Uploading a model to BIM 360

- [Instructor] Whilst all of this has been happening, the Sharkson admin has got word that NGO has improved the first version of the Fort Worth model. She tells Dave to get it from their shared drive and publish it to the BIM 360 Fort Worth project. Now, one thing you must remember, that if you upload a file, an InfraWorks model file and its associated files through the Upload Files version. So if, for example, you took the SQL and the folder associated with it, what you will end up with in BIM 360 is a SQL file and a folder associated with it. In fact, not even a folder, because you can't upload folders. What you need to do is remember that the only way to get an InfraWorks model viewable and sharable and markupable, is that a word? Markupable, let's make it a word. The only way to work with an InfraWorks model in BIM 360 is to publish it via InfraWorks. So, let's shut down our browsers and head over to InfraWorks, where we are logged in as Dave, who is your User 1. So, we have some random models over here. Dave knows that the model is on their shared drive in the Collaboration_InfraWorks_2020_and_BIM360. So, you're going to go to the Course Data here. You're going to go to Additional Data and upload this Fort Worth Tx InfraWorks Model. Now, it's named slightly differently and this is something that admin did just so that they know that they're starting the collaboration fresh. So, Dave is going to open the SQL file as are you. When the model is open, Dave notices, as may you, that this is not exactly the same one as admin uploaded to the Fort Worth project for NGO to approve. There is more data in it and the reason I've done that is because this is not an add data to InfraWorks course, this is an InfraWorks working with BIM 360 course. So, I just wanted to get you a head start instead of spending 20 or 30 minutes just pointlessly putting in data. Feel free, if you want to, to create your own model from Model Viewer and upload it and go through all of the steps if you feel you need to practice. It's completely up to you, but I just put this one in here to give us all a bit of a head start. So, Dave has opened the Fort Worth Tx Collaboration Model. If we look at Data Sources, we have some buildings, we've got some coverage areas, we've got the project sites, we've got the boundaries, we've got some trees, we've got some buildings, and that's a pretty good place for Digby to start. So, he's going to just add some more data and then, create a proposal and do some more work. But first, Dave has to get this up to the BIM 360 project. So, as admin did, Dave is going to click the BIM 360 Sync button and unlike the admin, he's only going to be given the Sharkson account and you will only have your account unless you set up more. But choose your account, choose Fort Worth, choose Fort Worth Project Files, and InfraWorks Models. Again, choose the master proposal and all of the common resources. Let's put in some publishing notes. Digby start here. Collaboration is a go. Right, now Dave can publish the model and again, the time that this will take will depend on your bandwidth, what's happening on your network, and the size of the model that you decide to upload. When the model has published, you'll get a message that it's been published successfully. You can click on the BIM 360 link to open a BIM 360 browser and manage and collaborate in there. But for now, just click Close and then, if Dave or you, User 1, goes back to the Home setting, you'll notice that the icon for the Fort Worth Collaboration project has changed and this little icon over here means that it's a BIM 360 model which has a local cache as well. And you'll notice that there are a number of different, you know, little icons here that denote model status. For example, this one's just a local model. This is a sample model that was created by the InfraWorks team. This one is BIM 360 model that is cached locally as well. If there wasn't a little checkmark in there, a little tic, then it would just be a cloud-only model. But if you head over to Collaboration_InfraWorks_2020_and_BIM360, in the Additional Data folder, there is a Model_Status_Icons jpg. And what you can do is just open that up and this will give you an idea of what all of the icons mean. There are quite a few of them. Depending on the way that you and your organization work, you may see only the little local models. You may see only cloud-only models. You may see view-only models. But this is a nice little table of all of the model statuses that are available. So, we'll shut that down and now, we'll log out of InfraWorks as Dave, User 1, and log in as Digby, User 2.