- [Instructor] BIM 360 design offers us many more benefits
than simply allowing us access to cloud-based Revit models.
Now, don't get me wrong, accessing cloud-based Revit models
is an important benefit of the software.
But there's many other features
that we have access to using only a web browser.
So let me show you some of those advantages.
To get started, I'm in a web browser here
and I've typed in b2.autodesk.com.
And that will display a sign in page and I'll click Sign In.
Now of course, you'll need an artist account
and we discussed that in a previous video.
But if you haven't already done so you can click
Create an account right here.
Otherwise put in your username and password.
And then that will present you
with a few different access points.
So to get started here, I'll just do the project homepage.
And that displays a page that looks something like this.
Most projects will have some sort of a map
and maybe a little bit about the weather,
some details on some project issues
or some other stats on the project.
So this is a pretty simple homepage.
And we can actually customize it.
But I don't really want to spend a lot of time here
on the homepage.
This is really more of a landing page.
And I just want to use it as an opportunity
to give you an overview of how the interface works here.
The most important thing to do first
is to make sure you're in the right account in project.
So you can do that right up here at the top of the screen.
So there's a drop down menu here.
And if you have access to more than one account,
then you can switch accounts
by clicking change account here.
So in this case, my user Julie
that I'm logged in as only has access to one account,
so no need to change that.
And then for Julie, there's only one project
within that account that she has access to.
So again, the choice is simple here,
but in your screen, you might see several projects
to choose from.
So feel free to choose whatever project you want.
If you're following along with me.
It's really not that important exactly
what project you're in for this example.
Now, I said I was logged in as Julie,
you can see that over here.
Okay, so you'll have a badge over
on the far right hand side
and that will give your login information.
And there's a link here for profile settings,
and you can sign out here.
Now right next to that is a Help menu.
And you've got the homepage for help,
which has all the help articles,
you've got this item right here,
which would show you a quick tour.
So this quick tour would launch
the very first time you log in.
But if you've previously dismissed it,
and you want to get back to it,
then you can just launch it there.
And you've got these several slides
that you can click next through and these little blue dots
kind of guide you along the way.
I'll just close out of that.
There's an about screen and then several web pages
that you can visit for either accessing the user community
or contacting support and so on.
Now, each user is assigned access to different projects
and also different modules.
So all of this will be configured by your BIM manager
or your account admin, somebody who sets up your software
in your firm, and we'll talk about
this in more detail in a future set of videos.
But to see what you have access to,
you can use the module picker.
So the module picker is right here, these little nine dots
or you can just click right on the title there.
And depending on how you're logged in,
and what modules you have access to,
you might see several or just a few items here.
So Julie is a fairly limited user.
So she's got project home, everybody has that
she does have access to this module called insight,
which is kind of like a more robust version of project home.
It's got some project analytics
and some other charts and graphs.
And so it just gives you a few more tools,
and then document management.
Now everybody typically has access to document management.
It's one of the most basic modules in BIM 360.
And so let's go ahead and click on that module
because that is a little bit more interesting
than Project home.
Now, there's lots we can do here,
I'm not going to go through everything,
I'm really just going to give you some of the key highlights
of the Document Management module.
Now, the first thing that you notice here
is that it gives us access to the folder structure
of the project.
So Julie, in this case, has access
to the architecture folder, everybody has access
to the shared folder, so she sees that as well.
And then I've got the architecture folder selected.
And you can see some documents within that folder over here
on the right hand side.
Notice the file extensions.
So there's a Revit file here,
and there's a PDF right below it.
So PDFs are pretty basic.
Everybody kind of understands those.
And you could click on it, and it would actually open
that PDF in its own little viewer window.
And you could move around in the PDF and zoom in,
take measurements even in some cases
and there's a whole bunch of markup tools.
So it's actually a fairly robust viewer.
There's a little menu right here.
And you could download the source file,
or you could share it or export it.
So I'm just going to close out of that without making
any changes to that PDF.
But go ahead and feel free to explore
on your own if you have access
to a similar PDF on your own screen.
But I think what's even more interesting
is the fact that I can do the same kind of thing
with a Revit file.
Now, Julie is not a Revit user,
she's more of an admin person
and fulfills an analytical role in the project.
But just the same, if she needs some information
from the Revit project, she can just click on it right here
and document management and doesn't even have to have a copy
of Revit doesn't even have to know anything about Revit.
Okay, so that's one of the most powerful features
of the Document Management module.
So once you're in here, it will give you
on the left hand side here a series of views.
So it defaults to this axonometric view
in the project time in but notice that there are other views
to choose from here and all of these are interactive.
So by just rolling the wheel on my mouse, I can zoom in.
And if I roll in the other direction, I can zoom back out.
If I hold that wheel down and drag around the screen,
I can pan side to side or up and down.
If you're working on a laptop, and you don't have a wheel
or a mouse, then you can use the pan icon here
to pan around and there's two ways to zoom,
you can use the zoom in window to draw a box around an area
that you want to zoom in on or if you want
the more interactive zoom experience,
like you would get with the wheel,
you can choose the Zoom tool,
and then just drag with the left button of the mouse
to get the same kind of experience.
So if you're working on a trackpad on a laptop,
those can be good alternatives.
Now, this button here allows you
to zoom back out all the way so that's just fit to the view.
And then there's some orbit tools here.
So this allows you to kind of spin the model around
and kind of change the vantage point.
And you can do similar things with the view cube over here.
So if you've worked in any of the Autodesk products,
then you're already probably familiar with the view cube,
you can click on one of the surfaces
and it will orient to that direction,
then use these little arrows here to spin 90 degrees
to another direction, spin 90 degrees to look straight down.
And then if I use the little corners here,
I can go back to an axonometric view
to kind of orient in that vantage point.
So lots of ways to kind of zoom and pan
and navigate around the view.
And I pointed out these other views over here,
but all you have to do to switch
to one of those is select it.
So if I wanted to jump inside the building
and take a look at what it looks like here from above,
then I can just click that view
and I'm right inside the space.
There's lots of other sort of navigation
that we can do in here.
There are markup tools.
There's even the ability for us to select objects
and then click on a little pallet here
and read properties about that object.
So getting back to our user, Julie, who is not a Revit user,
if she just needs to know some information about this wall
or about this countertop,
she can simply click on that, click on the properties,
scroll through grab the information she needs.
And again, doesn't need to know how to go into Revit
to do that, it doesn't need to burden a Revit user
to give her that information she can get it herself.
Very powerful set of features in here.
And I encourage you to spend a little bit more time
just sort of getting comfortable with how this viewer works
and navigating around the view.
And when you're done, you can exit out of it right here
to close out of that view and you're back
to the list of folders.
Now admittedly, this was a really fast overview
of the Document Management module.
And that's because I'm going to spend most of our time
talking about the design collaboration module instead.
But if you want to learn more about
the Document Management module, it is an important piece
of BIM 360 then I encourage you to consider watching
the BIM 360 Docs Essential Training course
here in the library.
It's an excellent course and it will give you
a nice overview of all of the different features
that are available in the Document Management module.