Cloud Collaboration Leveraging BIM 360

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RUSS NICLOY: Welcome, everyone, to this Cloud Collaboration

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Leveraging BIM 360 webinar.

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My name is Russ Nicloy, Civil Solutions Specialist

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at MACER Technologies.

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Before we get started, I do want to share the safe harbor

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statement.

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Some things that are said during the session or in answers

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to questions may end up being forward-looking at versions

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of software that are not yet complete.

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We want to make sure that you know not to make purchasing

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decisions based on these statements

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of possible future functionality.

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As I said, my name is Russ Nicloy.

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I'm a Civil Solutions Specialist for MACER Technologies.

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I've been in the industry for 26 years,

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with some time in GIS, survey, site and utility design,

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and over a decade with a reseller partner of Autodesk.

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I now run my own design solutions company

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aiding organizations in the civil industry.

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Just a little bit about the Accelerator program

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that we're looking at here today--

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Autodesk Accelerators are designed

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to help your team stay ahead of the curve with the latest

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workflows.

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We do this through on-demand courses, pre-recorded coaching,

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and live coaching, like what we're doing today.

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See the full list of topics on the Customer Success Hub.

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So what will we be looking at today?

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What will you learn today?

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We're going to be looking at Cloud Collaboration.

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And in that, that will be the cloud

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versus local storage of projects,

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how the Desktop Connector fits into the process,

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and also shared views.

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We'll also be looking at BIM 360 Document Management

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and how it fits in the BIM 360 platform

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and what is BIM 360 Docs, and what's its role, and why?

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Then we'll look at publishing models to BIM 360 Docs

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and first looking at how you will know your model status, as

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well as a Project Setup, Model Builder use and opening

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existing models.

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Then we'll look at a show-me-how demonstration

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to see how BIM 360 is used.

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So let's take a look at Cloud Collaboration.

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Your team and stakeholders can collaborate on an InfraWorks

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model if they have a BIM 360 account

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and they have permission to access your BIM 360 Document

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Management project.

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This process uses Desktop Connector

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to manage the data from InfraWorks that's being

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stored in the BIM 360 project.

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Or you can use Shared Views to provide

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a visual representation of your model in a web browser format.

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Those who give access to can review and markup

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these views for further development or discussion.

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You can collaborate locally without BIM 360

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by sharing the model's SQLITE and associated resource

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folders directly with others to collaborate in an offline mode.

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Here you can see the schematic of the relationships

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between project data and access by collaborators.

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InfraWorks and Revit can connect directly to BIM 360 Docs

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or provide access through the web-based Autodesk Viewer.

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Autodesk Desktop Connector connects other platforms

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like Inventor, Civil

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plus Toolsets, to the Autodesk Drive, BIM 360 Team,

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and BIM 360 Docs.

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Depending on the tools owned by your fellow designers,

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reviewers, or stakeholders, you can see you still have access

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to a collaborative workflow.

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So how does Desktop Connector fit this process?

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While InfraWorks and Revit can save directly to BIM 360 Docs,

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both will use Desktop Connector to link data sources

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or non-work shared Revit files.

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Other products, like Civil

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InfraWorks, and Navisworks--

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Desktop Connector will manage the file saved

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in those platforms and sync them automatically

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with the project folders in BIM 360.

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Civil 3D data shortcut projects can

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be linked using the process and the link provided here

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at the bottom of the slide.

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Now, let's talk about setting up BIM 360.

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Let's take a look at the platform and product offerings

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available in BIM 360.

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First, there is the platform of BIM 360.

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That's the overall.

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Then below that are the products that are available.

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This includes things like Docs but also

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Design, Coordinate, and others.

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Then in each product are modules,

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such as Document Management, Project Home Insight,

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and many others.

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Today, we're going to be focusing on the BIM 360 Docs

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product.

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The module of BIM 360 that we'll be discussing specifically

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today is BIM 360 Document Management, often referred

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to as BIM 360 Docs.

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This is where you will publish your InfraWorks models when

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you want to collaborate with others where

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you can enjoy the benefits of the powerful BIM 360 platform

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or make your InfraWorks models part of the BIM 360

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projects that are already up and running.

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So why the change?

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Well, BIM 360 is built for collaboration.

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It accepts many file types, has a viewer

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that can view many data types, like EWGs, Revit files,

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It has granular and intuitive user access control,

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has tools for markups, comments, and much more.

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So it actually makes perfect sense

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for InfraWorks collaboration to be handled with BIM 360

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rather than having a separate collaboration platform.

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And InfraWorks models are often a component

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of an overall BIM project.

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So they're better alongside other project data

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rather than off on their own little world.

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I think you'll find that you'll really like the BIM 360

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collaboration environment.

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But with any change comes questions,

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and that's what I'm here to hopefully clean up for you

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today.

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Here's the fine print for the BIM 360 Document Management.

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It's a web service that allows you

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to collaborate on your InfraWorks models

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with team members and easily share web views of your models

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in the BIM 360 Viewer.

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Projects are unique locations where project members can

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share project data, manage versions, and collaborate

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in the same cloud shared location.

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Use BIM 360 Document Management to create, publish,

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or synchronize an InfraWorks model or proposal.

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BIM 360 Document Management leverages the BIM 360 Viewer

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to generate views of your design projects in a web browser.

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The BIM viewer will only generate web views

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for InfraWorks models that have been published to a BIM 360

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Document Management project from the InfraWorks desktop

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environment.

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The BIM 360 viewer will not generate web views

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for InfraWorks models that were uploaded to a BIM 360 Document

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Management project from a web browser.

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So let's look at publishing models

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to BIM 360 Document Management.

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We strongly recommend that you create

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local copies of your InfraWorks models

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before upgrading to a newer release.

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That way, you're preserving a backup of the project.

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InfraWorks models are not backward compatible.

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So when you're updating-- when you open a project that

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was created with an earlier version,

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that model will require an upgrade.

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Design roads during the conversion

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will be converted to component roads

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when opened in anything newer than 2019.0.

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Design road style tracks matches to the components.

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If the model has been cached, you

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have the opportunity to preserve the original and upgraded copy.

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Then the original becomes that backup for you.

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Project models will include an icon on the front page.

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So you'll be able to see the status before you access it.

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These include that the model is for view only, stored

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in the cloud only, stored locally,

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is an existing model in the cloud

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that if opened will need to be updated, or is read only,

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a cloud shared model that has been published to BIM 360

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Document Management project, or that the cloud model is

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currently syncing, or that the model needs

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to be upgraded to the current version of InfraWorks.

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So this is what a typical workflow

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for setting up a project in BIM 360 looks like.

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Step 1 is the account administrator.

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Now, notice this is the account administrator, not

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the project administrator.

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The account administrator will launch BIM 360 Account

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Administration and sign in.

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They'll create a BIM 360 project and then assign

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the project administrators.

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Step 2 is that those project administrators will organize

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folders for the project.

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They will also invite project members.

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They will also publish the InfraWorks model

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to BIM 360 Document Management so

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that it can be accessed there.

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Step 3 is for the project members

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who've been assigned to accept the invitations to the project,

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an important first step, view the model of in the BIM 360

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Viewer, open the cloud shared model in InfraWorks,

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perform any desired design modifications

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to your InfraWorks model, and then synchronize

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updates with the cloud shared model

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to make your updates available to the BIM 360 project.

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So what happens if you can't access

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your process your project?

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Well, the first step is to accept the invitation.

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What we're looking at here is a little snippet

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of an email that is sent when you are added

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to a project as a project user.

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You will see the project's name in the top bar and then

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who has added you as a member of the project.

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That way, if you were added in error, you can check with them.

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But then you simply click the go to your project button,

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and it will take you there.

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You do have to accept this invitation

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to access the project.

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Some may be familiar that in earlier versions of InfraWorks,

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like the 2019 version, you needed a BIM 360

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project to store the model.

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And then, at some point, there was a little bit of time

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there that you would need to download it locally but then

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publish it up to the BIM 360 project later.

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Currently, or after the 2020.0 release,

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which is April of

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given the option of storing the project in Autodesk Docs

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or locally as you're creating the project.

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If you do choose to store it locally,

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you do have an option later to publish it to BIM 360 Autodesk

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Docs folder.

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So let's look at opening existing models.

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There are three different scenarios for existing models

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that you may be opening here.

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First of all, there are cloud models that are in the cloud

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and have a local copy or cache.

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There's also cloud models that have no local cache,

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meaning that they've only lived in the cloud.

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And finally, local models that are strictly local

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and have never been in the cloud.

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So first, the cloud model with the local cache--

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in that process, you have two choices.

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One is to upgrade the model.

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This will be a local cache copy of the model

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opens and is upgraded.

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During the first sync, changes are then

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resolved between the cloud version and the local version.

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And the cloud model will be migrated to BIM 360.

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You will need to choose a BIM 360

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location for this first sync or migration.

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And note, you will need to have BIM 360 set up

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before you do this.

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The other choice is to upgrade a copy.

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Now, what this does is a local cached model

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is copied to a location you specify and upgraded.

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Any outstanding changes from the cloud version are not synced.

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You can publish this copy to the BIM 360 environment.

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And of course, you do have to have BIM 360 set up

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before doing this.

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And the original local version is left intact,

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and again, that's your backup copy.

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Now, for the cloud model without local cache,

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the model is upgraded while it is downloaded and opened.

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It does that automatically during the open process.

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During the first sync, changes will

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be resolved between the cloud version and the local version,

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and the cloud model will be migrated over to BIM 360.

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You will need to choose a BIM 360

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location for this first sync or migration.

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And of course, you do need BIM

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If you have a local model, you have two choices.

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First of all is upgrade the model.

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This means the local model opens and is upgraded in one step.

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The other choice is that you upgrade a copy.

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This means the upgraded version of the model

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is saved locally where you specify,

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and the original version is left intact.

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Now note, if you want it to become a cloud model,

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you can publish it to BIM 360 later on.

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You will need to set up BIM 360 before, again,

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but you can do that at any point during the process.

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So what can you do with BIM 360?

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Here's a short video on some of those things

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that you can do with BIM 360?

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[VIDEO PLAYBACK]

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Now that you've created a project

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and invited some collaborators, you

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can continue to add more data to your project

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and work toward getting as much benefit as possible out

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of the Autodesk Docs environment.

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Once you make changes, simply sync your model,

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and the changes will be pushed to Autodesk

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Docs as a new version.

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Anyone collaborating with you can sync your changes

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down to their models so that you all work on the same latest

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version.

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On the Home screen, you can choose Autodesk Docs

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to filter your InfraWorks models to those

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available in Autodesk Docs.

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This navigates like BIM 360, where you identify the project,

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then browse into the project folders

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to find your InfraWorks project file.

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In the Autodesk Docs environment,

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you're InfraWorks model will show up as an IWM file.

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And you can click on this file to view it in 3D.

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Please note that this IWM file is merely a placeholder that

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represents the model.

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You can't download it and open it

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as if it were an InfraWorks model itself.

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If you have created and published multiple proposals,

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you can easily choose the proposal

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you want from the Sheets & Views section on the left.

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Then you can freely navigate the model

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by zooming, orbiting, and panning.

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There's even a first-person tool that will allow you

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or one of your collaborators to walk the model and take a tour.

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Notice how I can tour this Revit model, which

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was present within the InfraWorks model

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when I published it.

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The Section tool is another handy way

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to view and analyze the model, allowing you to slice it

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along any plane or angle.

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You or your collaborators can use the measurement tools

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to measure distances and angles.

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And the markup tools are very handy for communication

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within your team when changes are needed or questions arise.

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For a more formal way of managing questions and issues,

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you can use the Issues functionality.

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Issues are located in the model and assigned to a person.

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You can even assign a due date.

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In this way, you're not only pointing out

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problems or questions, but you're also

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establishing accountability and a way

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to track whether they've been addressed or not.

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The Model Browser feature allows you

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to navigate through the individual components

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of your model, such as buildings, streets,

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water features, and much more.

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You can also access the Settings to control how you navigate

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your model as well as adjust the performance and appearance

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that best suits your model.

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And that's a look at some of the things

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you can do from within your InfraWorks model.

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Imagine if you upload your plan sets, Civil 3D drawings,

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Revit models, photographs, and other project data

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to this powerful collaborative environment.

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You could benefit from the same online viewing, markups,

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issue tracking, and other capabilities

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that you just saw for all your project data, not just

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InfraWorks models.

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And your team can do it from their desktops, tablets or cell

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phones.

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All they need is an internet connection.

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Now we're going to move to a show-me-how demonstration which

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will include opening existing models in InfraWorks.

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And that includes navigating the Home screen,

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how to sync a model, deleting proposals in the cloud,

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and then accessing a BIM 360 project.

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BIM 360 functionalities include browsing file structure, file

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versioning in BIM 360 Docs, view model and proposals,

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sectioning, model properties, view settings,

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measuring distances and creating markups,

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issue creation and issue management,

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navigating through the model components and model layers,

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set up navigation settings and BIM 360 Viewer appearance.

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Note, the model's accessible through desktop, tablets,

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and cell phones.

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[END PLAYBACK]

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RUSS NICLOY: We are already having InfraWorks open here.

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We're at the Project Selection page.

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We're on the Recent tab here.

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You can see some files that we've been working on.

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In these files, there is a monitor

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that indicates a local file and a cloud icon that

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indicates a file that is already in BIM 360, the Autodesk Docs

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area.

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Now, as you're creating files, you

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can click New and start your own, build it

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with your own data set.

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Or you can use Model Builder, and then that starts you off

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with the open street data, such as surfaces, roads, rail,

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water, and other things like that.

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Either way, it will take a second for either of them

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to kind of spin up the project.

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When you select on the project for the first time, first

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of all, there won't be a thumbnail sketch here.

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It'll be kind of a blank box.

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When you select on that, it will take a second to spin up.

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And then it'll ask you, do you want

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to go local or to Autodesk Docs.

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Now, if you pick local and then, later on,

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need to go back to Docs, you can always

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do that from within InfraWorks itself.

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There is a Sync button that will sync that

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into a project that's there.

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So you're not locked out if you choose local over cloud

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at first and then have to change your mind.

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Now, that being said, this is the Recent page.

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If I come back over to Autodesk Docs,

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then this will be the project location.

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And here, just like in Autodesk Docs,

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you can see that my account name is at the top.

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My project name, if I click this dropdown,

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I've got a list of other projects

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that I'm working on in Autodesk Docs.

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And in here, the Shrewsbury project that I'm working on--

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if I go into project files, my company

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has an InfraWorks folder in here.

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And then this is the Shrewsbury project

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that we can get to right here.

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Now, in here there's a couple of buttons

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that I want to show before we move into Autodesk Docs

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to look at this file in InfraWorks.

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I am going to call out that these are the bookmarks.

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These are areas that you can Zoom to in the file, and also

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the proposals.

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These are saved off versions of the project.

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So you might have a building in one location in one

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and have it in a different location.

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Or maybe a bridge has a slightly different design, or a roadway.

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You could have that as different proposals in here.

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These both make an appearance in Autodesk Docs, so understand

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that whatever is in this button and whatever's in this dropdown

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will be available over there.

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Now, up in the upper right-hand corner, we have two buttons.

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One is Autodesk Docs directly.

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This will open up a viewer.

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This is not your BIM 360 instance.

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This is just a viewer of what's in BIM 360

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or in the Autodesk Docs area.

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But that can be useful.

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You can just hop over there real quick

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to see what an Autodesk Docs user is seeing.

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The Sync button here will sync up the changes

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that have that you've made.

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In fact, I'm going to click that right now.

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It takes a second to spin up.

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The larger the project, the longer this

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takes, just because it's more data it's got to gather.

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But here you can see that there are changes wherever

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there's yellow markers here.

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This is a list of all of those proposals

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that I was talking about earlier.

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And then you can decide which proposal should come over

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to your project.

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In this case, I do want to share the changes to this one here.

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And then the Utilities and Common Resources,

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I'll leave those marked and go.

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You can also add a description of what the changes are here.

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I'm going to click Sync and sync those up.

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Now, that is making sure that all those changes are synced.

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But that also does mean a new version is being created

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in Autodesk Docs so that anyone who's

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accessing the project from there will see the updated

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information.

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And you'll see that there's a versioning

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point that will indicate which version that we're on.

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And then, from here, you can click on Autodesk Docs here,

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and it would be the same as clicking on the icon up here.

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It's just getting into that viewer.

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I am going to close this, because I'm

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going to log into BIM

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Before I leave, however, if you ever

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don't want to keep one of these proposals,

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you can come over to the Manage tab, Model panel.

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This icon here is Proposals.

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And in here, you could select whatever proposal

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you don't want and then click this button right here.

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It's a cloud with an X. And that will get rid

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of that proposal for you.

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So there is a way--

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that way, you don't have too many that build up.

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Now with that, let me switch over to BIM 360

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I've already logged in to BIM 360 here.

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You can see here that we are in the Shrewsbury project

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that we were just looking at there.

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If I click the dropdown, you see that whole list

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of different projects that I could get to.

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In here, I am going to select on the InfraWorks folder.

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And there is the IWM file.

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Now, this IWM file is just a viewer file of this project.

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While the InfraWorks project is stored in BIM 360

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in the folder structure that we have there,

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the only way that you have access to it through BIM 360

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is this IWM file.

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It's not editable per se.

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You can do markups, and you'll see that a little bit later.

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But this is something that makes it a viewer so

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that you can show this quickly.

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Those without InfraWorks will be able to see it through here,

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as well.

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They'll be able to double click on this IWM file

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and get to that, as well.

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Now, that being said, I do want to point out the version right

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here is V5.

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Notice that we have the little spinning wheel here.

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That's because it is updating the version that we just

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synced.

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This is the other side of that sync process here.

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So this might take a minute or two.

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We'll come back when this is complete.

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And there you can see that's now completed, stopped spinning.

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I do want to come over here to the Version

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and click on that so you can see the version history, dates,

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and who uploaded them.

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And V5 is current.

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If you were to switch to one of these

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and make them current instead, it's

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not changing the InfraWorks file at all.

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It's only going back to the different IWM files,

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those viewer files that are available here.

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So I'm going to stick with the most recent one.

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I'm going to close there.

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I do also want to point out that we're

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in the Document Management panel of-- or the module of BIM 360

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here.

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That's where you access these files.

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If you ever come in, and you're in a different module,

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you won't see the folder structure,

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and you won't find the IWM file.

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So I am going to click on the IWM.

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And that opens up in the Large Model Viewer.

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Now, on the left-hand side is a list of all of the proposals.

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These are the different saved off versions of the InfraWorks

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project.

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I have one that has the buildings included here.

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If I click that, it reloads that version of it.

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Option 2 is where our project building has been shifted

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to a different location--

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so different saved off versions of the project here.

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If I scroll down, at the very bottom is Bookmarks.

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I'll pop that open and then scroll down a little further.

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And I'm going to go to my shortcut of New Office

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Building, and it'll come to this area here.

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Now, I'm going to switch to the Option 2 Location.

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And from that same bookmark there, you

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can see that the building is now orientated differently

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while we're just checking out a different option

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and seeing what the organization that we're working with here

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thinks about this location.

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Now, I'm going to browse over here.

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And first of all, actually, before I

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do that, I do want to point out that we

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are in the 3D version of this, InfraWorks being the 3D model.

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If I go to 2D, we really don't have any 2D sheets of this

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as of yet.

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You could do that later.

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But I'm going to go to 3D to make sure

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that I track all of this.

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I'm also going to come down here to the toolbar at the bottom.

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Kind of on the right-hand side is the Model Explorer.

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In here you'll see a series of eyeballs that turn

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on and off the visuals of this.

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Now, I'm going to come in here.

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And in the buildings, I can click on and off

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individual buildings or all the buildings.

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Now watch the buildings that are in the background here.

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I'm going to turn all the buildings off.

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They will be ghosted back here, so you know that they're there

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or that they have been there.

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But you can see that turned off.

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So some of them have names.

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Others are just numbers.

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But you could turn them off individually or as a grouping.

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You can do that with waterways, like this river right here.

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You can turn that off.

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Things that maybe are visually getting in your way or you

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just don't want to see you can turn on and off to get the best

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view possible.

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The other thing is I'm going to zoom in here and come in here

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and click on the First Person view.

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You could navigate your way over to find a first person

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view, basically a human-height, eyeball view of this.

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I'm going to click on First Person,

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and that will-- first of all, it lets you know, hey,

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these are the keys that you use to control it, arrow keys or W,

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A, S, D to move around and look around and all that.

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But it's going to drop you down to the surface.

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I left-click on my mouse, and now I

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can look around at that height.

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I'm going to use my arrow keys here and walk through.

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In fact, I'm going to hit Shift and run or basically speed up

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through that walk.

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And notice you can go into the inside of buildings.

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We simplified this Revit model before we brought it

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in so that we're not seeing a lot of details.

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That way, it would load faster.

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But we also now are missing a lot of interior details

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that we would normally have.

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But there you can see that first-person view

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of the project.

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And it's going to just maintain your height at the surface

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of your project here.

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Something else you can do--

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I'm going to turn off First Person there

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and zoom back and kind of give myself a side view here.

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You can go in and do a section analysis of roadways

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or, in this case, a building.

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I'll click on that, and you can pick which direction

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you want to be working with.

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I'll click on the x, y plane.

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And there is this red and blue icon here with an arrow.

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If I click on the arrow, I can move that back and forth.

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And it's going to be right near my project there.

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And then you can select on the circles

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that are in that red and blue area there.

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Here I'm doing a horizontal rotate.

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Here I can do a vertical slant to my cut

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and then use that arrow--

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you need to be able to see the arrow there.

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There we are.

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Click that, and then I can move it back and forth once I

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have it at that orientation.

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Now, that slice is giving you a chance

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to look at a cross-section view at that particular plane.

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So that can be useful for identifying and analyzing

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a project further.

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I'm going to turn that off so that we

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can see the whole model again.

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And before we leave here, I am going

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to say that there is a markup tool in here, as well.

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That's going to be this ribbon on the right-hand side

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or toolbar on the right-hand side here.

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I'm going to give myself a call-out here

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and indicate that this area here needs grading.

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So that it can match up with the floor height at that location

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there.

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So that will be available to us.

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I am going to come up and click Save.

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Markup you can cancel if you realize,

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oh, wait, I didn't mean to leave that there.

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Click Save and then that will stay here

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until you exit the Markup view.

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Now, any markup that you do there

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is available to those that are in the project.

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They'll be able to come in here and look at things without it.

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But in the toolbar on the far left-hand side there,

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at the very top, is the Markup area.

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I click that, it will list each markup.

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And then when you click it, it will zoom you to that markup.

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So you don't even know where necessarily is.

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You can click on that.

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It will identify where it is and turn it

31:37

on so that you can see it.

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They can do some work at that location,

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maybe do that grading that you requested.

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And they would have to go into the InfraWorks file

31:45

to do the grading.

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You can't do that here.

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But then exit the Markup view when that is complete.

31:53

Something else that you can do here is right below Markup

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view is Issues.

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Now, Issues is kind of a more formal version of the Markup,

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where if you create an issue--

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and in here, I am going to click a point here and drop

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that where that grading should be.

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And then I'm going to assign this

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to a user that's in the project.

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Unfortunately, currently, I'm the only one in this project.

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But I can also provide myself a due date

32:26

and say, hey, by Friday night there,

32:30

we need this to be fixed or at least addressed.

32:35

You can enter some other information, including

32:37

a description here, and then create that.

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That will list out in the BIM

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Like I said, it's a more formalized way to do this,

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provides a little accountability to a specific user

32:52

and for a specific date as to what the issue is

32:56

and how it should be addressed.

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So now let's look at migrating to BIM 360 Document Management.

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Here are some frequently asked questions.

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Do I need to have a BIM 360 account or BIM 360 Document

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Management project to work with InfraWorks?

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No, you still can work with InfraWorks models locally

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and directly share model data using conventional file sharing

33:20

processes.

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But if you want to share models for online collaboration,

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you will need BIM 360 account and permissions to have BIM 360

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Document Management project.

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What happens to my existing models that were previously

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stored in design groups?

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You can download an existing cloud model

33:37

and publish it to a BIM 360 Document Management project

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from InfraWorks.

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Alternately, you can download models for offline use.

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How will user permissions and groups work?

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The current system of user permissions and groups

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will be placed with BIM 360 Document Management projects

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and project members.

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BIM 360 account administrators can create projects and assign

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project administrators.

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BIM 360 Document Management project administrators

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assign roles to project members and manage folder permissions.

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What happens to the current web and mobile applications?

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The current web and mobile applications

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will be replaced with the more powerful BIM 360

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mobile application for viewing, reviewing, and markups

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of your InfraWorks projects.

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Will Model Builder be included with InfraWorks?

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Yes, it will.

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Other things to know--

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cloud collaboration still works for older releases

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of InfraWorks.

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Model Builder still works for older releases of InfraWorks,

34:36

as well.

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There are changes to other InfraWorks cloud

34:39

services, which means they now only work

34:41

for the latest releases.

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That means watershed analysis, traffic simulation, line girder

34:47

analysis, profile optimization, and quarter optimization.

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For more information, you can follow the link on the screen.

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Web and mobile views created in older releases

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are no longer available.

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The InfraWorks iPad app is no longer available either.

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We would like to encourage you to visit the Customer Success

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Hub for more resources, like courses and learning

35:11

paths, recorded coaching sessions, and more

35:14

live coaching topics like this one.

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Just follow the link at customersuccess.Autodesk.com.

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Thank you all for joining us today, and have a great day.