Review RVM to Navisworks NWD - Command Line Interface...

[QUOTE=ralph_ella;66825]Hi ccotton,

Your post is very much useful to us...
I have one thing to ask for you about converting rvm to nwd,
is there a command to set nwd to lower version? Let say for example .nwd 5 version.
And also, can it be done using command prompt like what you had post?

Your reply would be very much helpful to us...
Thank you!

Best regards,
Ralph_ella
What ccotton has posted can be used for PDMS(*.rvm) as well as PDS(*.dri) files. The conversion works as it should.

[QUOTE="ccotton"]From a batch file, or from Start - > Run... (I am assuming the install path to Navisworks - yours may be different)

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\NavisWorks Review 2009\ROAMER.EXE" -NWD c:\temp\NWDFile.nwd c:\temp\RVMFile1.rvm c:\temp\RVMFile2.rvm

Hello alinofeire,

I have read some articles from different sites and I think Autodesk does not support this kind of feature in Navis but I'm not that sure...
What I think might work for this is to use Navisworks Jetstream roamer.exe, 'coz it has lower version of nwd.
My navis version here is 2010. I automate the extraction of review data and rvm to nwd conversion through batch file.
Some pc in the office don't have navis review so they can't view the output. That is why I'm looking for a command.

By the way, I'm from Bohol - DASH. and you?

Ralph_ella

I think in 2010 version, the owner of navisworks is already Autodesk. This maybe the reason why they didn't include the option to save the model file into lower versions. They made some changes in the interface etc. If you still have the old roamer then maybe you will be able to achieve what you want.

Send my regards to mam mayen! :D

@ralph_ella bag-o diay ka dha? 3D?
regards ko nilang jinny, vina

yup! 3D... Last August pa!
Leave si Mam Mayen coz of German measles...
Xur! I will extend your regards to them...

Thanks for the reply alinofeire... I guess that would explain everything. But I'm still hoping that there might be a piece of code to convert rvm to lower nwd version.
Salamat...

Hoi marjon sab.an ta moderator oi.. taga bojol sd ko..ikick nya ta.. :D

@ralph_ella

Just try to do a search in the old Navisworks(not Autodesk) help for any command switches(this is the keyword) when using command line options.

HTH

Thanks again alinofeire...

I will give it a try... Can I ask you another thing?
We had this issue awhile ago. Our review data extraction here is already using scheduled task by Windows.
The issue is that we got unstable file size of the output file of the extraction which is .nwd for a certain project
eventhough the modelers did nothing before the extraction. This morning we did the extraction in each of our pc
and got different file size output too.

But on other projects, the scheduled task works well, I guess...
Do you have any idea about this? What I suspected is the ATTDUMP file, we use different
ATTDUMP, maybe because they don't have same size... As for now, I don't know PML... wanted to learn it.. Hopefully..

Thanks in advance!

BISU (formerly CVSCAFT) - School?

I did the same thing way back then haha.., using scheduled task when generating rvm file. Same setup as cotton posted on this forum but I haven't experienced this kind of problem during my times in .. But I remember there are elements in design that can affect the naviswork input file(rvm) like Dish with very small radius/height. This will become baloon-like elements in navis(not sure with the new version). Maybe you have elements that have zero dimensions or misplaced elements in very far locations. Can you try to merge all the database in that project and then try to generate again? Just do it locally, just for testing only. Or you can try exporting by area to figure out which part has a problem. It's hard for me to figure out what's the cause without visiting ... hahaha.. just kidding

[QUOTE=ralph_ella;66856]Thanks again alinofeire...

I will give it a try... Can I ask you another thing?
We had this issue awhile ago. Our review data extraction here is already using scheduled task by Windows.
The issue is that we got unstable file size of the output file of the extraction which is .nwd for a certain project
eventhough the modelers did nothing before the extraction. This morning we did the extraction in each of our pc
and got different file size output too.

But on other projects, the scheduled task works well, I guess...
Do you have any idea about this? What I suspected is the ATTDUMP file, we use different
ATTDUMP, maybe because they don't have same size... As for now, I don't know PML... wanted to learn it.. Hopefully..

Thanks in advance!

BISU (formerly CVSCAFT) - School?
Is this nica?

Abou PML, I'm sure romel,gadz,dhagz whatever you call him had made some slides about pml. I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for you to learn especially if you a background on programming(I guess you have). You have lots of resources there in.. about pml.