Downloading and understanding the interface

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DEEPAK MAINI: Hey, guys.

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Welcome to the first objective of this course.

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In this objective, we are going to download the BIM 360

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mobile app, and we are going to understand the interface.

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Now before we get into downloading the app,

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there are a couple of things that I want to mention here.

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The first one is that the BIM 360 mobile app

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is available for both iOS and Android platforms.

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There are a few differences between the way the apps work

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on these two platforms.

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All these differences are available on the Autodesk

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Knowledge Network page.

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But just to go over a few of them, for example,

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on the iOS devices, you can search and sort data

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by filename, document name, last modified, and so on.

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On the iOS devices, if you open a document

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and it's not the latest version, you will get the warning,

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however, the Android devices will not show that warning.

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Similarly, I have listed a few other differences here.

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But as I mentioned earlier, if you go to the Autodesk

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Knowledge Network page, you'll be

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able to see all the differences there.

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The next important thing that I want to mention here

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is in my case, I have created this course using my iPad, so

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on the iOS device.

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But if you're using the Android device,

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pretty much everything that I'm going to show you

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will work on those devices as well.

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With this, let's switch over to my iPad now.

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All right.

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So this is my iPad now.

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I'm going to go to the app store,

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and I'm going to search for BIM 360 app.

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Now please note that when I search for BIM 360,

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it is also going to show some additional apps like BIM 360

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globe, BIM 360 field, and so on.

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But the app that we are after is this one here that is BIM 360.

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Let me download this app now.

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Now in my case, I've got a folder

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created on my iPad, where I save all my BIM 360 related apps.

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So once I have downloaded this app,

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I'm going to move it into that folder as well.

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I'm going to exit out of this.

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And this is my BIM 360 app listed here now.

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I'm going to move it into the right folder.

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And again, you don't have to do it.

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But I just prefer having all my BIM 360

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apps sitting in the right folder,

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and that I can easily access them.

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So if I go into this folder now, that's my BIM 360 app.

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I'm going to tap on it.

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The first thing it's going to do is ask me

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to sign in so let me sign in.

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OK.

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So once you have signed into this app,

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you can see all your projects available here.

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We also have the search project fill at the top

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where I can search for projects.

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That it, this is the project I want to go to.

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I'll tap on to this project.

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And now this is how the project interface

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looks like on the BIM 360 app.

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Let's now understand this interface.

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Currently as you can see, I'm in the plans area,

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and I can see the two folders in the plans area.

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Similarly, if I tap on the project files area,

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I can see all the folders in the project files area.

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You will notice that all these folders have these down arrows

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on the right of their names.

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These down arrows let me download

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the content of these folders for offline viewing.

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So for example, I want all the project specs

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available in the offline mode as well.

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In that case, I'm going to tap on this down arrow.

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And it starts to download the content of that folder

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and any sub folders inside it for offline viewing.

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Once the content of the folder has

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been downloaded for offline viewing

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I can see this thick mark here if I tap on this folder now.

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I can see all the sub folders have the thick mark as well,

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and also any other document that is sitting inside that folder.

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Now if the content of any of this folder is updated,

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I can simply tap on these three dots,

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and I can set update this folder.

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You will notice that we have got some options

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available down the bottom.

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As you can see, we are in the documents area right now.

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If I tap on issues, I can see all the issues

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that are currently active in this particular project.

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Similarly, I have got some checklist option here.

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If I tap on checklist, I can see any checklist

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that has been completed or not started.

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Now please note the reason I'm able to see the checklists

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and the daily logs option down the bottom

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is because this project has got field management service active

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as well.

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Also, the reason I'm seeing RFI option on the bottom

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is because it's got project management service active.

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Please note that project management service is

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part of BIM 360 build program.

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So if you've got BIM

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you can activate project management service as well.

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Notice that we have got this sync option here.

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This option is only used if you have done

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some work in the offline mode.

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For example, you have run some checklists

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and created some issues.

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In that case, you'll have to sync manually.

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Otherwise, the BIM 360 mobile app continuously

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sinks in the background, and you don't

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have to manually sync anything.

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I now want to go back one level so I can tap

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on this arrow on the top left.

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I'm going to go to the plans area now,

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and let's click on PDF files.

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Now as you are aware of this, in the plans area when I upload

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a PDF file, all the sheets of a multi-page PDF file

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are automatically extracted for viewing.

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And that's what you are seeing here.

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Same thing with rivette files as well.

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When they are uploaded in the plans area,

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all the sheets and views are extracted for viewing.

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Going back into project files area.

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If I tap onto the shared folder, and let me now

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tap on the structure folder.

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I've got this model here, but I don't see any views or sheets

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that's because those views and sheets are

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only available once I tap on that model to open it.

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As you can see, it's opening that model now.

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Once that model is open, I can tap on the menu

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button on the top right.

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And I can now look at views and sheets.

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To close out of this model, I can

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click on the cross button on the top left.

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And similarly, I can tap on to this air

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on the top left to go back to the folder levels.

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Now if I need to change the project that I'm in,

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I can tap on this menu button on the top left.

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It shows me the project that I'm currently in.

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I can now tap on this project name,

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and it shows me the list of all the available projects.

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Again, I can either use the search projects field,

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or I can simply tap on the project the diemen.

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If I tap on this menu button on the top left again,

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I can sign out of this app or I can look at the app settings.

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That's all we have in this objective.

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I'll see you in the next objective.

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Cheers.