Convert Navisworks NWD to DWG, IFC, GLB and STEP Without Navisworks (Free, Online)

Convert Navisworks NWD files to DWG, IFC, GLB, STEP and more for free, right in your browser, with no Navisworks and nothing to install.

When you need to pass a Navisworks model to someone who does not have Navisworks, open the NWD on these pages and download the format they need. This tutorial opens a four-storey apartment building, a public domain Revit model as a Navisworks file. Tools, then Layers, shows the Revit categories the file kept (walls, doors, windows, furniture), and every export carries them. Download DWG writes the whole building as a 3D DWG in a few seconds, at real size, with each Revit category on its own layer and repeated parts (the same door or basin in every flat) written once as blocks; we open it in the free DWG viewer to check the geometry, colours and layers. A very large model can hold more triangles than a DWG of 3D faces takes; then the file holds a simplified copy and the viewer says so. Export, DWG floor plans, cuts every level 1.2 m above the floor and saves all four plans in one drawing, each level on its own layers. Export, IFC for Revit and BIM, writes one IFC product per Revit element, in storeys, with its Revit element ID and category; we check it in the free IFC viewer. Last, the other formats: STL for 3D printing, OBJ, GLB for the web, AR and Blender, FBX for 3ds Max, Unreal Engine and Twinmotion, STEP for SolidWorks and Fusion, SketchUp, Rhino and PDF floor plans, each also on its own converter page. It reads .nwd published models, .nwc caches and .nwf projects with their linked models. The file is read and converted in your browser and never uploaded.

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Intro

Here is how to convert a Navisworks NWD file to DWG, IFC, GLB and other formats, for free, in your web browser, without Navisworks.

Open the NWD converter

Go to innerscene.com/tools/nwd-to-dwg. There is no account and nothing to install, and the file is read and converted right here in your browser.

Open a Navisworks file

Click Open a Navisworks File, or drop the file on the page. NWD models, NWC caches and NWF projects all open. This is a four-storey apartment building, a public domain Revit model from NIST, as a Navisworks file.

Revit categories as layers

Tools, then Layers, lists the Revit categories the Navisworks file kept: walls, doors, windows, furniture and the rest. Every export carries these names along.

Convert the model to DWG

To convert it, click Download DWG. In a few seconds the whole building is a 3D DWG, at real size, with each Revit category on its own layer. A door or a basin that repeats in every flat is written once, as a block. A very large model can hold more triangles than a DWG of 3D faces takes. Then the file holds a simplified copy, and the viewer says so.

Check the DWG

Open it in our free DWG viewer, at innerscene.com/tools/dwg-viewer, and the building is all there, in its own colours. Tools, then Layers: Walls, Doors, Windows and the other categories, ready to freeze or switch off in AutoCAD.

Floor plans as DWG

Back on the converter, Export, then DWG floor plans, cuts every level 1.2 metres above the floor, like a Revit plan view. The four plans arrive in one drawing, side by side, each level on its own layers, with the walls the cut crosses kept apart.

IFC for BIM tools

For consultants on other BIM tools, Export, IFC for Revit and BIM. Here it is in our free IFC viewer, at innerscene.com/tools/ifc-viewer. Tools, then Storeys, lists the four levels. Click a wall: it is an IFC wall on Level 1, with its Revit element ID and category. Archicad, Solibri, Tekla and Revit open the file too.

GLB, FBX, STEP and more

Export also has STL for 3D printing, OBJ, GLB for the web, AR and Blender, and FBX for 3ds Max, Unreal Engine and Twinmotion. STEP goes to SolidWorks and Fusion, and SketchUp, Rhino and PDF floor plans are there too. Each format also has its own page, like NWD to GLB, with one Download button.

Apps for Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

There are free apps too. On Windows, a small helper lets you double-click a Navisworks file in File Explorer to open it in this viewer. There is a Mac version, an app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store, and one for Android phones and tablets on Google Play.

Summary

Those are the free Navisworks converters at innerscene.com. Links to every format are in the description.

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