The Revit Element ID is on the Element tab and the property is ID. Remember that the Navisworks category is essentially the name of the property tab for the item, so if I need to double check the category and the property, I can just select one of the items I am going to export, and look at the tab name and the property name.įor the Navisworks GUID, that’s under Item, and the property is GUID. The defaults are Item / Name and Item / Type. I only need one ultimately to be able to match the updated data in my Excel with the original item in my Navisworks file.Ĭlicking the “Quick Properties Definition…” takes me to the Options page that lists out what properties the Selection Inspector refers to. In this case, I am going to export both so you can see how they get added. I can get the Revit Element ID which is a unique number that Revit uses to keep track of these things, or I can use the unique number that Navisworks assigns to each element, the GUID (Globally Unique IDentifier).

I have a couple options here to find something unique. And looking over this list it’s clear there is a lot of overlap in the data. That’s good information to have, but to be able to correctly export data and attach it to specific individual items, I need a piece of information that is unique to each element. By default, Navisworks lists out the Item Name and the Item Type. Opening the Selection Inspector shows me a preview list of the data I am going to export. You can right-click on a selected item in the Selection Tree and click “Selection Inspector…” or go to the Home tab and click the little button for it on the Select & Search panel. Now that we have our items selected (either from the Set we made or just because we have them selected) we are ready to move on to the next step selecting the data to export and exporting it.Ĭonfirming that you have the correct items selected in your Selection Tree, we need to now open up the Selection Inspector. The first article in this series got us through the potentially confusing steps of selecting items in our Navisworks file based on Revit criteria.

Export from revit to navisworks