Extract text from NWF files
To convert your NWF file to another format, you need Navisworks Manage or other Cad software.
To convert other file formats to the "Project Review File Set" file type, you need software like Navisworks Manage or a similar tool.
If you are trying to convert a .NWF file you received via email, you are likely facing a major obstacle: the file is empty. In the Autodesk ecosystem, an .NWF (Navisworks File Set) acts exactly like a music playlist. It contains pointers (links) to the actual song files (geometry like DWG, RVT, or IFC) stored on the author's local network, but it does not contain the music itself. If you try to upload an orphan .NWF to an online converter, it will fail because it cannot access the referenced CAD files on your hard drive.
To share this data, the file must be "published" from Navisworks Manage into a NWD (Navisworks Document) file, which creates a snapshot containing all the geometry. For users dealing with Nintex workflows, the .NWF format is completely different: it is a standard XML text file used to export workflow logic between SharePoint environments. While you can view the code in any text editor, "converting" it usually implies importing it back into the Nintex designer.
Convert.Guru analyzes your NWF file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted NWD, NWC, FBX, 1, ZIP, RVT, IFC, DWF, DGN, RFA, DWG, XMCD and PDF files.
If you want to convert NWF file to NWD, DWG, DXF, DGN, RVT, RFA, SKP, 3DM, STEP, IGES, SAT or X_T, you can use Navisworks Manage or similar software from the "3D Model Indexer" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert SLDASM, DGN, PRT, IAM, X_B, CATPRODUCT, SLDPRT, RVT, ASM, DWG, CATPART or DXF files to NWF, try Navisworks Manage or another comparable tool in the "3D Model Indexer" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our NWF converter.