Create a new project

- [Instructor] Let's continue by creating a couple of projects from scratch so that I can walk you through the process and show you how to add project documents and files. I'll start this process by telling you that there is not just one single workflow in ACC where you always start at point A and then follow the same path to create and populate a project. It really depends on things like which tools you have access to in ACC and how you plan to use them. For the sake of this course, I'm showing you a workflow that I think optimizes the ability to use all of the tools that we have access to in ACC, and it does it in an efficient manner. So I will always start on this main ACC page, the project page, and I'll always start by clicking the create project button here on this page. I get a simple dialogue box that asks me for a few things. We're going to name the project, we're going to call this first one 1031 Madison Office, we'll go ahead and give it a project number of 1,000. We have to select an account. I'm going to set this up under my account so I remain the administrator of it. It requires us to select a project type. So we've got this big dropdown menu. This is a commercial building, we'll select office as the type. I'm not going to use a project template. I do want to put in the project location of 1031 Southeast Madison in Portland, Oregon. That will help populate our My Home Dashboard with all of our projects and different information related to location of the project. We'll change the time zone to Pacific Time. I'm going to leave start date, end date, and project value blank and click on create project. The next screen that it takes us to is the members screen where you can add members, like I showed you in a previous video. So you'll want to start to add people that are on your project team so you can collaborate together. But first, we need to turn on product access for yourself here, and I want to make sure and enable docs, design collaboration, model collaboration, Takeoff, auto specs, Build, and we're not going to use cost management for this particular project. So that is everything that I want to enable there. We're going to click on end and go back to our Construction Cloud homepage by clicking in the top left corner of the screen. Back on the page here, we see that 1031 Madison Office has been added and I'm going to change my default access to docs and files. You'll see I've changed the default access here. I'm going to click now on that project to open that project in the Docs application. And what I want to do now is just upload some initial files. So we'll upload files, we'll select from the computer, we're going to navigate to the screen that contains the files that we want. So I have a file here called 1031 Southeast Madison, and, for now, I want to go ahead and upload my project plans. I'm going to go ahead and hold down the control key while I use the mouse to click on additional files so I can upload multiple files at once. I'm going to upload a couple of Revit documents, I'm going to upload the project specifications, and then I'm going to click on open. So you'll see it adding each one of those file types. Again, what I did is I added the 1031 Southeast Madison Architectural Construction drawing set. This is just a PDF that contains all of the plan sheets in the project. Then I have two Revit files, one for the building and one for the site, and then I went ahead and uploaded the project specifications for 1031 Southeast Madison as well, because we're going to use those a little bit in a video coming up. Now, right now, ACC is processing these files. Depending on how many files, what size they are, this can take a bit, so we just want to sit and wait and let these process and then take a look at how this shows up once it's done. While these continue to process, let's go back to our homepage, our project page again, and let's create one more project that I want to add some different documents too. So we'll create project, and this one we're going to call the Net Zero Energy, the Net Zero Energy Residential Test Facility. We'll call this Project 2,000, we'll set it up under my account again. This one, we will scroll down and see if we can find a residential construction type. So residential, this is a single family house, perfect. No template. We're going to enter a location by pasting it in here. That looks good, Gaithersburg, Maryland, and we'll set this to Eastern Time. Again, I'm going to leave the start date and end date project value blank and click on create project. Again, just a reminder, as it takes you back to the screen, to add members. Whether you're ready to add members or not, make sure you turn on the product access that you need down in the lower right corner. We'll turn each one of these on, again, everything except for cost management, which we're not going to use for now. We'll jump back to our initial page. Now we have both projects that we just created. We'll set our file access to docs, or our project access to docs, we'll click on this, and we'll do this one more time where we go through and upload some files. We'll click on from our computer. Again, you'll have to navigate to where your project files are currently housed. In this case, I'm just going to add my project drawings that are issued for construction. We'll click on open and just add that single file, which, again, in this case is a PDF that contains all of the plan sheets that are issued for construction for this project. We'll go ahead and click on done. We'll let it continue to process the files for both this project and the 1031 Madison Office project that we added, and we'll continue and take a look at how this shows up in the next video.