- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to begin looking
at working in BIM 360 design
from a team member's perspective.
And so, to that end,
I'm going to start with logging into the BIM 360 account
as one of my team, and I'm logged in as, Deshi.
She is my lead architect,
you can see here if I click the badge at the top,
it shows me who's logged in.
And what I want to talk about in this video,
is the Project Home Screen
that you will see when you first log in.
So, Project Home can be thought of
as just a simple dashboard
that gives you information about the project
in a kind of global way.
So, you can see here on this Hansel and Petal project
that I'm currently logged into.
It's got some pertinent information about the project,
the location of the project,
the current weather at the site,
and then, some information about the design issues,
project issues, and any design packages.
Now, when I hover over any of these cards here,
there's a couple little icons that appear in the corner.
You've got some settings that you can configure
and you've got this expand item.
So when you expand it, it will fill the entire dashboard
to make it a little bit easier
for you to see more information.
Now, these items over here
are actually links to the packages within BIM 360 design.
So they would take you to the design collaboration module
where you could further work on that package.
I'm not going to do that, in this case,
we'll talk about that in a future video.
So, for now, I'll just collapse that card down.
Now, Deshi has access to more than one project,
and you can see the other projects
that you have access to
by clicking this menu at the very top here.
So, notice, that in addition to Hansel and Petal,
there's two other projects that are available here,
and I could easily switch between them
by just choosing them off the list.
Now, what I wanted you to see here,
is that the dashboard that appears
for this Condo Building project is a little bit different
than the one for Hansel and Petal.
So, each Project Home Page
can be customized for that project
but also, this is per user.
So, let me show you what I mean by that.
Let's say that, as you can see here,
there's not a whole lot of useful information
in some of these cards.
The design packages card, for example,
doesn't really show anything very useful,
there aren't any packages.
So, why don't we just hide that card for now.
Now, we could always change our mind
and bring that card back again later if we wanted to
but that helps to streamline
this Project Home Page a little bit.
Okay, so that's what Deshi decided to do
in the Condo Building project.
But let's go walk over to somebody else's desk,
another team member
and see what it looks like on their end.
Okay, so now, here we are at Howie's desk.
Howie is our structural engineer for this project.
And, you can see what the Home Screen looks like
for the Condo Building project here.
Notice, that it looks a little different than Deshi's setup.
He has all of the default cards still in place
and now, they still don't really show
any useful information,
but if Howie prefers to see those cards just the same,
he can leave those on his Home Screen.
So, the point really is, that each user gets to decide
which cards they want to display on their Project Home
that they find, give them the most useful information.
So, let's take a look at what projects Howie is a part of.
And notice that here, he only has a choice of two projects.
So, again, if you think back to the previous chapter
where we did all the administration
for our various projects,
that's where we assigned users, gave them permissions,
gave them access to different folders
and files within the projects.
So, Howie, for example,
has been given access to just two projects
where Deshi has access to three of them.
Now, I'm back at Hansel and Petal here
from Howie's point of view,
and he's seeing the same basic cards on his home screen,
but the information that they show is slightly different.
Now, I didn't elaborate on a lot of the details
that we were seeing in those cards,
but you may recall, that there were more entries
in both of these two cards, than what we're seeing here.
And that's simply because the cards are adjusting
to the area of responsibility.
So, when we're talking about issues,
my design issues from Howie's point of view,
is different than my design issues
from Deshi's point of view,
so that's why you're seeing different information
appear on that list.
Now, I talked about how you could go to Settings
and hide a card,
but there's another customized item right here
that allows you to add a card.
So, if we click Customize,
then there's a Card Library button
and you will see several different cards available
that you can add in here.
Now, currently, I haven't filtered by anything,
but notice, there are several things you can filter by.
So, if you want to simplify the list,
you can click one of these to remove some of those,
but I'm going to leave them all displayed.
And you can see the ones that you're currently using
'cause they say, "In use,"
so you can see several of them there.
Notice, there are several third party cards
like 3DR, Assemble, Cintoo.
And, you know, as I scroll down,
you're going to see several other choices.
So, if you're using any of these services,
any of these third party services,
like Power BI's very popular,
you could add that card, configure it,
and it would start showing you
information about your project.
So that's all some really interesting functionality
that becomes available to us.
The one I'm going to show you is this one right here,
which I find a little intriguing, BIM 360.
So we're in BIM 360,
but we can actually add a BIM 360 card,
kind of feels a little Meta,
but let's go ahead and do that.
Let me choose that one, click Add Card,
and then I'll scroll down
and you could see that it's a rather large card
that's been added there,
and there is this large configured button.
Well, before I can configure it,
if you click Configure,
it wants a Document Management URL,
so, I need to get that URL somehow.
So let me cancel that, scroll back to the top,
and let's save this Configuration.
So, that will save My Homepage,
including the new card
which currently still needs to be configured.
How do you configure it?
Come to your Module Picker and choose Document Management.
And then once I'm here,
I'll click in the Structural folder,
locate a file that I want to create a link to,
I'll check the box right here.
If you move your mouse over a small menu, icon will appear.
I can click that, and then come down here to Share,
you'll also find that up here on the Toolbar.
So in both cases, you'll get to the same place.
And initially, it goes to share by email,
that's not what we want here.
The card asked for a link,
so we're going to click on this Link tab here.
There's our file.
We can click this Copy button here,
to copy that link to our clipboard.
I'll close this Share window,
go back to my Module Picker,
switch back to Project Home,
and then finally, scroll down
and click that Configure button right here
and simply do CTRL + V to paste that URL in, and save it.
Now, it'll take a moment or two for this to fully configure,
it has to load that file up,
but what it's actually going to do
is load an embedded version of the web viewer
directly into this card.
So, what's really interesting about this is,
you can kind of get this sort of bird's eye view
of a live project model
directly from your Project Home page
without even having to go and open up that file.
So, if you kind of want to see
what stage a file is in,
before you decide whether or not you need to open it up,
then this can be an interesting way to do that.
You can add this card to your Home Page
and then you always have a way to kind of keep tabs
on this file directly from here.
Now, notice, that this is a Live Viewer.
I could click in here
and navigate by using the Navigation Tools,
I can use the various markup tools,
all the things that we can do in the Live Viewer
are available here.
So, that's your Project Home page.
So, to summarize, each user gets to configure
their own home page, by either adding or removing cards
that are pertinent and useful to them.