5th qatar bim user day, live modeling techniques on a single project

Live Modelling Techniques

on a project with teams

located around the world

Speaker:- Laura Smagin

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Agenda

• Key Decisions before you start

• Revit Server with Clarity - Web Portal

• Revit Server with Clarity – Revit

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Key decisions before you start

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Considerations:

• Production and Design Offices in

global locations

• LAN, Local servers and Firewalls

• Security

Production and Design offices in

global locations BIM Data was being prepared and created in a variety of

locations around the globe

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UK

HKG

UAE

QA

IN

4 Time Zones

16+ Packages

165 Revit models

6+ Global locations

LAN, WAN, Local servers and

Firewalls

Deciding how to share and transfer

digital data between offices…

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Software based data management

systems Digital data solutions had to be the way

forward… but which one!

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Deciding which was the best

Factors to consider:-

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Revit was the Key, the solution was

Revit Server with Clarity The data need to be available instantly, securely and

comply to BS1192…

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REVIT SERVER

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CLARITY WAS SELECTED

Why Revit Server with Clarity?

‘Revit Server application for Autodesk Revit products.

With server-based worksharing, multiple instances of Revit Server are installed at different sites and configured to support optimal project collaboration across a wide area network (WAN). Together, these instances of Revit Server make up the Revit Server network.’

Clarity adds;

task automation,

liberates information from models,

Central administration.

Lets take a look…

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• Revit Server with Clarity - Web Portal

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Advantages:

• task automation

• Central administration

• Safe

• Secure

• Easy

Web Portal - Security

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• Secure – Username and Password

protected

• Volume strategy –

by Location

by Facility

by Discipline

Web Portal - Folders

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• Flexible System – Changes are

controlled in web portal (rename)

• Structured Folders -for each Volume

Strategy for this project (Rail)

Web Portal - Files

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Web Portal – File Information

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Web Portal – File Version

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Web Portal - Tasks

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Web Portal – Manage Tasks

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• Revit Server with Clarity – Revit

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Business as Usual:

• Fast

• Reliable

• Secure

• Key to Success

Working Within Revit

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• Users Can access any Revit

server anywhere in the world

• Users must log on to a local

accelerator

• Users only see the files they

assigned

• Controlled by I.T.

permissions matrix

Working Within Revit

• Users must connect to their local

accelerator.

• Users will be required to have the

Clarity plugin installed

• All project users must be on the

same Revit build

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Working Within Revit

• Users access the server by

securely logging on to the sever

they require

• Users can log on to more than

one server in a session

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Working Within Revit

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Working Within Revit –

Linking files

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Working Within Revit –

Linking files

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Working Within Revit –

Linking files

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Working Within Revit –

Linking files

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Working Within Revit –

Linking files

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Live Modelling Techniques on a

project with teams located around the

world - Revit Server with Clarity

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• EASY

• SECURE

• SAFE

• FAST

• FLEXIBLE

• STRUCTURED

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Thank you

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