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Switching back to Revit

Switching back to Revit - Navisworks Tutorial

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Switching back to Revit

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- [Instructor] The Switchback tool is available for Revit and AutoCAD and a few other applications. What this does is allows us to select an item in Navisworks, right click and jump to that object in whatever software it was created in. Let's use Revit as an example. By activating the switchback function in Revit and having your model open you can navigate to that object in Navisworks then force Revit to zoom in on that object right in Revit. So what's cool about this is as we're designing our project, we can keep Navisworks open as a clash detection or some other use and we can keep designing in Revit. So to begin with, I'm going to actually open Revit up. Under models I'm going to go open. I'm going to select my mechanical model that I had in Revit. I'm going to click open. Now I'm going to go to Navisworks and I'm going to actually start a new project. So click new. Now click append. I'm going to append a local…

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