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Navisworks – Adding Mark-ups to a Project

As we all know Navisworks is a great tool for bringing in large amounts of data from multiple cad systems and viewing in a single file. Many companies today take advantage of Navisworks for overall project management. Navisworks offers some great tools to help us communicate areas of the project to be considered for review or just need to electronically mark-up possibly during a project review. These red line tools give us the ability to add text, comments, tags and revision clouds to allow others to understand areas of the project in question. My favorite feature within these tools is working with the tags themselves. They allow us to track each tag created with a status much like a data management system. Our options are – new, active, approved and resolved. These four options are also search able for anyone to easily find.
Let’s take a look!!!
http://www.screencast.com/t/Rrx0drAAt74b
Created by Dave one of the Cad Geeks

Configuring Default Comments in Vault Lifecycles

One of the hard things to remember when using Vault is to fill in the comments box whenever a milestone is reached with a document. In daily use, it may not be important to fill in a comment, but if a file is transitioned to a Released state it could be critical.

With the Vault Workgroup and above solutions, you can now predetermine comments for any change in Lifecycle on a Vaulted file. This is done in the Lifecyles configuration area of the Vault Administration options.

After being configured, there will always be the default Comment when changing lifecycles. The comment can also be manually edited…

Or an alternative can be selected from a drop down list:

Contributed by Ben of the CAD Geeks

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