Migrating Civil 3d Files and Data Shortcuts to BIM360 (4:45 min)

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PRESENTER: In this lesson, we will

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begin migrating our information to the BIM360 environment

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to continue our collaboration efforts.

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Let's start by opening up one of the sheet drawings

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provided to you.

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Please open the Connected Learning Way RD01 drawing

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sheet that was provided to you.

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In this drawing, we're going to confirm

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that our external references, or X-references, and our data

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references, or D-references, are connected correctly

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in the drawings before we migrate

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the information to BIM360.

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BIM360 does a great job of reconnecting and migrating

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information that is needed for the files we are copying over.

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Please notice that we are local for our Data Shortcuts folder

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and that our data references in this drawing

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are active and not broken.

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Next, we will go over and check the status

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of our external references.

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As you can see here, our X-references

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are set to Relative Path.

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This will help when we move the information to BIM360

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to ensure that the files remain connected

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to the correct information.

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Now, we will go ahead and close down

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to your home screen in Civil

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entirely, if you choose.

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Navigating over to our BIM360 environment--

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in a web browser, we are going to go through the document

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management module.

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Once we're in our document management module,

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let's move to our Project Files folders,

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and you'll see that we have our Architectural and Civil

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folders created for us.

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If they are not available, please right click

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on the ellipsis over here to the right side of the project files

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location and add a subfolder.

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This is also where you can get into some

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of the additional information, like sharing

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your data out and setting permissions

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on the individual folders.

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Migrate into your civil folder, and this is where

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we're going to store our data.

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Now, in order to make sure that we're

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getting our external references copied over correctly,

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we will migrate the data leveraging the Desktop

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Connector.

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However, just to get our process started here, let's go ahead

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and move a couple of our files that

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have data shortcuts associated with them.

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So let's navigate into our drawings folder,

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and let's grab the four reference

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files that we have here.

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We have our three data reference files and our one

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external reference file.

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We will drag and drop those into the BIM360 environment,

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and now you can see them 360 as processing

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in the upload of those files.

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Now, let's go back in to our Explorer window,

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and please open up two Explorer windows, side by side,

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and navigate to your BIM360 project in one window,

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and navigate to where your files are stored locally

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in your other.

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And this will be the methodology that we use in the next step

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to migrate our data shortcuts and our sheet sets.

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As you can see here, we'll grab our sheet set file

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and the three sheets that are part of our set,

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and we we'll drag them over and copy them

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into the 360 environment.

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Please notice down here at the bottom,

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the file transfer process has begun for BIM360.

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We will navigate one directory back

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to where our Data Shortcuts working folder is located,

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and we will begin the process of copying that over now, as well.

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again, we will drag and drop that file into BIM360.

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You saw that kickoff, and the file

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is starting the process to create.

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Let's take a look at what Desktop Connector

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is looking like right now.

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Near your clock, you will right click on the desktop connector

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icon, the open Autodesk, A. And then

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we will look at our pending actions.

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And you can see that there quickly

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flashed away on our screen.

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BIM360 is being updated via the desktop connector.