- [Instructor] In this video I want to show you
a really simple workflow from Civil 3D to BIM 360.
So what we're going to do is open up the site plan model
for the Nadia's Garden project,
make a simple change to the parking lot design,
upload it back to BIM 360,
and then hand it off to the architecture team
who can reload it in the Revit project.
So I am in Civil 3D,
and I'm logged in as Shad, my civil designer.
And the first thing that I want to do
is over here at the top where we have these two tabs,
I want to come over here to this start tab.
Now, this will look somewhat familiar,
because it very closely emulates
the home screen that we have in Revit.
So we've got the Open and New buttons over here,
the recent files here, and our BIM 360 link right here.
So I'll click that to access my BIM 360 account.
Now, there's a dropdown menu here,
just like we saw in Revit, that shows us the account
and projects that we have access to,
and of course you could use this dropdown to switch accounts
or to switch projects from anything
that is available for your username.
So I'm already in the Nadia's Garden project,
and naturally, if you're following along with me,
what you see for your account list
and project list may vary.
All right, so my user, Shad, has access to the civil folder
because he's a member of the civil design team.
He also has access to the shared folder.
Now, one thing that will be slightly different
about the workflow that I'm about to show you
is the way that we're going to access the file,
and an extra step that we'll need to do,
because unlike Revit, we won't be able to create a package,
and then automatically rely on that package to copy
the pertinent files to the shared or consumed folders.
In other words,
even if you put Civil 3D files in a package in BIM 360,
they won't automatically get copied
to those special folders.
So that copying will have to happen manually.
So the first step is for me to go into the civil folder.
Now, this is where the parent site plan file lives,
and you can see that it's currently in version four.
So I'm going to click on that to open that file.
You can see it downloading from Desktop Connector,
so Civil 3D does still rely on Desktop Connector
to transfer files back and forth.
Now, this particular file has geolocation enabled,
and so it's asking me here if I want
to display the online map data.
So this is up to you, you can answer yes or no,
and I'm going to click yes to display that map data.
So it usually takes a few moments
for that information to download,
and then it will display these online maps
as an underlay to our model here.
Now I'm going to zoom in a little bit in this location,
and in this area of the parking lot
we're going to make a change.
Okay, so I've completed the work
and changed the parking lot design,
and so now we just need to save it to update our BIM 360.
Now, this is just a matter of using the normal Save command.
So unlike Revit, there isn't a Synchronize with Central,
or anything like that.
So you simply go to the Save icon up here,
or you could do control + S, the keyboard shortcut.
Now, that saves the version of the file
that was sitting here in our start area in the civil folder.
Okay, so if I click back over there,
you could see there's my site plan.
Now, I just saved it,
so it incremented to version five,
and then you can see here the lock state
currently has a little lock icon on it,
because well, I'm currently in the file.
So notice I didn't close the file.
I left it open there in the background.
Okay, now you may think that that's all we need to do,
but there's one thing that we want to remember.
The architecture team didn't link to the file
directly from the civil folder.
They don't actually have access to this folder.
So what we need to do as the civil team now
is perform a Save As to make a copy
of this modified version into the shared folder.
So it's similar to the workflow that we did with Revit,
but there we did it with the package methodology
where creating the package automatically
created the copy in the shared folder for us.
Here we have to do it manually when we're ready.
So the nice thing about that is
the civil team can work on the site plan
and save as many times as they like,
but only when they're ready to share it to the architects
do they actually perform the Save As
and put it in the shared folder.
Now, there's one more thing I want to show you,
which is really interesting, about this.
Let me click here to this link
to go back to the root of this project.
Click into the shared folder.
And then the civil folder.
Now here's the site plan that the architects
are actually linking to,
and what I want you to see here
is that it's currently version three.
Okay, so now let's go back to the site plan file,
which is still open in the background.
We'll go to the application menu here,
choose Save As, and then Drawing.
We're in our civil folder.
I'm going to back up one step,
then go to the shared folder,
and then to the civil subfolder and select this file,
and save right over the top of it.
So Civil 3D will ask me if I want to replace it.
I'll answer yes.
You'll see it upload to BIM 360 with Desktop Connector,
and then the command is complete,
and I think it's a pretty good idea
at this point to go ahead and close the drawing.
So I will just X out of there.
That's going to take me back to the start page.
Now, when it reloads the page it looks like it's refreshing,
but it didn't actually refresh the page.
So if you want to see the new version indicator here,
what you want to do is click this little icon
in the upper right hand corner.
That will actually refresh the page,
and now you can see that we've incremented to version four.
So now that I have successfully
made the modifications to the site plan file,
and saved a copy into the shared folder,
the civil team is now ready to turn
this back over to the architecture team
for them to update their files.