Fieldtrip: Let's Take Tablets to the BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue Them to Work

NORM AKIN: You are in Field trip, where we-- this is-- we took tablets in BIM 360 Field. We glued them to our work process using BIM 360 Glue. And we're able to-- so far, we've got four projects that have been completely paperless by using those processes, OK?

And then, of course, this morning, since we are taking a field trip, I just want to say welcome. Today we're going to take a field trip. It is not the Hoover Dam experience. If I could, I would drive this bus and we could all have a good time doing that.

You can actually rent this one. It's on the Arizona side of Lake Mead. And there's a little spot right there-- I think it's on Highway 18-- where you can go rent this. I think it's like $300 now or something. If you get out that way, take care of that one.

OK, I hope you packed a lunch today, because it is a field trip. Remember taking field trips at school? There's always a couple of the kids that forget their lunch. Well, I'm prepared for those too, all right? So we'll look at that as we get going here.

You have a permission slip from your mom, your boss. If not, you'll have to go sit the hour out in the principal's office, OK? OK, so I'm trying to be funny. It's the first class of the day. You guys have to help me out here, you know.

OK, so my name's Norm Akin. I work for Hunt AECOM. I'm the BIM/VDC manager of the South Region of Hunt Construction, or the Construction Services Group. We do projects anywhere from hospitals to high rise buildings. And in AECOM, Hunt as a whole, we do massive stadiums. Like we've just finished Atlanta, and we're working on Rams. So if you know what those are.

All right, so I've taken some pretty cool field trips, this summer especially. We went up to Nebraska to see the eclipse. And it was really, really cool. Of course, middle of summer when it's 110 degrees in Texas, and Nebraska it was 70 degrees. So we were enjoying our summer.

I always drop the kids off at this one museum there in Nebraska. And I have never been able to beat that guy at checkers. I don't know why, but he always seems to beat me. And then every once in a while, I'll have the-- I won't have enough money for speeding tickets and I get thrown in the Dodge City jail there.

OK, all right. Just a couple of housecleaning things here. Our teacher for this trip-- actually, that's a picture my wife. But she said, make sure you have your permission slips. Don't forget your lunch. Don't throw things at the bus driver.

There's going to be a pop quiz at the end of the class, or survey notes. And then go ahead and fill out the survey. A couple of unwritten notes here. Don't be asking every five minutes, are we there yet? And don't make the bus driver say, I'm going to turn this bus around, because today-- oh, there we go-- because today, I am the bus driver, OK?

OK, so your bus driver credentials. This is my 13th AU. I was talking to my friend over here. He's been here for over 10. So it took me 11 years of bus driver training before they actually let me drive the bus or teach in front of a class. So it kind of works out that way.

Let's see-- some say I'm a slow learner. Hey, bus drivers, we get along with everybody. So when we should be talking, or driving the bus, we're talking to everybody.

OK, I've been using Autodesk products for 29 years. Let's see, I've been married for 32. Yeah, 29 is correct. And currently, I drive for AECOM Hunt. All right, so is everybody ready?

OK, I was going to insert the kids' song, "the wheels on the bus go round and round" right here, but I thought, OK, we'll save that for later. Well, actually, it's right there if anyone wants it.

OK, so the objectives of today's field trip. We're going to identify the process of using iPads in the field. Our construction teams-- check, check, check. Let me scoot that there. Is that better?

So are our construction teams love using their iPads. And we're going to perform the functions of putting just generic pushpins on our field documents so that they can be translated back to the Glue, the models. And again, so that we can keep a record of it.

OK, we're going to address the issue of syncing viewports between BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue. And I've got my iPad, we're going to do all that. And we're going to do some quick photography lessons. In BIM 360 Field, the camera is not the best camera in the world, so we're going to look at a couple of tricks there.

And if you look, my acronym-- I always like to build an acronym because it helps me to stay on focus a little bit. My acronym says IPAD. And if you're using another tablet, get with me after class. We can kind of walk through that.

We have a deal with Apple. We get iPads by the truckload. And they're not always the best ones, but they work. So again, in construction, we've found that using the iPads is extremely useful. People like using them.

I had, he was 63 at the time. And I walked into the construction trailer, the iPad was hanging on the wall in clock mode. And so I was like, why is-- he said, oh, I've always done it this way. We've heard that a lot. I've always done it this way. It's the way-- I'll use my pencil, blah, blah, blah.

So I took his iPad down, gave it to him. I went down to Walgreens, bought a clock, a nice clock so that he'd be proud of it. Put it up, trained him. He used his iPad. He got used to-- He was my biggest advocate until he retired.

And then he would swear up and down that I had nothing to do with it. That his three-year-old granddaughter taught him. It's like, hey, that's fine.

OK, so let's move on here. OK, so the identify the process of using iPads in the field. First of all, we've got to determine which iPads we need, right? Let me back up one here. We have to determine which iPads we need.

And then we have to purchase those iPads. You've got to go in and talk to people and say, hey, we need to some iPads. Oh, we don't have job numbers for that. Anyone get that? All the time.

And if you Google search iPad, you identify 5,000 different iPad models and everything else. And so these are just kind of-- I went to-- where'd I go on that-- Micro Center just to kind of see what's there. I use an iPad 2 Air. I know it's obsolete by now.

I'm going to get an iPad Pro. My budget won't allow me. So we identify which iPads we need. Are we going to need it for data storage? Are we going to need it for model storage? Are we going to use it in the field, or we're going to use it in the office?

Do we need-- well, everything is Wi-Fi connected. Do we need cellular connections? We've been buying cellular connected iPads for everyone in the field just so that they're out on the other end of the job site, they don't have to come back to the trailer to get their signal. And it saves money that way in the long run.

Minus the cellular-- so that's kind of cool. I can be anywhere. It's especially useful when we're flying drones, because then it's connected to the iPad. I'm not worried about a signal. And yes, I did a-- back a few months ago, my spotter was basically asleep and we crashed a drone into a tower, a crane tower.

It's like, I'm looking at the iPad. OK, where's the drone? Oh, I don't know. I can't see it. And I'm thinking, OK. So before I could stop, I heard a crash, crunch. What's that sound? I don't know.

Oh look, the drone is falling. It's like, OK. And fortunately, no one was hurt so we didn't have to go to FAA on it. OK, anyway.

So in the handout, I put an iPad checklist, just to kind of-- so you could look through. I think it made it with the iPad uploading. If the iPad checklist isn't there, send me an email or a tweet and I'll send it to you, just to kind of go over what you're buying, how you're buying it.

And then once you get your iPad, you want to go ahead and start syncing up software. And just a picture of-- where's my Autodesk rep? See, it's all Autodesk. But just-- I went to the Autodesk site, and these are some of the programs we use from Autodesk.

Go to the app store, select your software, download it. Most of the stuff on the app store is free for Autodesk, so use it. If you've got an enterprise license or if you've got a license at your office for Autodesk BIM 360 Field and Glue, or any one of these, then it will transfer here.

Now, the benefit of doing this is we can buy a bunch of licenses and distribute those out to our subcontractors, and then have them borrow that license until the project is over. You guys forgive me if I drink water. Didn't want to be like a Ted Cruz. He had that water in that speech, and the next morning everyone was like, oh, Ted Cruz drinks water while he gave a speech. What?

It's like I told the class yesterday, if that bothers you, there's therapy dogs downstairs. And they're kind of cute, but-- OK, back on tack here. And then on my iPad here, I did clean it for the class, but I had every kind of program you can imagine on here.

Let's see, eight take. We'll come back to that. So there's the productivity. And I've got, of course, Netflix, all the drone capture stuff, flashlights, various other-- DGI before you fly. But before I cleaned it up, I had Monkey Island and I had 10,000 games.

I travel a lot, sit on an airplane a lot. Seven take. Oh, see, phone ring. I was going to say, silence your phones, unless it's the guitar riff from Stairway to Heaven. Then we'll tip our hats in respect for that one.

OK, so what we want to do, first of all, we want to write a process for training. So when we jump in to our Field, and just say we've got a BIM pre-construction checklist. We've got all these checklists. We want that process to be written so that the guys in the field can take it and then apply it.

Sitting in the office, we can write the process, but unless we get it out to the field, it'll never be any good. And I do have a-- I had to kind of scrub this one. And again, send me a tweet at @normthebimguy, or an email and I'll send you the scrubbed out version. I had to take all of our AECOM processes out and just kind of make it generic, so that's why we're not looking that deep into that.

But you can go in to Field. Now, to create the process-- to create these on Field, you have to go to your PC Field. And so I talked about that yesterday in my class. And since we're talking about the iPad, we're going to skip that portion.

And plus, I don't have Autodesk loaded on the new virtual reality computer. But it works better than my Dell. On my Dell, it's like power on PowerPoint and sometimes it comes on. Sometimes I can open it, sometimes I can't. It's like, I don't know, it's a Dell.

OK, but we want to create a process in BIM 360 Field. And you can go in very quickly. Make sure, before you start creating anything, that you're logged in as an admin. Whether a project admin or an account admin, because if you're just logged in as a user, it won't allow you to edit the existing stuff. And that's just a safeguard so that my subcontractors don't open the files, like, oh yeah, I'm gonna-- oh yeah, if I add this, does that mean I get this much bonus?

And so we kind of work that out a little bit. We want to write up the processes, one, for the training. Two, for record keeping. We want to be able to keep that as a record at all times so that everyone has access to that.

Let me switch. OK, my iPad went to sleep mode. And by the end of the day, you guys are going to figure out my password. That's OK, I can change it. OK, I'm going to open up Field.

And there are no checklists in this project, so let's go to another project here. I'll just grab one at random there. And then-- maybe not. OK, well, we'll add one in a minute.

Let's try one more project here. And I'll get some loaded in the class. And checklists. Checklists, there we go. So there's my QA, QC safety. I can start adding those. And we'll put some of those in later.

Seven take. But you want to create those checklists, and then through the process of the PC, you can add them back and put them in your checklists. Now, once you get that written, like I said, it's in the office. It works well for the office people. But we're not building, right?

We're either designing, we're telling people how to build, or we're doing all of these different things. So the process is well-intentioned and it works great. Let's take it to the guys who are delivering you final product.

Over the years, what I've learned is a box of donuts gets the field guys excited about anything. If you work in the field-- I'm joking. Don't take me serious on that. But you want that camaraderie, that teamwork.

So you go out and they're the guys that are constructing it. Let them give you feedback. I've been in places, I've been on jobs where the construction crew is not allowed-- I mean, construction crew, subcontractors. They are not allowed to get feedback.

It's like, you do this the way we set it up or you don't. And usually, 9 times out of 10, they don't because they don't like the office people. They like us, you know, but they don't respect us. There we go.

OK, so train the on-site people the same way you train the people in the office. When this conference is over, Monday, I've got to fly down to Austin and train a new crew on BIM 360 Field. So that's going to be exciting. My wife is like, you know, that's going to be over a week that you're not home. And I'm like, OK, I'm sorry. Christmas is coming up. Can I buy you a diamond earring or something?

So after everyone is comfortable in the field, and you see a couple of examples-- it's kind of the standard boiler plate photo. Someone out in the field holding it. Hmm, OK. But it's effective, because we can see that people are using that in the field.

This is from our Houston Methodist project, the hospital project, which is-- we've used the Glue and Field models extensively on that. So let me scroll down here. That's the thing, too-- you do a presentation on a big screen and everything fits, and then you're like, oh man.

OK, and just remember, as contractors, our job is to determine means and methods. And we want our subcontractors to execute those means and methods the best way possible. Whatever is easier for them.

Let's see-- do you guys do a lot of prefab work? OK. So if they can prefab the work before they install it, that's even better. That saves time. It saves general conditions.

But just kind of think about that. And on my handout, there's a link to my other class that shows you step-by-step instructions of how to create checklists, how to import and export checklists. I mean, it's very detailed. So just think about that.

Think about what you want-- who's in a new hire-- not new hire orientation. Who's in the AU orientation on Monday night? Any newbies in here? Nobody wants to admit. That's good.

But we had a little exercise. It was a fun little exercise where you took and sketched out an idea on a napkin, passed it to the next person, and let them do that. And that's the same thing. You start with a base plan, and then you pass it on to the next person and next person.

With our drone checklist, we established, OK, these are what the FAA requires. This is what's required of the pilot. And then after-- especially after our incident with our visual observer not paying attention, we now have a whole section for the visual observer to fill out. And it's just kind of-- we're being flexible. We're expanding on that.

Because the last thing we need is to crash a drone into somebody, kill somebody, or damage something, get the FAA involved. All right, so we just kind of went over the basics of where to start.

So you want to implement. You want to put in. And then-- so we're going to start looking at some of the functions of the iPad. We're going to put some pushpins in place for BIM 360 Field, [? Speak, ?] or Vela. Who used Vela before it was 360 Field? Anybody?

So no bad habits to unlearn. So that's good. And I want to say 2008, 2009, Vela came out. Autodesk bought it out a few years later, created BIM 360 Field. But the pushpin is just where you want to tag an issue.

And there are times when you need to mark it up, return to the spot the next day. I've seen a lot of-- especially starting out, you put the whole model in and you have no idea where anything is at, so you just kind of want to make sure that all the documentation is correct. All right, so the problem arises when a pushpin has been added but it hasn't been updated. And I'll show you some of that in just a little bit.

So whenever you open your iPad-- and I'm not going to sync mine, but I'll show you-- in this bottom corner is your log-on. It's got all your projects. And yeah, just leave it there for now. So it's got all the projects you're working on, everything else.

And this one should have been deleted. Manhattan got that project. It's like it was heartbreaking. Baseball stadium in our backyard and we lost it. But that was-- don't send that picture anywhere.

OK, but it's one of those things. Our process from the day we get information on an RFP, we will create the project in Glue, Docs, Field, and we'll move it on from there. They're leaving already, and I've still got their lunch.

As we go in-- and I'm going to just open up my iPad here. Has anyone figured out my password yet? If you are, you're pretty good.

And I'm going to jump over here to Field. I'm going to cancel this. OK, you see down in the lower right here, I'll just press that and go over. And you see the list of projects we have available. And what I want to do is I just want to open up Cleburne.

And you see this little sync light changed. I now have an orange dot there. That means your iPad needs to be synced. What that tells me is that someone, somewhere, whether it's in the field, the office, or whatever, has added something new to the project. And so when I go in and sync, it will allow me to put that right in place here.

So I'm just going to hit Sync. And you see the list of things that are being uploaded and downloaded. And I can adjust that. Let's see what I've got available here. Upload the two projects. Upload-- OK, there we go.

So you can download the library, download any issues, checklists. And I go through and customize that. You don't want to download the whole project every time, because especially in here, the Autodesk Wi-Fi is 170 megabytes per second. So it's pretty slow.

I remember a few years ago when that was screaming fast. And now we're like more, more. If you were at the keynote yesterday, we want more. But I can go ahead and decide what I want to do. And let's see, sync all folders.

So 2.4 gigabytes sync up on that. That might take a little while, so I'm going to-- ah, we might do it later, but not right now. Any unresolved issues, OK. Or you can do what you want. If you're looking at it for completed issues for the subcontractors, see who's behind, see who's ahead, then you can do that.

So you customize your download. They do not-- unless you have-- for the first time-- the first time, you want to download everything. But you want it to sit overnight somewhere, because it will take a while. And make sure you have enough space on your iPad.

I had so many movies downloaded to mine before the flight out here. I had 200 megs left of storage on my iPad. And it's like, OK. So I deleted Star Wars, and all the typical airplane movies. But then as you sync that up-- and I'm just going to-- OK, I'll go ahead and hit the Sync button.

And you see that I've got the upload and download. And if I remember right, this one should take just a couple minutes, because I went through before, kind of set everything. Got light models were putting in.

And then once that's synced up, you'll be able to see if there's any notes or issues that are open. And there's a couple ways-- that is the advantage of having it here. While it's over here sitting in the background. All right, but there are a couple of issues that were brought over that are unresolved.

And you see these areas right here are areas where there is an issue and someone has tagged it. And with that, this is kind of the long way to do it, because you're looking at the issue. You sync it with a pushpin. You hit the location and it goes to the drawings.

And we've got blue being tied in as our 2D support. Because again, we were talking about it earlier in the field, that issue hasn't been really resolved yet. So we're hoping they're going to get that resolved. So we use blue being for all of our 2D, but then for all of our 3D, OK, I'm downloading issues. So apparently someone else has been working on the file.

But after you sync up, you got to the lower left corner, of course, hit the sync. It logs in. The lower left corner-- oh, sorry. Lower left corner, the other side. And see the little pancake window there? That gives you your commands, your issues.

And I'm downloading the last attachment here. So it'll make a pinging noise. So while it's downloading-- OK, it is 10:30, or I'm sorry, 8:30. So who in here is at 8:30 at their home, 8:30 PM? Who's the furthest one from the class, from AU? Who traveled the farthest?

AUDIENCE: Belgium.

NORM AKIN: Who did? Where are you from?

AUDIENCE: Belgium.

NORM AKIN: Belgium. OK, anyone further than Belgium? OK.

AUDIENCE: India.

NORM AKIN: India, OK. Because your mom called and you forgot your lunch kits. So, while we're downloading-- let's see, Belgium, India. And if you share with your buddies, OK, I did not put any alcohol in those bags. That's against school rules.

So OK, while we're syncing this up, everyone stand up, stretch your legs a little bit. Say hello to your next door neighbor. This is all about networking. Take about 30 seconds and greet each other. OK, don't make me turn this bus around. There's one.

[SIDE CONVERSATION]

OK, all right. Is everyone best friends with your neighbor now? Great. See, I always do that in case-- those people that need to get up and leave, they have an out without feeling silly. And plus, it's just kind of good to get some oxygen flowing.

When I synced up my iPad just now, a couple of things happened to my iPad. Of course, now everything's up to date. When I went to the checklists a minute ago, there were none. But if I hit the checklists now, all these checklists loaded up to the iPad.

So I've got them all looking there. And I'm thinking, great, this is good. Also, I went to Issues and a couple of issues loaded up that weren't there before. Question? OK. So I was able to put that in there and just kind of worked my way around that.

And if I want to look at these, I'm just going to-- see, there's no attachments, no comments on these. They were just kind of added as placeholders more or less. Now, you can go through the 2D method of Bluebeam, look at the issues, and say, OK, find them in the drawings and do that.

But we're in a 3D world, right? So I am going to go over, and if you look, there's a tab here for Models. There's all the models that are loaded onto this project. And I'm looking-- well, do I want to structure? Where do I want to go to? So I'm just going to grab the structural model.

And let's see, there's a couple of pushpins there. But to add a pushpin within the model-- and this is much more accurate, much faster than the 2D, trying to go through the stack of PDFs and look at that way. Just down in a corner, you've got the little plus sign. Hit plus.

Come on fingers. And then you just push the plus sign, tap on it, it gives you a pushpin. You can start saying comments. Well, wrong size steel. And I can put whatever comments there. If there's a new pushpin issue, and I'll look at that one over there.

And can't add pushpins. OK, I'm too far away for that one. So I'll just zoom in, shoot. Add pushpin. So this is why you hire skinny subcontractors, because their fingers aren't so fat. We'll add a pushpin there.

So you can just go through the entire model in 3D and find the errors a lot faster than you can a whole stack of 2D PDFs. So you start adding those. You put the photos on there. And then when I'm all said and done, if you look at my Sync button down on the bottom, I'm ready to take this and send it to everyone else.

So again, this time I'm going to be uploading. It'll go to everyone who's connected to this project. And since I am in the Cleburne Ballpark structural project, if I were to upload anything, everyone on the team is going to get it. And I'm going to have 10,000 emails saying, that stadium is finished. What are you doing?

It's like, well, we're looking into the future, gentlemen. They're playing the Grand Prairie team, and the Grand Prairie team is beating them. Anyway.

OK, and then once it syncs up to everybody in the field, it's done. Instant-- almost instant communication. All that's messing with us is bandwidth.

Now when-- and I'm just going to jump back to here. This is why I'm not a singer, because the sound equipment is like-- or the video equipment. OK, so one thing we're looking at here-- and a time check, OK, I'm doing fine-- is we want to make sure that the software talks to each other.

We're at Autodesk. A lot of times, especially in the late '80s, early '90s, when they were buying up all the software, it wouldn't really speak to each other. And there are still some issues. But you know if we open the project in Revit-- so this is a Revit model-- stripped it down, so we're not doing heavy models. I've seen some of the classes and they've got these 14 gig models it takes forever to load.

So I stripped it down. But we open it in Revit. And what we want to do is make sure that the Revit model speaks to the Glue model and the Field model. And this is pretty easy here.

And then on Revit, there's an add-in. Let's see, from Revit 15, 15 and 16 you could add it in. 17 and 18 it comes automatically now. But it's an add-in for Glue.

When you sync to Glue, you just go to your add-ins, push the Glue button. And then in Glue, you select the project you want to send it to. And this is just kind of to line everything up to get those links created.

You set it up. You put it in the class project. Navisworks, there's a BIM 360 tab. So you can open up the project in Navisworks, open up a blank project, sync the project to your server just by going up to the BIM 360 tab. Then it comes up says project, select it, and then select which model you want to sync.

And by doing that, you're going to sync the viewports in all those things back and forth. So you can create the viewports any way you want to in Revit, Navisworks, Glue, and then share them back and forth. One of the things that's pretty powerful about this is the clash detections. How many use Navisworks for clash detections?

OK, quite a few of you. Do you like that process? I mean, we're kind of married to that process. How's your coordination meeting look? Go through the Navisworks-- he's laughing over here. We go through the Navisworks files, look at all the clashes.

Well, in Glue, you can take and actually do the clash detection in Glue, send everyone an email that needs that clash, and it goes and pegs into their Revit or AutoCAD models. So Autodesk is working on that to get other platforms, such as 3ds Max. So they are working on that.

Yesterday in-- no, what's today? Wednesday. Monday in the DevCon conference, they were talking about the new Glue and new Field that's coming out that will address some of these issues. So since I'm not Autodesk, I can't talk to that.

So once we have all that established, once we have those issues resolved, when I synced up and-- when I was able to get this synced up, I noticed that this Model tab came up when I added a model to Field. Otherwise it's not there.

And to sync the Field up to Glue, there is a tab in Glue to allow you do that. OK, so like I said, that was another class. So we're going to jump over here.

And so doing photography. When I first sent this out, it said doing photography like a pro using the flashlight. Well, the iPad I was using at the time was someone's Pro. And Pro's the only iPad with a flashlight, a built-in flash. So you can use that.

The problem is the BIM 360 Field camera does not have any adjustability. Just you see what you get. And if you're in a dark room, you want to be able to see the construction issues.

So we came up with a couple of workarounds for that. And the first one is-- well, we'll look at that in a minute. But it's that adjustable camera that we really need. And how many selfies have you guys taken today? This week?

I've got four. I've got zero. I've got people that I'll never take a selfie. So my wife-- I bought a selfie stick to put the 360 camera on so I get a good 360 photo. And she's like, you bought a selfie stick? It's kind of like a cardinal sin.

Yeah, I bought a selfie stick to kind of relax. So anyway. So the camera on our phones, on our iPads, we use it a lot. Any professional photographers in here?

So you're stuck with using your phone and your camera, right? No, I'm kidding. Well, the thing with any camera, you start out doing nice jobs, people are working nice. You tell them it's for marketing, they're all nice and working.

But it always degenerates to this. Always. Oh yeah, look, there's a camera here. Let's take a selfie. And I was talking to these two and I said, OK, go ahead and take a selfie, and boy, that camera went up there real quick.

But what we want to do, the ability to take photos and then we post them. That's what makes the iPads and the iPhones powerful. The Twitter feeds we can get-- we can post a photo instantly. People can see it.

That's what makes it powerful. Whereas, my 35 millimeter, I've got to take the pictures, pull the SD card out, load them up, and then load them. So there's a four-step process versus the one-step process.

But the problem is people don't know how to use their cameras. For instance, I took these two photos using the iPad camera. Not the 360 camera, but the iPad camera because I can adjust the exposure a little bit. The one on the right here was done just straight native iPad photo.

And the one on the right, I adjusted the exposure on. And if we'll look, OK what can we see-- and you could see how that exposure-- does anyone else's desk looks like this or am I the only one? OK. Well see, my engineer's desk is clean, spotless. I mean, you can eat off of it.

She gets a lot of work done. My desk looks like this. I get a lot of work done. I know where everything's at. At home, my wife would clean up my closet. I have absolutely no idea where anything is.

Anyway, so let's jump over into this for just a second. Eight take. There we go. And if you look at the camera-- back up to here-- and there's the camera. And let's see, I'm going to take a picture of my friend here in the front. Don't look at the camera.

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I'll take the focus off of you. But see, when I push the focus, I get the little focus box with the little sun on the side here. And I can adjust my exposure and make it really light up or really dark.

And so when using the native camera on the iPad in the construction environment, you want to increase the exposure. So what you're doing, you're opening the aperture a little bit more, letting more light in. OK, Tyler, give me a smile. There we go.

OK, so we'll post Tyler's picture later and say this is what not to do, because that looks more like the proper exposure there. But that's using the native camera. Here, I'll get the whole crowd. There we go.

There's the wave in the back. How about this side? And you guys know that this is going up to the AU mobile app just as soon as we get done, right?

So you want to open the camera and use that. Now, there are apps to download. and There are external flashes that you can add. And this is really cool, because-- make sure I've got enough time. Yeah, I've got time.

OK, so introducing the iBlazr 2 portable flash. This guy right here. Yeah, I guess it would help if you could see a-- there. Eight take. Seven take. OK, one more time. There. There we go. It's like, OK.

But the iBlazr 2, $50 at Best Buy. And see how intense that light is? I've got two settings. So you can kind of see that. They market this as a selfie flashlight. And it's like, no.

So let me jump back over here and open that app. And I don't know if you guys noticed, but I put that under my Productivity app. So it's called Shotlight. And I want to enable the camera.

OK, so this is the disadvantage of having the update. Sitting in my room and the update says, yeah, OK, the iPad update. Now, over in the corner here-- and that's one of those things. You've got to hold it like this.

But you see the flash button over here? And it says add the iBlazr 2, which I can look at it. See, it came on automatically because I turned it off. Put that on my iPad. Then, of course, I went across my turn-off button there.

And you can see, I can adjust the intensity of the light, the temperature of the light. So I can get some-- so if I wanted to add a little more light temperature in, get a little better colors. And then-- so there's-- now I have flash photography with my iPad.

How does that help us on BIM 360 Field? Well, I'm glad you asked. You were thinking that, right?

So since the flash won't work on BIM 360 Field, we'll just go over here and hit the camera. And see, there's no flash connection there. Since the iBlazr-- here, Tyler, hold that. You can take selfies of people.

I can take this, put it in the center of the room, light the whole room up. So if I'm in a dark room, I now have an external source to light the room. You can go ahead and take some pictures.

Come on. Hire somebody and this is what you get.

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Oops, sorry about that. All right. Yes. So you can have your engineer walk around with just the light attached to the iPad and take pictures as well. So like I said, $50, Best Buy. Or you can order them from Amazon for as low as $35.

All right. Give me the iPad back. Now, the one problem about using flash photography on iPads like that is-- just jump back over to there-- on opening day for the Cleburne Railroaders, some bright young person was using flash photography. And you could see the ball is hovering right there in mid-air.

Our guy did hit a home run with that one. But the pitcher called it back, because as soon as he released it, I'm back in the back flash, flash, flash, flash. And then I got a notice, or they announced over the loudspeaker, to all our fans, there is no flash photography allowed. And everyone in the stadium is looking at me, and I'm like, OK.

All right, so conclusion. It's time to return to the bus barn. Yeah, we're done pretty good on time. The ability to use the iPad effectively depends on how much time a person is willing to learn how to use it. A lot of time-- so give an iPad to a new person and assume they know how to use it, because oh, well, again, you grew up with technology.

So I got my first computer when I was 12, 41 years ago. And I'm still learning. But we want to spend those times. So we identified-- we kind of looked at the process of how we use them in the field. We performed some-- just a couple of functions.

We addressed the issue of syncing the viewports. And we did photography. And like I said, I'm going to pick out the best of these. We'll put them on the AU mobile app. So any questions? None?

Well, OK. You guys have been a pretty good group. And you've got to put all the copyright stuff on there. Thank you for attending. Make sure you fill out the survey. And have a great rest of the day.

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