Sectioning measurements

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DEEPAK MAINI: Hi, guys.

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Welcome to the third objective of this course.

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In this objective, we are going to learn

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how to use the BIN 360 mobile app to section the models

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and perform measurements.

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Now when it comes to sectioning the model, on the mobile app,

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you can section the model using the three planes or the section

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box.

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All these options are available when

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you tap on the section button on the lower left.

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Now when it comes to performing measurements,

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if you're using the 3D models or rivet sheets,

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you can perform measurements directly.

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But if you're performing measurements on PDF sheets,

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you need to first pick two points to calibrate the sheet,

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and define a collaboration distance.

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Let's not jump straight onto the BIM 360 mobile app,

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and have a look at these features.

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All right, guys, as you can see, I've

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got the architectural model opened

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in my BIM 360 mobile app.

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Now to section the models, I'm going

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to tap on the section button on the lower left.

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And now I can see these options where

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I can section the model using the section box

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or using the section planes.

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Let's first use the section planes method.

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For that, I'm first going to tap on this z direction plane.

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As soon as I do that, I can now see this straight arrow here

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that lets me move the section plane up and down.

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Or I can see the blue and red curved edges.

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These edges would let me rotate my section plane.

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So let me now tap on the straight arrow

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to move the section plane up and down.

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As you can see, I'm tapping this arrow

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and moving the plane up and down.

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If I now drag the blue curved edge, I can rotate the plane.

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And now when I move this straight arrow,

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you'll see the section plane will now

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be dragged in that direction.

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Similarly, if I use the blue curved edge again,

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I can straighten the section plane,

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and I could do the same thing with the red curved edge

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as well.

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If I now tap on the second button on the lower left,

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it turns off the sectioning.

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And then tap on it again to change the section method.

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Now let's have a look at the section

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method using section box.

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I'll tap on the section box option.

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Now let me zoom out a bit.

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I can see the section box.

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The section box has got a triad on the top right.

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This triad can be used to move the section box

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in one of the three directions.

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So xyz directions, which are color coded as red,

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green, blue, RGV.

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So xyz, rgb.

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I can also tap on the origin of this triad

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to move the section box in all the directions.

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So if I do that now, as you can see,

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I'm moving the section box in all the directions.

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Now if I need to change the size of the section box,

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I can tap on any of the faces.

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And there would be an arrow displayed

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on that face similar to the arrow displayed here.

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Let me tap on this face.

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And now, I can reduce the size of this section box

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in this direction.

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And if I do the same thing here--

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let's reduce the size of the section box.

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And if I need to move the section

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box in any of these directions, let's say x direction,

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I can tap on this red arrow, and I can drag it.

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Similarly, if I need to move it in z direction,

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I can tap on the blue arrow and then I can drag it.

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It's a pretty nice intuitive tools to section the models.

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If I tap anywhere outside, as you could see the section box

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disappears.

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Now to turn off the sectioning, I'll tap on the section tool

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on the bottom left one more time.

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Let's not talk about measurements.

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To perform measurements, I'm going

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to tap on the measure tool.

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It now takes me to the measurement environment.

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And as you can see, the distance option is turned on by default.

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Now before I start performing distance measurement,

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I'm going to tap on the settings option on the top right,

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and I'm going to make sure that my units are set correctly.

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In this case, I want my units to be feet and fractions inches.

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I want the precision to be one.

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I'll tap on this arrow to hide the settings panel.

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Let's zoom into this area here.

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Now a really cool feature of performing measurements

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on the BIM 360 mobile app, is I want to snap onto this corner

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point, I can press and tap down my finger close

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to that corner point.

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And as you can see, it shows me this zoomed in area.

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I can now make sure that I'm snapping onto that corner point

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by just moving my finger.

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So as soon as I let go, it snaps onto that corner point.

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Now I need to snap onto this corner point here.

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I'll do the same thing.

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I'll tap my finger down, and now I can move it to snap

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onto that corner point.

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And as soon as I let go, it's telling me that the distances 7

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feet, 4 inches.

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Now again, the other really cool feature

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of measurements using this BIM 360 mobile app

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is that if I'm performing next measurement,

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it will not hide this measurement.

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So it leaves it on the screen, which

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means that I can perform additional measurements

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without losing this one.

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Now notice that this start point of the second measurement

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is not correct, but it's not a problem

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because I can simply drive that start point,

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and place it at the right location.

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Now the next thing I want to do is perform measurements

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on the 2D sheet.

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Let's go to the A101 ground floor sheet.

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Now because this is a rivet sheet,

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we do not really need to calibrate it.

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We can start performing measurements pretty much

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very similar to what we did with the 3D models.

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So the distance measurement-- tap and hold down to snap

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onto the corner point and then tap and hold

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on to the next point.

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On the 2D sheet, it also gives me

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the delta x and delta y values, which

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means I can now check the x and y displacement as well.

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And again, if I tap on the settings button

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on the top right, I can change my units.

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Similarly, we can also perform angle measurements if required.

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Let's now look at performing measurements on the PDF sheets.

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For that, I'll go to the plans area, and then the PDF files.

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I'm going to tap on this GA03 sheet

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to perform the measurements.

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Let me zoom into this area here.

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All right.

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So now, if I tap on measure, the first thing I'm told

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is to pick a known distance to calibrate this sheet.

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I'll tap on OK.

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I know in this case that the spacing between grid A and B

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is 14 feet, 11 inches.

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So I'm going to press and tap down on the top end point

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of gridline A. Please note that unlike the river sheets

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and models in files, we cannot snap onto the point.

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We just need to make sure that we tap close to the point

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that we are after.

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And now I can say the distance between this is 14 feet, 11.

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I'll press return and then calibrate.

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So I can see that the calibration is completed,

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I can now start measuring.

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Let's start with measuring the length of this isolated

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footing.

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I'll pick this corner here, and then tap somewhere here.

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So that's the distance between those two points.

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Similarly, if I need to get the height of this,

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I'm going to top close to the top corner point.

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And then for the second point, let's zoom down,

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and I'm going to tap here.

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And now it shows me that value.

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Similarly, I can perform the angle measurement.

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So if I tap on angle, I want to find out

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what's the angle between this point here to this point here

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and then I'm going to go across to the other [? dressing ?]

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edge, and I'm going to tap on this point here.

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And now it shows me that angle value.

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Lastly, I can perform area measurements.

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I want to measure the area of this isolated footing.

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So I'm going to go to the area measurement tool,

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tap down my finger on this point here,

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and then that's my second point, and then third point.

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And lastly, the fourth point.

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And that's the area of measurement there.

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So this is how we perform measurements on the PDF files

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and revit models and sheets.

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And also how we section the models using the BIM 360

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mobile app.

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That's all we have in this course.

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I'll see you in the next course.

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Cheers.