Naming Standards and Settings

The Settings tab of the Title Update window controls how your clash titles are written: the naming standard, the language, where the text goes, and which clashes are included. This article walks through every option.

Choosing a naming standard

Under Select Naming Standard:, the Naming Format dropdown offers six built-in standards, plus any custom formats you have created (they appear between AI Preferred and Mixed, which is always last). A live Preview panel shows each one — use the Show Example / Show Structure toggle to switch between a real-world example and the underlying template.

Standard	What it produces	Example
Basic	Simple format showing the names of the clashing elements	`Wall-101 vs. Column-A2`
Detailed Descriptive	Comprehensive format including element types, categories, and their locations	`Wall-101 (Basic Wall) at Level 1 clashing with Column-A2 (Structural Column) at Level 1`
Component ID Information	Focuses on element types and their unique identifiers	`Basic Wall (W-101) clashing with Structural Column (C-A2)`
By Discipline	Organizes clashes by the disciplines of the involved elements	`Wall-101 (Architectural) clash with Column-A2 (Structural)`
AI Preferred	Lets the AI decide the most relevant information for each clash	Varies per clash
Mixed	The AI alternates between the formats you include, choosing the best fit per clash	Varies per clash

Which should you pick?

Basic — quick reviews and simple coordination.
Detailed Descriptive — formal documentation and comprehensive reports.
Component ID Information — tracking specific elements across revisions.
By Discipline — coordination meetings and discipline-based workflows.
AI Preferred or Mixed — when you would rather let the AI judge what matters for each clash.
A custom format — when your project mandates its own convention (see below).

Agree on one standard with your team so titles stay consistent across models and publishes.

Custom naming formats

Click Manage formats… next to the dropdown to open the Manage Naming Formats editor and build your own convention:

Give the format a Name (this is how it appears in the dropdown) and an optional description.
Write the Template using the token chips under Click to insert: — [Name1], [Name2], [Element1_Type/Category], [Element2_Type/Category], [Level1/ Layer1], [Level2/ Layer2], [Element1_ID], [Element2_ID], [Discipline1], and [Discipline2] — or describe your convention in plain words and let the AI follow it.
A live Preview updates as you type. When a Navisworks document with clash results is open, the preview uses a real clash from your model; otherwise it shows sample values.
Save format adds it to the dropdown; Delete removes it (with a confirmation — deleting cannot be undone). Unsaved edits are guarded with a discard prompt.

Token templates are applied exactly as typed — no AI, no translation. A template that uses tokens is filled in deterministically for every individual clash, so the result always matches your convention character for character (this applies in every mode). Freeform text templates without tokens, and clash groups, are still worded by the AI.

Configuring Mixed

With Mixed selected, a Mixed… button appears next to the dropdown. It opens Configure Mixed — a checklist of every other standard (built-in and custom). Tick the formats Mixed may alternate between; nothing selected means all formats are included.

Scope: which clashes get processed

New Clashes Only (Default) — only clashes with the New status are processed. Untick it to include clashes in other statuses too.
Review titles before applying — on by default. Generated titles are staged in the Review Clash Titles window for you to check, edit, or reject before anything is written; untick it and the run applies automatically when generation finishes (see the Running and Reviewing article).
Apply To: — choose what gets renamed:
- Individual clashes only (default)
- Individual clashes and group titles — also renames clash groups
- Group titles only — renames groups and skips the individual clashes inside them
Include Previously Updated Clashes — by default, clashes you have already named with ClashWise are skipped on later runs (they appear in the review grid marked "previously updated"). Tick this to re-process them, for example after changing your naming standard or language.

Output: where the text is written

Under Update Option:, choose one:

Title (default) — replaces the clash result's display name. This is what most teams want.
Description — writes the generated text into the clash's description field and leaves the title unchanged. Clash groups have no description field, so group rows are skipped under this option.
Comments — adds the generated text as a comment on the clash (or clash group), leaving both title and description unchanged.

Extras

Include Original Clash Title — keeps the original name (for example Clash847) as a prefix, so you never lose the original reference.
Include Clash Test Name — prefixes each title with the name of its clash test.

With both enabled, a title looks like: Clash847 [Test name]: {AI title}.

Language

The Language dropdown defaults to Current Culture (your Navisworks display language) and offers 11 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional. Titles, descriptions, or comments are generated in the language you pick — regardless of the language of the plugin's own interface, which always follows Navisworks automatically.

One exception: custom formats built from tokens are applied exactly as typed and are never translated — write the template in the language you want the titles in.

AI Model

The AI Model panel shows which local AI model will do the naming (or No model selected if none is active). Click Manage models... to open the AI Models window, where you can download, activate, test, or delete models — see the Local AI Models article.

Below it, Fall back to Cloud AI when local generation fails is an opt-in safety net: with it ticked, a clash whose local generation fails is retried once through the ClashWise cloud service. It requires a full ClashWise subscription, and it is the one case in which a clash's element data is sent to the cloud during naming — leave it unticked to keep naming strictly on your machine.

Tips

Your settings are remembered between sessions, so you only need to configure them once per preference.
If titles come out in the wrong language, check the Language dropdown before anything else.
Larger AI models generally produce more polished phrasing but run slower — see the Local AI Models article for the speed/accuracy trade-off.