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title: "Overview of NavVis IVION Documentation"
slug: "overview-of-documentation"
description: "Describes how to setup, administer, and use all the functions and features of NavVis IVION. It also provides instructions on using the NavVis IVION Add-In for Revit."
tags: ["Overview"]
updated: 2025-03-06T14:08:33Z
published: 2025-03-06T14:08:33Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://knowledge.navvis.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview of Documentation

This documentation describes how to setup, administer, and use all the functions and features of NavVis IVION. It also provides instructions on using the NavVis IVION Add-In for Revit.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** If you have any feedback or comments on the NavVis IVION Documentation, please send it to [documentation@navvis.com](/docs/documentation@navvis.com)

## [NavVis IVION Setup Documentation](/v1/docs/setup)

The Setup documentation provides step-by-step instructions on the following topics:

- Setting up and activating a cloud instance.
- Adding Sites to the instance.
- Processing data.
- Uploading and adding data to a site.
- Aligning Datasets.
- Creating a Site Model.
- Creating an Alignment Bundle.
- Adding maps and navigation graphs.
- Setting up NavVis Positioning (Enterprise Only).
- Quality checking your instance.

## [NavVis IVION Administration Documentation](/v1/docs/admin)

The Administration documentation provides step-by-step instructions on the following topics:

- Understanding and using administration roles.
- Instance administration:
  - Configuring the instance.
  - Managing users and user groups.
  - Setting up external User authentication (Enterprise Only).
  - Using POI audit tracking (Enterprise Only).
- Site administration:
  - Configuring a site.
  - Importing and exporting POIs.

## [Using NavVis IVION Documentation](/v1/docs/using-ivion)

The user documentation provides step-by-step instructions on using all the functions and features:

- Exploring the instance dashboard (available with more than one site).
- Exploring a site.
- Taking measurements.
- Cropping and downloading Point clouds.
- Creating and managing points of interest (POIs).
- Searching an instance or a site.
- Sharing URLs for POIs, locations, and Site Model entities.

## [NavVis IVION Add-In for Revit Documentation](/v1/docs/add-in-for-revit)

The NavVis IVION Add-In for Revit Documentation provides step-by- step instructions on the following topics:

- Installing the add-in.
- Connecting to NavVis IVION.
- Creating and saving a transformation.
- Finding a location in NavVis IVION.
- Taking measurements in NavVis IVION.

Site refers to a complex of one or more buildings displayed in a NavVis IVION instance. For example, the Munich Airport would be one site. An instance can contain multiple sites. Each site consists of one or more datasets.

A dataset is a piece of a site, the result of a continuous recording with a NavVis mapping device or the result of an imported point cloud. Datasets can contain panoramic images and point clouds.

A site model is a three-dimensional model which clusters information by assigning meaningful names to clearly defined areas in the space of a site. With a site model, you can define and name the buildings, floors, rooms, or even more fine-grained spaces, of a site in NavVis IVION. Among other things, this information is used to create the floor changer and enrich POI search.

Bundles, specifically referred to as Alignment Bundles in NavVis IVION, are collections of related datasets that have been grouped together after being aligned. The primary purpose of creating an alignment bundle is to save the relative locations of these datasets to each other, enabling coordinated management and use within the system

Instance key module that enables adding users with adjustable permissions, as well as using an Active Directory (LDAP) server, OpenID Connect, or pre-authentication.

Point Of Interest

A three-dimensional representation of an environment, made up of many points. A point is defined by x, y and z coordinates, and it may or may not contain RGB, an intensity value, and normals.