Transitioning from Collaboration for Revit to BIM 360 Design

KATIE WATTON: All right, let's go ahead and get started. So first, I know you're probably exhausted for the last day of AU, especially if you're a first time. Anybody a first time here at AU? That's awesome. Yeah, it's awesome. So I'm sure you're exhausted. But whether you walked here, ran here-- anybody run here, so excited to get to this session? Crawled in, whatever-- you know, I appreciate y'all coming in and taking part in this session.

So this session is all about finding a way for you and your firm to easily transition from C4R to design. So we're going to cover a little bit of C4R. But it's mostly all about BIM 360 Design here, and even Design Collaboration, which we'll talk about, as well.

So first off, my name is Katie Watton. I work for 4D Technologies. And we help users like yourself learn and help you all understand the products that y'all are using. And so you may know us from our CAD learning content. And so I'm-- I help write Revit and BIM 360 content, CAD learning content.

Anyway, so the overview of this session, I created a survey a few months ago. And I posted on social media. And we'll talk a little bit about that. But we're going to go over some of the results for the-- in the introduction. And we're also going to talk about what is BIM 360 Design, understanding BIM 360 Design, and even the Design Collaboration module. And we only have an hour, so if we have some time, I'll talk about Desktop Connector, as well.

So let's jump into the survey results. About two months ago, I believe, I created the survey. And I started out actually on my own Twitter account. I was so excited to get this thing going, and I just posted up there. And not that many people started doing it. And I realized, oh, it's because I only have 20 followers on Twitter. So that's probably why it didn't get as big as what I thought, right?

So I reached out to my company. And they posted on their social media platforms. And it slowly grew. And also, about a month and a half ago, I sent it out to some of you. So if you registered about a month and a half ago, you probably didn't receive the email. Anybody respond to that survey, do the survey in here? A few-- actually there was about-- I want to say there was about 40 people that took the survey. I know 100 people registered. So anyway, we'll jump into that.

So the survey, there was 10 questions that I created. And yes, I could have went to the forums, the BIM 360 forums, the Autodesk community and found these-- found out what people were struggling with. But I wanted to find out from you who was going to be in this session and understand firsthand what y'all are having trouble with. And so there was 10 questions. And I took three of those questions. And those three are based on how the rest of the session is laid out. So those three questions make up the entire session.

So that the very first question that we're going to go over is what cloud work sharing platform are you currently using? And you can see over 70% said both. And that is because-- there's two factors that play a part in that. If you're-- depends on the Revit release you're using. And then what-- who is in charge of you using these platforms? The owner, the architect, whoever's in charge, that may drive to what platform you're using. And so we'll cover those.

And so the next question is are you using Design Collaboration module on all your BIM 360 Design projects? There was actually a response question to this. And several of the ones who responded said, what is Design Collaboration module? And I was actually pleasantly surprised. Because the way that Autodesk kind of-- on the help and things online, you can see they talk about BIM 360 Design. I mean-- yeah, I'm sorry, BIM 360 Design. And so they actually incorporate the Design Collaboration module in there. So it's kind of hard to tell what is BIM 360 Design and what is Design Collaboration. And so it's actually a module inside of the BIM 360 platform.

And so the last question is what have you found to be the most difficult part of transitioning from C4R to BIM 360 Design? And, like anything new, I'm sure it could be complicated. And a big thing that a lot of you have commented on-- or only some of y'all have taken it, but anyway, was permissions. That was a huge deal in setting up your projects. Those were some big things, just the most difficult part.

And also they're-- so the platform is currently in development. It's still developing. But it is a very useful product right now, BIM 360 Design, and even Design Collaboration. So one of the responses that I got from this was getting people to see the benefits. And I think that that's so true. Because like anything new, there's a lot of people that probably aren't ready to jump on board and get started on something new, especially AutoCAD to Revit users. So we're going to go over some of the benefits of using BIM 360 Design.

And so let's go-- let's start with the overall update. So basically, C4R has been re-branded to Design Collaboration. And it all-- it started and the-- it released-- I'm sorry-- in April, April 9th. And so if you're using Revit 2015 and Revit through 2018.2, Design Collaboration-- I mean, BIM 360 Design isn't really offered if you're using that. But if you're using 2018.3, you have the capability of using both. Do you want to use C4R? Or do you want to implement BIM 360 Design?

And so if you're using Revit 2018.3 in later versions, then you have the opportunity to use BIM 360 Design. But if you're using Revit 2019, then C4R is kind of long gone for those users. And actually, C4R, you can no longer get subscriptions. But you can still use it.

So what is BIM 360 Design? So BIM 360 Design is made up of multiple modules, and they're all connected. So what this does is it replaces those silos that once existed, let's say C4R and BIM 360 team, you know, or classic glue classic field. All that project data was dispersed on different products. And so it-- you either lose data, or they're everywhere, and you need to try to bring those together. And so what BIM 360 Design does is it allows you to have all of your project data within one platform.

And so what allows this platform to stay connected is document management. And so it helps from-- this platform helps from the conceptual design all the way through the handover process. And so we're going to cover-- so what is BIM 360 Design? There are several packages within BIM 360. There's BIM 360 Docs, BIM 360 Design, BIM 360 Build, and BIM 360 Glue. I think that's all, right? Yeah, that's four. So anyway, so this is the BIM 360 Design package.

And what you get is Design, account admin, project admin, Design, and Design Collaboration. But there's also-- you also get Project Home, which we're not going to talk about. But it's insight. It allows you to have-- to access project analytics from a dashboard. Anyway, so those are included in the package.

And so what is BIM 360-- I'm sorry-- what is Design Collaboration? And so, again, it is included in the BIM 360 Design package. And so in order to use Design Collaboration, you need to activate it for a project. And so what this allows you to do is it allows multidisciplinary firms to collaborate independently on their own teams, but also share these packages that you create with the rest of the team, that is the rest of the project teams.

So you create teams, you view, create, modify, consume packages, which we'll talk about. And then also it allows you to control this-- you know, the state of your project. So you can share whatever state of the project that you want to share with the rest of the teams. You can do that. And you have more control over it.

So let's talk about the cloud worksharing process that once was with C4R. So you want to enable cloud collaboration. The first thing that you need to do is you have a hub. You create a project. You add members to the project. And then once all that's set up, then you can initiate collaboration. And when you do, that initial publish happens inside of BIM 360 Team.

That is the exact same thing that happens when-- with this new platform. The only difference is instead of publishing to BIM 360 Team, you're publishing to Document Management.

And so when you-- so the cloud worksharing process with using Design Collaboration is the same thing. But when you publish your model, you're publishing to Document Management, but also the Design Collaboration module.

So there is actually two workflows that you can use. You do not have to use Design Collaboration. But what I've found was if you're working internally on a small project, you probably don't really need it to activate the Design Collaboration module. It probably doesn't really-- it won't benefit you. But if you're working with multiple firms, multiple disciplinary firms, Design Collaboration can help create teams and be more collaborative.

And so we're going to cover both workflows today. The first one we're going to cover just using BIM 360 Design. And so we're just going to be using Document Management for that. And then toward the end, we'll talk about Design Collaboration.

So getting started-- so the first thing you do is you get a subscription to BIM 360. The account administrator gets an email link. And so you essentially just activate your account through the email. And what this does is it gives that account admin-- it is their account. But also they can assign other project admins to the projects. So if they don't have time, or if they're busy, and they don't want to being in control of this account, they can assign a new account admin to let them control the account.

So also, when you receive this email, it is meant for only one person, and then is the person who receives it. So it's not meant to be forwarded to anyone.

So before we begin on the inside of the Account Admin and Product Admin module, this is simply how you navigate. And you can't see it. Oh, now you can, OK, sorry. This is simply how you navigate between the modules. You just click the module selector, which is the nine dots in the left hand corner.

So the account admin, we're going to cover the task for the account admin. And also what are they in charge of? So these are the things that they're able to do. And so only the account admins have access to the Account Admin module. They have the highest control over the account. And also, yes, they can add and manage project members, account admins, companies. And they're the ones who create the project.

But, of course, they can add apps, custom integrations, which affects-- if you had custom integrations, the good thing about using the forge API is you can kind of change that to where project admins can then create the project, which we're not we're not going to cover. But just this is the default way of how BIM 360 is currently. And they're the ones who create the project, activate the services, and assign project admins.

So when adding members to the account, when you add members to the account, you add them to a member directory. And the first thing that you should do is first create the companies. So before you can add members, you need to create the companies.

So there's two default fields, or specified fields, which is company name and trade or company type. And so there's other fields listed in there, but-- which helps with the project home module I talked about earlier. It all helps with just project analytics. And so once you have the company created, you can then start adding account members.

And so when you add account members, you need to define them that default company, like I mentioned. That is a specified field inside there. And then also, a default role-- it's not-- you don't have to specify one in order to add members. But it is very important that you start your project out by assigning people default roles. And that is because if you don't, and you just start adding members, and just picking what modules they have access to, then it makes the-- whoever account admins are added after that, or project members, it-- they don't know who has access to what unless they look at it.

But if you have a default role assigned, then you're able to help structure the account. And so default role-- these are some of the default roles. And, of course, there's like 30 or something. They just added a few weeks ago. But anyway, whenever you add a default role, it automatically grants that user access to the modules that are associated with this role.

So, for instance, the architect role, you can see how they have access. So this only-- whatever your subscription is, if it-- BIM 360 Design, of course, you're not going to have model coordination field management. But this is just showing you that if you're an architect, you'll have access to every single module, except you will not be a project admin.

Yes, it can be-- you can override that, and project management, which-- project admin, which we'll talk about. But whenever you then assign this architect role to a member, and then you add them to a project, that role is inherited for every project they're added to. So they're always going to have that architect role.

And so now, you've created your member directory in the Account Admin module. And now you want to manage those members. And so there are three statuses. There's active, pending, and inactive. And active and pending count against your limits on your account. So basically, when you have an account, you have-- you pay for the number of seats that you want.

And so if you have someone who's not really participating in the project, but they're active, it's going to count against those limits. So what you could do is you can change them to inactive, or delete them, if they're no longer a part of the project.

And so also, if you are-- if you have a member active and you want to-- this is just showing you how to disable them or make them inactive. So there's two ways. So if-- this is the member directory here. So if you add-- you can select as many members as you want. And then you can disable them. But if you want-- or you can simply select that user. And then it will open their member profile. And then you can simply click inactive. Yes, it's-- you know, there's two different names, but they're the same thing.

OK, so then if you want to activate the members, you cannot select multiple check boxes. You have to select just one. So you select that, click Enable. Or you can open their member profile again and click Active.

And also, I don't have an image for delete account members, but the only way is simply selecting that member, opening their member profile, and you can see delete under here. You don't have to edit their profile. You just delete.

Also, if they're associated to projects, they're going to ask you, are you sure you want to delete this member? It's going to delete them for all the projects that they're associated with. So be aware of that.

So now you want to add additional account admins. There are three ways to do that. So you can invite new account admins. Or you can make an existing account member an account admin.

So to invite an account admin, these are the steps. And also, you have to define them that default role-- I'm sorry, default company. And then you can assign that default role.

OK, so making an existing account member an account admin, you can go into the Settings tab and simply select that check box. This works for adding new account admins, as well. So you can add new through the Settings tab. Or you can invite-- or you can add existing members.

And then also, you can select the member in the member directory. And it will open the member profile. And then you can change their access level to account admin.

So now you have the members added. And now it's ready-- you're ready to create the project. And so there are a few specified fields that-- you know, name, project type, start and end date, and then also the language. So then after you do that, it's a two step process. You first need to create the profile, and then activate the modules that you want the project to be.

And so-- sorry-- so in order-- if you're activating multiple modules, you have to activate Document Management first. Because Document Management is what allows all these modules to stay connected. So you have to activate Document Management first. And so since we're only talking about design cloud-- BIM 360 Design right now, we're just going to activate the Document Management module.

And so you simply click Activate, add the project member, and then click Save. And you must assign a project member-- a project admin, I'm sorry-- in order to activate the module.

So now that you've added this account admin, the account admin can then add project members and manage member services. And so this is another module. So the Project Admin module is separate from Account Admin module. And so these are the tasks that they have access to. And they can add companies. They can manage the services, and then add project admins and manage the project members.

So earlier, when-- let's-- as the account admin, you added the architect role. Well here, it'll-- it would show-- so, for instance, this one that was added, this user was added as a Document Management-- a document manager role. But if you wanted, if you see here on the-- so you can see here, the document manager role has project admin rights. So that gives them access to all the modules that are associated with that project.

And so let's say the project admin says, no, I don't really want them to be a project admin. You can simply click the gear icon for project admin. And it takes away their project admin rights.

So then, if-- so let's say that they were added to the member directory as an architect, like I said earlier. They don't have project admin rights. But then you can add them a second default role, if you want. And so what this allows them-- the reason why they're now a project admin is because of that project manager role. So it-- whatever modules, whatever default roles that you are assigned, those are the-- that's the access that you have.

And so now let's get into Document Management. What is Document Management, and also permissions? So the reason why Autodesk calls the platform single source of truth, it's because of Document Management. And so in Document Management, there are two predefined folders-- the plans folder and the project files folder. And you can create a custom workflow, and create additional folders, and upload files into these folders.

And so with that-- so you can see here, there's-- I created a BIM 360 Design folder and a Design Collaboration folder. So just pay attention to that, because we're going to be using-- right now, we're just going to be using BIM 360 Design folder.

But anyway, so you want to make sure that with folder permissions only the people that have access-- you want to restrict users to only the people that you want to access these folders and files that are uploaded. And so by doing that, there are several roles, several default permissions in Document Management. And so these are all of them.

And so if you have the control permission, that basically gives that user full control. They're basically a project admin of that folder, or multiple folders. So if there's a root folder, let's say the project files folder, and we have that BIM 360 Design folder that we created, and the Design Collaboration folder-- if you give someone permission to that root folder, they're going to inherit that that role throughout the entire-- whatever subfolders are added there.

And so now this is showing-- so if you want the project manager to have access to all of those subfolders, you simply add them. And you assign that permission level.

And so the architect I created-- so for BIM 360 Design, I created an architecture folder, mechanical folder, and structural folder. And so this kind of allows you to have-- just restricts access. And so the architecture folder, we gave just the architect permission, full control. And so only the members that are added can access that folder. And the structural-- we added the structural engineer to the structural folder as full control.

So you're inside of Revit, and now you're ready to enable Revit Cloud Worksharing. Depending on what Revit version you're using, these are the ones you're going to see. And so for the examples we're showing today, you're going to see this one here. Because we're using Revit 2019. But if you're using 2018.3, like I said earlier, you have those two options, which one do you want to activate.

And so this is simply showing you-- I'm sorry the video is not showing from the beginning. But it's showing you the enabling process. And as soon as you enable Cloud Collaboration and you switch over to BIM 360 Design and go to the architecture folder, you can see that that central model is now located in Document Management. And it's going to start over from the beginning, because we missed some of it.

But when you click collaborate, there's that dialog that appears. And so from there, you can-- it's going to open the folder. So you go to the account that you want to use, where you want the central model to be, the project, and then you dig down to the folders that you want that central model to live. And so for this one, we've clicked architecture-- or architectural, sorry-- and then initiate. And so, again, it flipped over to Document Management. And you can see that central. Model.

So now we're-- you know, this is actually an industry talk, not an instructional demo. So I'm not going to go into each step. But basically, I added a mechanical engineer central model, I mean mechanical central model, a structural central model. And so they all live now under their folders in Document Management.

So opening a project-- this is 2019. So they added this new-- in the left pane here-- this easy access to BIM 360. So you can simply select your account, the project, and all that. And then if you're using 2018.3, there's still going to be that Open dialogue. It's just going to look a little different. But you open it. You click BIM 360. And then you can click the account, and then go into the project, and the model. So this is just showing you in-- if you're using 2019.

So publishing-- so there was that initial publish that happened right at the beginning when you enabled Cloud Collaboration. But-- so this is you've made progress with your model, and now you're ready to share it with the members in Document Management, whoever doesn't have access to Revit. So you go into the Publish Settings dialog in Revit. You create the sets that you want to publish, because the sets also are published whenever you publish to Document Management. And then also you go into the Manage Cloud Models dialogue. And you Publish Latest. And so when you do, the Revit model and any sets are published.

So this is showing you here, whenever you're ready to publish, you simply select the project. And then you hover over the project and click Publish Latest.

So linking Revit-- linking models-- so this is-- in this way, using BIM 360 Design without Design Collaboration, you kind of-- you're basically doing live linking. And so let's say only the architectural-- architects have access to that architectural folder. But you want other members, other disciplines, or whoever to have access if they need to link that model. And what you do is you simply add them to the folder as view only.

So they're not able to open the file, open the project at all. But they can link it into Revit. And so this is essentially like linking. Because every time they synchronize, you're able to see those changes. And so with Design Collaboration, you have more control over that, which we'll talk about in a little bit.

And so this is showing you that we're adding HVAC engineer, mechanical engineer, as view only permissions. And so you simply just click the permission, the view only permission, and click Add. And it adds them. Again-- so whenever you add members, you can add them by member, role, or company. And I should have said that to begin with. But just to show these examples, I used just the default role for those. So this is link-- this is the linking models. The Revit insert ribbon, link Revit, you choose the folder, and then you dig down to the-- and then you're able to see that architectural model because of the view only permission.

So let's get into Design Collaboration. And we're going to go over activating the module and the same steps that we talked about, like adding tea-- or not adding teams-- publishing, enabling. But it's a little bit differently. And then, also, we're going to go into the packages.

So back when we added just the Document Management module or service, we could have went ahead and activated that Design Collaboration module. And so what you can do is when you create the project-- this is the step. This is the step here. So you can simply just activate that module during the setup, the project setup stage. Or as a project admin, you can go into the Services tab. And you can activate other modules.

And so now we're adding that Design Collaboration module on the project. And so now, inside of-- as the project admin, you can add members. And so this is simply going to the Design Collaboration admin page and adding those teams.

And a thing with this is whenever you create a team, it creates them a-- what is it called-- a home page inside of Design Collaboration. So they have their own environment as a team inside of Design Collaboration. And so not only that is whenever you add a team here, It adds a team folder in Document Management. And it also creates a shared and consumed folder.

So when you're sharing folders, everyone that is part of the teams, no matter what team, they have access to the shared folder in Document Management. And so whenever you share a package, which I probably shouldn't talk about that now, but whenever I get to it. But whenever you share a package, it'll show in the shared. And when you consume a package, it'll show in your team folder under the shared folder.

And so this is simply showing you how to create that project-- or add the teams, I'm sorry. So you have to switch to the Project Admin module, Design Collaboration, and then you can start adding those teams. And so for this example, I added-- I said team one, architectural, team two, mechanical, team two, structural, just so you don't get confused with what we already created for BIM 360 Design.

So also, whenever you click here, which I just missed, but when you click here, if you already have teams created-- like let's say you want to make those folders that we created in BIM 360 Design team folders, you can do that. But you don't have to create your team folders ahead of time. Design Collaboration does that.

So whenever you click Project Files, like I did, you can choose where you want these team folders to live. And so I picked that Design Collaboration folder that I already created. And so I'm simply adding the teams. And so when you click Add, it then adds them. It creates their team space in Design Collaboration. But it also creates those folders, like I mentioned.

So now you want to add members to the teams. And so this is kind of-- it's really important. Because, yes, now that it's created these folders in Document Management, you can set them permissions there. But if you're dealing with Design Collaboration members, it's better to create your permissions inside of Design Collaboration.

That is because it affects what role is given. Because they don't have the same roles. Design Collaboration roles-- I'm sorry, permissions-- aren't the same as Document Management. They kind of are, but they're not. And so you simply-- you click the project. And you manage team members.

And so these are the differences. And there was actually a new one for Design Collaboration that was added, which is control, which is the same as Document Management. But if you add-- if you're-- if you go into design-- Document Management, and you add that member a view only, upload only permission in Document Management and they're added to a project in Design-- a team in Design Collaboration, they're given that custom role. And so that is telling them that they were added externally and a permission-- it doesn't apply to a permission that's in Design Collaboration.

So be sure that-- also, if you have a project member that is being added to all these teams, yes, instead of going to Design Collaboration and adding that member that's going to be a part of the whole project, instead of going in there and adding them per team, you can go to Document Management and add them to that root folder, the root team folder. And they're automatically added to all the teams.

And so now enabling for BIM 3-- for Design Collaboration, the same process-- it's the same process. But-- and so we have a user here. And he is going to be the mechanical-- he's assigned to the project as mechanical engineer or HVAC engineer. But anyway, so when-- I guess the video's not working on that.

So whenever he goes in and enables this, he's only going to see that mechanical folder that he was assigned to. He's not going to see the architectural folder or the structural folder. He's only going to see whatever he was assigned to.

So we went ahead and we added these central models. So the same as what we did in BIM 360 Design, but in Design Collaboration. So now-- so whenever you add that team, it creates that-- their team home space inside of Design Collaboration. So you can see here that-- is this one going? This one's going. OK, so now that they're added as a team, you can go in to Design Collaboration. And that central model was published already, the initial publish. You can see that this is their Design Collaboration space.

And they didn't publish anything, because-- any of the sets. So the only thing that shows up is this Revit model, here. And so publishing, this is where you can create your sets. So when you go into Publish Settings, you can create sets. You can add views to the sets that are already created. You can-- we're going to add a set here called sheets. And we're going to add a few sheets in there.

And so since you made a change to the model, you need to be sure and synchronize with central before you publish. So we had those elevations sets, sheets, and then we had views. And so instead of going to the Manage Cloud Models dialogue like we did for BIM 360 Design, you simply switch over to Design Collaboration for your team. And you're able just to click Update to Latest. And what this does is it does that Publish for you without having that extra step of going into the Manage Cloud Models dialogue.

And so when you click Update, it will then show those-- it will process. It takes a little bit, if you have multiple sets. But those sets are then added here. And from there, you have-- you can click on them and view the contents within these sets. Or you can click Project Home, which is an aggregated model. And since we haven't really consumed or shared any-- consumed any packages or viewing any other team's packages, you're not-- you're only going to see your model. But we'll touch more on that.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] your model [INAUDIBLE].

KATIE WATTON: Your model, yeah. What-- yeah, yeah. So the project timeline, whenever you-- let me see if I can go back. When you click this button here, it will expand the project timeline. And so when you expand it once, it just shows the shared. And it shows you your team.

And so what the shared is, it's all the teams that are created in Design Collaboration. It's just in one timeline. And so these nodes, they have-- depending on if you've shared, or consumed, or if you're creating these packages depends on what kind of node appears.

And so if you expand it again, you're then able to see all of the teams. And so what the number mean with the node is multiple nodes exist. Because there's a time frame here. So it's one day.

So there was two packages that were consumed or shared within that time. And so if you click on that node, it will then-- it will go into the-- separate those nodes. And the timeline will then shorten to show you those packages.

And so creating and sharing packages-- so once you've published your model to Design Collaboration and you want to create a package now, all you simply do is expand the timeline and click Share Package-- or Create Package, I'm sorry. So we expand the timeline. And you create the package. And this allows you to pick, you know, what sets do you want to include in that package? You can rename it.

So when you create a package, the Revit model is always included, no matter if your set's included or not. So you can select-- sorry, I'm a little ahead. But you can select the sets. So here, we're going to select all of them, click Save, and when you do, and then you expand the project timeline, you can see that dashed node. The dashed node on your team's timeline simply means that you've created a package, but you have not yet shared it with the rest of the teams.

And so whenever you click Share, it will then share the package contents with the other teams. And so you can rename it if you want. And then you can even add a project package description. And so once you click Share, that node changes to a solid node to let your team know that that package has been shared with the rest of the teams.

And so sharing-- OK, so whenever we shared the package, like I said earlier, that shared folder was created in Design-- in Document Management. So you can see here that whenever you shared this package-- when you shared that package, it then exists under here. So all of the teams have access to these shared folders. And so if they want, they can then link in that shared folder in Revit.

And so exploring packages-- let's say you don't know for sure if you want to consume the package yet from another team. So you can explore their package contents. So as the mechanical team-- I changed it over to mechanical team.

You can see that whenever-- sorry-- when the timeline's expanded, they can see that there's two open nodes. These open nodes simply mean that their team-- another team has shared the packages. But your team has not yet consumed it. So that's why it's an empty node. And you can see that the architectural node, and then the structural team also shared a package.

So we click Structural Team. And then you can then view the packages of that team. And so you want to consume that pack-- or, I'm sorry, we're exploring. If you want to explore the contents of that package, you can click Explore. And so then you can switch over to the sheets, the sets. And you can see what's included in those sets.

And so then, as the mechanical team, they have their project model-- 3D model, the aggravated model. And so since they're only exploring, they can still turn on that team and see their model inside of their space. And so if you wanted, you can go to teams here and turn on your model. So if you're the mechanical team, you could turn on your model and overlay it with the structural team. And then you're able to navigate around and see, do I really want to consume this package yet into my design?

And so you can even do first person and kind of see in first person. You can also select-- so you can't select in first person. You have to get out of first person before you can select things. But there's a properties panel. So you can click the-- this is showing you turn off and on the models. And so you can select them. And when you open the Properties dialog, you can see what element that is in either package.

So now you want to compare. So we're taking the architectural model. So comparing packages is only comparing-- you can only compare the same team's package of a later version. And so you can't go and compare other teams. But you simply-- whenever you click, you open up their package. You can click Show Changes. Or you explore, and then you click Show Changes. And you can see there's-- you can see how many are added, how many are removed, and how many are modified elements.

And so the consuming package, you've already-- you've reviewed changes. You explored the changes. And now you're like, I think I want to consume it into my package. And so simply expand the timeline. And then you can select the node and click Consume.

And this is simply saying that whatever package you had before, it's going to update it to the latest Revit model in the sets. And then now, we can-- if you wanted to consume the other architectural model, you can consume that model, as well. And then now, when you go to the project model, your aggregated model, you have access to their latest package.

And so now that you've-- as the mechanical team, you've consumed the architectural model and the structural model. So you're going to be able-- and inside of Document Management, you're going to see that those two teams, the latest Revit model was added to your team's consumed folder.

And so what this allows you to do is have controlled sharing, linking-- so there's controlled sharing or there's live linking. Live linking is similar to BIM 360 Design that we talked about earlier. But controlled sharing allows you to control-- it should be controlled linking, I'm sorry. Controlled linking-- and so what this allows you to do is if you want to link in one of your shared models, you can simply do that by going to Link Revit.

And then whatever-- you're only going to see the teams that have shared models. If you dig down, you're going to-- you can then open that shared model. Or you can do the consumed package. So only the teams that your team has consumed will appear here. And so this allows the teams to have more control on what's being linked in to their model.

And so with live linking, let's-- if you do live linking, you're basically bypassing this shared and consumed way of linking. You're just doing live linking. And what this is similar to Document Management. You add that member as view only. And so they're able to constantly see those updates before you publish. And you add them as view only. So what we did here is to the-- we added the mechanical engineer HVAC engineer to the architectural and structural folder.

And so this brings us to Desktop Connector that, yes, you can upload and download files and all that from Document Management and even access the team's-- your shared and consumed folders. You can do all that with Desktop Connector by downloading it. And you're able to manage that account directly from your desktop.

And so it's only integrated with project files folder, not the plans folder. And so there-- this is what's happening right now in Design Collaboration and in Design. But BIM 360 Design is constantly having updates. And so if you want to stay connected, there's release notes. And it's made to the public. And there's the BIM 360 roadmap.

So the BIM 360 roadmap shows you what's coming in the next 30 days, or even later, what's a concept type of thing. But then the release notes, it shows you-- as soon as something is released, it will appear here. And I'll show you all the changes, all the updates that have happened.

And so I strongly suggest for you to be more than a user. Get involved with the Autodesk community. Join the insider program to where you can test out beta testing before it's even released. The community hub is a good place. And then AKN is a good place. And then the forums, and then, you know, it's a great way to stay involved with the community so you know exactly what's happening to BIM 360.

So if you want to find more on our content, you can visit CAD Learning. And find me on Twitter, since I only have 20 followers right now. But-- LinkedIn, whatever, yeah-- so I don't know how-- what time we have left, how much. What time does it end? 11:30, right? 11:30, yeah. Are there any questions?

Also, whoever's using Model Coordination right now, they're-- Design Collaboration and Model Coordination will soon be integrated. I went to a session yesterday on the Model Coordination roadmap. And they said at the end of the month they're supposedly supposed to be adding this feature to where now instead of only being able to have-- what is it-- to create your Design Collaboration teams in project files folder, you'll be able to do that now in plans and then integrate that into Model Coordination. And so all that's coming. There's a lot of exciting new features that are coming to BIM 360 Design, but also Model Coordination and Design Collaboration. So-- yes?

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

KATIE WATTON: Yeah, yes.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

KATIE WATTON: It is, yeah. Yeah, so there is a BIM 360 Glue package. So that kind of confuses people. But yes, Glue is-- so classic Glue-- I'm sorry, Model Coordination is the next gen of classic Glue. Yes, sir?

AUDIENCE: I'm a little stuck on-- two slides back so the live linking and [INAUDIBLE] sharing--

KATIE WATTON: Controlled sharing and live linking?

AUDIENCE: Yeah, I guess I'm just wondering in what case would you do this live linking [INAUDIBLE]?

KATIE WATTON: I-- so--

AUDIENCE: And I guess the second half is if you haven't done the package, [INAUDIBLE] and you still-- can I still see that [INAUDIBLE]?