BIMPulse Documentation
Guides for installing, licensing, and using BIMPulse in Navisworks. New here? Start with Getting Started.
Getting Started
System Requirements
What your computer needs to run BIMPulse in Navisworks Manage 2025–2027, and what you need to sign in and use the tools.
Installing BIMPulse
Download the BIMPulse installer, add it to Navisworks Manage 2025–2027, and keep it up to date. Covers requirements, updates, and uninstalling.
First-Time Setup
Sign in to BIMPulse in Navisworks, pick your organization, and get the tools ready. Covers settings, staying signed in, and signing out.
Account & Licensing
Creating Your Account
Create a free BIMPulse account, verify your email, and start your 30-day trial. No credit card needed.
Named vs. Floating Licenses
How Named and Floating BIMPulse licenses work, when a license is in use, and how to pick the right mix for your team.
Managing Your Team's Seats
Invite teammates, assign Named licenses, change roles, and add or remove seats from your BIMPulse dashboard.
Feature Guides
Pulse Check Clash Review
Review clash results in Pulse Check: update and compact tests, change status, save viewpoints, and control dimming, highlighting, and zoom.
Clash Grouping & Renaming
Group Navisworks clashes by level, grid, proximity, and more, auto-group after test updates, and rename clashes with a naming template.
Clash Sectioning
Section the Navisworks view around each clash, set side and slab buffers, and adjust the section box with on-screen handles.
Custom Hotkeys
Change Pulse Check keyboard shortcuts, see the defaults, fix conflicts, and learn where custom hotkeys work in Navisworks.
Clash Test Generator
Build every Navisworks clash test from one matrix, update existing tests without losing results, and import tests from a Clash Detective XML.
Viewpoint Generator
Detect floor slabs and save a sectioned, framed Navisworks viewpoint for every level, slab to slab, with a preview of each cut first.
Troubleshooting
Installation Issues
Fix BIMPulse installer problems: administrator rights, setup messages, "Setup failed" errors, stuck updates, and doing a clean reinstall.
BIMPulse Not Showing in Navisworks
What to check when the BIMPulse tab is missing from the Navisworks ribbon or its tool buttons stay greyed out.
License & Activation Problems
What each BIMPulse license status message means and how to fix sign-in, seat, subscription, and connection problems in Navisworks.
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