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Integrated BIM tools, including Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D
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Transcript
00:00
Building project model co-authoring using Revit and the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
00:07
You need to be invited to an Autodesk construction cloud project by a project administrator.
00:12
Once they invite you, you'll get an email like this one here, saying welcome to the project with a link to go to the project.
00:18
To accept the invitation and get started with the project. Click the link. Go to your project.
00:25
This will take you to the project in the web portal of the RLS Construction cloud, as you see here.
00:30
The administrator may also need to give you access to different folders.
00:34
So, if you don't see folders listed here are the folders you're looking for, an administrator may need to add access.
00:41
Once you've been invited and have access to the Autodesk Construction Cloud project.
00:45
The next thing we need to do is set up a project model in Revit.
00:48
Either create a new model from one of your templates or if you have an existing project model, you're going to upload.
00:53
Go ahead and open it and Revit.
00:55
Well, then go to the "Collaborate" tab and "Collaborate in cloud".
01:03
And it's going to open the Save as Cloud Model window.
01:07
We need to pick the account and project you want the file to be uploaded to and then the location.
01:14
This is the architecture team model. So, we'll pick the architecture team folder and click "Save".
01:21
It will then begin uploading that model to the cloud.
01:24
You can monitor the progress right here on this Save as Cloud Model window, as well as the progress bar here in the bottom left corner.
01:33
When the upload is completed, the Save as Cloud Model window will tell you that it is saved to the cloud and you can click "Close".
01:39
You're now working on the cloud central model.
01:42
Now that we have the Revit model uploaded to the cloud,
01:45
you can begin creating and updating model components, adding documentation and whatever other work you need to do in Revit.
01:52
As you're working, click the "Save" button here at the top of Revit.
01:55
This does not synchronize your changes or publish the changes.
01:59
It simply saves them locally so that you have them saved and can keep working.
02:04
When you're ready to check standards compliance on the BIM interoperability tools, click "Run" to go ahead and run the model checker.
02:12
This will check standards against your model against standards that you set up.
02:15
These standards are going to be based on company Standards, a PEP or project standards.
02:20
For more information on configuring and running the BIM operability tools and the Revit model checker,
02:26
take a look at the accelerator check standards compliance on building projects using Revit.
02:31
That will go into more detail on how to set up and run the standards compliance checker and Revit.
02:36
Once you've checked for standards compliance, the next thing we need to do is synchronize the changes.
02:42
If you go back to "Collaborate" tab,
02:44
and either "Synchronize with central" or "Synchronize and modify" settings configured to synchronize the way you want it and click "OK".
02:52
This will begin the synchronization and you can monitor progress on this bar.
02:56
Once your changes are synchronized, the window will disappear, and you are completely synchronized.
03:01
At certain intervals, you'll also want to publish your model to your team folder,
03:05
so that those outside of Revit in the Autodesk Construction Cloud web portal can access the file.
03:12
There are a couple ways to do that. On the Revit splash screen, we go back to Autodesk Docs...
03:19
select the account project and drill into the folders where the models exist.
03:25
It will tell us whether there is an update available or the latest is already published.
03:29
For the one we're working on, we can click the dots and say "Publish latest".
03:34
That will begin the publish process.
03:36
If you're using design collaboration, you can also set up automatic publishing.
03:40
The automatic publishing follows a predefined schedule to go ahead and publish that without you having to do anything.
03:47
Next, we'll look at linking other team's Revit models into our work in progress Revit model.
03:53
We go to the "Manage tab" and "Manage links".
03:57
It will bring up the manage links window where it will show us any existing links.
04:01
You'll see here that we have two links that are linked to a local location. We want to update those.
04:06
We can also add some new ones but let's go ahead and look at updating one.
04:10
So, whether you're doing add or reload from. You'll get the same dialog box here.
04:17
We want to click on external resources, Autodesk Docs, and then drill down into the project and the folders where we want to link from.
04:27
In this case we're doing the MEP model.
04:29
So, we're going to select the MEP team folder and we'll select that model and go ahead and reload that link.
04:36
Now, we'll begin reloading from the cloud location.
04:42
Once that finishes, you'll see the saved path updated to the Autodesk Docs location in that project file,
04:47
and the team folder will be selected.
04:50
I will also tell us that it's a cloud file.
04:52
We can then add more or go ahead and "Reload from" to fix the rest of our links.
04:58
Now that we have all of our link's set. We'll go ahead and close this dialog box.
05:02
We can then continue working in Revit, creating an updated model components and documentation.
05:08
Then we can also go back and check our standards and click "Run" to run that standards checker.
05:15
We will then want to synchronize again and synchronize from this shortcut here or from the collaborate tab.
05:22
That Sync with Central will begin.
05:25
Depending on the number of changes you've made, it should sync pretty quickly.
05:30
It'll give you the successful message and close.
05:34
Your changes are synchronized.
05:36
You want to publish again, you can go back to the Revit splash screen and again,
05:42
click on any of these ellipses to publish latest or see that the model is already published latest.
05:49
This is the looping workflow that you'll follow, continuing to make changes.
05:53
Check your standards, synchronize, and publish.
Video transcript
00:00
Building project model co-authoring using Revit and the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
00:07
You need to be invited to an Autodesk construction cloud project by a project administrator.
00:12
Once they invite you, you'll get an email like this one here, saying welcome to the project with a link to go to the project.
00:18
To accept the invitation and get started with the project. Click the link. Go to your project.
00:25
This will take you to the project in the web portal of the RLS Construction cloud, as you see here.
00:30
The administrator may also need to give you access to different folders.
00:34
So, if you don't see folders listed here are the folders you're looking for, an administrator may need to add access.
00:41
Once you've been invited and have access to the Autodesk Construction Cloud project.
00:45
The next thing we need to do is set up a project model in Revit.
00:48
Either create a new model from one of your templates or if you have an existing project model, you're going to upload.
00:53
Go ahead and open it and Revit.
00:55
Well, then go to the "Collaborate" tab and "Collaborate in cloud".
01:03
And it's going to open the Save as Cloud Model window.
01:07
We need to pick the account and project you want the file to be uploaded to and then the location.
01:14
This is the architecture team model. So, we'll pick the architecture team folder and click "Save".
01:21
It will then begin uploading that model to the cloud.
01:24
You can monitor the progress right here on this Save as Cloud Model window, as well as the progress bar here in the bottom left corner.
01:33
When the upload is completed, the Save as Cloud Model window will tell you that it is saved to the cloud and you can click "Close".
01:39
You're now working on the cloud central model.
01:42
Now that we have the Revit model uploaded to the cloud,
01:45
you can begin creating and updating model components, adding documentation and whatever other work you need to do in Revit.
01:52
As you're working, click the "Save" button here at the top of Revit.
01:55
This does not synchronize your changes or publish the changes.
01:59
It simply saves them locally so that you have them saved and can keep working.
02:04
When you're ready to check standards compliance on the BIM interoperability tools, click "Run" to go ahead and run the model checker.
02:12
This will check standards against your model against standards that you set up.
02:15
These standards are going to be based on company Standards, a PEP or project standards.
02:20
For more information on configuring and running the BIM operability tools and the Revit model checker,
02:26
take a look at the accelerator check standards compliance on building projects using Revit.
02:31
That will go into more detail on how to set up and run the standards compliance checker and Revit.
02:36
Once you've checked for standards compliance, the next thing we need to do is synchronize the changes.
02:42
If you go back to "Collaborate" tab,
02:44
and either "Synchronize with central" or "Synchronize and modify" settings configured to synchronize the way you want it and click "OK".
02:52
This will begin the synchronization and you can monitor progress on this bar.
02:56
Once your changes are synchronized, the window will disappear, and you are completely synchronized.
03:01
At certain intervals, you'll also want to publish your model to your team folder,
03:05
so that those outside of Revit in the Autodesk Construction Cloud web portal can access the file.
03:12
There are a couple ways to do that. On the Revit splash screen, we go back to Autodesk Docs...
03:19
select the account project and drill into the folders where the models exist.
03:25
It will tell us whether there is an update available or the latest is already published.
03:29
For the one we're working on, we can click the dots and say "Publish latest".
03:34
That will begin the publish process.
03:36
If you're using design collaboration, you can also set up automatic publishing.
03:40
The automatic publishing follows a predefined schedule to go ahead and publish that without you having to do anything.
03:47
Next, we'll look at linking other team's Revit models into our work in progress Revit model.
03:53
We go to the "Manage tab" and "Manage links".
03:57
It will bring up the manage links window where it will show us any existing links.
04:01
You'll see here that we have two links that are linked to a local location. We want to update those.
04:06
We can also add some new ones but let's go ahead and look at updating one.
04:10
So, whether you're doing add or reload from. You'll get the same dialog box here.
04:17
We want to click on external resources, Autodesk Docs, and then drill down into the project and the folders where we want to link from.
04:27
In this case we're doing the MEP model.
04:29
So, we're going to select the MEP team folder and we'll select that model and go ahead and reload that link.
04:36
Now, we'll begin reloading from the cloud location.
04:42
Once that finishes, you'll see the saved path updated to the Autodesk Docs location in that project file,
04:47
and the team folder will be selected.
04:50
I will also tell us that it's a cloud file.
04:52
We can then add more or go ahead and "Reload from" to fix the rest of our links.
04:58
Now that we have all of our link's set. We'll go ahead and close this dialog box.
05:02
We can then continue working in Revit, creating an updated model components and documentation.
05:08
Then we can also go back and check our standards and click "Run" to run that standards checker.
05:15
We will then want to synchronize again and synchronize from this shortcut here or from the collaborate tab.
05:22
That Sync with Central will begin.
05:25
Depending on the number of changes you've made, it should sync pretty quickly.
05:30
It'll give you the successful message and close.
05:34
Your changes are synchronized.
05:36
You want to publish again, you can go back to the Revit splash screen and again,
05:42
click on any of these ellipses to publish latest or see that the model is already published latest.
05:49
This is the looping workflow that you'll follow, continuing to make changes.
05:53
Check your standards, synchronize, and publish.
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