Running and Reviewing

Once you have selected your clash tests and configured your settings, you are ready to run Enhance. This article covers starting a run, monitoring progress, reviewing the results in Clash Detective, and undoing a run.

Starting the run

On the Clash Tests tab, make sure the tests you want are ticked.
Click Start in the bottom-right of the window.

The Enhance window with clash tests selected and the Start button highlighted

Two checks can stop you here:

"Required Property Mappings Missing" — one or more models still have unmapped property fields. Click OK to jump to the Property Mapping Configuration tab and complete them.
"Document Not Saved" — your Navisworks file has never been saved. Save it and try again.

The progress window

When the run starts, the Enhance window closes and a compact progress window opens. It shows:

The name of the clash test currently being processed and a progress bar.
A summary of your choices, including Selected Naming: (your naming standard) and AI Mode (the local AI model doing the work), plus rows reflecting your scope options — for example Updating New Clashes Only or Update Group Titles.
A Send email notification checkbox — tick it to receive an email when the run completes.

Processing phases

Gathering clash data... — ClashWise reads the clash results and element properties from your document.
Property Mapping Validation — a quick sample check. If properties needed by your chosen naming standard are missing from the data, a warning asks whether to continue: Yes proceeds anyway (titles may be less complete), No cancels so you can fix the mappings first.
Updating Clash Titles X/Y — the main loop, counting through each clash. If you chose descriptions or comments as the output, the label says so instead.

Large clash tests take time — the counter keeps you informed, and you can leave Navisworks working in the background.

Stopping a run

Click Stop at any time. The button changes to Stopping..., the run halts at the next clash, and the message "Processing cancelled by user" appears with a Close button.

Work already completed is kept — clashes processed before you stopped retain their new titles. You can undo them (see below) or simply run Enhance again later; already-updated clashes are skipped by default.

Reviewing the results

Enhance writes directly into your Navisworks clash results, so you review them where you always work:

Open Clash Detective in Navisworks.
Select the clash tests you processed.
Check the new titles (or descriptions/comments, depending on your output choice).

Renamed groups follow the format {N} Clashes - {title} — for example, 12 Clashes - Ducts crossing structural beams at Level 2.

If you are happy with the results, save your Navisworks file to keep them.

Undoing a run

The entire run — even a cancelled partial run — is applied as a single undo step in Navisworks:

Press Ctrl+Z once in Navisworks to revert every title, description, or comment the run wrote.

There is no undo button inside the plugin; Navisworks' own undo is the mechanism. If you undo by mistake, use Navisworks' redo.

Trial allowance

Trial accounts have a monthly clash allowance for naming. The Enhance window footer shows a counter of how many clashes you have left this month, and a run that would exceed the allowance is blocked with a message telling you how many remain. Paid subscriptions have no naming allowance — local naming is unlimited.

Tips

Run a small test first, review it in Clash Detective, then process the big tests with confidence.
Tick Send email notification for long runs so you can switch to other work.
Remember that publishing a clash set to the ClashWise web app captures the titles as they are — name your clashes before you publish for the most readable web experience.