- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to create
a cloud-based, workshare-enabled Revit model.
So, to get started,
there are of course some prerequisites in BIM 360
that you need to do,
and if you're not sure what those are
or if you've met all those requirements,
then I encourage you to go back
and review the summary at the start of this chapter
which outlines everything
and/or the videos in the previous chapter
where we go through everything step by step.
Next, you need to open up the project
that you want to work in.
It doesn't really matter what project you have open,
so anything will do.
And then make sure that you're logged in to an account
that has access to a BIM 360 Design project.
All right, so I'm logged in as Deshi,
my lead architect for this project,
and I'm going to create the workshare-enabled project file
for the Landon Hotel.
To do that, we just simply go to the Collaborate tab
and then click the Collaborate button.
Now, this is exactly the same way you would start
with LAN-based worksharing.
And in fact, there are two choices right here.
So if you said, Within your network,
you would be doing local worksharing
in your local area network.
If you choose In BIM 360 Document Management,
which is what we're going to do,
then it would be cloud-based worksharing.
And honestly, that's the major difference
between configuring the two setups.
So I'll click OK here to start the process.
And then, based on my username and how I'm logged in
and what I have access to,
you will see different things here
in this Collaborate using the cloud window.
So the Project Location will of course be BIM 360,
but then beneath that, you should see one or more accounts.
Now, you might have access to only one account or several.
It just depends on
what your Autodesk user account has access to.
So make sure you're choosing the account
that you want to work in.
So I will double-click to choose my account here.
And then, within that account,
you should see one or more projects.
Now, these are BIM 360 projects
that have been configured within this account.
And, in this case, I want to use the Landon Hotel,
but you can choose whatever project
you have access to on your screen.
I'll double-click into that
to access the folder structure for Landon Hotel.
Now, here inside of the project,
you will see folders based on
whatever team setup you configured
when configuring this project.
Now again, we covered all of this
in the previous chapter throughout several videos,
so you can go back and review that there
if you're unfamiliar.
But, in this case, we're creating the architectural file,
so I'm going to put this in the Architecture folder,
but I'm not going to put it in Consumed.
Consumed is used for another purpose,
and we'll discuss that in a future video.
So I just want to go into Architecture
and then verify the name right here.
And you are able to change the name if you wish.
So, in this case,
I'll put in a slightly more specific name, Landon Hotel,
and then finally click the Initiate button down here.
Now this will start the process,
and if you watch very carefully,
it's enabling worksharing,
then it's updating the model to the cloud,
and then it's saving the model locally.
So, in other words,
Revit is taking care of the central model,
putting that in the cloud,
but it's also going to create
a local copy simultaneously for us.
And what you'll actually see on-screen when we're done
will be a local model.
So this is definitely different than how it is
in the LAN-based approach.
In a LAN-based approach,
we would still be in the central model
once this process was complete,
and we would have to finish up our work in there,
synchronize, close out of the central model,
and then deliberately create a local.
So when you work in a cloud-based worksharing environment,
it's actually a lot simpler
because you just simply initiate it
and Revit takes care of all the behind-the-scenes for you.
So when it's all complete,
you will see a confirmation window,
and you can read through that
and see everything that it's done.
But again, I want to point out to you
that it created the local cache,
and that's another way of saying
that it created the local copy.
So I'll close this.
Now, if you're familiar with LAN-based worksharing,
that may not be very obvious to look at
when you're looking at your screen here
because if we look at our Project Browser,
we just see the name Landon Hotel here,
and in a LAN-based environment,
we would expect to see our username
tacked on the end of that name.
Cloud-based worksharing doesn't do that.
So you never will see your username
as part of the file name.
But, rest assured, we are working in a local copy.
And I can show you that
by just simply synchronizing the project again.
So I like to synchronize.
It's not required, but I'm kind of in that habit.
And one of the reasons I like to synchronize
is because it allows me to put in a comment.
So right here, I will say,
Created the initial cloud-based central model.
It doesn't really matter what you put in there,
but I just like to put in some indication
that I've created my central model in the cloud.
And notice that it's saving the local,
reloading the latest,
saving central right now,
and then saving back to local.
So it's confirming for us
that in fact it is doing the central model
and the local model,
so that kind of shows us
that we are in fact working in a local copy.
Now let's say that we're all done for the day.
So I'll go to File menu, choose Close.
That will close my local.
And what I wanted to point out to you here is,
on the Recent Files screen,
I currently have two entries here.
Now, this Hotel, if you look at the path,
is on my C drive on my Desktop.
That's not the one that I want to open in the future.
That was that original file that I started with.
This one, however, has a little badge in the corner
which gives us the little worksharing symbol,
the little set of cubes there.
Superimposed on top of that is a little cloud icon.
And if you hover over this, it says, Workshared Cloud Model,
and it gives you the saved path to BIM 360.
So this is the one that you would want to click
if you wanted to rejoin into the project
and open up your local copy again.
And it will automatically update your local user cache.
So all of those things that you had to worry about,
about whether you're working in the central
or the local in LAN-based worksharing,
those are really not a concern in cloud-based worksharing.
Revit manages all of that for you behind the scenes.