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When a recent update to Autodesk Desktop Connector forced a migration to Autodesk Docs, file paths were generally change like this: FROM – C:\Users\USERNAME\BIM 360\YOURFOLDERS TO – C:\Users\USERNAME\…
Following the integration of Revizto with Procore and Box, starting today you can also connect Revizto to BIM 360 Docs and BIM 360 Team. This will allow you to browse BIM 360 hosted files within Reviz…
If you have Desktop Connector installed, you probably realise you can ‘upload’ Revit models and other files to BIM 360 Docs by dragging and dropping to the folder in Windows Explorer (using Desktop Co…
I have developed a working BIM360 to on-premises backup mechanism. There were a few different ways to go… I initially considered: Hacking Windows Explorer to touch the files in the BIM 360 node and tr…
Update: It was pointed out to me by someone on the inside that the workflow I describe below essentially amounts to a back-channel unsupported and in fact inappropriate use of BIM 360 Docs. I was surp…
Previously, this was all working with the old Desktop Connector and b360provider.exe (I think?) but the new versions of Desktop Connector seem to have broken the ability to ‘browse’ C4R Revit models o…
If you have moved your project onto BIM 360 Docs, it might make sense to store related project resources (Shared Parameter files and Classification resources like Uniformat) in the same cloud as well.…
If you are still running a relatively small SSD (like 512gb), you might see that your C drive fills up pretty quickly while working on a large BIM 360 Design Revit cloud worksharing project. See below…
Check out this page from Autodesk Knowledge base. Notice how it describes three different ways of linking for BIM 360 Design projects that involve Revit worksharing: Method 1 – Controlled Sharing – ‘C…
Interesting to see that many BIM360 services are offline right now (approx 10am Australian time, 1 June 2018): You can always check Autodesk online service health at this link: Autodesk Health Dashboa…