We often receive (only) Navisworks files, mainly in the tender stage. When trying to work with those files, it is very difficult to extract quantities. Certainly if we’d move to a Qonic-based workflow in general it is not interesting to have to rely on another tool for half of our projects …
For that reason it would be very interesting to be able import the NWD directly into Qonic. I realize there are big difficulties related to the structure of the model and the properties. Much like with IFC’s generated by Tekla for example, the NWD project structure is not really according to the IFC structure on which Qonic is based. But if we’d be able to import the geometry and properties then we can start restructuring the data.
Currently there are no real-life solutions to convert NWD to IFC. So that is not really an option. Only workaround that I have used so far is to export as FBX and then into Blender (+Bonsai add-on) to convert that FBX back to IFC. But in that process all properties are lost.