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Construction Management Software Articles

Construction Shifts to the Cloud

The construction industry is moving to the cloud. Shifting the majority of construction operations to the cloud may have been inevitable, but the onset of the pandemic has accelerated the pace of cloud adoption in the construction industry.

by Patrick Szakiel

The Construction Project Lifecycle Drives Innovation in Construction Technology

Construction projects can be gargantuan undertakings, made up of a mind-boggling number of moving parts. Though such projects may be expensive, lumbering giants, they can be tamed with the right stack of construction software.

by Jasmine Lee

Construction Management Software Discussions

Question on: Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)

I want to be able to better manage metadata for documents in BIM 360, similar to what we do in Vault

I want to be able to search documents in BIM 360 like we do in Vault, based on a robust set of metadata. I also would like my users ike to be able to create saved searches and favorites for ease of use and better control. I'd also like to be able to upload or automatically create folders as well as files (having to manually recreate our Vault folder structure is hampering synchronization efforts.)

If your files have title blocks, and you upload them to the Plans section, you can use the title block extraction tool in BIM360 Docs to populate Attributes (which are like user defined properties in Vault). This will extract data from the title block using OCR and populate attributes, which are searchable in Docs. If you’re trying to upload Vault files to Docs, you can use the ProjectSync feature of Vault Pro. Once configured it will upload files to Docs, using the same folder structure you had in Vault. At this point though you won’t be able to upload metadata from Vault to Docs, which is something Autodesk will hopefully address soon.

Answered: Carlos Lastrilla on November 26, 2019

Custom attributes can be added and then searched as metadata. Projects can be created from a template of use the desktop connector to copy/paste the required folder structure

Answered: Jonathan Hand on December 17, 2019

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Question on: Oracle Primavera

How to Identify Which Calender is Assigned to the Activity ?

I Find it Dificult to Calender Assigned to Activity < At Initial It Take Calender OF Default ,Which Become Difficult in Reassigning

I choose "Enterprise" at the top of the screen, click and scroll down to "Calendars" and then simply choose a calendar / format from the drop down menu.

Answered: John Escobar on December 17, 2019

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Question on: Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)

How do I integrate cost management

How do I track labor hours, cost mangement, change orders, etc.

https://bim360resources.autodesk.com/connect-construct/4-cost-management-workflow-enhancements-to-simplify-the-change-process

Answered: mahsan omid on November 28, 2019

Labor info is controlled by adding BIM 360 Build and all cost change requests or done in BIM 360 Cost Management