Navisworks question

[Dave Buckley]

I have a scene/animation in Navisworks, i am going to be exporting the animation as a sequence of images as it is quite long and wouldn't want it to crash half way through. I also use 3ds max, normally when i render out an animation from 3ds max i give it to another guy who puts it through a render farm.

 

I was wondering if i can do the same with Navisworks??? It would be awesome if i could use a render farm with Navis, it would be even better if i could use the one we already have setup for 3ds max

[BrianKitts]

Navis is just an OpenGL onscreen render..... how long could it possibly take? You're going to have one second render times per frame..... is a farm really necessary?

 

but to answer your question directly, no I don't think you can farm it.

[Dave Buckley]

cheers brian

 

i believed this to be the case, and it isn't me trying to render it, it was a customer of ours who wanted to know, i just worded it the way he worded it to me.

 

i just kind of needed something to back up my answer but there is no info anywhere that says yes or no.

 

cheers

[BrianKitts]

I have to ammend my original comment.... it does do more than an OpenGL render, it's internal rendering component was giving us about a one minute frame time.... the unfortunate part is that navisworks isn't multithreaded and only processes on one of eight cores.