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Welcome to this Autodesk Accelerate presentation,
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Introduction to BIM 360 Design for Architects and Engineers.
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My name is Martin Stewart.
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I'm an Autodesk support specialist.
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Been Autodesk since 2013.
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I'm also a licensed architect and based out
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of our Portland, Oregon office.
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And I have 30 years of experience in the AEC industry.
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Our safe harbor statement boils down to this.
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If we talk about any possible future enhancements
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to our software or products that we'll
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be looking at today, any roadmap discussions,
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don't make purchasing decisions based on those statements.
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The learning objective in this presentation today
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is really to get a clear overview and understanding
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of the services and modules that make up BIM 360 Design.
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We'll start with a quick review of the BIM 360 platform itself,
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followed by how BIM 360 Design fits into that.
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Then we'll take a look at the components of BIM 360 Design,
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including a Revit Cloud worksharing overview.
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We'll talk about account and project administrative tasks.
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Also, look at Document Management module.
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And, finally, the Design Collaboration module.
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The topics today are intended to be an overview.
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A guided tour, if you will, of all of BIM 360 Design
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and how it works together.
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How do we navigate between those different modules as well.
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So let's start with the BIM 360 Design platform.
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BIM 360 is an entire ecosystem integrated
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for a variety of products and to cover
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all various stages of an architectural, design,
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engineering, and build project.
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The platform allows us to use many of our Autodesk products
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together in a coherent, integrated workflow.
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The platform is built on top of Autodesk Forge which
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allows for many third-party applications and integrations.
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Also it centralizes your project data
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and BIM 360 Document Management is really
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the backbone for that.
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Because all your project data then lives in one place,
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it allows for easy analytics and insight into your project.
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And it flows smoothly from predesigned really
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into design, preconstruction, execution, and construction,
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all the way to hand over an operation of the facility
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and facilities management.
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Let's take a quick look at a website.
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This website address is integrations.BIM
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Just to show you the various companies
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that have integrations into the BIM 360 platform.
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This site shows all of those companies
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and what's available to you to extend BIM 360
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should you choose to do so.
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As mentioned, BIM 360 has several product offerings
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for the life cycle of a project.
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All of these products utilize BIM 360 document management,
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which serves as a common data environment for all
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This enables the various BIM 360 product
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modules to share that project information.
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It serves as a single source of truth if you will.
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BIM 360 Design includes Revit Cloud Worksharing
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and we'll discuss that more.
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Also, BIM 360 Coordinate features model coordination
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We'll be focused today on BIM 360
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Design for design, engineering, and documentation portion
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So let's get into BIM 360 Design and an overview of that.
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BIM 360 Design is a product or a subscription.
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And included in BIM 360 Design is the design collaboration
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Also Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D,
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and Plant 3D is also part of BIM 360 Design and available.
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Included in BIM 360 Design is Document Management.
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That's that single source of truth.
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That project data layer that all your project information
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We'll also include Autodesk Desktop Connector
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as part of this service.
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That's a free application that integrates well with many BIM
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And it currently still includes our legacy cloud
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offering BIM 360 Team.
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BIM 360 Design includes three key features for Revit users.
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It includes a very powerful Revit Cloud worksharing
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technology that enables real-time Revit worksharing
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virtually anywhere with internet connectivity.
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Cloud collaboration using BIM 360
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is also available for Civil
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We'll look at the Document Management model, or Docs
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Again, this is the common data platform for BIM 360.
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It has accessibility controls or rather controls
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for various levels of access by users.
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It allows for markups and the documentation of issues
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and management of issues, as well as
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links and reference support.
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Then we'll look at the Design Collaboration
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module in more detail.
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This is the heart of where collaboration exists, including
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documenting, publishing, issuing packages, sharing out packages
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between teams, which allows for a multi-discipline, multi-team
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Design collaboration also features
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a version comparisons and change analysis, change visualization.
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And it allows each team to be able to have visibility
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into all of the product activity.
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And we should mention multi-model format support
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as well, including IFC and Civil 3D.
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Let's switch over to a live preview
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of some of these features.
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Let's start with Revit.
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Here I'm demoing with Revit 2021.1.
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You might have a different version of Revit,
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but it should be very similar.
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As far as Revit Cloud Worksharing goes, a lot of that
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will be from the home screen in Revit.
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This is your connection to your cloud project in BIM 360 Design
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and on Document Management.
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Notice the navigation here to BIM 360.
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And up here as well is a navigation selector
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where you pick the BIM 360 account that you're using.
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And you may belong to more than one account site.
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Some people refer to it as a hub.
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Then you select the appropriate project.
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And then the various files or subdirectories rather,
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that contain your files.
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This is presuming that the project has already
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been set up and established on BIM 360.
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Another component we can glance that is going over to a Revit
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model, for example, we see the Collaborate tab
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and manage cloud models.
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And, again, this is assuming everything's
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already been set up.
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Selecting Manage Cloud Models brings us
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to this dialogue where we can actually
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see all the cloud models that exist
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for this particular project.
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So the first thing we do is select the appropriate project.
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This then reveals to us all the various cloud models
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that have already been synchronized and stored
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Here I can look at the versions of syncs that have been made
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using Revit Cloud Worksharing.
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So for this particular demonstration model,
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it's up to 38 synchronizations.
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Your project could have many more synced versions.
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And that's all being stored here on the cloud.
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If we jump back to the home screen--
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we'll close this dialogue.
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In this particular example, let's
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navigate to the architectural team folder.
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And we see the model listed here.
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This is where you would open the model in Revit
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from the cloud project.
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Let's see where that lives in Document Management.
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How that corresponds?
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Getting to Document Management in your web browser
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is as simple as going to the address b2.autodesk.com
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and then selecting BIM 360 Docs.
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I already have it activated in this window.
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And here's Document Management.
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I could navigate to that same directory.
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And here's that same Revit file that we're in, in Revit.
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I can select it here to preview in BIM 360 Docs.
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So there's a connection here with the Revit Cloud model
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and the published version of that model here
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And with my Model Viewer, I can examine it even without Revit
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Returning to the module selector.
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The module selector is what helps
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you navigate between different modules
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that you have active for this project.
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Let's also preview Design Collaboration quickly.
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Selecting Design Collaboration from the module picker
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or module selector takes us to the Design Collaboration
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module in that same project.
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Here we can pull down a timeline to see
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the activity for that particular team and the activity
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on the timeline for that team.
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So we'll look at this more closely a little later
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in the presentation.
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Another important part of BIM 360 Design Workflows
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can include the Autodesk Desktop Connector.
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The Desktop Connector is a free product that
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allows for a connected desktop.
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That means that your desktop will be connected
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to your BIM 360 account.
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And that connected drive will mirror the folder structure
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of your design project.
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So for example, here, we're showing
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a version of Desktop Connector that's
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been installed on a local machine
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by going to the Windows File Explorer, navigating to BIM 360
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on your PC, it shows the various projects
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available in that account hub.
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And by selecting that project and the folders,
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you can actually drill down to see the files that are
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on the cloud for your project.
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Switching to my web browser, I wanted
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to show you where you can download the free Autodesk
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The website is autodesk.com/BIM
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Here you can get a free download of Desktop Connector.
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Once installed, this lives down here in your system tray.
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And selecting it here, you'll get
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a menu that is associated with the Desktop Connector.
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The Desktop Connector is used to connect files between the cloud
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project living on BIM
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This diagram shows a basic sequence
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of how files move from your computer to the cloud.
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The first and most direct way is directly
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from Revit initializing and collaborating a model
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through synchronizing through Revit Cloud Worksharing.
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That puts it on the cloud.
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And then publishing that model moves a copy of it
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to BIM 360 Docs or Document Management.
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With Desktop Connector, you can link a host of other files
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to the project, such as txt files, DWG files, keynotes,
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Civil 3D Data shortcuts, as well as detached Revit models.
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So this slide gives us an opportunity
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to take a step back and think about the benefits of BIM 360
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Enhanced collaboration is a big benefit.
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You may have worked with Revit for many years.
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And previously to do worksharing,
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you had to be with someone in the same office
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on your local area network or LAN.
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Or perhaps you eventually move to Revit server
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and could workshare with someone else
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in another office in the same state or in the same country.
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But that was restrictive to allowing other companies in
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to collaborate on the project.
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With cloud worksharing, with BIM 360 Design,
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now you have controlled Revit worksharing
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across all the teams regardless of their location.
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This provides for faster, more efficient collaboration.
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Makes design review with the various
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stakeholders much easier because it's all there
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to be seen on BIM 360 Docs.
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This provides streamlined data, that single source of truth
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Centralized project information.
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For those of you who have been in the AEC industry
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for a while, you know that that's
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been a past constant problem of which file is the most recent?
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Which file can I rely on?
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Is that the one on this floppy drive, on this thumb drive,
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on this hard disk, on this folder?
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Now you don't have to question it.
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It all exists centrally located on BIM 360 Docs.
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Having BIM 360 Design, having your project on the cloud
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reduces internal server hardware and IT costs.
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It also comes with unlimited storage.
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You remember that quick display of synchronization
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that we showed in Manage Cloud Models in Revit?
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We were up to 30-some syncs.
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What if you had 1,000 syncs on average
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for every single model in your project?
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We're keeping track of that.
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That's staying stored on the cloud for you in case
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you need to restore one of those previous versions.
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It gives you access to project data any time
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and anywhere because it's there on BIM 360 Docs.
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BIM 360 Design offers improved design coordination.
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As compared to past methods and processes,
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the coordination of deliverables on a project
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is much easier for the team.
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Trackable project activity, file version history,
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and the ability to do collaborative markups together
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So just a quick overview of some of the many benefits
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Security is also an important factor for Autodesk
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And BIM 360 Design is secure.
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It includes a lot of permission control granularity
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in the program itself, being able to determine
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who has access to what.
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And then to what degree.
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As well as having SOC 2 compliance.
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And the security that comes with being hosted on AWS.
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If your project or your customer needs more detailed information
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on the security that's available through Autodesk,
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there is this whitepaper available
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that you could google, Autodesk BIM 360 Security Whitepaper.
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As well as these websites for further information
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Another interesting thing to be aware of
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is our Autodesk Health Dashboard.
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Let's go to it live by switching to our web browser.
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And the website is health.autodesk.com.
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What this is, is a display.
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A readout of the current state of our cloud services.
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Our many various cloud services.
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You see all of them listed here.
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So for example, if we scroll down to the bottom,
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we see Revit Cloud Worksharing and Cloud Models.
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It's a green check, which means it's currently
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working as expected.
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Sometimes, though, there is scheduled maintenance.
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We try and do any scheduled maintenance
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that could impact a project at off-hours, at early morning
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hours, so that it doesn't impact you.
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So if there is a degradation, whether planned for or not,
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you'll see an indication of a yellow exclamation point.
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And in some rare cases, if it's completely down momentarily,
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a red X. The only red X we see in this example is
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Autodesk Revit Live because that has been discontinued.
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You can also check a History for our cloud services.
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Another thing I recommend is doing a health subscription.
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What that is you can pick the services
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you would like to be notified on of their status
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should that status change.
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So for Revit Cloud Worksharing, BIM 360,
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Docs that would be a good thing to do.
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And then you'll be emailed for any planned maintenance
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or unexpected degradations or outages.
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So once again, that website is health.autodesk.com.
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Worth bookmarking and worth doing a subscription
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Let's now move into Rivet Cloud Worksharing.
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And get an overview of that.
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Here's a snapshot of the interesting history
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of Revit Collaboration, which started back in 2002 when
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worksharing was first introduced into Revit
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and more than one person could work on the same Revit model.
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Then in 2011, we introduced Revit Server,
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which allowed users to collaborate over a wide area
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Typically, users from the same company
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collaborating with different offices.
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Then in 2015, Cloud Worksharing was the next step.
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With collaboration for Revit or C4R, along with BIM 360 Team,
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this allowed Revit users to work on their content from anywhere
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at any time on the cloud.
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But then starting in
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has been further refined with BIM 360 Design.
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So a very quick history.
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And it's still moving forward.
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Looking forward to seeing what future enhancements
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and developments there will be with cloud worksharing
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This shows the transition from our legacy cloud
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service, BIM 360 Team, to BIM 360 Document Management.
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This occurred with Revit 2018.
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Starting with the update 2018.3, users
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could use BIM 360 Docs or Document
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Management instead of Team.
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But then with Revit 2019 and newer, to do cloud worksharing
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required using BIM 360 Design and Document Management.
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This can be useful for some who have a mix of both, where you
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might be working on older projects or archives that
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are in BIM 360 Team.
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Currently, you still have access to BIM 360 Team with your BIM
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But as a recommendation, you should
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move any existing projects off of BIM 360 Team,
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either archiving them or moving them over to BIM 360 Docs
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since BIM 360 Team will not be around forever.
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Revit Cloud Worksharing really has much
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to do with initiating your Revit model to the cloud
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and keeping it synced to the cloud.
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It's a very simple process.
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One that Revit users will find very familiar
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and it's a matter of pointing it to BIM
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And then you'll get this familiar dialogue
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showing the synchronization to the cloud.
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We looked at this feature earlier.
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This is Manage Cloud Models that you get to through Revit,
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which shows the cloud model.
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This is an older interface, but it's still
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available for viewing sync versions.
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This is really being replaced with Revit Home
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that we looked at earlier.
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So switching back to Revit just to remind you.
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Revit Home is this window that gives you
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a direct access to your BIM
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and folders, as well as where you can do publishing
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So we'll demo the initializing of a model to the cloud.
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It starts in an existing model.
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So you'll need a local project staging folder.
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So you first open an existing model
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or perhaps you create a new model
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and then save it locally to that project staging folder.
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And then you collaborate it to the cloud.
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As a tip, if you're taking a project that's
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already far along, well-developed,
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that exists on your local area network
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or on your local computer, before moving it to the cloud,
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I recommend cleaning it up first.
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It'd be good to audit all files, purge your files,
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address any warnings that need to be resolved
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before putting it on the cloud.
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If a project is having problems locally,
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it's most likely going to continue
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to have them on the cloud.
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So this is a good opportunity to do
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some housekeeping before you move an existing
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project to the cloud.
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So before collaborating or initializing
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cloud of the model, it needs to be saved locally.
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So as mentioned, you'll typically
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work in a local project staging directory
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either on a local hard drive or your local area network.
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From the Collaborate tab, you then
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select the Collaborate in the Cloud button.
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Navigate to the appropriate location in the dialogue.
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And then select the Initiate button
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to put that in the cloud.
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So we're selecting the right hub, the right project,
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the right folder, the right subfolder,
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and then selecting initiate.
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You'll get this dialogue that shows its progress
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and lets you know when it's completed.
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Switching over to docs and navigating
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to the corresponding location where we place the model,
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we'll see that model processing.
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And the version here is the published version
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not the sync version.
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Returning back to Revit, we can see that same model
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by opening it up in Manage Cloud Models,
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navigating to the project, and then we
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see it is been sent to the cloud and published.
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We can view versions here.
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And because we just put this on the cloud, it's version one.
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Synchronization one for the cloud model.
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Returning to the screen.
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Navigating to BIM 360.
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Making sure we're on the right project.
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Navigating to the right folder location.
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We can likewise see that model here in Revit Home.
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The published status shows that the latest has been published.
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That's because when we first initiate a model to the cloud,
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we get a automatic publish to BIM 360 Design.
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That demonstrated the process of initializing a model
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to the cloud for the first time.
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Once that's done, when you come back the next day
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or someone else wants to work on it, here's
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where you get access in Revit to that model using Revit Home.
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This graphic shows the sequence of sensing to the cloud,
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as well as publishing.
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To help us delineate the difference.
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So starting here at the bottom, early in the timeline,
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we do an initiation, a collaboration to the cloud,
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So user A puts that model into the cloud
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like we just demonstrated.
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It lands in the cloud and is version 1 or synced version 1.
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And because this is the first time we put it into the cloud,
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it will automatically be published to BIM 360
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Docs, which is version 2.
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And you'll see that when looking at that file in BIM 360 Docs.
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But then modeling continues in the Revit model
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either with the same user or other users on the team.
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And they should be syncing throughout the day.
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So each time anyone syncs, that sync version,
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Sync With Central, increases versioning.
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But at some point, someone deliberately
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publishes it to the cloud, which is done from Revit Home.
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And then the published version that we'll
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see on BIM 360 Docs, the published latest version,
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becomes version 3 in this example.
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And that can continue over weeks and months.
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And this versioning of synchronization and versioning
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of publishing continues to increase.
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So to reinforce this concept, let's demonstrate
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syncing versus publishing in Manage Cloud Models.
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So first in Manage Cloud Models, we see all the sync versions.
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So we'll navigate to the corresponding project,
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find the file, and check the view versions.
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The versioning here we would call is for synchronization.
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This model has been synced 27 times.
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And a few occasions there were comments
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that were included with the synchronization
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that we see in this column.
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We can use the shortcut here to switch over
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to the corresponding Docs project.
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We navigate to the corresponding file.
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And notice that the version here is different.
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Version 16 as opposed to version
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So that versioning on BIM 360 Docs,
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we recall, corresponds to the published version.
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Because we synced this model recently,
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we can check the status of the publishing
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and navigate to Revit Home.
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Be sure to refresh Revit Home to see the most current status.
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And checking that model we notice
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that an update is available.
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So we can select Publish Latest here to publish a new version
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Let's now do an overview of account and project
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remember that we navigate through the various modules
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through the Module Selector here.
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And there is an account admin module and a project admin
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These will be available in the module selector
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if you are a project admin or account admin.
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If you're not, you won't see these modules.
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For this discussion, we're going to look at it
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from the perspective of an account administrator
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and a project administrator.
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The account admin module is only available to account admins.
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This allows you to manage the Autodesk BIM 360
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account as well as its projects, members, and company data.
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So BIM 360 has two levels of administration, the account
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admin and project admin.
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Here's some differences-- comparison
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of the differences between account and project admins.
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Account admins can do all of these tasks
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from account set up to managing the account member directory
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to managing project members.
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A project admin can only do three of these functions.
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They can activate modules and add project administrators
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to a project, they can add companies to a project,
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and they can add project members.
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So if a person is an account admin, they can do all of it.
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But project admins are only able to do these three tasks
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compared to account admin.
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In project administration, you can, as you see along the top
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there, manage members, companies, services,
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and the project profile.
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For members, you can see what services
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are enabled for each user.
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So we see an example of users for this particular project
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and which of the modules they have access to.
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And we have a lot of project admins set
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for this particular project.
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But notice here, Mr. Coffee is a user and not
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an admin for these modules, design collaboration
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and document management.
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So this might be very common for larger teams.
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You'll have fewer project admins than you will users.
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Remember too that BIM 360 Document Management, as well as
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Design Collaboration, are required modules for a Revit
31:46
Cloud Workshared project.
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There are other modules here that
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are optional such as Project Management
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in this example, Model Coordination, Field Management.
31:55
This illustrates that other BIM 360 modules could be
31:59
activated for a given project.
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And they can be activated later.
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They don't have to be activated the moment the project is
32:10
The company directory keeps the list of all companies
32:13
across all projects in an account.
32:16
There are two main approaches to managing companies
32:20
such as trade subcontractors in BIM 360.
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You can either add companies to the directory in the account
32:28
admin module during the account set up.
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Or you can add companies at a later stage
32:33
when adding members from that company.
32:36
But where possible, it's better to add companies
32:39
to the directory in the account set up.
32:41
This provides greater control of the company data
32:44
and will reduce really the likelihood of creating
32:46
duplicate companies.
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Services shows which services are active in a given project
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or that can be activated.
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And we can also see who the admins
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are for each service with the pulldowns here on the right.
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Here, again, the module picture.
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The module selector allows you to navigate
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between various modules in a project.
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Notice in this example, we don't have those additional BIM 360
33:17
modules activated yet.
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Just Document Management and Design collaboration.
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So here are the key modules for BIM 360 Design.
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So when you're an account admin administrator,
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you will be in charge of those account-level tasks.
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If you're not an account admin, you
33:37
won't see this or have access to this particular module.
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So when you're a project administrator for the project,
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you will have access to this module.
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And likewise, if you're not a project admin,
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this won't appear in your module selector.
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Then the Document Management module,
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which will take a closer look at here shortly.
33:58
And the Design Collaboration module,
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which is required for cloud-based worksharing
34:04
in Revit utilizing BIM 360.
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It needs to be enabled on a per-project basis.
34:10
So then with those four pieces in place,
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individual users can begin to leverage their BIM authoring
34:16
tools for cloud worksharing.
34:19
So not only Revit, but also Civil 3D if you choose,
34:23
as well as Plant 3D Cloud Collaboration
34:26
all works through the Design Collaboration module.
34:31
Then additional modules could be activated.
34:33
Project Home is a web portal to the key project metrics
34:38
and information to allow project managers and key stakeholders
34:42
insight into the project, its progress, and other happenings
34:48
Project Management module for managing a construction
34:52
This includes meeting minutes, RFIs, and submittals.
34:58
This module is used for clash detection
35:00
and automating and simplifying model coordination.
35:08
Insight module for reviewing and analyzing project data,
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including risks, design metrics, project controls around RFIs,
35:18
And Cost management is yet another module
35:21
that could be added.
35:22
Remember, though, that you must activate Design Collaboration
35:26
and Document Management module to enable
35:29
making use of BIM 360 Design.
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And we'll also remind you that this again
35:35
is for project administrators or account administrators.
35:39
If you're a user, this will already
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be activated and set up for you.
35:45
At that point, you're ready to move
35:47
into the Document Management module to work on the project.
35:52
Document Management module is really the data management
35:55
workhorse of the whole process.
35:58
BIM 360 Docs provides that control data and document
36:03
management for all your project information from design
36:06
through construction.
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It's required for all BIM 360 projects.
36:12
Storage for a variety of project files.
36:16
At this point, I'd like to switch over to my web browser
36:19
and show you the help article here
36:22
that shows all the files that you can store on BIM 360 Docs.
36:28
Just a snapshot of the many files
36:31
that are compatible with BIM 360 Document Management.
36:36
BIM 360 Docs is where you record issues and manage issues
36:41
in the documents, markups, and version
36:43
control of those documents as you see illustrated here
36:48
Here's where you determine permission controls
36:51
for the various users.
36:53
Also where you can do document and model comparison and review
37:02
that's created without a template,
37:04
it starts out with these two default folders--
37:11
Returning to our demonstration project,
37:14
using my module picker, I'll navigate back
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to Document Management.
37:22
And here you see those same folders.
37:25
So when a project is first created by the project
37:28
administrator or by the account administrator,
37:33
these two folders appear automatically by default
37:36
if a template isn't used.
37:38
So what are those two folders for?
37:41
Project Files is primarily for your active Revit teams
37:46
to be in here where the collaboration occurs.
37:49
So your Revit Cloud Workshared folders, your team folders
37:53
will be under project files.
37:55
Here's where your Revit collaboration takes place.
37:58
The Plans the directory is a great location
38:01
for progress reviews of construction document sets
38:05
or progress sets, milestone reviews, archiving documents,
38:12
You'll largely be using PDF files in the Plans folder,
38:16
but also Revit files which can be automatically split out
38:21
into their various views and sheets.
38:25
Likewise, here is a Sets button.
38:28
So we were looking at folders a moment ago
38:31
and the default folders.
38:35
Sets are a way to label the various Revit
38:39
models, the various sheets, the various views that
38:43
are in the Plans directory based on whatever system
38:47
you'd like to organize them by.
38:49
It's like a hashtag system.
38:51
These are 50% design development drawings.
38:55
These are 90% construction development drawings.
38:58
You can associate sets and view and manage these document sets.
39:05
This becomes very helpful for filters, for assorting,
39:09
and for managing various issues, markups, comments, reviews.
39:15
I might mention that sets here can sometimes be confused
39:19
with publish settings in Revit.
39:21
And we want to make sure to avoid that confusion.
39:24
So if I go to Revit for a moment.
39:27
And let's look at a model in Revit.
39:29
So when I look at my Collaborate tab,
39:32
perhaps you're familiar with public settings.
39:35
If I select Public Settings, I get this dialogue
39:40
where I select the various views and sheets
39:44
that I want to be included when I publish this model.
39:48
And I could include multiple publish settings.
39:52
And then all of these views and 2D sheets
39:56
get included when I publish out my model.
39:60
Some people refer to these as sets, select sets here.
40:05
But this is different from the document sets
40:08
that we're talking about in BIM 360 Docs.
40:12
Publish Settings play a very important role
40:14
in what is viewed in BIM 360 Docs.
40:18
But these sets are more that categorization, hashtag-type
40:22
system of labeling the various documents in BIM 360 Document
40:29
It can be managed here on the left through filtering
40:32
and sorting based on the sets you've predetermined.
40:37
Within Project Files, new folders can be created.
40:41
And permissions for those folders
40:43
can be set up by user or role or company.
40:47
One recommendation I would make here
40:49
is when you create a Folders that your various teams will
40:53
be using here, you might want to consider including
40:57
a prefix like an underscore or even a numeric prefix
41:03
to force those active teams to sort to the top of the folder
41:09
That's because this is sorted alphabetically.
41:12
So it's just a nice way to keep all those team
41:14
folders towards the top.
41:16
For any folder, you'll select these three dots.
41:19
You have these various tasks you can do,
41:22
such as adding a subfolder, renaming, deleting,
41:26
and then this is also where you can set
41:29
permissions for that folder.
41:32
Here's a view of the Project Home module,
41:35
available to all of your BIM 360 Docs projects.
41:39
Here's a central location where you
41:41
can place a lot of project information such as the project
41:45
address, the weather where that project site is.
41:49
Also a consolidated view of various project issues
41:54
and other information.
41:57
Let's now move into the Design Collaboration model overview.
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Here's a snapshot of the anatomy of the Design Collaboration
42:07
We can look at this live as well.
42:09
But here we see that the top is the account and project
42:15
Remember that our module picker is here.
42:18
And then this is the timeline of the various project
42:23
activity of the different teams on the project.
42:26
Here we see illustrated a variety
42:29
of disciplines and teams that are active in this project.
42:33
The active team is listed on the bottom.
42:36
Showing the corresponding team space here,
42:39
where you can see all the various sets
42:42
in that team space in the models,
42:45
as well as any issues that have been created by the team
42:49
as they review their documents, did markups, created issues
42:55
likewise in this space, you can view the project model.
43:00
Here's another view of that timeline
43:03
and a overview of the various activities
43:06
that you could see on the timeline
43:08
and what the team space looks like when
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previewing the project model.
43:14
Let's look at that live for a moment.
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We left off in the Document Management module.
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So I'll go to my module picker and select
43:22
Design Collaboration.
43:26
Notice that I'm not seeing the timeline,
43:28
so this looks a little different than what we've just seen.
43:32
That's because the timeline has collapsed.
43:34
So I just need to be aware that the pull-down is here.
43:37
And I select it once and I get the timeline
43:40
for my active team, which currently
43:43
is the architectural team.
43:45
If I select that a second time, I get all the active teams
43:49
for this particular project.
43:51
This timeline is on a scalable chart.
43:57
Or I can look at it in a close-in view or a very
44:03
And then I see these symbols.
44:05
There's an entire legend available for this
44:07
in the help documentation.
44:09
But just what this is showing is when various teams
44:13
did the publishing of their documents to BIM 360 Docs,
44:18
Notice, in this case, this particular model
44:21
was published this particular date.
44:25
So other teams can see what activity has been
44:28
happening in the various teams.
44:31
This is also where a team can decide
44:34
they're ready to share out their model to the other teams.
44:38
They want to create what's called a package.
44:41
They've developed their models to the point where they're
44:43
ready for the other teams to have them, review them, use
44:48
them as links in their Revit model.
44:51
So, for example, the architectural team
44:54
may have reached 50% design development.
44:57
They've reviewed and approved that in-house.
45:01
They're now ready to distribute that
45:03
to the consultants or other team members.
45:05
They can create a package here.
45:08
And that package is a subject for a more detailed
45:12
But this then places the architectural model
45:16
in its approved state.
45:18
And puts it in directories for the other teams to utilize.
45:25
Let's look at the project model for the architectural team.
45:29
What a project model is it's an aggregated view
45:34
of the various models that are being
45:37
stored in the Architectural Teams folder in their team
45:42
And notice this timeline takes a lot of real estate
45:47
So I'm going to remember to just collapse that and get a little
45:51
more viewing space here to look at my project model
45:55
from the architectural team.
45:57
Over here I can actually see all the models
46:01
that have been included in this view.
46:03
And I can control whether they're being shown or not.
46:06
And I can turn them off.
46:08
I can even turn off the consumed models
46:12
that I've linked in here.
46:14
Shutting off structural by clicking this check.
46:19
Shutting off mechanical, shutting off plumbing,
46:22
and being left with the architectural model.
46:25
Likewise, that could leave structural on and turn off
46:30
I have a lot of controls down here where
46:32
I can actually do some slicing and section
46:36
analysis to get in here and view it more closely.
46:41
I can zoom, pan, rotate.
46:44
I can also view by levels, where I can isolate a level
46:49
and have the other stuff ghosted or disappear.
46:53
And notice I'm doing all of this on my website browser
46:58
in the Design Collaboration module.
47:00
I don't have to have Revit.
47:02
So other key stakeholders can get
47:04
in here who don't even use Revit and view the model here as
47:10
So just a quick overview of the design module.
47:14
So just quickly reviewing some of the benefits
47:17
and uses of this module.
47:20
Collaboration is greatly enhanced.
47:23
Sharing out BIM content.
47:25
Using packages, which we mentioned,
47:28
but we weren't able to demonstrate that in detail.
47:31
Very immersive multi-modal viewing, which we did also
47:35
quickly demonstrate.
47:36
You can create and review design issues.
47:39
Issues is a very powerful feature in BIM 360.
47:43
And can be used project-wide by all the teams
47:46
to track issues that need to be reviewed, addressed,
47:49
resolved in a project.
47:51
You can view and track the team timelines.
47:55
Get a really good overview and a granular detailed view
47:59
of what is the activity of each team in the project.
48:04
Their secure permissions.
48:06
We can visualize model changes from the current version
48:10
to the previous version.
48:11
And we can powerfully coordinate project deliverables
48:18
There are many helpful resources and links
48:22
on the web that are listed here.
48:25
You can google these or use this slide deck for an active link
48:33
One of the ones we looked at in this presentation
48:36
was the Autodesk Health dashboard.
48:39
Another helpful website to be aware of
48:42
is customersuccess.autodesk.com.
48:46
Here you'll find recordings of past webinars
48:49
and presentations, articles as well as live meetup groups
48:55
that you can join based on your industry and your area
49:00
So to review our whirlwind tour today of BIM 360 Design,
49:06
we took a quick look at the overall platform
49:08
and what BIM 360 is built on top of.
49:11
And then how BIM 360 Design fits into that platform.
49:16
And then we looked at the various components of BIM 360
49:19
Design, including Revit Cloud Worksharing, account
49:23
and project administration, Document Management overview,
49:27
as well as design collaboration overview.
49:30
I hope you found it helpful.
49:31
And I hope it whetted your appetite
49:33
to look into how this could benefit your Revit
49:37
projects in the future.
49:39
For further information, feel free to use the Autodesk
49:42
knowledge network online to search for any topics that
49:47
And if you need any further support from Autodesk,
49:51
reach out to customer support.
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