Wise in Navisworks

Wise chat in Navisworks is a dockable AI assistant pane that answers questions about your published clash sets in plain language, updates clash statuses and assignments directly from chat, creates clash matrices conversationally, and drives Navisworks itself — selecting, isolating, and zooming to clashes on request.

Why use it

Instead of switching between Navisworks and the browser, you can manage published clashes without leaving your model: ask "what's outstanding on Level 2?", get the clashes back as interactive cards, set their status or contact with a click, and have Wise show any of them in the model instantly.

Who can use it

Where to find it

On the ClashWiseAI ribbon tab, in the Clash Management panel, click Chat (or press Alt+5). The button is a toggle — click it again to hide the pane. The pane (titled ClashWiseAI) docks on the right by default and can be resized or repositioned like any Navisworks pane.

How to start a conversation

  1. Click Chat on the ClashWiseAI ribbon tab (Alt+5).
  2. A welcome card appears — "Hi — I'm Wise" — with three tappable starters: What can you do?, Give me an overview of my clash sets, and How do clash matrices work?
  3. Optionally focus the conversation on one clash set. A picker card asks "Focus this conversation on a clash set? (optional)" and lists your published sets with their clash counts, matrix status, and analysis state. Pick a set, or choose No specific set — keep it general. Focusing a set also lists its first clashes as cards.
  4. Type your message in the composer. Enter sends; Ctrl+Enter starts a new line.
  5. Wise streams its reply live. While it works you'll see "Wise is thinking…", and any model or data operations appear as a checklist of progress rows.

Suggestion chips often appear above the composer — tap one to send it.

Clash cards — working with clashes in chat

When Wise returns clashes, each appears as an interactive card showing its viewpoint thumbnail, clash #number and title, the two elements involved, status and priority pills, and its location (level and grid).

Wise is also aware of which cards are currently on screen — you can say "assign these to mechanical" or "what do those have in common?" and Wise resolves "these" to the visible cards.

What Wise can do in your model

Wise can read your current selection and its properties, the active clash, model context (files, units, categories), and the state of Clash Detective tests. On request it can:

Each operation appears in the chat as a progress row with a check (done) or cross (failed), so you always see exactly what Wise did.

Creating a clash matrix in chat

Wise can walk you through creating a web clash matrix without leaving Navisworks:

  1. Ask Wise to create a matrix (or click Create one in this chat on a set that shows the amber No matrix chip in the set picker).
  2. A property-mapping card asks you to "Select which properties represent the class and discipline for each source." Review and Continue.
  3. A matrix configuration card lets you name the matrix, review the element classes, edit disciplines (including a bulk find-and-replace), then click Generate Matrix.
  4. A Matrix created card confirms with Open matrix and Copy link buttons, and a live progress card tracks the analysis run through to "Analysis complete".

Conversation history and context

Wise actions

Each message you send that does AI work counts as one Wise action against your plan's allowance. Editing cards, refreshing, and browsing history don't consume actions. When you've used 80% or more of your allowance, an amber chip appears in the pane showing how many actions you have left. See the "Wise Actions and AI Limits" article for allowances and what happens at the limit.

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