When looking into a folder structure, normally it feels like we are re-inventing the wheel and looking for a document can sometimes feel as though you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and that can sometimes leave you asking yourself a bunch of questions:
Some would also go down the route of asking someone else where that particular file is and then before you know it the entire project folder gets audited by the colleague. One would then promise themselves that it will not get as bad as this in the next project – does this sound familiar?
In the middle of May 2021, BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) released a Naming Convention functionality that is in now available for new projects within both platforms.
If you have Project Admin rights you can go into customising the Naming Conventions to suit your needs – whether that follows the National Annex to BS EN ISO 19650-2:2018 or whether you have an alternative naming convention for your files.
As the naming conventions are applied at folder level, we need to consider carefully how we apply the restrictions. My personal advice would be to ask yourself the following questions:
Status Codes, Revision and Classification are some of the new features included within the latest update.
Status codes can be amended to the project needs. Revisions is also an exciting new feature, particularly I found that on most client engagements there was always a request for Revisions to be included.
In some cases where files are uploaded that do not follow the naming convention specified by the Project Admin, those files can still be uploaded onto the BIM 360 platform – however they will be stored within a holding area.
Good to know: If you upload a document using the desktop connector that does not follow the naming convention set-out by the Project Admin, then this document would stay on hold within your “pending tasks” on your desktop connector and will not show up on your BIM 360 site.
Attributes and Customising the Naming Convention:
You must add in the desired attributes first:
Folders:
Holding Areas:
Latest Updates:
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