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Using the Autodesk Desktop Connector

Using the Autodesk Desktop Connector

From the course: InfraWorks and BIM 360: AEC Collaboration

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Using the Autodesk Desktop Connector

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- [Narrator] With the desktop connector installed, you may notice that in your devices and drives on your Windows Explorer or whatever operating system you are using, there is now a BIM 360 icon. And that is what the desktop connector does. So it understands who you are, so who you are signed in as, we're signed in as Digby. And then it offers you a way to connect to the projects, accounts, folders that you have available to you. So Digby wants to use the BIM 360 project data as opposed to a local data layer. But you know it is a bit of pain to have to go through the whole process again. But what we could do is manage the paths of the file data sources. So we see that there is the original one, that's what he was working from and that's what you would be working from too, Collaboration Infra works 2020 and BIM 360. So that's what you'd be working from. Double click on the right-hand side in order to bring up an…

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