Integrated BIM tools, including Revit, AutoCAD, and Civil 3D
Professional CAD/CAM tools built on Inventor and AutoCAD
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Transcript
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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
25:01
not changing the InfraWorks file at all.
25:03
It's only going back to the different IWM files,
25:06
those viewer files that are available here.
25:08
So I'm going to stick with the most recent one.
25:10
I'm going to close there.
25:12
I do also want to point out that we're
25:13
in the Document Management panel of-- or the module of BIM 360
25:18
here.
25:20
That's where you access these files.
25:22
If you ever come in, and you're in a different module,
25:25
you won't see the folder structure,
25:27
and you won't find the IWM file.
25:29
So I am going to click on the IWM.
25:31
And that opens up in the Large Model Viewer.
25:35
Now, on the left-hand side is a list of all of the proposals.
25:42
These are the different saved off versions of the InfraWorks
25:46
project.
25:47
I have one that has the buildings included here.
25:49
If I click that, it reloads that version of it.
25:53
Option 2 is where our project building has been shifted
25:56
to a different location--
25:58
so different saved off versions of the project here.
26:01
If I scroll down, at the very bottom is Bookmarks.
26:04
I'll pop that open and then scroll down a little further.
26:07
And I'm going to go to my shortcut of New Office
26:09
Building, and it'll come to this area here.
26:12
Now, I'm going to switch to the Option 2 Location.
26:17
And from that same bookmark there, you
26:20
can see that the building is now orientated differently
26:22
while we're just checking out a different option
26:25
and seeing what the organization that we're working with here
26:28
thinks about this location.
26:32
Now, I'm going to browse over here.
26:36
And first of all, actually, before I
26:37
do that, I do want to point out that we
26:41
are in the 3D version of this, InfraWorks being the 3D model.
26:45
If I go to 2D, we really don't have any 2D sheets of this
26:48
as of yet.
26:49
You could do that later.
26:51
But I'm going to go to 3D to make sure
26:52
that I track all of this.
26:57
I'm also going to come down here to the toolbar at the bottom.
26:60
Kind of on the right-hand side is the Model Explorer.
27:02
In here you'll see a series of eyeballs that turn
27:05
on and off the visuals of this.
27:06
Now, I'm going to come in here.
27:08
And in the buildings, I can click on and off
27:12
individual buildings or all the buildings.
27:13
Now watch the buildings that are in the background here.
27:16
I'm going to turn all the buildings off.
27:18
They will be ghosted back here, so you know that they're there
27:21
or that they have been there.
27:23
But you can see that turned off.
27:27
So some of them have names.
27:28
Others are just numbers.
27:30
But you could turn them off individually or as a grouping.
27:34
You can do that with waterways, like this river right here.
27:37
You can turn that off.
27:39
Things that maybe are visually getting in your way or you
27:42
just don't want to see you can turn on and off to get the best
27:46
view possible.
27:48
The other thing is I'm going to zoom in here and come in here
27:52
and click on the First Person view.
27:54
You could navigate your way over to find a first person
27:57
view, basically a human-height, eyeball view of this.
28:02
I'm going to click on First Person,
28:03
and that will-- first of all, it lets you know, hey,
28:06
these are the keys that you use to control it, arrow keys or W,
28:09
A, S, D to move around and look around and all that.
28:14
But it's going to drop you down to the surface.
28:16
I left-click on my mouse, and now I
28:18
can look around at that height.
28:21
I'm going to use my arrow keys here and walk through.
28:25
In fact, I'm going to hit Shift and run or basically speed up
28:29
through that walk.
28:32
And notice you can go into the inside of buildings.
28:35
We simplified this Revit model before we brought it
28:37
in so that we're not seeing a lot of details.
28:41
That way, it would load faster.
28:43
But we also now are missing a lot of interior details
28:46
that we would normally have.
28:48
But there you can see that first-person view
28:52
of the project.
28:53
And it's going to just maintain your height at the surface
28:57
of your project here.
29:01
Something else you can do--
29:02
I'm going to turn off First Person there
29:04
and zoom back and kind of give myself a side view here.
29:10
You can go in and do a section analysis of roadways
29:13
or, in this case, a building.
29:16
I'll click on that, and you can pick which direction
29:18
you want to be working with.
29:20
I'll click on the x, y plane.
29:22
And there is this red and blue icon here with an arrow.
29:29
If I click on the arrow, I can move that back and forth.
29:37
And it's going to be right near my project there.
29:41
And then you can select on the circles
29:44
that are in that red and blue area there.
29:47
Here I'm doing a horizontal rotate.
29:49
Here I can do a vertical slant to my cut
29:54
and then use that arrow--
29:57
you need to be able to see the arrow there.
29:59
There we are.
29:60
Click that, and then I can move it back and forth once I
30:02
have it at that orientation.
30:05
Now, that slice is giving you a chance
30:07
to look at a cross-section view at that particular plane.
30:12
So that can be useful for identifying and analyzing
30:15
a project further.
30:16
I'm going to turn that off so that we
30:19
can see the whole model again.
30:25
And before we leave here, I am going
30:27
to say that there is a markup tool in here, as well.
30:35
That's going to be this ribbon on the right-hand side
30:38
or toolbar on the right-hand side here.
30:40
I'm going to give myself a call-out here
30:46
and indicate that this area here needs grading.
30:54
So that it can match up with the floor height at that location
30:57
there.
30:58
So that will be available to us.
31:01
I am going to come up and click Save.
31:03
Markup you can cancel if you realize,
31:05
oh, wait, I didn't mean to leave that there.
31:07
Click Save and then that will stay here
31:10
until you exit the Markup view.
31:13
Now, any markup that you do there
31:14
is available to those that are in the project.
31:17
They'll be able to come in here and look at things without it.
31:19
But in the toolbar on the far left-hand side there,
31:22
at the very top, is the Markup area.
31:25
I click that, it will list each markup.
31:27
And then when you click it, it will zoom you to that markup.
31:30
So you don't even know where necessarily is.
31:33
You can click on that.
31:35
It will identify where it is and turn it
31:37
on so that you can see it.
31:38
They can do some work at that location,
31:40
maybe do that grading that you requested.
31:42
And they would have to go into the InfraWorks file
31:45
to do the grading.
31:46
You can't do that here.
31:47
But then exit the Markup view when that is complete.
31:53
Something else that you can do here is right below Markup
31:55
view is Issues.
31:56
Now, Issues is kind of a more formal version of the Markup,
32:00
where if you create an issue--
32:05
and in here, I am going to click a point here and drop
32:09
that where that grading should be.
32:11
And then I'm going to assign this
32:19
to a user that's in the project.
32:21
Unfortunately, currently, I'm the only one in this project.
32:24
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.
32:40
That will list out in the BIM
32:45
Like I said, it's a more formalized way to do this,
32:48
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.
32:59
So now let's look at migrating to BIM 360 Document Management.
33:05
Here are some frequently asked questions.
33:07
Do I need to have a BIM 360 account or BIM 360 Document
33:11
Management project to work with InfraWorks?
33:13
No, you still can work with InfraWorks models locally
33:16
and directly share model data using conventional file sharing
33:20
processes.
33:21
But if you want to share models for online collaboration,
33:24
you will need BIM 360 account and permissions to have BIM 360
33:28
Document Management project.
33:30
What happens to my existing models that were previously
33:33
stored in design groups?
33:35
You can download an existing cloud model
33:37
and publish it to a BIM 360 Document Management project
33:40
from InfraWorks.
33:42
Alternately, you can download models for offline use.
33:46
How will user permissions and groups work?
33:48
The current system of user permissions and groups
33:51
will be placed with BIM 360 Document Management projects
33:54
and project members.
33:56
BIM 360 account administrators can create projects and assign
33:60
project administrators.
34:02
BIM 360 Document Management project administrators
34:05
assign roles to project members and manage folder permissions.
34:09
What happens to the current web and mobile applications?
34:12
The current web and mobile applications
34:14
will be replaced with the more powerful BIM 360
34:17
mobile application for viewing, reviewing, and markups
34:20
of your InfraWorks projects.
34:22
Will Model Builder be included with InfraWorks?
34:24
Yes, it will.
34:28
Other things to know--
34:29
cloud collaboration still works for older releases
34:32
of InfraWorks.
34:33
Model Builder still works for older releases of InfraWorks,
34:36
as well.
34:36
There are changes to other InfraWorks cloud
34:39
services, which means they now only work
34:41
for the latest releases.
34:43
That means watershed analysis, traffic simulation, line girder
34:47
analysis, profile optimization, and quarter optimization.
34:51
For more information, you can follow the link on the screen.
34:55
Web and mobile views created in older releases
34:58
are no longer available.
34:60
The InfraWorks iPad app is no longer available either.
35:06
We would like to encourage you to visit the Customer Success
35:08
Hub for more resources, like courses and learning
35:11
paths, recorded coaching sessions, and more
35:14
live coaching topics like this one.
35:16
Just follow the link at customersuccess.Autodesk.com.
35:20
Thank you all for joining us today, and have a great day.
Video transcript
00:00
RUSS NICLOY: Welcome, everyone, to this Cloud Collaboration
00:02
Leveraging BIM 360 webinar.
00:05
My name is Russ Nicloy, Civil Solutions Specialist
00:07
at MACER Technologies.
00:10
Before we get started, I do want to share the safe harbor
00:12
statement.
00:13
Some things that are said during the session or in answers
00:16
to questions may end up being forward-looking at versions
00:19
of software that are not yet complete.
00:21
We want to make sure that you know not to make purchasing
00:24
decisions based on these statements
00:26
of possible future functionality.
00:30
As I said, my name is Russ Nicloy.
00:32
I'm a Civil Solutions Specialist for MACER Technologies.
00:35
I've been in the industry for 26 years,
00:38
with some time in GIS, survey, site and utility design,
00:42
and over a decade with a reseller partner of Autodesk.
00:46
I now run my own design solutions company
00:48
aiding organizations in the civil industry.
00:52
Just a little bit about the Accelerator program
00:54
that we're looking at here today--
00:56
Autodesk Accelerators are designed
00:58
to help your team stay ahead of the curve with the latest
01:01
workflows.
01:02
We do this through on-demand courses, pre-recorded coaching,
01:06
and live coaching, like what we're doing today.
01:08
See the full list of topics on the Customer Success Hub.
01:14
So what will we be looking at today?
01:16
What will you learn today?
01:18
We're going to be looking at Cloud Collaboration.
01:20
And in that, that will be the cloud
01:23
versus local storage of projects,
01:25
how the Desktop Connector fits into the process,
01:28
and also shared views.
01:30
We'll also be looking at BIM 360 Document Management
01:33
and how it fits in the BIM 360 platform
01:36
and what is BIM 360 Docs, and what's its role, and why?
01:43
Then we'll look at publishing models to BIM 360 Docs
01:46
and first looking at how you will know your model status, as
01:51
well as a Project Setup, Model Builder use and opening
01:54
existing models.
01:56
Then we'll look at a show-me-how demonstration
01:59
to see how BIM 360 is used.
02:04
So let's take a look at Cloud Collaboration.
02:07
Your team and stakeholders can collaborate on an InfraWorks
02:10
model if they have a BIM 360 account
02:13
and they have permission to access your BIM 360 Document
02:16
Management project.
02:18
This process uses Desktop Connector
02:21
to manage the data from InfraWorks that's being
02:23
stored in the BIM 360 project.
02:26
Or you can use Shared Views to provide
02:28
a visual representation of your model in a web browser format.
02:33
Those who give access to can review and markup
02:35
these views for further development or discussion.
02:40
You can collaborate locally without BIM 360
02:42
by sharing the model's SQLITE and associated resource
02:45
folders directly with others to collaborate in an offline mode.
02:52
Here you can see the schematic of the relationships
02:55
between project data and access by collaborators.
02:58
InfraWorks and Revit can connect directly to BIM 360 Docs
03:02
or provide access through the web-based Autodesk Viewer.
03:06
Autodesk Desktop Connector connects other platforms
03:09
like Inventor, Civil
03:12
plus Toolsets, to the Autodesk Drive, BIM 360 Team,
03:16
and BIM 360 Docs.
03:19
Depending on the tools owned by your fellow designers,
03:21
reviewers, or stakeholders, you can see you still have access
03:24
to a collaborative workflow.
03:29
So how does Desktop Connector fit this process?
03:33
While InfraWorks and Revit can save directly to BIM 360 Docs,
03:37
both will use Desktop Connector to link data sources
03:40
or non-work shared Revit files.
03:43
Other products, like Civil
03:47
InfraWorks, and Navisworks--
03:48
Desktop Connector will manage the file saved
03:50
in those platforms and sync them automatically
03:53
with the project folders in BIM 360.
03:56
Civil 3D data shortcut projects can
03:58
be linked using the process and the link provided here
04:01
at the bottom of the slide.
04:06
Now, let's talk about setting up BIM 360.
04:10
Let's take a look at the platform and product offerings
04:13
available in BIM 360.
04:15
First, there is the platform of BIM 360.
04:18
That's the overall.
04:19
Then below that are the products that are available.
04:21
This includes things like Docs but also
04:24
Design, Coordinate, and others.
04:27
Then in each product are modules,
04:29
such as Document Management, Project Home Insight,
04:32
and many others.
04:34
Today, we're going to be focusing on the BIM 360 Docs
04:38
product.
04:41
The module of BIM 360 that we'll be discussing specifically
04:44
today is BIM 360 Document Management, often referred
04:47
to as BIM 360 Docs.
04:50
This is where you will publish your InfraWorks models when
04:52
you want to collaborate with others where
04:55
you can enjoy the benefits of the powerful BIM 360 platform
04:58
or make your InfraWorks models part of the BIM 360
05:01
projects that are already up and running.
05:05
So why the change?
05:06
Well, BIM 360 is built for collaboration.
05:09
It accepts many file types, has a viewer
05:12
that can view many data types, like EWGs, Revit files,
05:18
It has granular and intuitive user access control,
05:22
has tools for markups, comments, and much more.
05:25
So it actually makes perfect sense
05:27
for InfraWorks collaboration to be handled with BIM 360
05:30
rather than having a separate collaboration platform.
05:34
And InfraWorks models are often a component
05:37
of an overall BIM project.
05:38
So they're better alongside other project data
05:40
rather than off on their own little world.
05:43
I think you'll find that you'll really like the BIM 360
05:45
collaboration environment.
05:47
But with any change comes questions,
05:49
and that's what I'm here to hopefully clean up for you
05:51
today.
05:53
Here's the fine print for the BIM 360 Document Management.
05:57
It's a web service that allows you
05:59
to collaborate on your InfraWorks models
06:00
with team members and easily share web views of your models
06:04
in the BIM 360 Viewer.
06:06
Projects are unique locations where project members can
06:10
share project data, manage versions, and collaborate
06:13
in the same cloud shared location.
06:15
Use BIM 360 Document Management to create, publish,
06:19
or synchronize an InfraWorks model or proposal.
06:22
BIM 360 Document Management leverages the BIM 360 Viewer
06:26
to generate views of your design projects in a web browser.
06:30
The BIM viewer will only generate web views
06:32
for InfraWorks models that have been published to a BIM 360
06:35
Document Management project from the InfraWorks desktop
06:39
environment.
06:40
The BIM 360 viewer will not generate web views
06:43
for InfraWorks models that were uploaded to a BIM 360 Document
06:47
Management project from a web browser.
06:51
So let's look at publishing models
06:53
to BIM 360 Document Management.
06:57
We strongly recommend that you create
06:59
local copies of your InfraWorks models
07:02
before upgrading to a newer release.
07:04
That way, you're preserving a backup of the project.
07:08
InfraWorks models are not backward compatible.
07:11
So when you're updating-- when you open a project that
07:14
was created with an earlier version,
07:16
that model will require an upgrade.
07:19
Design roads during the conversion
07:21
will be converted to component roads
07:24
when opened in anything newer than 2019.0.
07:27
Design road style tracks matches to the components.
07:33
If the model has been cached, you
07:34
have the opportunity to preserve the original and upgraded copy.
07:38
Then the original becomes that backup for you.
07:44
Project models will include an icon on the front page.
07:47
So you'll be able to see the status before you access it.
07:51
These include that the model is for view only, stored
07:53
in the cloud only, stored locally,
07:56
is an existing model in the cloud
07:58
that if opened will need to be updated, or is read only,
08:02
a cloud shared model that has been published to BIM 360
08:05
Document Management project, or that the cloud model is
08:09
currently syncing, or that the model needs
08:12
to be upgraded to the current version of InfraWorks.
08:17
So this is what a typical workflow
08:19
for setting up a project in BIM 360 looks like.
08:22
Step 1 is the account administrator.
08:25
Now, notice this is the account administrator, not
08:27
the project administrator.
08:29
The account administrator will launch BIM 360 Account
08:32
Administration and sign in.
08:35
They'll create a BIM 360 project and then assign
08:38
the project administrators.
08:41
Step 2 is that those project administrators will organize
08:45
folders for the project.
08:46
They will also invite project members.
08:50
They will also publish the InfraWorks model
08:52
to BIM 360 Document Management so
08:54
that it can be accessed there.
08:58
Step 3 is for the project members
09:00
who've been assigned to accept the invitations to the project,
09:03
an important first step, view the model of in the BIM 360
09:07
Viewer, open the cloud shared model in InfraWorks,
09:11
perform any desired design modifications
09:14
to your InfraWorks model, and then synchronize
09:16
updates with the cloud shared model
09:18
to make your updates available to the BIM 360 project.
09:24
So what happens if you can't access
09:26
your process your project?
09:28
Well, the first step is to accept the invitation.
09:31
What we're looking at here is a little snippet
09:34
of an email that is sent when you are added
09:36
to a project as a project user.
09:38
You will see the project's name in the top bar and then
09:42
who has added you as a member of the project.
09:44
That way, if you were added in error, you can check with them.
09:48
But then you simply click the go to your project button,
09:50
and it will take you there.
09:52
You do have to accept this invitation
09:54
to access the project.
09:59
Some may be familiar that in earlier versions of InfraWorks,
10:03
like the 2019 version, you needed a BIM 360
10:06
project to store the model.
10:08
And then, at some point, there was a little bit of time
10:11
there that you would need to download it locally but then
10:14
publish it up to the BIM 360 project later.
10:18
Currently, or after the 2020.0 release,
10:21
which is April of
10:24
given the option of storing the project in Autodesk Docs
10:27
or locally as you're creating the project.
10:30
If you do choose to store it locally,
10:32
you do have an option later to publish it to BIM 360 Autodesk
10:36
Docs folder.
10:40
So let's look at opening existing models.
10:42
There are three different scenarios for existing models
10:45
that you may be opening here.
10:47
First of all, there are cloud models that are in the cloud
10:50
and have a local copy or cache.
10:54
There's also cloud models that have no local cache,
10:57
meaning that they've only lived in the cloud.
11:01
And finally, local models that are strictly local
11:04
and have never been in the cloud.
11:08
So first, the cloud model with the local cache--
11:12
in that process, you have two choices.
11:15
One is to upgrade the model.
11:17
This will be a local cache copy of the model
11:20
opens and is upgraded.
11:22
During the first sync, changes are then
11:23
resolved between the cloud version and the local version.
11:26
And the cloud model will be migrated to BIM 360.
11:32
You will need to choose a BIM 360
11:34
location for this first sync or migration.
11:37
And note, you will need to have BIM 360 set up
11:39
before you do this.
11:43
The other choice is to upgrade a copy.
11:45
Now, what this does is a local cached model
11:48
is copied to a location you specify and upgraded.
11:52
Any outstanding changes from the cloud version are not synced.
11:56
You can publish this copy to the BIM 360 environment.
11:59
And of course, you do have to have BIM 360 set up
12:02
before doing this.
12:04
And the original local version is left intact,
12:07
and again, that's your backup copy.
12:13
Now, for the cloud model without local cache,
12:17
the model is upgraded while it is downloaded and opened.
12:20
It does that automatically during the open process.
12:23
During the first sync, changes will
12:25
be resolved between the cloud version and the local version,
12:28
and the cloud model will be migrated over to BIM 360.
12:32
You will need to choose a BIM 360
12:34
location for this first sync or migration.
12:36
And of course, you do need BIM
12:45
If you have a local model, you have two choices.
12:47
First of all is upgrade the model.
12:52
This means the local model opens and is upgraded in one step.
12:57
The other choice is that you upgrade a copy.
12:59
This means the upgraded version of the model
13:01
is saved locally where you specify,
13:03
and the original version is left intact.
13:07
Now note, if you want it to become a cloud model,
13:10
you can publish it to BIM 360 later on.
13:13
You will need to set up BIM 360 before, again,
13:15
but you can do that at any point during the process.
13:22
So what can you do with BIM 360?
13:25
Here's a short video on some of those things
13:27
that you can do with BIM 360?
13:30
[VIDEO PLAYBACK]
13:31
Now that you've created a project
13:32
and invited some collaborators, you
13:34
can continue to add more data to your project
13:36
and work toward getting as much benefit as possible out
13:39
of the Autodesk Docs environment.
13:44
Once you make changes, simply sync your model,
13:46
and the changes will be pushed to Autodesk
13:48
Docs as a new version.
13:50
Anyone collaborating with you can sync your changes
13:53
down to their models so that you all work on the same latest
13:56
version.
14:08
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,
14:19
then browse into the project folders
14:21
to find your InfraWorks project file.
14:28
In the Autodesk Docs environment,
14:30
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
14:40
represents the model.
14:42
You can't download it and open it
14:44
as if it were an InfraWorks model itself.
14:49
If you have created and published multiple proposals,
14:52
you can easily choose the proposal
14:54
you want from the Sheets & Views section on the left.
14:57
Then you can freely navigate the model
14:59
by zooming, orbiting, and panning.
15:02
There's even a first-person tool that will allow you
15:05
or one of your collaborators to walk the model and take a tour.
15:11
Notice how I can tour this Revit model, which
15:13
was present within the InfraWorks model
15:15
when I published it.
15:25
The Section tool is another handy way
15:27
to view and analyze the model, allowing you to slice it
15:30
along any plane or angle.
15:41
You or your collaborators can use the measurement tools
15:43
to measure distances and angles.
15:45
And the markup tools are very handy for communication
15:48
within your team when changes are needed or questions arise.
15:58
For a more formal way of managing questions and issues,
16:01
you can use the Issues functionality.
16:03
Issues are located in the model and assigned to a person.
16:07
You can even assign a due date.
16:09
In this way, you're not only pointing out
16:11
problems or questions, but you're also
16:13
establishing accountability and a way
16:15
to track whether they've been addressed or not.
16:19
The Model Browser feature allows you
16:21
to navigate through the individual components
16:23
of your model, such as buildings, streets,
16:25
water features, and much more.
16:38
You can also access the Settings to control how you navigate
16:40
your model as well as adjust the performance and appearance
16:44
that best suits your model.
16:53
And that's a look at some of the things
16:54
you can do from within your InfraWorks model.
16:57
Imagine if you upload your plan sets, Civil 3D drawings,
17:01
Revit models, photographs, and other project data
17:04
to this powerful collaborative environment.
17:08
You could benefit from the same online viewing, markups,
17:11
issue tracking, and other capabilities
17:13
that you just saw for all your project data, not just
17:17
InfraWorks models.
17:20
And your team can do it from their desktops, tablets or cell
17:23
phones.
17:24
All they need is an internet connection.
17:36
Now we're going to move to a show-me-how demonstration which
17:39
will include opening existing models in InfraWorks.
17:43
And that includes navigating the Home screen,
17:45
how to sync a model, deleting proposals in the cloud,
17:49
and then accessing a BIM 360 project.
17:53
BIM 360 functionalities include browsing file structure, file
17:57
versioning in BIM 360 Docs, view model and proposals,
18:01
sectioning, model properties, view settings,
18:04
measuring distances and creating markups,
18:07
issue creation and issue management,
18:09
navigating through the model components and model layers,
18:13
set up navigation settings and BIM 360 Viewer appearance.
18:16
Note, the model's accessible through desktop, tablets,
18:19
and cell phones.
18:21
[END PLAYBACK]
18:23
RUSS NICLOY: We are already having InfraWorks open here.
18:26
We're at the Project Selection page.
18:28
We're on the Recent tab here.
18:30
You can see some files that we've been working on.
18:33
In these files, there is a monitor
18:36
that indicates a local file and a cloud icon that
18:40
indicates a file that is already in BIM 360, the Autodesk Docs
18:45
area.
18:46
Now, as you're creating files, you
18:48
can click New and start your own, build it
18:51
with your own data set.
18:53
Or you can use Model Builder, and then that starts you off
18:56
with the open street data, such as surfaces, roads, rail,
19:01
water, and other things like that.
19:03
Either way, it will take a second for either of them
19:07
to kind of spin up the project.
19:09
When you select on the project for the first time, first
19:12
of all, there won't be a thumbnail sketch here.
19:14
It'll be kind of a blank box.
19:17
When you select on that, it will take a second to spin up.
19:20
And then it'll ask you, do you want
19:22
to go local or to Autodesk Docs.
19:25
Now, if you pick local and then, later on,
19:28
need to go back to Docs, you can always
19:29
do that from within InfraWorks itself.
19:33
There is a Sync button that will sync that
19:35
into a project that's there.
19:38
So you're not locked out if you choose local over cloud
19:41
at first and then have to change your mind.
19:43
Now, that being said, this is the Recent page.
19:46
If I come back over to Autodesk Docs,
19:48
then this will be the project location.
19:51
And here, just like in Autodesk Docs,
19:54
you can see that my account name is at the top.
19:56
My project name, if I click this dropdown,
19:58
I've got a list of other projects
19:60
that I'm working on in Autodesk Docs.
20:03
And in here, the Shrewsbury project that I'm working on--
20:06
if I go into project files, my company
20:10
has an InfraWorks folder in here.
20:14
And then this is the Shrewsbury project
20:19
that we can get to right here.
20:27
Now, in here there's a couple of buttons
20:29
that I want to show before we move into Autodesk Docs
20:34
to look at this file in InfraWorks.
20:36
I am going to call out that these are the bookmarks.
20:39
These are areas that you can Zoom to in the file, and also
20:43
the proposals.
20:44
These are saved off versions of the project.
20:48
So you might have a building in one location in one
20:50
and have it in a different location.
20:52
Or maybe a bridge has a slightly different design, or a roadway.
20:56
You could have that as different proposals in here.
20:58
These both make an appearance in Autodesk Docs, so understand
21:02
that whatever is in this button and whatever's in this dropdown
21:05
will be available over there.
21:07
Now, up in the upper right-hand corner, we have two buttons.
21:10
One is Autodesk Docs directly.
21:12
This will open up a viewer.
21:14
This is not your BIM 360 instance.
21:18
This is just a viewer of what's in BIM 360
21:21
or in the Autodesk Docs area.
21:24
But that can be useful.
21:25
You can just hop over there real quick
21:27
to see what an Autodesk Docs user is seeing.
21:32
The Sync button here will sync up the changes
21:35
that have that you've made.
21:36
In fact, I'm going to click that right now.
21:38
It takes a second to spin up.
21:40
The larger the project, the longer this
21:42
takes, just because it's more data it's got to gather.
21:46
But here you can see that there are changes wherever
21:48
there's yellow markers here.
21:50
This is a list of all of those proposals
21:53
that I was talking about earlier.
21:55
And then you can decide which proposal should come over
21:58
to your project.
22:00
In this case, I do want to share the changes to this one here.
22:05
And then the Utilities and Common Resources,
22:07
I'll leave those marked and go.
22:09
You can also add a description of what the changes are here.
22:13
I'm going to click Sync and sync those up.
22:16
Now, that is making sure that all those changes are synced.
22:20
But that also does mean a new version is being created
22:24
in Autodesk Docs so that anyone who's
22:27
accessing the project from there will see the updated
22:29
information.
22:30
And you'll see that there's a versioning
22:32
point that will indicate which version that we're on.
22:42
And then, from here, you can click on Autodesk Docs here,
22:45
and it would be the same as clicking on the icon up here.
22:47
It's just getting into that viewer.
22:49
I am going to close this, because I'm
22:51
going to log into BIM
22:55
Before I leave, however, if you ever
22:57
don't want to keep one of these proposals,
22:60
you can come over to the Manage tab, Model panel.
23:04
This icon here is Proposals.
23:07
And in here, you could select whatever proposal
23:10
you don't want and then click this button right here.
23:13
It's a cloud with an X. And that will get rid
23:16
of that proposal for you.
23:17
So there is a way--
23:19
that way, you don't have too many that build up.
23:22
Now with that, let me switch over to BIM 360
23:27
I've already logged in to BIM 360 here.
23:30
You can see here that we are in the Shrewsbury project
23:33
that we were just looking at there.
23:36
If I click the dropdown, you see that whole list
23:38
of different projects that I could get to.
23:40
In here, I am going to select on the InfraWorks folder.
23:43
And there is the IWM file.
23:45
Now, this IWM file is just a viewer file of this project.
23:51
While the InfraWorks project is stored in BIM 360
23:56
in the folder structure that we have there,
23:58
the only way that you have access to it through BIM 360
24:01
is this IWM file.
24:02
It's not editable per se.
24:04
You can do markups, and you'll see that a little bit later.
24:07
But this is something that makes it a viewer so
24:10
that you can show this quickly.
24:12
Those without InfraWorks will be able to see it through here,
24:15
as well.
24:16
They'll be able to double click on this IWM file
24:18
and get to that, as well.
24:20
Now, that being said, I do want to point out the version right
24:24
here is V5.
24:25
Notice that we have the little spinning wheel here.
24:27
That's because it is updating the version that we just
24:32
synced.
24:32
This is the other side of that sync process here.
24:35
So this might take a minute or two.
24:37
We'll come back when this is complete.
24:44
And there you can see that's now completed, stopped spinning.
24:47
I do want to come over here to the Version
24:49
and click on that so you can see the version history, dates,
24:53
and who uploaded them.
24:55
And V5 is current.
24:56
If you were to switch to one of these
24:58
and make them current instead, it's
25:01
not changing the InfraWorks file at all.
25:03
It's only going back to the different IWM files,
25:06
those viewer files that are available here.
25:08
So I'm going to stick with the most recent one.
25:10
I'm going to close there.
25:12
I do also want to point out that we're
25:13
in the Document Management panel of-- or the module of BIM 360
25:18
here.
25:20
That's where you access these files.
25:22
If you ever come in, and you're in a different module,
25:25
you won't see the folder structure,
25:27
and you won't find the IWM file.
25:29
So I am going to click on the IWM.
25:31
And that opens up in the Large Model Viewer.
25:35
Now, on the left-hand side is a list of all of the proposals.
25:42
These are the different saved off versions of the InfraWorks
25:46
project.
25:47
I have one that has the buildings included here.
25:49
If I click that, it reloads that version of it.
25:53
Option 2 is where our project building has been shifted
25:56
to a different location--
25:58
so different saved off versions of the project here.
26:01
If I scroll down, at the very bottom is Bookmarks.
26:04
I'll pop that open and then scroll down a little further.
26:07
And I'm going to go to my shortcut of New Office
26:09
Building, and it'll come to this area here.
26:12
Now, I'm going to switch to the Option 2 Location.
26:17
And from that same bookmark there, you
26:20
can see that the building is now orientated differently
26:22
while we're just checking out a different option
26:25
and seeing what the organization that we're working with here
26:28
thinks about this location.
26:32
Now, I'm going to browse over here.
26:36
And first of all, actually, before I
26:37
do that, I do want to point out that we
26:41
are in the 3D version of this, InfraWorks being the 3D model.
26:45
If I go to 2D, we really don't have any 2D sheets of this
26:48
as of yet.
26:49
You could do that later.
26:51
But I'm going to go to 3D to make sure
26:52
that I track all of this.
26:57
I'm also going to come down here to the toolbar at the bottom.
26:60
Kind of on the right-hand side is the Model Explorer.
27:02
In here you'll see a series of eyeballs that turn
27:05
on and off the visuals of this.
27:06
Now, I'm going to come in here.
27:08
And in the buildings, I can click on and off
27:12
individual buildings or all the buildings.
27:13
Now watch the buildings that are in the background here.
27:16
I'm going to turn all the buildings off.
27:18
They will be ghosted back here, so you know that they're there
27:21
or that they have been there.
27:23
But you can see that turned off.
27:27
So some of them have names.
27:28
Others are just numbers.
27:30
But you could turn them off individually or as a grouping.
27:34
You can do that with waterways, like this river right here.
27:37
You can turn that off.
27:39
Things that maybe are visually getting in your way or you
27:42
just don't want to see you can turn on and off to get the best
27:46
view possible.
27:48
The other thing is I'm going to zoom in here and come in here
27:52
and click on the First Person view.
27:54
You could navigate your way over to find a first person
27:57
view, basically a human-height, eyeball view of this.
28:02
I'm going to click on First Person,
28:03
and that will-- first of all, it lets you know, hey,
28:06
these are the keys that you use to control it, arrow keys or W,
28:09
A, S, D to move around and look around and all that.
28:14
But it's going to drop you down to the surface.
28:16
I left-click on my mouse, and now I
28:18
can look around at that height.
28:21
I'm going to use my arrow keys here and walk through.
28:25
In fact, I'm going to hit Shift and run or basically speed up
28:29
through that walk.
28:32
And notice you can go into the inside of buildings.
28:35
We simplified this Revit model before we brought it
28:37
in so that we're not seeing a lot of details.
28:41
That way, it would load faster.
28:43
But we also now are missing a lot of interior details
28:46
that we would normally have.
28:48
But there you can see that first-person view
28:52
of the project.
28:53
And it's going to just maintain your height at the surface
28:57
of your project here.
29:01
Something else you can do--
29:02
I'm going to turn off First Person there
29:04
and zoom back and kind of give myself a side view here.
29:10
You can go in and do a section analysis of roadways
29:13
or, in this case, a building.
29:16
I'll click on that, and you can pick which direction
29:18
you want to be working with.
29:20
I'll click on the x, y plane.
29:22
And there is this red and blue icon here with an arrow.
29:29
If I click on the arrow, I can move that back and forth.
29:37
And it's going to be right near my project there.
29:41
And then you can select on the circles
29:44
that are in that red and blue area there.
29:47
Here I'm doing a horizontal rotate.
29:49
Here I can do a vertical slant to my cut
29:54
and then use that arrow--
29:57
you need to be able to see the arrow there.
29:59
There we are.
29:60
Click that, and then I can move it back and forth once I
30:02
have it at that orientation.
30:05
Now, that slice is giving you a chance
30:07
to look at a cross-section view at that particular plane.
30:12
So that can be useful for identifying and analyzing
30:15
a project further.
30:16
I'm going to turn that off so that we
30:19
can see the whole model again.
30:25
And before we leave here, I am going
30:27
to say that there is a markup tool in here, as well.
30:35
That's going to be this ribbon on the right-hand side
30:38
or toolbar on the right-hand side here.
30:40
I'm going to give myself a call-out here
30:46
and indicate that this area here needs grading.
30:54
So that it can match up with the floor height at that location
30:57
there.
30:58
So that will be available to us.
31:01
I am going to come up and click Save.
31:03
Markup you can cancel if you realize,
31:05
oh, wait, I didn't mean to leave that there.
31:07
Click Save and then that will stay here
31:10
until you exit the Markup view.
31:13
Now, any markup that you do there
31:14
is available to those that are in the project.
31:17
They'll be able to come in here and look at things without it.
31:19
But in the toolbar on the far left-hand side there,
31:22
at the very top, is the Markup area.
31:25
I click that, it will list each markup.
31:27
And then when you click it, it will zoom you to that markup.
31:30
So you don't even know where necessarily is.
31:33
You can click on that.
31:35
It will identify where it is and turn it
31:37
on so that you can see it.
31:38
They can do some work at that location,
31:40
maybe do that grading that you requested.
31:42
And they would have to go into the InfraWorks file
31:45
to do the grading.
31:46
You can't do that here.
31:47
But then exit the Markup view when that is complete.
31:53
Something else that you can do here is right below Markup
31:55
view is Issues.
31:56
Now, Issues is kind of a more formal version of the Markup,
32:00
where if you create an issue--
32:05
and in here, I am going to click a point here and drop
32:09
that where that grading should be.
32:11
And then I'm going to assign this
32:19
to a user that's in the project.
32:21
Unfortunately, currently, I'm the only one in this project.
32:24
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.
32:40
That will list out in the BIM
32:45
Like I said, it's a more formalized way to do this,
32:48
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.
32:59
So now let's look at migrating to BIM 360 Document Management.
33:05
Here are some frequently asked questions.
33:07
Do I need to have a BIM 360 account or BIM 360 Document
33:11
Management project to work with InfraWorks?
33:13
No, you still can work with InfraWorks models locally
33:16
and directly share model data using conventional file sharing
33:20
processes.
33:21
But if you want to share models for online collaboration,
33:24
you will need BIM 360 account and permissions to have BIM 360
33:28
Document Management project.
33:30
What happens to my existing models that were previously
33:33
stored in design groups?
33:35
You can download an existing cloud model
33:37
and publish it to a BIM 360 Document Management project
33:40
from InfraWorks.
33:42
Alternately, you can download models for offline use.
33:46
How will user permissions and groups work?
33:48
The current system of user permissions and groups
33:51
will be placed with BIM 360 Document Management projects
33:54
and project members.
33:56
BIM 360 account administrators can create projects and assign
33:60
project administrators.
34:02
BIM 360 Document Management project administrators
34:05
assign roles to project members and manage folder permissions.
34:09
What happens to the current web and mobile applications?
34:12
The current web and mobile applications
34:14
will be replaced with the more powerful BIM 360
34:17
mobile application for viewing, reviewing, and markups
34:20
of your InfraWorks projects.
34:22
Will Model Builder be included with InfraWorks?
34:24
Yes, it will.
34:28
Other things to know--
34:29
cloud collaboration still works for older releases
34:32
of InfraWorks.
34:33
Model Builder still works for older releases of InfraWorks,
34:36
as well.
34:36
There are changes to other InfraWorks cloud
34:39
services, which means they now only work
34:41
for the latest releases.
34:43
That means watershed analysis, traffic simulation, line girder
34:47
analysis, profile optimization, and quarter optimization.
34:51
For more information, you can follow the link on the screen.
34:55
Web and mobile views created in older releases
34:58
are no longer available.
34:60
The InfraWorks iPad app is no longer available either.
35:06
We would like to encourage you to visit the Customer Success
35:08
Hub for more resources, like courses and learning
35:11
paths, recorded coaching sessions, and more
35:14
live coaching topics like this one.
35:16
Just follow the link at customersuccess.Autodesk.com.
35:20
Thank you all for joining us today, and have a great day.
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