reviews.

Sectioning can be a powerful tool to keep focus on designated areas at designated times. It’s also a convenient way to make accessing or reviewing specific portions of large models a bit easier.

Often just as useful is the benefit of keeping users on task in a designated location by sectioning out areas of your model either not ready for review or otherwise off-limits.

Use section boxes in conjunction with 3D Views or Viewpoints to have meaningful sections prepped and on hand, ready for review. Workshop XR allows for easily switching between different views or models without ever leaving a Workshop.

Why This Helps

Sectioning helps converge on intentional areas for review within the model and is a great way to direct attention. Not only does it improve focus for the meeting, but sectioning also helps the headset prioritize your most relevant geometry, which gives a performance boost, especially if you’re recording or casting.