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Transcript
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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BRYSON ANDERSON: Autodesk Accelerators
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are designed to help your team stay ahead
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of the curve with the latest workflows.
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These include Ondemand Courses, Pre-recorded Coaching,
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as well as Live Coaching.
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To see the full list of topics, visit the Customer Success Hub.
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Take a moment to read over the Safe Harbor Statement.
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This is a reminder that we may make statements
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about future developments.
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These are not intended to be a guarantee,
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but reflect our current expectations and assumptions.
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Before we get started, let me introduce myself.
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My name is Bryson Anderson.
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I'm based out of Utah, been in the IT industry
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for about 14 years now, for the last 10 years
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in the AEC marketplace working with firms
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in all aspects of their IT, including
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data management and collaboration
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for Autodesk workflows.
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Welcome to the Autodesk Accelerator synchronized
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changes with the cloud.
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The objectives for today's session
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is to learn how to sync Revit changes back to the cloud,
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learn how to initiate collaboration to the cloud,
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and understand the difference between syncing changes
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to the cloud and publishing the latest to Autodesk Docs.
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We're going to open or create a Revit model.
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If we're creating the Revit model,
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we're going to initiate it to the cloud.
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We're going to click on the Collaborate tab,
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synchronize panel, Synchronize with central dropdown,
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and select Synchronize and Modify settings.
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We're going to verify the location of the central model,
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apply the settings that are necessary,
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add a comment if we want to add a comment, and then go ahead
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and hit Synchronize.
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So let's go ahead and get started.
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We're going to first talk about uploading a Revit model
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to the cloud as a central file.
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This is going to be the first step in our workflow.
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So the first thing we want to do is kind
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of do some prerequisite checks.
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We need to make sure a BIM Collaborate Pro license is
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assigned to the user that we're logged in as,
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we're invited to an ACC project, we have sufficient access
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to the folder in Project Files where we're
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going to upload the file to, and that Revit is installed,
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and we're logged in with that same Autodesk ID.
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These are some important things to check to make sure
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that the process goes smoothly.
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So the first thing we need to do is open the Revit model
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that we want to synchronize.
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If we're creating a new model, we need to save it at least one
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time locally so it'll let us upload it.
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Once we have that model open, we're
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going to go to the Collaborate tab, the Manage Collaboration
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pane.
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We're going to click Collaborate in Cloud.
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Revit may ask you to save locally one more time,
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go ahead and save it.
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Once it's saved, this window will come up,
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the Save as Cloud Model window, where
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it's going to have us select the account, the project,
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the folder, and set the name.
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So the first thing we want to do is come up here
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to this Switch Account.
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If we have access to multiple Autodesk Construction Cloud
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accounts, we'll need to drop down and select the account
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and project that we want.
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Next, we'll drill down to the folder we want to upload to,
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and, lastly, change the name of the file
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if we want to change it to something different,
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and then click that blue save button.
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Once we click Save, it'll begin that upload process.
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We'll see a couple of these different windows here.
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It'll tell us it's saving model to the cloud.
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We'll have a status bar in the bottom left corner.
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When it's completely finished, it'll
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give us a message that this model is saved to the cloud,
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and we can go ahead and click Close.
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At this point, the central model is now
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uploaded as a cloud central model.
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Now, if we already had the model uploaded, and we just
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needed to open it, then we would open up Revit on the Revit
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splash screen, come to the Autodesk Docs
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here on the splash screen.
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Same thing like we did when we were uploading a file,
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we'll select the account and project,
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select the folder where the model exists,
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we'll see the model here, and we will select it to open,
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and we'll begin opening that Revit model.
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Once we have that Revit model open,
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we can then go ahead and look at synchronizing our changes.
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So let's move on to synchronizing changes
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to the cloud.
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This is going to be the second step in our workflow.
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In the previous step, we created or opened a Revit model,
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so now we're into a Revit model and we
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need to synchronize changes that we've made on the Collaborate
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tab on the Synchronized Panel.
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We'll click Synchronize with Central and Synchronize
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and Modify Settings.
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Now, if we already had settings set the way we wanted,
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we could just click synchronize now,
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but for this we're going to do Synchronize and Modify
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Settings.
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This is the window that's going to come up.
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It's going to give us a couple of things here.
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First, is the model location.
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We can see here this is Autodesk Docs, that
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tells us this is a cloud central model.
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If we had work sets or elements borrowed,
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check these boxes here to go ahead and relinquish those.
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We can add a comment if we would like,
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and if we're doing some maintenance,
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we could click Compact Central Model.
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Once we're completely satisfied with the settings we've
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got here, we can go ahead and click OK.
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Once we click OK, we're going to get this Sync with Central
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window here.
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This is a progress window that'll
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tell us what's happening, saving to local, reloading the latest,
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saving to central, saving to local.
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It'll give us an idea of where it's at in the process.
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Once that is complete any changes
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that we've made to our local file
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have now been synchronized back to the cloud.
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Now we've got our changes synced,
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let's move on to our final topic here, understand the difference
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between syncing and publishing.
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This is the final step in our workflow.
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This is more of an informational step.
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It's key to understand the difference between a publish
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and synchronizing our changes.
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In the first step when we uploaded a model
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and made it a cloud central model,
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we picked the project and then the folder
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where we wanted to save that to.
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Key thing to understand here is when
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we upload a central model, the Revit storage
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container for the central models appears
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to be the same location, but it is a mimicked folder structure
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of what we see in Autodesk Docs.
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So what we see in Autodesk Docs is going to be all of the files
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that we've put up there as well as a published copy
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of our Revit central model.
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So the central model itself when we upload,
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though through Revit, it's the same folder structure,
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and it appears to be the same location,
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on the back end it's actually a separate storage container.
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This is what allows us to have multiple people in editing
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a model to have that cloud central model,
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but then also have a copy of it stored in Autodesk Docs
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where those outside of the Revit environment can view that.
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So as we do a sync to central in that last step we just
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looked at, synchronizing our changes,
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we're synchronizing our changes to the Revit central,
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but we're not pushing those changes to Autodesk Docs.
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In order to push those changes to Autodesk Docs for people
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outside of the Revit environment to see,
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we'd to actually publish.
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So inside Revit there's a button to publish our latest.
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Publishing our latest will then take the most recent version
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of the Revit model and make a copy of it
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out to Autodesk Docs.
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Not realizing that the Revit central models are
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in a connected but separate environment than everything
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else in Autodesk Docs is probably
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one of the biggest hurdles to get over
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when someone's first using this product is
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to realize how these two things mesh together,
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so that when you go into Autodesk Docs
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you're familiar with why you're not seeing what you
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saw in Revit and vise versa.
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So let's take a look at that kind of in the real world.
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On the left hand side here, we're
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looking inside of Revit-- right here
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under Manage Cloud Models inside Revit,
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and you'll notice there's four versions of this model.
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Then, when we look at that same model over here
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on the right hand side in Autodesk Docs,
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there's only two versions.
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So we've only published twice, where on this other side
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we've linked four times.
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So understanding this key difference
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that they are connected but separate
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is really key to understanding how all of this fits together.
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So let's talk about some key takeaways from this.
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So like we talked about, the folder structure in Docs
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is mimicked in Revit, including permissions.
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So if you're trying to upload something
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to Revit or link something to Revit and you're not seeing it,
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the permissions that you set on the Autodesk Doc side
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are also on the Revit side.
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If we were to upload a Revit model via the Desktop Connector
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or through the web browser directly through Autodesk Docs,
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it's not going to be available inside Revit.
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All we're doing is uploading a standalone Revit model,
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we're not actually initiating it as a cloud central model.
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We've got to do that through Revit, which we did
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in the first step here today.
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When we upload through Revit, it does
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create it as that Revit central model
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and sets up the dynamic where we can then publish it.
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Again, the central model that we see in Docs
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is a published copy of the central model
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we see inside Revit.
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Sync to central updates the central model,
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but not the published copy in Docs.
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Publishing latest through Revit updates
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the published copy in Docs, but does not necessarily
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sync to central.
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So let's jump over to the demo and take a look
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at this in action.
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Revit Cloud Worksharing allows you to collaborate
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on Revit models in the cloud.
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You can coauthor cloud models centralizing project design
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data.
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The first step is to open a Revit model
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and get it uploaded to the cloud.
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If you've spent time uploading other project files to Autodesk
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Docs, you've probably either done it through the web browser
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or used the Desktop Connector, but Revit requires us to do it
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a little bit different way.
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We need to bring that model through Revit
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so that it actually makes it as a cloud central file.
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If you take a Revit model and upload it
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with the Upload button in Autodesk Docs
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or through the Desktop Connector, what
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it's going to do is actually just
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upload a standalone RVT file and not make it a cloud central.
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So part of the process that we needed to do here
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is open it in Revit and go through a specific process that
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tells the cloud work sharing piece that it
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needs to be a cloud central and not just a standalone Revit
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file.
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So let's go ahead and open up a file
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that we want to upload to the cloud.
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Your Revit model needs to be saved locally
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or on your local server somewhere.
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This one here is on my local drive.
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We're going to open up this architectural model.
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We want to tell it let's work with this model temporarily.
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You do need to have this model saved at least
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once to your local machine.
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So if you're creating a new file,
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go ahead and save it somewhere and then go
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through this process of opening it, telling it
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that we want to work with it temporarily.
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Once that opens, we want to go to the Collaborate tab
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and Collaborate in Cloud.
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This is the button that tells it we
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want to make this a cloud central file.
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So one more time, it's going to make us save the model
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and continue.
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We'll tell it we want to work with this model temporarily,
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and we need to save it somewhere.
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So, right now, it added the detached name.
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I'm going to go ahead and just leave
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the name the way it is for now.
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When we do the upload process it's
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going to let us change that name the way we want it.
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But since I already have in here a file by that name,
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I'm going to go ahead and just leave it at that name,
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and tell it to go.
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So now we wait.
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You'll see down here the progress bar.
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I'm going to go ahead and pause the video for a second
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and let it finish through the progress.
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OK, the file has saved locally, and now we're
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at the Save As Cloud Model dialog box.
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That's going to have us pick the account, the project,
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the folder, and name it.
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So let's go ahead and do that.
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The first thing we need to do is make sure
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that we're on the right project.
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This little drop down here lets you switch accounts.
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If your project exists on a different account,
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go ahead and select the project that you want.
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This is the project we're working with
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and then we'll drill down where we want to store it.
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So I want to store it in Project Files, Architecture,
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and then I can go ahead and name this file.
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And I'm going to remove the detached,
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name it what I want to name it, click Save,
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and that's going to begin the process.
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So now what it's doing is uploading the model
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to Autodesk Docs and creating it as a cloud central.
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So I'll go ahead and pause the video and wait for this process
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to happen.
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OK, that took about a minute--
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minute and a half-- depending on the size of your model
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will depend on how long that takes.
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Once it's done, you'll have the success message
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that tells you the model is saved to the cloud.
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So we can go ahead and hit close.
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Now that we have our Revit model uploaded
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to the cloud as a cloud central, to open it,
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if you come to the splash screen of Revit
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there's an Autodesk Docs location
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here under Recent Files.
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When you click on that, it's going
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to show you all of the accounts and projects
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that you have access to, switch to the right account
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and project, and then drill down to the folder where
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the file exists.
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So here's the one that we just uploaded.
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If you noticed on our recent files,
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we also had it here because we had it open,
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but you'll notice something on these icons.
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So these were all local models that
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were stored locally on the machine,
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and they have this little icon.
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This one has a little cloud over it telling us
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that this is a cloud file.
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So we could open it here from Recent Files
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or into Autodesk Docs and drill down and open the file.
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Now that we've got our model open,
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we can go ahead and get working.
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Once we're ready to synchronize our changes back,
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if we go to the Collaborate tab, Synchronize with Central,
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and we're going to modify settings here.
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It's telling us that it's syncing back
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to a Docs location.
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If we had elements or worksets borrowed,
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we could go ahead and check these boxes to relinquish them.
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We can leave a comment if we'd like, and then hit OK.
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So this is a similar process as to when you're syncing locally,
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it's just going to have that Autodesk Docs location,
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but other than that you're syncing with central like you
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would in Revit normally.
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So we'll hit OK, and it will go through,
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do our sync to central, giving us
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this nice status message here.
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It's telling us that right now it's
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saving to central, uploading files, how fast it's going,
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and how much is remaining.
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Once it's finished, we'll get a success message
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and that will go away, and we've successfully synced.
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Now, if we want to see that synchronization,
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we want to see that it happened, we
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can come here to Manage Cloud Models.
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This is going to show us a list of projects.
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We'll click on the project, and we'll
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see that we have just this one Revit
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central in there right now.
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If we click this little dropdown here, we can say View Versions,
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and there's that version we just did.
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So as you go through here, all versions
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will be kept as you sync to central a version is made.
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All of those are kept.
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It's going to show you the version, who it was done by,
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what time it was done, any comments that were left,
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so you can come in here and view this sync log at any time.
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Another great feature, here, is this.
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So this little icon here if we click on it is a restore.
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So if we have a sync that we want to remove--
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we want to roll back to an older version--
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we can pick that older version and restore back to it.
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Now, just keep in mind, this is a restore back to that version.
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It's not make that version the current,
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it's take the model back to that version.
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So you need to check some boxes that what you're doing
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and then you can restore that model back.
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What we've been looking at here is the versions of the Revit
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Cloud central file.
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I went ahead and synced it a few more times.
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So if we go to View Versions, we'll
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notice that we have five versions here.
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Now one distinction I do want to make
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is the difference between the central model stored here
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and the published copy that gets pushed to Autodesk Docs.
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So while we're working here in this cloud central,
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every sync that we do others can see and reload changes from,
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but what we can do also is publish that Revit model
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to Autodesk Docs.
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Now, the first time you upload it,
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it's published the first time automatically,
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and at this point, every time we sync, that's visible here,
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but it's not necessarily visible over on the Autodesk Docs side.
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So I'm going to pull a web browser over here.
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And we'll notice, here is the same architectural model,
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but it's only at Version
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that we're at Version 5.
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That is because these are the same but different.
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So the same folder structure is visible through Revit
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as it is through Autodesk Docs, but with those Revit cloud
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centrals, the cloud central is stored kind of on the back end,
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and what we see here on Autodesk Docs is a published copy of it.
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Now, if we want to update this version, we come in here--
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let me jump out of the versions--
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and next to that View Versions button on those Revit
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models is a publish button.
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So we're going to actually push that publish button,
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and that publish button will push the changes from the cloud
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central side to Autodesk Docs.
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And that's this button right here.
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So I can say publish latest.
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It's going to tell us that, when we click Publish,
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it'll begin doing it, and we can close this window.
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So we can close it and continue working,
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and now it will push our current version of the cloud central
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to the Autodesk Docs side, and this will become Version 3.
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Just wanted to make that quick distinction between the two
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types.
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One of the biggest gotchas is people not understanding
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the distinction between that Revit cloud central
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and the published copy in the cloud.
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So it's really good to have a firm understanding of how
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that operates, but now that you've
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got a Revit model uploaded as a cloud central,
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looked at syncing those changes, differences between the two
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different types, you're ready to go with getting your Revit
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project set up.
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And with that, thank you for joining this Autodesk
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Accelerator.
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There's some additional resources available to you.
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On the Customer Success Hub, customersuccess.autodesk.com,
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there's more courses, learning paths,
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recorded coaching sessions, some more live coaching topics.
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There's similar topics to this as well as
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topics across the entire Autodesk platform.
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That's all available to you on the Customer Success Hub,
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so go check it out.
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And with that, thanks for joining this session
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and have a fantastic day.
Video transcript
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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BRYSON ANDERSON: Autodesk Accelerators
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are designed to help your team stay ahead
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of the curve with the latest workflows.
00:15
These include Ondemand Courses, Pre-recorded Coaching,
00:19
as well as Live Coaching.
00:20
To see the full list of topics, visit the Customer Success Hub.
00:25
Take a moment to read over the Safe Harbor Statement.
00:28
This is a reminder that we may make statements
00:29
about future developments.
00:31
These are not intended to be a guarantee,
00:32
but reflect our current expectations and assumptions.
00:38
Before we get started, let me introduce myself.
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My name is Bryson Anderson.
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I'm based out of Utah, been in the IT industry
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for about 14 years now, for the last 10 years
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in the AEC marketplace working with firms
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in all aspects of their IT, including
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data management and collaboration
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for Autodesk workflows.
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Welcome to the Autodesk Accelerator synchronized
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changes with the cloud.
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The objectives for today's session
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is to learn how to sync Revit changes back to the cloud,
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learn how to initiate collaboration to the cloud,
01:07
and understand the difference between syncing changes
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to the cloud and publishing the latest to Autodesk Docs.
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We're going to open or create a Revit model.
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If we're creating the Revit model,
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we're going to initiate it to the cloud.
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We're going to click on the Collaborate tab,
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synchronize panel, Synchronize with central dropdown,
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and select Synchronize and Modify settings.
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We're going to verify the location of the central model,
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apply the settings that are necessary,
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add a comment if we want to add a comment, and then go ahead
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and hit Synchronize.
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So let's go ahead and get started.
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We're going to first talk about uploading a Revit model
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to the cloud as a central file.
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This is going to be the first step in our workflow.
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So the first thing we want to do is kind
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of do some prerequisite checks.
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We need to make sure a BIM Collaborate Pro license is
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assigned to the user that we're logged in as,
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we're invited to an ACC project, we have sufficient access
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to the folder in Project Files where we're
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going to upload the file to, and that Revit is installed,
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and we're logged in with that same Autodesk ID.
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These are some important things to check to make sure
02:07
that the process goes smoothly.
02:09
So the first thing we need to do is open the Revit model
02:11
that we want to synchronize.
02:12
If we're creating a new model, we need to save it at least one
02:15
time locally so it'll let us upload it.
02:18
Once we have that model open, we're
02:20
going to go to the Collaborate tab, the Manage Collaboration
02:23
pane.
02:23
We're going to click Collaborate in Cloud.
02:26
Revit may ask you to save locally one more time,
02:28
go ahead and save it.
02:29
Once it's saved, this window will come up,
02:32
the Save as Cloud Model window, where
02:34
it's going to have us select the account, the project,
02:36
the folder, and set the name.
02:37
So the first thing we want to do is come up here
02:39
to this Switch Account.
02:41
If we have access to multiple Autodesk Construction Cloud
02:44
accounts, we'll need to drop down and select the account
02:47
and project that we want.
02:49
Next, we'll drill down to the folder we want to upload to,
02:52
and, lastly, change the name of the file
02:54
if we want to change it to something different,
02:56
and then click that blue save button.
02:58
Once we click Save, it'll begin that upload process.
03:00
We'll see a couple of these different windows here.
03:02
It'll tell us it's saving model to the cloud.
03:04
We'll have a status bar in the bottom left corner.
03:07
When it's completely finished, it'll
03:09
give us a message that this model is saved to the cloud,
03:11
and we can go ahead and click Close.
03:14
At this point, the central model is now
03:15
uploaded as a cloud central model.
03:18
Now, if we already had the model uploaded, and we just
03:21
needed to open it, then we would open up Revit on the Revit
03:25
splash screen, come to the Autodesk Docs
03:27
here on the splash screen.
03:30
Same thing like we did when we were uploading a file,
03:32
we'll select the account and project,
03:35
select the folder where the model exists,
03:38
we'll see the model here, and we will select it to open,
03:41
and we'll begin opening that Revit model.
03:43
Once we have that Revit model open,
03:45
we can then go ahead and look at synchronizing our changes.
03:50
So let's move on to synchronizing changes
03:52
to the cloud.
03:53
This is going to be the second step in our workflow.
03:56
In the previous step, we created or opened a Revit model,
03:60
so now we're into a Revit model and we
04:01
need to synchronize changes that we've made on the Collaborate
04:04
tab on the Synchronized Panel.
04:07
We'll click Synchronize with Central and Synchronize
04:10
and Modify Settings.
04:11
Now, if we already had settings set the way we wanted,
04:13
we could just click synchronize now,
04:15
but for this we're going to do Synchronize and Modify
04:17
Settings.
04:20
This is the window that's going to come up.
04:22
It's going to give us a couple of things here.
04:24
First, is the model location.
04:25
We can see here this is Autodesk Docs, that
04:27
tells us this is a cloud central model.
04:29
If we had work sets or elements borrowed,
04:31
check these boxes here to go ahead and relinquish those.
04:35
We can add a comment if we would like,
04:37
and if we're doing some maintenance,
04:38
we could click Compact Central Model.
04:40
Once we're completely satisfied with the settings we've
04:43
got here, we can go ahead and click OK.
04:46
Once we click OK, we're going to get this Sync with Central
04:49
window here.
04:50
This is a progress window that'll
04:52
tell us what's happening, saving to local, reloading the latest,
04:55
saving to central, saving to local.
04:57
It'll give us an idea of where it's at in the process.
04:59
Once that is complete any changes
05:01
that we've made to our local file
05:03
have now been synchronized back to the cloud.
05:06
Now we've got our changes synced,
05:08
let's move on to our final topic here, understand the difference
05:11
between syncing and publishing.
05:13
This is the final step in our workflow.
05:16
This is more of an informational step.
05:18
It's key to understand the difference between a publish
05:22
and synchronizing our changes.
05:25
In the first step when we uploaded a model
05:27
and made it a cloud central model,
05:29
we picked the project and then the folder
05:32
where we wanted to save that to.
05:34
Key thing to understand here is when
05:35
we upload a central model, the Revit storage
05:38
container for the central models appears
05:40
to be the same location, but it is a mimicked folder structure
05:44
of what we see in Autodesk Docs.
05:45
So what we see in Autodesk Docs is going to be all of the files
05:48
that we've put up there as well as a published copy
05:51
of our Revit central model.
05:53
So the central model itself when we upload,
05:55
though through Revit, it's the same folder structure,
05:58
and it appears to be the same location,
05:59
on the back end it's actually a separate storage container.
06:02
This is what allows us to have multiple people in editing
06:05
a model to have that cloud central model,
06:07
but then also have a copy of it stored in Autodesk Docs
06:11
where those outside of the Revit environment can view that.
06:15
So as we do a sync to central in that last step we just
06:17
looked at, synchronizing our changes,
06:19
we're synchronizing our changes to the Revit central,
06:22
but we're not pushing those changes to Autodesk Docs.
06:24
In order to push those changes to Autodesk Docs for people
06:27
outside of the Revit environment to see,
06:29
we'd to actually publish.
06:31
So inside Revit there's a button to publish our latest.
06:34
Publishing our latest will then take the most recent version
06:38
of the Revit model and make a copy of it
06:40
out to Autodesk Docs.
06:42
Not realizing that the Revit central models are
06:44
in a connected but separate environment than everything
06:47
else in Autodesk Docs is probably
06:49
one of the biggest hurdles to get over
06:51
when someone's first using this product is
06:53
to realize how these two things mesh together,
06:56
so that when you go into Autodesk Docs
06:58
you're familiar with why you're not seeing what you
06:60
saw in Revit and vise versa.
07:01
So let's take a look at that kind of in the real world.
07:05
On the left hand side here, we're
07:07
looking inside of Revit-- right here
07:08
under Manage Cloud Models inside Revit,
07:10
and you'll notice there's four versions of this model.
07:13
Then, when we look at that same model over here
07:15
on the right hand side in Autodesk Docs,
07:17
there's only two versions.
07:18
So we've only published twice, where on this other side
07:22
we've linked four times.
07:23
So understanding this key difference
07:25
that they are connected but separate
07:28
is really key to understanding how all of this fits together.
07:31
So let's talk about some key takeaways from this.
07:35
So like we talked about, the folder structure in Docs
07:38
is mimicked in Revit, including permissions.
07:40
So if you're trying to upload something
07:41
to Revit or link something to Revit and you're not seeing it,
07:44
the permissions that you set on the Autodesk Doc side
07:46
are also on the Revit side.
07:49
If we were to upload a Revit model via the Desktop Connector
07:52
or through the web browser directly through Autodesk Docs,
07:55
it's not going to be available inside Revit.
07:57
All we're doing is uploading a standalone Revit model,
07:59
we're not actually initiating it as a cloud central model.
08:02
We've got to do that through Revit, which we did
08:04
in the first step here today.
08:05
When we upload through Revit, it does
08:07
create it as that Revit central model
08:09
and sets up the dynamic where we can then publish it.
08:13
Again, the central model that we see in Docs
08:15
is a published copy of the central model
08:17
we see inside Revit.
08:18
Sync to central updates the central model,
08:20
but not the published copy in Docs.
08:23
Publishing latest through Revit updates
08:25
the published copy in Docs, but does not necessarily
08:28
sync to central.
08:29
So let's jump over to the demo and take a look
08:31
at this in action.
08:33
Revit Cloud Worksharing allows you to collaborate
08:36
on Revit models in the cloud.
08:37
You can coauthor cloud models centralizing project design
08:40
data.
08:41
The first step is to open a Revit model
08:43
and get it uploaded to the cloud.
08:45
If you've spent time uploading other project files to Autodesk
08:48
Docs, you've probably either done it through the web browser
08:51
or used the Desktop Connector, but Revit requires us to do it
08:53
a little bit different way.
08:55
We need to bring that model through Revit
08:56
so that it actually makes it as a cloud central file.
08:59
If you take a Revit model and upload it
09:01
with the Upload button in Autodesk Docs
09:03
or through the Desktop Connector, what
09:05
it's going to do is actually just
09:06
upload a standalone RVT file and not make it a cloud central.
09:10
So part of the process that we needed to do here
09:12
is open it in Revit and go through a specific process that
09:16
tells the cloud work sharing piece that it
09:19
needs to be a cloud central and not just a standalone Revit
09:22
file.
09:23
So let's go ahead and open up a file
09:25
that we want to upload to the cloud.
09:26
Your Revit model needs to be saved locally
09:28
or on your local server somewhere.
09:30
This one here is on my local drive.
09:32
We're going to open up this architectural model.
09:37
We want to tell it let's work with this model temporarily.
09:40
You do need to have this model saved at least
09:43
once to your local machine.
09:44
So if you're creating a new file,
09:45
go ahead and save it somewhere and then go
09:48
through this process of opening it, telling it
09:50
that we want to work with it temporarily.
09:53
Once that opens, we want to go to the Collaborate tab
09:56
and Collaborate in Cloud.
09:58
This is the button that tells it we
09:60
want to make this a cloud central file.
10:01
So one more time, it's going to make us save the model
10:04
and continue.
10:05
We'll tell it we want to work with this model temporarily,
10:08
and we need to save it somewhere.
10:10
So, right now, it added the detached name.
10:12
I'm going to go ahead and just leave
10:13
the name the way it is for now.
10:15
When we do the upload process it's
10:16
going to let us change that name the way we want it.
10:19
But since I already have in here a file by that name,
10:23
I'm going to go ahead and just leave it at that name,
10:26
and tell it to go.
10:29
So now we wait.
10:30
You'll see down here the progress bar.
10:32
I'm going to go ahead and pause the video for a second
10:34
and let it finish through the progress.
10:37
OK, the file has saved locally, and now we're
10:39
at the Save As Cloud Model dialog box.
10:41
That's going to have us pick the account, the project,
10:44
the folder, and name it.
10:45
So let's go ahead and do that.
10:47
The first thing we need to do is make sure
10:48
that we're on the right project.
10:50
This little drop down here lets you switch accounts.
10:53
If your project exists on a different account,
10:55
go ahead and select the project that you want.
10:57
This is the project we're working with
10:59
and then we'll drill down where we want to store it.
11:02
So I want to store it in Project Files, Architecture,
11:05
and then I can go ahead and name this file.
11:07
And I'm going to remove the detached,
11:09
name it what I want to name it, click Save,
11:12
and that's going to begin the process.
11:14
So now what it's doing is uploading the model
11:16
to Autodesk Docs and creating it as a cloud central.
11:19
So I'll go ahead and pause the video and wait for this process
11:22
to happen.
11:23
OK, that took about a minute--
11:25
minute and a half-- depending on the size of your model
11:27
will depend on how long that takes.
11:29
Once it's done, you'll have the success message
11:31
that tells you the model is saved to the cloud.
11:33
So we can go ahead and hit close.
11:35
Now that we have our Revit model uploaded
11:37
to the cloud as a cloud central, to open it,
11:40
if you come to the splash screen of Revit
11:42
there's an Autodesk Docs location
11:44
here under Recent Files.
11:46
When you click on that, it's going
11:47
to show you all of the accounts and projects
11:49
that you have access to, switch to the right account
11:51
and project, and then drill down to the folder where
11:55
the file exists.
11:56
So here's the one that we just uploaded.
11:58
If you noticed on our recent files,
11:60
we also had it here because we had it open,
12:02
but you'll notice something on these icons.
12:05
So these were all local models that
12:06
were stored locally on the machine,
12:08
and they have this little icon.
12:10
This one has a little cloud over it telling us
12:13
that this is a cloud file.
12:14
So we could open it here from Recent Files
12:16
or into Autodesk Docs and drill down and open the file.
12:22
Now that we've got our model open,
12:23
we can go ahead and get working.
12:25
Once we're ready to synchronize our changes back,
12:27
if we go to the Collaborate tab, Synchronize with Central,
12:30
and we're going to modify settings here.
12:33
It's telling us that it's syncing back
12:35
to a Docs location.
12:36
If we had elements or worksets borrowed,
12:38
we could go ahead and check these boxes to relinquish them.
12:41
We can leave a comment if we'd like, and then hit OK.
12:44
So this is a similar process as to when you're syncing locally,
12:47
it's just going to have that Autodesk Docs location,
12:50
but other than that you're syncing with central like you
12:53
would in Revit normally.
12:54
So we'll hit OK, and it will go through,
12:57
do our sync to central, giving us
12:59
this nice status message here.
13:00
It's telling us that right now it's
13:02
saving to central, uploading files, how fast it's going,
13:05
and how much is remaining.
13:09
Once it's finished, we'll get a success message
13:11
and that will go away, and we've successfully synced.
13:14
Now, if we want to see that synchronization,
13:17
we want to see that it happened, we
13:18
can come here to Manage Cloud Models.
13:22
This is going to show us a list of projects.
13:24
We'll click on the project, and we'll
13:26
see that we have just this one Revit
13:28
central in there right now.
13:30
If we click this little dropdown here, we can say View Versions,
13:34
and there's that version we just did.
13:36
So as you go through here, all versions
13:38
will be kept as you sync to central a version is made.
13:41
All of those are kept.
13:42
It's going to show you the version, who it was done by,
13:46
what time it was done, any comments that were left,
13:48
so you can come in here and view this sync log at any time.
13:51
Another great feature, here, is this.
13:54
So this little icon here if we click on it is a restore.
13:57
So if we have a sync that we want to remove--
13:60
we want to roll back to an older version--
14:02
we can pick that older version and restore back to it.
14:05
Now, just keep in mind, this is a restore back to that version.
14:07
It's not make that version the current,
14:09
it's take the model back to that version.
14:11
So you need to check some boxes that what you're doing
14:14
and then you can restore that model back.
14:16
What we've been looking at here is the versions of the Revit
14:19
Cloud central file.
14:21
I went ahead and synced it a few more times.
14:23
So if we go to View Versions, we'll
14:24
notice that we have five versions here.
14:26
Now one distinction I do want to make
14:28
is the difference between the central model stored here
14:32
and the published copy that gets pushed to Autodesk Docs.
14:36
So while we're working here in this cloud central,
14:38
every sync that we do others can see and reload changes from,
14:42
but what we can do also is publish that Revit model
14:48
to Autodesk Docs.
14:48
Now, the first time you upload it,
14:50
it's published the first time automatically,
14:52
and at this point, every time we sync, that's visible here,
14:56
but it's not necessarily visible over on the Autodesk Docs side.
14:60
So I'm going to pull a web browser over here.
15:02
And we'll notice, here is the same architectural model,
15:05
but it's only at Version
15:08
that we're at Version 5.
15:09
That is because these are the same but different.
15:13
So the same folder structure is visible through Revit
15:16
as it is through Autodesk Docs, but with those Revit cloud
15:18
centrals, the cloud central is stored kind of on the back end,
15:23
and what we see here on Autodesk Docs is a published copy of it.
15:27
Now, if we want to update this version, we come in here--
15:32
let me jump out of the versions--
15:34
and next to that View Versions button on those Revit
15:36
models is a publish button.
15:38
So we're going to actually push that publish button,
15:41
and that publish button will push the changes from the cloud
15:45
central side to Autodesk Docs.
15:47
And that's this button right here.
15:48
So I can say publish latest.
15:50
It's going to tell us that, when we click Publish,
15:52
it'll begin doing it, and we can close this window.
15:55
So we can close it and continue working,
15:57
and now it will push our current version of the cloud central
16:03
to the Autodesk Docs side, and this will become Version 3.
16:06
Just wanted to make that quick distinction between the two
16:09
types.
16:09
One of the biggest gotchas is people not understanding
16:12
the distinction between that Revit cloud central
16:15
and the published copy in the cloud.
16:16
So it's really good to have a firm understanding of how
16:19
that operates, but now that you've
16:21
got a Revit model uploaded as a cloud central,
16:23
looked at syncing those changes, differences between the two
16:26
different types, you're ready to go with getting your Revit
16:29
project set up.
16:30
And with that, thank you for joining this Autodesk
16:32
Accelerator.
16:33
There's some additional resources available to you.
16:35
On the Customer Success Hub, customersuccess.autodesk.com,
16:39
there's more courses, learning paths,
16:41
recorded coaching sessions, some more live coaching topics.
16:44
There's similar topics to this as well as
16:46
topics across the entire Autodesk platform.
16:48
That's all available to you on the Customer Success Hub,
16:51
so go check it out.
16:52
And with that, thanks for joining this session
16:54
and have a fantastic day.
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