Managing External and Data References in BIM360 (5:28 min)

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So as you can see here, on the left side of our screen,

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we have our BIM 360 document management project files,

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folders environment being displayed

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and on the right side of our screen,

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we have our local cache for our BIM 360 documents displayed.

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So everything that has been shared up

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into the document management folder for BIM 360

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is being cached here on our local drive

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because that's the scenario that we have set up.

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Let's jump over into Civil 3D and see what the information

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looks like there.

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As you can see, we do have that replication of the information

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because we are in our BIM

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because we are using Civil 3D 2020 that too.

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To make my life a little easier, I'm

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going to go ahead and rename the directory where

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I stored the data that we're working with temporarily.

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And that will force us to reassign our shortcuts folders.

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So let's go ahead and back into Civil 3D,

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let's start with our surface file.

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We'll go ahead and open that.

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And you'll see that the data is confirming from BIM 360,

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we do have the file downloaded, but it's

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making sure that we have the most up to date version.

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As you can see here, the file is now

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opening after it was confirmed.

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And we have our surface file open in BIM 360.

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Let's go ahead and we'll turn off our maps.

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You can see that this is the information that we uploaded,

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it's not surprising.

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Now we'll go ahead and set our working folder

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to the BIM 360 environment.

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We're in our project files here, our Civil 3D.

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Now remember, this is the working folder

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that we would like to set.

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And select the file.

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Now assuming all goes well with our connection here,

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we should see that our Civil 3D project has now been migrated.

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Let's go ahead and make sure that the data shortcuts

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are where they belong.

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This one is still thinking it's elsewhere.

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Let's repair that broken shortcut.

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We will go up one directory.

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Again, we are still in our BIM 360 environment,

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that shortcut is in the drawing that we're currently in.

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Let's repair all shortcuts.

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Let's go ahead and check our x reference for the surface file

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here.

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And we do notice that it did get a little deep on us,

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let's go ahead and correct that.

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Navigating to our folder where this map is stored and OK.

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Now we can go ahead and close--

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once this process has happened, we

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can go ahead and close our drawing and save it.

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And then let's go ahead and open up

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our alignment in corridor files to make sure they are also

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both correct.

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We'll start with alignment.

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And we will go over to our tool space

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to repair our broken references.

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We are in the correct BIM 360 environment,

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we are in a cloud version of the alignment drawing

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or the local cache of the cloud version.

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And let's repair these shortcuts.

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We're going to be in BIM 360 pointing back

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to the alignment file here and voila,

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both shortcuts are repaired.

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And we can confirm that by sliding over and making sure

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that we are in our BIM

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Next stop is our corridor file.

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And with our corridor file open, let's

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go ahead and recreate our corridor data shortcuts.

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Rebuild those corridors and we will

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create those data shortcuts.

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Both pedestrian bridge and connected learning way.

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Back in our home screen, we'll open up our connected learning

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way road 1.

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And we will confirm all of our references

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are connected properly.

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We will repeat the process for road 2 and 3 just to confirm.

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As our sheet opens up here, you can see down below

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that it has resolved the location of the reference files

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that it needs.

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And we should see all the data coming in as we expected.

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We can go ahead and exit our drawing now and confirm

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the already 02 and 03 drawings are also correct.

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Thank you.