- [Narrator] In this video we're going
to look at and install a desktop connector.
Desktop Connector is a piece of software
that you can download and install
to enable you to link DWG files
and several other file formats
to your Revit projects that you're storing
in BIM 360 in the cloud,
so using this software it makes it very easy
for you to keep those other types
of file formats up to date
as your projects progress.
As with installing any software,
it's a pretty good idea to close down other software
that might conflict,
certainly Revit in this case,
so I am going to quit out of Revit
and then I'm here in my web browser
and I just simply searched for desktop connector install,
and this link came up at the top here,
so I will click on that
and this is the Autodesk Knowledge Network
and there's a few simple steps here,
so the first thing of course is to click the link
to begin the download.
So right here it is downloading the desktop connector
and once that completes we will be able to install it.
Okay, it's ready.
I'll click Open File.
There is the standard license agreement.
Read through that.
Check here if you agree
and then click Install.
Now this should just take a few moments,
and then when it's complete you just simply click close.
So after the installation is complete,
it will display a help file
that gives you information about the desktop connector
and then a little getting started slideshow right here,
and you can click through these slides
to learn a little bit more
about how this software functions,
so you sign in
and then you will have a link in your Windows Explorer
for a virtual drive, if you want to think of it that way,
almost like a Dropbox or Google Drive,
something like that,
and then you can upload files
to those locations
and then even if you're offline
it's able to synchronize the changes when you reconnect.
So you can close this and that will display Windows Explorer
and you can see the drive that it created right here,
so if I double click that,
you can see any accounts you have access to
and then if I go into one of those accounts,
you can see any of the projects,
and then you can continue to browse into those folders
to see their content,
so I'm going to close out of these windows here
and relaunch Revit,
so now here on recent files you can see the cloud model
that I had open in a previous video.
I will reopen that now
and unlike last time,
this time I won't get an error
about the CAD file that it's trying to load
because I now have Desktop Connector,
and so this time you can see it transferring
the latest version of the DWG file
as it loads up the Revit model.
So once the file is loaded,
then if we take a look at the managed links dialogue
on the insert tab
and click on the CAD Formats tab,
you will see that the DWG file
that was previously not found
has been successfully loaded at its location
in BIM 360.
Make sure you install the desktop connector
to take full advantage of linking in DWGs
and other popular file formats.