Profox Companies Ltd. is a dynamic software company established in 1991 that specializes in providing Navisworks centric products and services to industrial plant design, civil and AEC organisations.
Profox Companies is an authorised and consulting sertified Autodesk partner offering Autodesk Plant, AEC and Manufacturing Solutions
Products: Navistools Standard, Navistools Pointcloud, Navistools Publisher Navisworks Simulate, Navisworks Manage Navisworks & Navistools training & consultancy services Professional Navisworks Project services; Model coordination service, clash detection service, 4D Simulation service, laser-scan data management service, presentation images nad animations service, multi platform data capture service
Navistools -Turn your Navisworks model into a visual project portal
What is Navistools - A solution that is based on Autodesk Navisworks, turning Your Navisworks model into a project portal. Navistools
provides a visual portal to Navisworks allowing you to easily link,
access and manage complete project data and documentation from a
Navisworks model which can then be handed over or shared between project
stakeholders throughout the design, construction, management and
lifecycle phases. By using powerfull embed function Navistools allows users to use their free Navisworks Freedom and still have the access for all the project data. This makes the Navisworks usage much more efficient for anyone needing to have the access to project data. Read more
Professional Navisworks based project services are now available from Profox
One of the most crucial and critical part of the right perfomed BIM project is to build up a systematic work process that includes continuous Quality Control / Quality Assurance, ability to efficiently collaborate using models and ability to benefit the models during on-site work and during maintenance.
Many of our customers suffer lack of resources and time and also lack of skilled personnel that knows how to use modern work processes and tools in their BIM projects.
That is why Profox now offers highly skilled professional services in getting the best out of using Navisworks in your BIM-project.
Our customers have been extremely satisfied using our services for example when their projects have been in hectic phase.
By using for example clash detection services in critical phase of a project they have been able to achieve huge savings in money & time.
After hectic project phases we then also train our customers personnel to perform same task themselves and take over the whole coordination work for themselves.
We have over 14 years of experience in improving Navisworks based workprocesses in investment projects.
Our services:
• Project model coordination services; Preparing aggregated model with search sets , views etc to be used for project co-ordination.
• Clash Detection services; QA/QC for your project model. This small consultation can save lots of time, effort and money.
• 4D Simulation services, complete 4D simulation for your project model using project scheduling information.
• Laser-scan data management services, Collecting point-cloud data / design models as one nwd model to be directly used as data in a project.
• Presentation images and animations services, Creating images and/or animations based on coordination model
• Multi platform Data capture, Field BIM andon-site data capture for O&M data recording and distribution.
• Training & consultancy services We also provide training services to get the personnel running all phases themselves
-Before running Navistools 2015 you need to have either Navisworks Manage 2015 or Simulate 2015 installed
-You need to have valid subscription agreement in order to get the final license file, otherwise only 30 days trial can be run.
-Save the .zip file to a selected folder and follow installation instructions:
SLM license: see install.doc
NLM license: see /Server/ Install Flexnet server.doc -For users of old version: New version always requires new .lic file that will be requested according to the instructions.
Navistools Pointcloud - Improved working process in renovation type projects:
Comparing pointcloud data against design model with Navistools Pointcloud on Naviswork platform
Navistools Pointcloud is a software that allows user to effectively view and manage pointcloud data in Naviswork environment.
Traditionally engineers have used pointcloud data by trying to take
the data inside their CAD-systems to be used as input data for
modeling work.
Navisworks platform with Navistools Pointcloud now allows user to
compare design data against pointcloud data and manage the whole project
data at the same time.
User does not need to take pointcloud data into their CAD-systems,
only the basic locations and some sections are needed. Based on that
information they then just start modeling and comparing in real-time in
Naviswork platform. Benefits & savings: -Greatly reduces need for modeling work -Absolute accurate data can be used directly as input data (pointclouds always represents as-is information) -Saves time as after processing laser scan it can be used directly as input data.
Development company Codemill is currently finalising the latest release of the new upcoming Navistools Field application. This new upcoming Navistools Field can be used both in online and offline mode on mobile devices.
Off-line mode is important feature that is needed during on-site or maintenance work when wireless access is not available.
Introducing Navistools Field:
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This is the first article of technology behind Navistools
Navistools concept to get connected with different
kind of applications and devices is to use REST web service. An idea of
the REST web service is that it can be used in different server
environments like PHP and IIS without need to make changes at the client
end. MySQL sample database is using PHP based RESTful web service with
Slim framework.
Representational
state transfer (REST) is a software system for distributing the data to
different kind of applications. The web service system produces status
code response in JSON or XML.
Assuming that the customer already has PHP/MySQL based web server, then they only need to create an empty database, install free Slim framework and copy provided server site scripts to the web service to start using Navistools with mobile device support.
Connecting to the web (cloud) based database
There is a sample MySQL database running in Navistools Web Service. Connection details are described below. Password is c0d3m1ll
MySQL database connection requires that Navistools workstation has the MySQL Connector Net installed.
Upcoming Navistools
version includes Cloud menu which contains cloud related functions. One
of the functions is for exporting model item images of each node to the
web service. This is highly automated task and images can be exported
all at once or selective.
iPhone screenshot
Images are always loaded in the background thread so loading them will never disturb database access.
Uploading photos and other images from the IOS device
User can take photos and select images from the
IOS device photo library and attach them to the link columns. When
image is attached it will upload to the web service and related function
is updating the database in a real-time.
IOS device client
iNavistools is an
universal IOS application. It runs on IOS 6.0 operation system and
supports iPad, iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices. It supports both
portrait and landscape orientations and retina display. It is coded
with Apples Objective-C and Cocoa Touch.
The client is
using HTTP GET and POST methods to communicate with RESTful web
service. All request and response objects are formatted to JSON
(JavaScript Object Notation) representation.
Settings (iPhone)
Screen sequence (iPhone)
Application
has real-time editing capabilities. All changes are updated instantly
to the web service and to the Navistools database.
Profox Companies Oy, tel +358 207 416620 sales@profox.com; Copyright 2014 Wärtsilänkatu 61, 04440 Järvenpää Profox Companies Ltd,
