If you have one nerve left and data entry is getting on it, think about adding 360 Sync to your construction industry workflow. Many project managers report that one of their most frustrating and least favorite workflows is handling data, especially in multiple locations with the same data. It can …
Plant 3D Collaboration Cache Location
You may want to change where Plant 3D stores the download project when using BIM 360 Team to collaborate. To control where Plant 3D caches your BIM 360 Team collaboration project, go to Collaborate > Plant Collaboration and click Options. The Check Specify working folder (1), click the Browse button …
A Guide to BIM 360
For everyone who has adopted BIM 360 processes, it’s good to know that BIM 360 continues to be ranked among the top software products available for BIM-process work (Revit and Navisworks are up there too). Autodesk has a plan for future development of BIM 360 and shares that on its …
9 Steps to Finishing Your Project Ahead of Schedule and Under Budget
A Construction Business Owner article in 2011, listed labor as 40% of the cost of construction projects. Labor to rework and correct errors in the field puts many projects over budget. Aren’t the terms “on time” and “on budget” the things you most want to hear about your project? How …
The 6 Improvements to Design Collaboration That Will Beautify Your Design Life
The need for speed hasn’t really changed in in the last 30 years. Everyone still wants everything yesterday. Fortunately we now have the ability to make things happen nearly instantaneously – and that is true beauty when it comes to the construction industry. It has revolutionized the way things are …
Where to get Support for Autodesk’s BIM 360
Hi Folks. A lot of our customers have made the switch and are using Autodesk’s BIM 360 services, such as BIM 360 Design. But, what if you need help getting started, or run into an issue mid stream? Well, first, reach out to us at support@asti.com and one of our …
The Evolution of Collaboration
Thirty years ago I worked for a structural engineer who crammed every available minute of the day with work. So five minutes before the UPS guy was due to pick up the day’s packages, we were running prints and rolling drawings and taping shut the tube that would be overnighted …
Create Plant Collaboration Project
The first task after setting up your BIM 360 Team hub is to setup an existing project for collaboration. Rather than create a new project directly in the cloud, the workflow is designed to take an existing project and upload it to the cloud. To move a project to the …
Publish Civil 3D Surface to Revit Topo – 2019.1
The latest versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk Revit has just been released (this is the 2019.1 release). In the releases, there is a new set of tools that allow for the sharing of a Civil 3D surface with a Revit topo. Basically the process is as follows: Install …
Plant Collaboration in BIM 360 Design
Thanks to help with Buddy Legnon we’ve been able to take a closer look at nailing down the workflow for new users adopting Plant collaboration on top of BIM 360 Design. The Plant collaboration tool is a great way to share work without having to run an on-premises tool. But …
BIM 360 Docs and Limiting Revit Sheets
A very nice feature of BIM 360 Docs is its ability to automatically extract sheets and vviews from a Revit model into individual PDFs with hyperlinks. Cool right? But wait, some customers don’t realize you can control which sheets and views to extract to PDF. How do you do this? …
BIM 360 Design: How to Create Backups when Working on a Collaborative Central Project
First of all, congratulations on your purchase of BIM 360 Design. Some people are unaware that when working on a Collaborative model using BIM 360 Design, you have to do some extra steps in order to create backup files.