Naviate Environment October release news 2025 | Symetri Technology Help Center

This is the first release of Naviate Environment.

Model Elements

Walls

Approximate Wall Path: Quickly turn any wall into a sequence of a few straight walls. You can predefine the spacing and rotation of these wall segments
Arrange Walls: Automatically create stepped walls that follow the slope of a surface by dividing a wall into segments that match the elevation of a reference surface.
Edit Wall in Place: Freeform editing of the top or bottom face of walls.
Stretch Walls: Change the top or base offset of multiple walls at once.

Slabs

Complete Slab: Create a new slab (Floor or Roof) from an opening or hole in an existing slab. The hole can be created any way you choose; outlined by slab boundary, using an Opening element or cut with a Void element.
Curb Ramp: Create a curb ramp leading from one Revit slab to an adjoining slab, using a set of pre-defined parameters, to connect the street with the sidewalk.
Match Slope: Slope a Floor or a Roof according to a designated, parallel slab slope. For example, use this tool to slope a floor by a linked slab.
Shape by Typography: Draping slab’s sub-elements in alignment with a selected topography.
Terracing Slope: Create terraces that follow the slope of the selected surfaces.

Railings

Wall Railing: Automatically place railing hosted on a wall or chain of walls.
Select Railing: Automatically select all railings on a host.
Flip Railing: Flip multiple railings at a time. For example, when you need to switch the side of a handrail.
Paste Curb: Use a railing element to create a curb by picking the edge of a floor, roof, or topography.

Model Lines

Control Line Elevation

Check Elevation: Place smart annotations on Model Lines to show their relative height. Use these annotations to modify the line’s elevation.
Set Elevation of Model Line: Define and manipulate the elevation of these Model Lines, and later turn them into topography surfaces (Toposurface or Toposolid) using the Add Line feature. You can set the line’s elevation one by one, or by crossing over multiple lines.
Snap Work Plane: Create a Work Plane at a selected elevation by picking a reference point in the model, and draw model lines at the elevation of this Work Plane. Allows an easy and convenient workflow for grading, since you can then use these model lines to create a Topography surface.

Slab Contours

Create Slab Contours: Define the line style of the contours and the vertical distance (elevation difference) between these lines.
Delete Slab Contours: Using this command deletes all "check elevation" text labels.
Extract Surface Countours: Convert toposurfaces to independent model lines.
Update Slab Contours: Update the appearance, vertical distance and the elevation base of existing contour lines.

Line Drawing

Convert Spline: Turn a spline into a chain of lines and arcs.
Split Spline: Divide a spline into two segments.

Terrain and Site Components

Topography

Alignment Tools: Design roads and pathways using the Alignment Category in Revit. An alignment is a native Revit category, originally designed for collaboration with infrastructure projects and Civil disciplines. It is a 3D line that represents the center of a certain road. Using the Alignment tool, you can define the elevations and slopes of each part of the Alignment as well as add a Cross-Section to control the roads width and overall shape. Once your alignment is done, a reference surface is embedded in it, so you can extract a topography that follows your road design.

Create Excavation: Automatically create an excavation topography under selected elements in your model.
Extract Typography: Generate a topography surface based on an existing Alignment element in your Revit model.
Floor to Toposolid: Create a Toposolid from any Floor in your project.
Match Reference Surface: Easily shape your Topography slope using elevation points from another Topography or Alignment. The points can be outside or inside the new Toposolid boundary.
Modify Typography: Smoothly reshape and sculpt any existing topography (i.e., Toposolid or Toposurface) in your model, with the “modify Topography’ collection of tools. Using these tools, you can control the surface as if it was a mesh, inflate or deflate it, or simply smooth the surface or selected areas on it.
Scan to Model: Automatically create an editable topography (Toposurface or Toposolid) from a selected Point Cloud file and use it as reference to place levels.
Typography Tools: The Topography Tools command allows you to create and edit Toposolid and Toposurface using a wide range of features, such as: Place Point, From Edge, From Line and more. Using the Topography Tools to edit or create a topography you can switch between one tool to another while designing your surface to get the desired result. You can change the surface’s category from Toposolid to Toposurface and back.

Site Analysis

Elevation Analysis: Create a color representation of the selected Toposurface’s elevations according to the preset coloring rules for every topography elevation range. You can use the Material Takeoff tool to calculate the area of each range.
Slope Analysis: Create a color representation of the selected Toposurface’s slops according to the preset coloring rules for every topography slope range. You can use the Material Takeoff tool to calculate the area of each range.

Site Elements

Align to Surface: Align elements with multiple surfaces without assigning a Host to elements.
Area Scatter: Place multiple elements in a selected area according to a set of predefined rules. The selected area can be any modeled or linked surface like Floors, Roofs, Toposurfaces, or Subregions, or an abstract area such as Areas, Rooms, Zones, or Spaces.
Line Scatter: Place multiple objects along a line or a chain of lines with multiple positioning options.
Planting Family: Manage all Planting Families in your project from a single interface, or easily create new Planting Families from scratch. Create beautiful 2D and 3D representations of plants with our default geometry library or import your own geometry through the interface. Review and edit multiple types’ parameters manually or in bulk by importing an external database.
Rockery Element: Automatically create rocks of different sizes (or any other site element) and place them on a host or selected level.
Rotate Elements: Rotate selected elements in the model using a fixed or random angle.

Earthwork Calculation

Calculate Earthwork: This feature comes in the form of a Toposolid instance parameter that allows you to accurately calculate your project’s earthwork volume (also known as Net Cut/Fill). You can then you can reliably generate estimations for all your earthwork data.

Geo-Location

Coordinate System

Set Coordinate: Easily Geo-locate or fix coordinates in your project by specifying the preferred coordinate system.

Interoperability

External Site Data

Export to LandXML: Collaborate with your team and export topographies and slab surfaces to Civil 3D using LandXML file format.

External Civil Data: Insert and manage information models created by a road engineer in Civil 3D or other programs and exported to a LandXML format.

Get Blocks: Use blocks from a CAD link to place family instances in the correct location and elevation for your project.
Import List: Import data from an Excel spreadsheet to create topography or to place Revit family instances at specified coordinates and automatically populate the instance parameters of the placed elements based on the data in the spreadsheet. Ideal for workflows involving GIS data, survey points, or external design tools where element placement and parameter data is managed outside Revit.
Rhino Assets: Bring elements from a Rhino file into Revit and turn them into native Revit elements.

Representation

Datumn

Range Legend: Create a color legend for the topography analysis tool to represent the analysis result.

Range Legend Settings: Define the graphics settings of a Range Legend.

Wall Grid: Automatically create grid heads that are correctly placed on wall edges, and perpendicular to the wall. You can then create a Wall Layout elevation to represent the wall’s accurate dimensions.

Detail Analogue

Family Thumbnail: Create thumbnails for the families in your model and add them as images parameter in the Family Type. You can then add this parameter to your schedules to present them as legends.

Object Outline: Automatically create material-matched filled regions to cover pattern deformation on sloped surfaces.

Property Line Projection: Creates a detail line to represent Property Lines on a section plan or an elevation view that intersects the property line. All Property Lines that exist on the view will be detected automatically.

Typography Profile: Create a 2D representation of a surface profile in a section or elevation view. The Typography Profile command automatically creates a detail line or a spline that follows the cut topography.

Update Object Outline: Update all the filled regions of the view or of the entire project

Update Wall Layout: Update an Elevation View previously created using the Wall Layout tool.

Wall Layout: Create wall layout elevation to represent the true dimensions of the wall.

Tree and Plants Representation

Assembly Content Settings: Add and set the preferences for the Assembly Content Parameter (a parameter automatically created for assemblies made by Environment) and the content for the the assembly tag.

Planting Region: Automatically create Filled Regions to cover and represent Planting elements or Planting Assemblies on any Floor Plan View in your project.

Tree Connection Line: Connect individual Planting family items using a detail line to improve tagging and presentation of planting plans.

Ramp Arrow

Ramp Arrow: Create a run arrow on the ramp and control its appearance and location.

Ramp Arrow Settings: Define the graphics settings of a Ramp Arrow.

Workspace

Measurement

Free Measure: In 3D view, measure the distance between two points in space. Freely snap and measure the distance between two or more points located in 3D space.

Path Lenght: Measure the length of a path or projection of lines. This tool is especially useful in cases where you have a few lines above other lines, and you need to know the path length instead of the sum of the length of these lines.

Total Length: Measure the length of one or more model lines. This tool is useful when you use 2D drawings as a quick sketch in the design process and need to know the sum totals of path distances.

Control

Global View Range: Set the view range to multiple views or view templates throughout the project simultaneously.

Number Array: Automatically number different elements in your model.

Select Similar: Use this tool to select all elements of the same family and type of your current selection.