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Using BIM 360 Docs in a Fire-Protection Construction Environment

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As mobile technology comes of age on the construction site, the use of iPads and BIM 360 Docs software can now replace the paper plans of the past. The transition to this new environment can be smooth and seamless, or it can be hindered by multiple false starts. This class will provide a live demonstration of the complete process of implementing a BIM 360 Docs project for a sample fire-protection construction project. The lessons taught in this class will have obvious application beyond the fire protection trade, but limiting the live demonstrations to a specific trade provides clarity and enables the presentation to pay some attention to the often-overlooked fire sprinkler industry. We expect the live-demonstration approach of this presentation to provide a great opportunity to understand the capabilities and value of BIM 360 Docs software to anyone involved in the process, including owner/managers, IT personnel, designers, and installers. This session features BIM 360 Docs, AutoCAD, and Revit. AIA Approved

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  • Recognize the value of proper planning of a BIM 360 Docs project
  • Recognize the value of user orientation/training
  • Understand the field conditions affecting efficient use of BIM 360 Docs
  • Understand the roles played by IT, design, and installation personnel

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      ALAN JOHNSTON: I'd like to welcome you all to this presentation, and to AU. I hope you're having a great AU experience.

      I'll introduce myself. Alan Johnston, I'm the president of Hydratec Incorporated. Hydratec has been in business for just about 45 years. The business we're in is providing an enjoyable, challenging, and rewarding place to work.

      All of that work has always been related to fire protection, and most of what we do is develop, market, and support software to design sprinkler systems. The majority of our customers are sprinkler contractors. More and more of those customers are also engineering for-- engineering slash architectural firms.

      You can't stay in business for 45 years if you don't recognize and adopt change. And, if we can brag about something as a company, it's-- well, what I always brag about is an enjoyable, challenging, rewarding place to work. But in terms of our longevity, I would brag about the willingness to adopt change and move forward. And certainly, BIM 360 Docs and its concept is a game changer change, and one that I'm going to say I kind of fell into through a story I'm going to tell you in just a little bit, but very happy that I did.

      Today is a little bit more of a challenge than usual for me, because I thought this was a real easy subject. It's just a way to replace paper with tablets, so we'll just put some files up in the cloud and look at them from the tablet. How hard can that be? So I signed up for an hour class, and then I prepared and prepared and prepared, and I got two hours worth of stuff to tell you, and I've only got an hour to do it.

      So I'm not going to keep you late. I didn't mean to scare you with that. But I'm going to sort of fast forward through some of the stuff. AU has us post the handout and post the presentation to the web site.

      Had anybody found it and downloaded it? Wasn't there until last night-- you guys did? No, he's just nodding.

      So some of the stuff I skipped fast forward through, be reminded that it's there, and it's the step-by-step is there. So without further ado-- which was three minutes already-- I'm going to jump right in here. The first of my PowerPoint slides is obligatory for doing an AU presentation. You should already have seen this, it was part of signing up for the class, it was part of the description of class.

      I'm going to try and teach all that stuff in an hour, or at least send you home with some comments on it. But I'm not going to read it to you. The next one is obligatory also, and I could have just copied and pasted it from the presentation description, but I chose to take the opportunity to give you an idea of where we're headed today.

      You just put docs up there and you go look at them on your iPad. Well, soon as you go to do that, it gets a little bit more complicated, and I-- I've went and made it really complicated by making two hours worth out of it. But to sort of formulate that or organize it a little bit, I said we're going to concentrate on the efficient link between design and construction. So you can use documents for a million different things, I'm just saying, hey, we finished the design, we want the guys in the field to be able to use that-- to be able to use that iPad to do it.

      The steps in doing that involve authorization, because you want to secure your information so that the guys that need to see it can see it, and the guys that don't need to see it. So if I don't want my competitors to see the stuff that's there, I don't authorize them, but my field guys I authorize. Organization-- there's this great big storage place, you got to figure out what goes where. And the application itself actually requires some thought to the organization.

      I don't want to give the whole talk just on the summary thing here, but I'll say this now, and there's no saying that too much. BIM 360 Docs is an application that exposes itself through a web browser and through a mobile app. That's on your computer and on your tablet. And it tries to do it in the same way, but they're different devices, so there's differences in how to do that.

      And it provides a place called Plans at a place called Files, and I spent a lot of time wrestling with that. What the hell is the difference between Plans and Files? I didn't bother Mr. Webster with that question, I'm sure he'd have some input, but it kind of doesn't matter. This application gave us two places, and they behave differently, and I want to explain or expose my experiences to what that difference is. So the organization is important for how we get at that information.

      And most importantly, it's visualization. Can we get this stuff fast enough so that I can give up my big piece of paper and be happy with this tiny little tablet? And I hope that I can sort of bring that along and show you how that's really, really true and really possible.

      So here's my plan, what I'm going to do with the hour. I'm going to tell you a story-- it's a true story. I want to show you how to make that story yours as a contractor, as a user of BIM 360 Docs. And then I've got some people already signed up to take a tour with me. I'm going to do it on my iPad, and you can do it on your mobile device at the same time.

      So-- so you got to keep going the right way. So here's my story. I met a guy. He came in late, but he's here, and I'm much more relaxed for it. I'll tell you a little bit about Ken in just a minute, but we planned a project, sort of, because it was a redo of one that hadn't been done before.

      We made it paperless, and we got it built. From trying to get this two hours worth of stuff in an hour, I'm doing pretty good here, because I got that story down to four lines. But I just wanted to tell you about the guy. He's a close friend of mine, I consider him a close friend of mine.

      Ken Schneider is a training specialist for the UA training department. If you're a non-union contractor, that's an euphemism for he's a union guy. But he does-- he does training of the best and the brightest coming up through the ranks, and part of that training includes an annual apprentice contest, where they have regionals and then super regionals and then they get the seven best from all around the country, plus Canada, plus Australia.

      And they have all different things to do during the contest. One of them is to spend 12 hours building an actual sprinkler system, and they've done that for years. And we sort of designed a project because-- we took a project that they had done before. We changed the valves out, we changed the configuration a little bit, and we recast it as a new project. But we did it paperlessly, and we got those guys to actually build it.

      So over a six month period, we designed it in Revit. We met as a committee and sort of hashed out what was good and what was not so good about that design. We revised it, we did an actual mock up. One of Al's rules of programming is if you don't check it, it don't work, and I was just loving to see that Ken followed the same reality. If you don't check it, it don't work.

      Then we designed-- this was special for this year-- we designed the training orientation so that these guys that have never been exposed, some of them haven't ever had an iPad in their hand, we said it's going to be important for there to be a level playing field, they're all familiar with how that iPad works. So we made a training program for that. And then we took their paper away, and they did it.

      This is a picture of the iPad on his work desk. I wasn't there the year before, but he used to take an awful lot more space for the paper plan. Now we've got some space back by having the iPad.

      But two things about the construction environment. He's wearing SAVA [INAUDIBLE], and he's wearing SAVA [INAUDIBLE] gloves. So he's got to be able to study that iPad through the safety glasses, and we found out-- yeah, the iPad works just fine through a construction glove filled with grease. And in this picture you can't see it, but if you look at that iPad from the side, you think there's no way they can read that. If you look at it straight on, it's just not a problem.

      So we found that viewing an iPad through a thick layer of grease of what's probably cutting oil, is more a legitimate term for it, is just not a problem. And that gives me confidence to say this is a proven technology, one that we put through a real exp-- a real situation, and it came out with flying colors. I'm going to brag about fire protection people, because of all the trades which were represented at that competition, fire protection was it.

      We were the ones that did this, and the others are all clamoring. When can we do that? I want to sort of show that off, show the results off.

      This is the finished product. It's a steel tank that, in case there's a fire, the sensors, which are sort of represented by flipping that valve that got flipped early on in the photo, here. Once the sensing device goes off, water goes all over the place.

      This is almost-- almost a Hollywood moment here, because they like you to think that way all sprinklers work. It's a very special situation, and it occurs me just now as I'm showing you that, don't go away thinking that all the sprinklers operate at once. They next to never do, this is very special-- this is called special hazards for that reason. But the operation of one pilot line operates all those sprinklers for the purpose of keeping that tank cool, so it doesn't-- so it doesn't explode, really.

      But these guys did that. The guys before did it with lots of paper, these guys did with the iPad. I was one of the judges and I got to hear from them, hey, this is pretty cool. They had a couple of-- one of the things that I could take two or three pieces of paper, and decorate the whole room with it, and then I don't have to go open them individually. And here I got to go back and forth and back and forth a little bit. But all constructive, and every one of them positive.

      So that's justification for saying we should know more about this. I don't know if it's justification for I speak so long about it, but that's what we did. So that's our story, how can we make it your story?

      You've got a lot more files on a job than this one little project. That's kind of an admitted situation. Your files are talking about an entire building, not just-- I'm going to call it a little model-- our whole sprinkler system fit in three by seven by six, or something like that. And your project is inside a five story building or something. And the tool that we use to just drive around and see all that stuff does a great job of rotating and panning and zooming, but it doesn't penetrate on the iPad, it just doesn't penetrate that stuff.

      So part of the organization is how do we-- how do we create views that are useful in the field? And I'll show you the views that I created for that, and the method that I used for doing that. But it essentially comes down to we'll just take the building and make it into slices, and we'll pre-define those slices, and each slice will not have a top.

      So in the case of the top floor, it doesn't have a roof. In the case of the fourth floor, the fifth floor isn't showing. But then you can look down into it and see what's going on. So I did that, and I'll show it to you, but that's an example of the kinds of things you have to think about when you're organizing your project to deliver it for consumption in a device like this.

      So this is where I'm going to take a short cut, but I'll do the first two slides and then skip the next 30, actually. I was-- I got so excited about sharing all the nuts and bolts and details. I said this step, and this step, and this step, and then when I tried to get it done in an hour, it didn't happen. It's in the presentation, download it. When and if you need it, you can use it that way.

      But the idea is I'm going to talk about, this is Betty Blue and this is Oscar Orange. And Betty is either the IT-- I'm redefining IT. So she's the computer gal at the sprinkler company. She might be the designer, or she might be a support person.

      But she's going to establish the project for the company, and she'll take care of or get Gene Green, the designer, to take care of putting the files up in that project. And then she'll also take care of the authorization. Set who's allowed to upload more, or view them, or change them, or delete them. And that-- that's what she's wanting to do, and here's my one slide that describes what the next 30 do.

      For her to do that, she's going to do it in six easy steps. Even six sounds a little less than easy, but. She's going to set up a BIM 360 account and she's going to-- or not. He, Orange, Mr. Orange is going to do that-- verify that, and then set up a BIM 360 Docs account.

      Then Betty, knowing that that account exists, can go, add Oscar to her list of members, and then as a list of one of the members or in the members, she can add him to the project. And then once she adds him to the project, it automatically sends him an email that says, hey, this stuff's ready for you. And then Oscar goes and uses that email to do that.

      Ken and I did that all ahead of time. We had to think through that, because we certainly didn't want to start our competition with seven guys in the room and say here, make this accountant, and go here and do this, and go there and do that, and then add seven people to the project. And I think Ken's the genius behind this. He says hey, I'll just make up a user name and password for a new, dedicated Gmail account, and that'll be our installer, what we call an apprentice.

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: Yeah. So we set up that one, and then we just told all the-- actually, we didn't even tell the apprentices. We went to each of the seven iPads, and we logged them all in, and said here you go, just start looking stuff up. These are the technical steps you have to go through, and that's what I got carried away with, and said here, let me show you the buttons to push and how to get there and all of that. Download the presentation if you want to see all that detail.

      Now what's the easiest way for me to get past all that? That's slide 10-- and I'm remembering-- slide 39. So he gets all logged in after getting invited and stuff, and when he logs in he sees that he's part of Betty's thing and yeah, I'm set up. And that's the party line, that's how easy it is. I included all the other steps in those 30-- in those 30 slides.

      So now that he's a member, she can assign a word or take away rights to given folders in there. I didn't think of an example here, and I'll just keep going without it. But obviously, one of the folders would be here's where the sprinkler plans are for the standpipe, or here's where the sprinkler plans are for the whole building. And Oscar, being an installer, would want one of those.

      OK, and that's what granting permission's about. So even though she has three sets of folders, she can say just that one set is for him. Maybe another set is for estimating and stuff, and the installer doesn't need to see that.

      So better security, and more efficiency, also, for him not seeing that stuff. OK, sound easy? That must not sound easy if I said I skipped 26 slides. But I did most of that already, and I want to give you a real quick training lesson here. I'm really going to step through it fast, but then I'm going slow down enough and let you guys log in as Agent Orange there. And then you can see what the apprentices saw.

      So we created this most likely for the field people, in our case for the guys on the competition. And we started by telling them, we're taking your paper away and we're giving you an iPad. And then you're going to see more than you've ever seen before for installing a sprinkler system.

      So you sign in, you select the project, you go around and look at the files in there, and then you look at other files. And I put this slide in, I should take it out because we already did all this stuff for them, we already did it for you. So once the account's set up-- yeah.

      I'm a real big animation guy in PowerPoint, and I'm proud of that stuff. So I'll show you this one slide, and I'm going to skip the rest of them. To get hands to show up is just fun.

      OK, but once you get-- once you get logged in, you can pick on a file. If that file is a 3D file, then these are the gestures-- the finger gestures-- for looking around that file. So if you just put your finger on the screen, and I'm talking very specifically about the iPad, my MacBook Pro doesn't respond at all to the screen being touched. But two fingers apart zooms, two fingers together zooms in, and then just hold two fingers down, you can pan around. So just with those few things you can get anywhere in there.

      And I'm going to tell you this now, if you haven't-- has anybody used BIM 360 Docs before? Eh? OK, good, good. If you haven't, this last thing is for you. You get zooming, and woo, I'm off in space someplace, and doing more zooming only makes it worse.

      So a trick that I found was just close the file and pick on the file again. It'll open it up and you're back to-- you're back to home, anyway. The browser version has actually got a little house button, and if you pick on the house it takes you back to what it looked like initially. But the mobile app-- the mobile app is what it's all about.

      I've told you there's two different ones, you know, a browser, an app, and I told you there's Files and Plans. But it's all about, for me and my understanding, the mobile app. And the reason for that, I tell you now, you'll believe me later. The mobile app can view those files and park them locally on the iPad.

      So when you go out to the shop or out to the field and you're on the job site and there's no internet connection, you still have all that information to look at, and it performs actually better than if you're on the browser. Because it's not dependent on the speed, it's coming right off the app. And I think one of the things that makes BIM 360 Docs such a winner is that's just-- it's just taken for granted. It just happens, rather than oh, let's see, I'm going up to the third floor. So I'm going to need this file, and that file, and that file.

      And as soon as you get to the third floor, you need the other three files and you don't have them. They're back on the computer, back in the job trailer or something. This is just as soon as you look at it, you have it. And you don't need an internet connection to do that.

      I just-- I could have said that anywhere, but it's really, really important to know, that that's what's so cool about-- that's what's so important about the mobile app. So don't get-- if there's something that works on the browser and you think oh, gee, this is cooler than the mobile app so I'll just use the browser, don't forget the browser is tied to the internet. Which I'm saying is a deal breaker. You don't want to be tied to the internet.

      How silly is that to, have a cloud-- to have a cloud app and not want to be tied to the internet. But it works, and it's cool. OK, so sometimes we open a file and that file has multiple sheets. There's a little place that tells you that, and you pick on it and you get to the other sheet in that file.

      And this is where I was going to tell you that whole story. Just, when you're logged in, don't log out before you go up to the field because you have to be-- you can see all that stuff, but you have to be logged in. You have to be signed into your account. So before you leave the trailer, sign in, and then it will be available to you. Anyone got any questions?

      I wouldn't answer them anyway, so we'll keep going. But it's time for practice. If you're up for the challenge, let me have you do this. Go to the app-- on your iPad, go to the app store. I didn't get your name, but you're a participant here.

      AUDIENCE: Andrew.

      ALAN JOHNSTON: Andrew. Andrew, you've already done this, because you said you've been in there. Yeah. But downloading an app is as fast as the app we've got for the thing. It only takes a minute.

      So go to app store-- if you don't just find it, because there's a million things on there, too many games and stuff for me-- but in the app store you can pick search. And you search for BIM 360, and then you'll get all the flavors. BIM 360 Field, Glue, Plan, Team, Layout.

      Frank, you have got too many products called 360 for my simple, simple mind. And I see maybe some light, that that's going to get better. But the one you want is BIM 360 Docs

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: So [? Londo ?] just reminded us, that that sets them up for the 358 more apps.

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: I both see the-- I both see the logic in it and the confusion in it. But I'm trying to be very specific here. Did anybody find that app and get it downloaded?

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: Isn't that something. Look harder.

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: Oh, oh, oh-- yeah, but see, otherwise, if you don't have an iPad, then you've got to do some typing. But on your computer or on an Android you'll be using the browser app instead of the mobile app. So type in the address, and if you type that very carefully, you'll get to the same-- what looks like the same place.

      Who wants more time for this? You need a little bit more typing time, Dan? You're good? OK.

      Who has the app now? The guys from Autodesk. And my-- Andrew, thank you. My new friend Andrew.

      That's it, and who else wants to minute? And you've got it, excellent. That--

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: OK. So once you have it, you're going to log on-- oops. OK. You can log on, and when it sign in, you need a username.

      Al made up this username, cs21968au-- let's hope Frank doesn't take my advice and get rid of BIM 360 and change it CS21968AU, that would be a much worse product name-- at gmail.com. But just so you know where that crazy name came from, that's the that's the course name CS1968. Gmail wanted more characters, so I added AU.

      And then my shameless plug for our company, I used the password-- and you have to type it-- HydraCAD1. And because it's password, the upper and lower cases are important. Is that getting you in, Dan? Not yet?

      AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

      ALAN JOHNSTON: You got in, what's your name?

      AUDIENCE: Jamie.

      ALAN JOHNSTON: Jamie. Excellent. Well, you're-- you get a gold star, Jamie. Anyone else in? Way cool, OK.

      When you get in, you should see-- you should see-- and I'll leave this slide and go be-- go be Oscar Orange with you in just a second here. OK, done. And you're probably looking around already, and you may already have the answer to that question.

      You'll probably see just one folder that says AuContest. If you click on that folder, inside that folder, you'll see a bunch of files. The very first file is a 3D view of Ken's apprentice project. So I'm clicking on that, and I'll prepare you for-- mine came up pretty fast, because I've been open and closing, open and closing. Yours might take some time.

      I'll tell you, you can pan and zoom around that even while it's regenerating. So if you're bored watching it come as little pieces, just keep going and it'll it'll be there pretty soon anyway. Anybody find that guy? Matt?

      You found it? Excellent. But it-- OK, yours is still pieces, you've got to be patient. It's going to come in-- there's the rest of it, excellent.

      So the quiz question was if you pan around, and you look at that whole thing, and I'm going to define-- the question said how many valve wheel handles are there. I looked at the list of people that were signed up for the class, and I didn't see a lot of fire protection contractor names. So I tried real hard not to ask so, how many pressure gauges are on the deluge valve, or things that were a little bit too sprinkler-y. I'm saying that's a wheel handle, and that is one of several of those on here.

      And after you've had a chance to look at it and study it a little bit, I'm going to go back to the-- I'm going to go back to the other view of that. And here's the question. How many?

      So how many think there's just one? How many think there's three? Three, Jamie, three. How many things there's five? Two people think there's five.

      How many think there's 12? How about none of the above? OK. Well, the answer is-- wait for it-- five. And I tweaked around so I found a view, and you're probably going to argue with me that's not a wheel handle, it's a star handle.

      But this was another strong lesson, and one that I want to share with you. If you don't check it, it don't work. If we want our guys in the field to be productive with these tools, we want to know that they can actually put them to work.

      And I bow my head to the folks at the UA training center. They've been through this stuff all along. It's just in their DNA to make sure their guys not have heard it, but they got it. And that's an extremely valuable lesson.

      OK, now-- now the bad news is we're half done, and were probably a third done. So congratulations, I hope, and we're going to move on. And now Betty's going to use her super powers to get rid of your access to the UA Contest files, and she's going to replace it-- she's going to-- don't worry, at the end Betty's going to go in and give you access to all this stuff. But for now, she's going to say Oscar Orange, no more UA Contest files. But instead, we're going to show you the file test-- the file test types.

      So let me switch to Betty's computer, here. Betty has access to lots more than just those UA Contest files. She's got some plans, two folders under there, and she's got some project files, four folders under there. Part of what we're going to talk about later is plans and folders and plans and files and what the difference is.

      There's a place here three little dots, the three dots are important. You can pick up, as she's going to [INAUDIBLE] you don't have to do this. I don't think you can. But I'm going to go to permissions, and I see that IT-- I almost said IT was-- I don't even know what it is, but it's the system administrator guy that I hate so much.

      But there's all different roles defined in-- all different roles defined in the software already. And not one of them says sprinkler fitter. We got to talk to Frank about that, we need on that says sprinkler fitter.

      So I picked IT, because that's Installation Technician, and that's the way I'm using it. That's the way Betty's using it. So anyway, Oscar's name isn't in there. Oscar is an Installation Technician, that's his role. And so if that role has permission, then he has permission.

      And I'm going to go over here and say delete, and he doesn't have permission to do that anymore. And then I'm going to go to the file test, the file type tests under files, and I'm going to make the default level include viewing and then I'm going to come up to this place and type in IT. So that's a role, a defined role, and I'm going to say add. And not Oscar specifically, but his role is now in the list of people that are allowed to see that stuff.

      And then I'm going to go up under Plans for file type tests, and I'm going to still leave that default, put IT in again, and add. OK. And then I'm going to back out of here.

      And-- this is Alan thing. There's a couple little glitchy things in this software, which I think are just as likely Microsoft Edge or whatever browser I'm using, but this kind of stopped working. And I found out if I picked the Refresh button-- I needed a youngster to instruct me of such-- then if it's working again. And if I pick back, it should still be working. So now, you should see that change reflected on your side.

      It didn't steal this away from me, it's still on my screen. I could look at it all day long. But when I get out of here, and get out of here-- I didn't get back to AuContest contest files, I got back to FileTypeTest files. And if I look at the little lines in the top, I can switch to plans. And I can switch to files.

      And I wrote the word-- I wrote two different words on there. One says files, and one says plans. There.

      OK, so there's two different folders. They're kind of the same name, but I added the word plans so that you know we're looking at the plans one. And now I'm trying to tell you what's the difference between plans and files.

      So let me start by going back to project files, and the folder I'm looking at is FileTypeTests files. And when I click on that folder one, two, three, four, five, six, there's seven-- what did I say? Everybody's leaving. Just picture taking, that's OK.

      But there's like seven files in here. It's really-- in a way, there's more than seven. Because one of them, the second one, the second one says CAD-Samp something, something, .dwg. That's a drawing file, but plenty of AutoCAD experience in the room, I'm certain. An AutoCAD file has got model space, and one or two or 700 lay out tabs.

      And when we upload .dwg to docs, and we upload it to the files folder, it puts drawings. And if I click on the drawing-- I'm not so interested in what it looks like right now-- it shows me the 3D thing. And you see at the bottom? It's got two slash two, it's like I'm on the second of two pages.

      If I click on the arrow I'm up to one of two, so it's like it's two files built into a drawing file. Two views built into a drawing file. To bring that home, what am I talking about, there's seven thumbnails here. I'm going to go back, I'm looking at the files folder, and then I'm going to go look under plans. And I'm going to look in the plans folder.

      There's a boat load of drawings in here, a boat load of thumbnails. The exact set-- I put the exact same stuff in both places. I uploaded seven files to plans, and I uploaded the exact same seven files to to plans and to files.

      In files, it showed up seven things. And under plans it showed up as nine, 12, 16, 20 of them, I think. Big difference.

      And if you're as good as I am at making a differentiation between the word plans and files, you're just going to be surprised by this. Because I put it here and there's all these things, I put it there and there's fewer. All I can say is I did the test so that I could show you the difference.

      The difference is if it's a drawing with four layout tabs, it's going to show up as model space, 2D model space, 3D, and four tabs. So I'll show up as six icons in plans, but will show up as one icon in files. OK, well, I don't have time to-- to go through and explain every one of those differences between them, but the test that I created for you was I put those seven files in both places so that you could see the behavior of each of them in both places. And to help with that, I went and saw that behavior and tried to come up with words and information about each of them. And I put them in-- yes-- OK. I put them in a spreadsheet.

      And I already told you this, we're talking about two different devices. Just a plain old computer, use the browser or at the mobile device, and two different places, plans and files. So I'm trying to explain the difference between those.

      So I really got confused, and I said I've got to write it down someplace, so I used a spreadsheet to write it down. And here's a whole list of-- a whole list of features, things you can do, sometimes and sometimes not. And the way it navigates, what you can do sometimes and sometimes not, and I kind of wrote down what happened in each one of the places. So the places are the browser app or the mobile app, and what you're looking at is planned stuff or file stuff.

      And I said aha, I've used up my whole hour to explain all the things on this thing, and I think I'm doing badly on my time anyway. But I wasn't-- I just decided I'll just tell you what it is. You can look at it and study it later.

      And that wasn't it, there was more. There were some more features that were available sometimes and not available other times. And then also there was just different types of drawings. I've only shown-- oh, half a dozen here. BIM 360 Docs brags 60 file formats, do you know, Frank? 60 or more file formats.

      You put them up there and they can view them. But for us, probably 90% of what I really care about is .dwg or .rvt, a Revit file or a drawing file. And still, that's not a clear route to anything. So I said I got to get a little bit faster in the class here somehow, so I said here's Al's recommendations.

      Based on all that stuff, I'm saying this is what's good, this is what's bad, and I want this, and I don't want that. If you've got a drawing file, [INAUDIBLE] and print it to PDFs and post them the files. If you've got Revit files, export them to .dwfs and post them to plans. But the file itself, the Revit file, put in files.

      And all of that goes-- the why goes back to that spreadsheet that I gave you all that information on. And I said, let me just-- let me give you the punchline. Navisworks files. A [INAUDIBLE]-- well, can I go back there?

      Navisworks files, you can't even put under plans for the mobile app, and you can put them-- where am I talking about here-- you can put them in the files place for [INAUDIBLE] but you can't Walk. So, wah. Maybe that's-- likely that's something that's on Autodesk's list, because Walk is the coolest thing since sliced white bread.

      You can do the Walk, though, if you put the thing in files and you're using the browser. So in the job trailer, you can get Navisworks experience with the files that you put up on BIM 360 Docs. You just can't take that out to the field with you.

      I can't express enough the value of my protet-- my putting off preparing for this class. Because at least what I'm showing you here is true today. It may not have been true a month ago, and it may be wrong a month from now.

      Because this thing is evolving that quickly, but at least I can tell you this is the way it behaves today. And there's going to be changes. It's not going to just turn over altogether.

      All right, my apologies for having too much fun explaining all this stuff to you. There's still some more good stuff to come, and there's still only 10 minutes to get any of it. So I've got to go back to Betty and get her to use her super powers again so that she can show you what-- if you use Al's recommendations, what would that look like instead of the mess that we had a minute ago in my test files.

      So Betty, come back to me here, baby. All right. So Betty is going to go into plans, and she's going to go to-- this 101 Rosewood project, and she's going to set the permissions for that project. And she's going to say Oscar as part of the IT role should have permission to view stuff in there.

      And we don't want Oscar getting confused, so we're going to go into the FileTypeTest stuff and say Oscar doesn't want to see that anymore, we're turning that off. And then we're going to step down to file types again under plans-- under files and delete that confusing stuff there. And we'll add in for IT permissions for Rosewood.

      OK, and then I'm going to kind of show you the result, and I'll have to live with-- I think we did good on the stuff we talked about. I wish I had more time to talk about some more stuff. I'm going to refrain, but let me go back to Oscar's machine. And on Oscar's machine, if I go back into BIM 360 Docs and I go back, and I go back.

      This is not unusual. Oscar had permission for the test files. I'm saying he doesn't anymore, but they're still showing up here. It's kind of a little bit timing to get caught up, and I can sort of speed that along if I go way up at the top.

      Oscar is part of my AU project, and he's also part of My Project and My Project, how did that happen? When he signed up for an account, he got one, My Project. When he screwed up and he signed up a second time, he got a second project. But if I switch out of the AU project and I switch back to it-- then his view of what files he has been updated. And I'm going to go to the Rosewood plans.

      And this is the first time Oscar is headed out to this project, so I made a file for him that says building shell only. And if I click on that, I can say so Oscar, you're headed to 101 Rosewood. You're going to find the medical building that's going to get built on that lot, and when it's all done it's going to look like this.

      And it's got kind of a two story main building, and off to the side is a fancy [? Dan ?] lobby area that's mostly glass. And on the other side is sort of a one story, more utility type area. So I wish I could fly you inside here, but we'd have to go into the job trailer to do that, so I've got an internet connection. Right here I can just show you what it looks like from the outside.

      Al Johnston really appreciates this. When I built the Boston Garden-- I didn't build the Boston Garden, sorry. When I participated in the design of the sprinkler system for that, I had a log of plans 3 inches thick, and I had the puzzle through there to get an idea, just what's this thing really going to look like when it's done? This is-- in two seconds, you got a good idea.

      So now I'm going to give Oscar his usual. Here's the sprinkler plan you're pretty used to. Depending on how cheap I am as a contractor, I did it in black and white, and you just have to deal with that. Or if I'm really fancy Dan guy, I printed it in color. So no reason not to print it in color here, because it costs exactly the same as printing it in black and white.

      And I want to make just-- I want to make this point. I spent-- this is a Revit file that I just put it on a sheet, and when I put it on the sheet I got to make any number of details I want. And this is pretty typical of paper type production.

      There's an area in here that's a little bit complicated, and to let Oscar know what's going on I made a cross section there. And the cross section is identified up here, so that shows how it goes up, over, and down, and then back into the page and then comes down. And if that's not enough for him to understand, then I made him a static 3D view of that.

      And I'm bragging about Revit as an easy way to do this. And you just put those views on the sheet, and then it just automatically comes in to 360 Docs. But the other thing that Oscar could do if he was interested in those kinds of details is make use of the 3D view that we made. And this is that same second floor plan, but it's 3D.

      So if I go to that area-- where that fancy stuff was going on, then I can see three dimensionally what that looks like. And can you see here, I took the roof off, so it's easy to see into the building. Another thing that 360 Docs lets us do is say-- don't just take the roof off, take off anything that's not a sprinkler system.

      So now it's real easy to get an idea of what the ups and downs are in the sprinkler system. Without looking for an elevation and another elevation and figure out what that is. Plus, if you pick on a pipe, then you can click on Properties of that pipe, and you can see it's two foot seven long, center to center, it's two foot four and a half long cut length, and it was fabricated as part of line five, so he knows what bundle will look for it in if he can't find that piece.

      So still, plenty more to go over, but I'm going to quit while I'm ahead, because if I do that, we've got nine minutes for questions. You know, and I'm going to steal a minute of that, because I promised a song. So let me let me skip down to that.

      There. Uno momento, por favor. Plans, files, cut sheets-- got my cheat sheet here.

      All right, so the Air Force taught me tell them what you're going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them. So here's what I told you. We're going to use this in sprinkler stuff to communicate between design and the field, and we're going to have to think through the authorization, the organization, and the visualization. And that just-- that just gets me so excited I can't help but sing.

      We'll be authorizing members someday soon. We'll be authorizing members someday soon. We'll be authorizing members, we'll be authorizing members, we'll be authorizing members someday soon.

      We'll be organizing files on our jobs. We'll be organizing files on our jobs. We'll be organizing files, we'll be organizing files, we'll be organizing files on our jobs.

      We'll be visualizing models in 3D. We'll be visualizing models in 3D. We'll be visualizing models, we'll be visualizing models, we'll be visualizing models in 3D.

      Bring it home. We'll be trashing all our paper someday soon. We'll be trashing all our paper someday soon. We'll be trashing all our paper, we'll be trashing all our paper, we'll be trashing all our paper someday soon.