- [Instructor] A really neat feature
of the BIM 360 platform is that you can take it mobile
and view your modules using a variety of iPad apps.
So I'm here in my iPad right now
and I went to the App Store and just searched for BIM 360
and I just wanted to show you
that there are several apps here.
So you do want to make sure
that you download one that corresponds
to whatever services you actually have available.
I also want to point out
that not every BIM 360 service has a separate app.
So for example, we're going to look at BIM 360 Docs,
but BIM 360 Design does not have a mobile app.
That's because BIM 360 Design is specifically a feature set
that works within Revit
and Revit doesn't run on the iPad directly.
So I've got BIM 360 Docs already installed,
I'm going to tap this open link right here to launch it
and that will take me into that app.
Now previously, I logged in with my username and password
and so the first time you install this app
and run it, you'll have to do the same.
Now what you see on your screen might look a little
different than mine depending
on which projects you have set up
and what level of access you have.
So let me just show you how you can get
to the various projects that you have available.
There's a menu icon in the upper left hand corner,
tap that and you can see at the very top
that I'm currently in the Nadias Garden project.
Now if I tap that,
you can see that I also have access
to another project the London Hotel.
Now I'm going to stay in Nadias garden
and just tap back to projects there
and you could see that project files is highlighted next.
We also have the ability to go to downloads,
to issues, help and support
and at the bottom to edit our profile or settings.
So I'm going to leave project files selected,
tap away from that menu to dismiss it
and that's where we see this folder structure.
Now again, whatever project you decide
to load up here is fine.
You won't necessarily see exactly
the same things I'm seeing
but what you should be able to do is tap
in one of these folders and find a Revit file
that you can view right here on your iPad.
So I'm going to go into this shared folder here
and then into the architecture folder
and you'll see that my architectural model is listed here.
It's a Revit file and when I tap it,
it will actually load the Revit model right here
in a viewer window within the iPad app.
So this is really powerful
and you can do some obvious things that you might expect,
like just simply drag on the screen to orbit around,
you can pinch zoom to zoom in or to zoom out
and kind of get a look at things
and you can even tap on stuff to select them.
So it's a fully interactive version of your Revit model.
Now, you can't make changes to the model here,
you can just view it and study it
and understand the information about it
and you can also make comments and read marks.
So I'll show you some of those features.
So as far as basic navigation, it's the dragging
and pinch zooming that I just showed you
but notice there's a small toolbar
at the bottom left hand corner
and if I tap these two little footprints
that will change me to perspective view
and what I'm going to do is just kind of drag a little bit so
that I could kind of see down into that space
and if you just sort of double tap
somewhere where the floor is inside there,
like between these two tables maybe,
that will actually take me right into the model
and then I can just sort of start dragging
to kind of get a better look
and you could just sort of take a look around
inside the model this way,
just by dragging with your finger.
Now if you double tap somewhere else,
it will jump to that new location.
So that's one way that you could kind
of get a look around the space.
Another way that you could look
around the space is more interactive
and that's using this little joystick here floating
above the toolbar.
So if you tap the big dot in the middle
and just sort of drag left or right
that will kind of turn your head and look around.
If you drag up, you'll be walking forward
and if you drag down, you'll be walking backward.
and you can kind of do a little bit of both
just by sort of dragging around with this joystick.
So it takes a little bit of practice to get used to it
but it really won't take that long
for you to get the hang of it
and I've already gotten a lot better at it myself
but at first I was crashing into things
and not doing a very good job of it.
When you're ready to get out of this mode,
just tap the footprints again
and that will turn that off
and then you're kind of back in that more standard mode.
So you can see here inside the model
it doesn't orbit very well.
So what I'm going to do is pinch zoom
to kind of get back outside
and then it will orbit a little bit more logically
because I'm going to be focusing on the entire model now.
Okay, so that's the different ways
that you can orbit around your model.
Other things that you can do is
right here there's a little plane icon
and if you tap that you get X, Y, Z and box
and what this will let you do is
actually section cut the model so
that you can cut away certain portion of it.
So with Z for example, that will cut away the roof
and let me look down into it
and this is fully orbital
so it's kind of like creating an interactive plan view.
Now this little white arrow here,
if you tap and drag on that,
you can actually move where the cut plane is
and change that interactively.
You can also tap this thing to turn it off
and then switch to a different mode.
So this is the Y direction
and you've got these little curved lines here
that actually will allow you to,
just tap away from that for a minute.
There we go.
You can actually change the angle of that cutting plane.
Now with a building,
I don't know if that would be terribly appropriate
but sometimes that could be useful to do,
especially if you have some really interesting geometry.
So let me tap and turn off again.
Now next to that is a tape measure icon.
So this one is pretty straightforward,
just tap somewhere to place your first point,
tap somewhere else to place your second point,
let me just kind of pinch zoom in on that a little bit.
And what's really interesting about this is if you tap
and hold down on that little dot,
you'll actually get these little object snaps
that appear kind of magnifies in
so that you can be sure that you're snapping directly
to that point that you want to measure
and then that gives you a little bit more confidence
in the measurement that it's giving you there.
I'll tap away from that icon to turn that off again.
Now over on the right hand side
at the very top is a small little Chevron icon
and if I tap that, that will expand open the model browser.
Now let me just kind
of pinch zoom this out a little bit here
and show you the way that this works.
So a moment ago, I selected a roof
and you can see that it actually expanded the browser down
to that item.
So like if I tap that roof again,
you see how it has highlights that item on the list.
So literally every model element
in your model will be listed here
on this browser organized by category,
just like it would be in Revit.
Now another really interesting thing
that you can do here is you can actually tap the category
and it will ghost out the rest of the model
and focus on just that category.
So there's the furniture or the walls
or the doors or the casework
and you see how it actually zooms in on those items.
Now I'm currently logged in as Howie
and he's our structural engineer,
so he might be interested in either the structural
or architectural columns
and you can tap on either one of those
to kind of get a better look
and then as I showed you a moment ago with the roof,
you can even tap that item and select it.
Now when you have an item selected,
right next to the browser is an information icon
and this is the properties palette
and if you sort of swipe through all
of this information here you can see
that this is all of the property information
that you would have available
if you selected the same element in Revit.
So that full richness of your BIM information
that comes from Revit will be fully available
to you here in your iPad mobile app.
Now the last two tabs are markups and issues.
So these are similar to one another.
What these are is notes
that people have placed directly in the viewer
that they want other people to see,
maybe their questions, maybe it's information,
maybe it's a problem.
If you want to assign that to a specific person
and give them an action item, it's an issue.
If you just want to kind of for everyone's information,
then that would be a markup.
So here you can see that Howie created a test markup
and let me just show you how to create one of those.
So first thing I'm going to do is go back
to the model browser
and down at the bottom there's a show all
and that will kind of turn off the ghosting
and kind of show all of the model elements again.
Then I'll just sort of zoom in on some area
and there's a plus icon in the lower left hand corner
and if I tap that I can create either a markup or an issue.
So a markup is just simple information notes
that you want to leave in the model.
So you can see over on the left, you've got several shapes.
We could create squares or ovals or clouds
and over here on the right, you can change the color
that you're using to create these markups
and the pen size.
So if you want to make that a little bit bolder,
you can do that
and then of course on the left,
you've also got leader arrowheads and text.
So if you create a little text field
and put in some note to your team.
All right, when you're all done,
you tap the green check box in the upper corner
and it will ask if you want to save it
and then I'll do that
and you'll see that that now shows up
on the markups panel as a new markup
and it gives you the time and who created it.
Now on the issues panel,
you can see that there's one open issue
and if I tap that, it will go right to that issue
and it will show the model in whatever mode
it was in when it was created.
So when this was created, the columns were active
and there was an issue about these columns.
And again, an issue is kind of like a markup
that is assigned to a specific person.
So you can see that one's been assigned to me
and you can see that it has not been responded to as of yet.
So it's still an open issue.
But what I could do is I could log in as myself
and I could respond to this issue and then the history of
that issue would show up there on the palette.
So when I'm done reviewing this issue,
I can tap here at the top where it says Issue #1
to kind of go back to the list of issues
and then if I needed to create any additional issues,
then there's a small plus sign here
and you could create a new issue and just like this one,
it would prompt you to assign it
to a certain person on the project team
and you can see here that it's assigned to me
but the other members of the team are listed there
and you could also assign it a date for completion.
So the mobile app is a really powerful tool
that lets you view and markup your BIM 360 projects
on your iPad on the go.
If you are going to be somewhere
where you don't have internet access,
let me actually tap the x here
in the upper right hand corner to dismiss this model.
What you can actually do is download this model
to your iPad so that you'll have access to it
even without WiFi.
So I'm going to click back a few times here
and go into the MEP folder
and you can tell when a model is only in the cloud
because it has that little cloud icon
in the upper right hand corner.
All I have to do is tap that
and it will download this model to my device.
So now, not only do I have have the full power
of the mobile app on my iPad anywhere I go
but now I don't even need an internet connection
to be able to do those things.
Now before you'd be able to share issues
and other things with outside recipients,
you'd have to reconnect to the internet
but then it would sync up those changes for you
and the rest of the team would be able to see them.