- [Instructor] In this video,
I'm going to setup a brand new BIM 360 Design account.
Now, I'm logged in as Zachary
and Zachary is the account administrator for my firm
and we currently don't have
any Autodesk products or services.
So, if we look on All Products or Services, here,
logged in as Zachary,
you will see that it's completely empty.
Now, this is a little unusual
and, when you log into your own Autodesk account,
you will most likely see some products and services, here,
but I wanted to start completely from scratch
in this example.
So, to do that, what I need to do is
come over to the Autodesk website
and I've gone to autodesk.com/bim-360
and it takes me to this main page for the BIM 360 service.
All right, there is two links, here.
There's an Explore the platform link, right here,
and a giant Get a demo button right here.
Now, across the top, you can also get more information
about the service by going to these various menus.
So, there's Solutions, there's Products, Resources.
And you could see that it's organized
by the different product types
or the different project roles
and so, I encourage you to spend some time
clicking through those links and learning
as much about the platform as you can before you continue.
What I'm going to do in this video, though,
is I'm going to click on the big Get a demo link button, here.
Now, that takes me to a new page
and you've got two options, here.
On the left, there's Schedule a BIM 360 Demo.
Now, you can fill out the form
and you will be contacted by someone from Autodesk
who will actually give you
a live demonstration of the product,
so they will setup an appointment with you
and you'll be able to see the product live, in a browser,
and ask your questions of that person
at the time of the demo.
So, that can be a great way to learn more
about BIM 360 Design and, more importantly,
ask real questions that have to do
with the way your firm is structured.
So, I actually highly encourage you
to consider doing that.
Now, if you feel like you don't need the live demo
and you, instead, are anxious
to just get started right away,
then, you could do the links, over here,
to start a trial immediately.
And so, that's what I'm going to do in this case.
I'm going to say that Zachary's going to go ahead
and setup a BIM 360 Design trial.
Now, on this page, it tells you a little bit more
about BIM 360 Design and how you can start for free.
There's a pop-up that appeared, here,
to talk to a salesperson, either by chat or by phone.
I'm just simply going to dismiss that.
And then, if we scroll down, here,
there's some information about using BIM 360 Design
to collaborate with Revit models
and some important information, here,
that you definitely want to read through.
Now, one of the most important things
is that BIM 360 Design
is supported by Revit 2018.3 or later.
Any version 2018.3 or later will work.
Now, also there's some information, here,
about the Bring Your Own Subscription model.
We discussed that in the previous video,
so you can learn more about that, here.
There's an FAQ.
There's a Getting Started Guide.
So, I welcome you to explore any of those resources.
Now, over here on the right,
is the form that you need to fill out to start a trial.
Or, if you feel like you know, for sure,
that you're ready to subscribe,
you can scroll down a little bit further
and just click the Subscribe Now button.
You'll see some pricing.
You can go ahead and start your subscription right away.
Now, I want to just mention
why you might choose one over the other.
When you setup a trial,
it's going to be almost like a sandbox workspace.
And, while it is possible
to put live projects in that trial workspace,
if you don't continue with your subscription
after the end of the trial,
your information will eventually be deleted.
So, if you want to make sure that all of your projects
remain associated with your live Autodesk account,
the same account you used to purchase products,
then you might want to consider an actual subscription.
You can always cancel it
if you decide you don't want to keep it.
And, this is where working with a reseller
can be really helpful
because you can talk about the different options.
But in this case, I'm going to go ahead and start a trial
and it is possibly for your reseller to convert your trial
to a live account, when the time comes,
so there's definitely a path forward, here,
but another option is to setup a dummy account
and create a trial under that dummy account,
just to see the process and make sure you're
comfortable with it before you commit
and assign it to your real account.
So, those are a few options for you.
But I'm going to start the trial
by filling in the required information, here.
Now, there is a Autodesk Privacy Statement
that you'll need to read, here,
and then, you have to check that you agree.
And, if you wish, you can receive tips
and explore products that you're evaluating from Autodesk.
They'll send you emails about that.
I'm going to skip that, in this case,
and I'll click TRY FOR FREE.
So, that takes me to a confirmation page,
where it says, "There's just one more step."
I need to, now, follow a link in an email
that they're going to send me, to activate my account.
Now, there is some other information
down here at the bottom, with some links.
Which, again, takes you to some of the same resources
that we've already talked about.
But, I do encourage you to follow some of those steps
and we'll, of course, be looking at several of those steps
in the subsequent videos.
But, in the meantime, let's go over to our email, here,
and activate the account.
So, here I am in Zachary's inbox
and here is the Welcome email from Autodesk.
So, I'll click on that.
And you can see, there's this button, right here,
to activate the account.
So, in this case, I'm in Zachary's account.
I'll click Activate your account.
And then, it will ask me to sign in.
And that will take me to our BIM 360 account,
which is now active and ready to go.
So, here it gives us a few steps
that we might want to perform.
These are the four key things that I need to do, next.
I have to create some projects and activate services,
assign my project admins, assign additional account admins,
and then, of course, add and remove members.
So, I'll click OK, here, and we'll look at some of those
in the coming videos,
but let's look at one last thing that appears, here.
And that is this message about some new features
in BIM 360 Administration.
So, you can read through this,
but the most important thing is that pending users
are now treated the same way as anyone else in BIM 360
and, previously, you had to wait for the pending user
to actually accept the pending request
before you could do anything with them.
So, that's a nice improvement.
When you OK that, you'll have this little wizard
that will appear, that will walk you through the interface.
So, I encourage you to go through this.
There's six steps here, so you can access your services
and administration tools from the module picker, there.
If I click Next, the account selector is up here at the top.
I'll click Next.
It's showing me my account profile page,
right here that we're on,
so we can see we can add a project image
and change the name.
I'll click Next.
We've got our Project tab, here,
which is where we create and manage our projects.
Next, again.
Our Account Admin page is what we're looking at right now,
where we can add additional account admins.
And Next.
And then, finally, there are several tutorials, right here.
I'll click Done and the tutorial window will open.
And, at this point, you are welcome to click through
each of these tutorials and play a short video
to get a little bit more information
on how to setup your account,
but I'll be walking you through most of these steps
in the coming videos.