ProjectWise Navigator is a visual collaboration tool used for immersive project review and analysis to support design and construction management processes and to manage assets in real time.
A key benefit of using ProjectWise Navigator is that it enables teams to enrich assembled content to meet evolving business and project requirements.
An Iterative Process
Design development is iterative; requiring continuous and progressive content enrichment from a range of project participants. The challenge is to enrich original design content, to maximize the knowledge shared without losing that knowledge during the next cycle or iteration. Key reasons for enriching the design iteratively include an ability to:
- Capture and retain all design history
- Consistently enrich the quality and usefulness of the content
- Communicate ideas and comments to the broader team
Desktop Richness
On the desktop, ProjectWise Navigator enables teams to enrich project content by adding comments and additional information inside the native file format for full design collaboration and round-trip editing.
Now data in the original file format can be enriched by adding materials, PDF references, lights, and simple cell geometry when allowed and controlled by digital rights management.
Alternatively general comments and scribbles can be added to a special redline reference file to safeguard the integrity of the original file. The benefits of this versatile approach to enrichment include:
- Direct, native-data enrichment when relevant
- Controlled access through digital rights management
- Safe, separate reference file for general and communal comments
- Ability to add project links that associate documents to components
Managing Enrichment
In a managed environment, ProjectWise Navigator enriches redline files with comments, and controls document and project links for coordinated design information and package authoring.
Because ProjectWise Navigator integrates seamlessly with ProjectWise StartPoint and the ProjectWise Integration Server environment for managing reference and xref files, all separate redline files and their relationship to the master files are tracked and protected with the usual security and access controls. Further, all transactions with those files are recorded in the ProjectWise Audit trail to give a clear and valuable view of who did what and when.
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