Python scripting and a folder-driven ribbon for Autodesk Navisworks Manage.

Drop a folder with a script.py and an icon into an extension, press Reload, and it is a ribbon button. No compiling, no restart, no plugin boilerplate. If you have used pyRevit, the layout will feel familiar.

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Windows 10 or 11, Navisworks Manage. Apache-2.0 licence.

A ribbon built from folders

Pushbuttons, stacks, pulldowns, toggles, split buttons and slideouts are folder names. Rename a folder and the button renames. Prefix it 03_ and it reorders.

Two Python engines, live reload

IronPython 3.4 ships in the box. Set engine: cpython to run on your installed CPython when you need numpy or pandas. Edit a script, click the button again.

Dock panels, hooks, shortcuts

A pane.xaml becomes a native dockable window. Fourteen Navisworks events run scripts with no click. Every button can carry a keyboard chord and a context rule.

MyTools.extension
└─ MyTools.tab
   └─ Clash.panel
      ├─ 01_Group_by_level.pushbutton
      │  ├─ script.py
      │  ├─ icon.png
      │  └─ bundle.yaml
      └─ 02_Export_report.pushbutton
         ├─ script.py
         └─ icon.png

from pynavis import forms, selection, sets, toast

items = selection.get_items()
if not items:
    toast.warning('Select something first')
else:
    name = forms.ask_string('Selection set name')
    if name:
        sets.create(name, items, folder='Levels')
        toast.success('Saved %d items to %s' % (len(items), name))

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