- [Instructor] I'm going to introduce you to one of the more
robust pieces of software out there for going digital
and construction, we're going to take a look at Procore.
Now procore actually calls itself the construction OS
or construction operating system.
And as you can see here on the screen,
it has many modules and features meant to take the paper
out of all of your processes.
Before I jump in, I do want to give you a little background
on this procore solution.
There are procore apps that you can download
for virtually any device.
So right now, I'm going to use procore
in the web based interface.
But you can get a procore app for your Windows device
from the Microsoft Store for your Android device
from the Google Play Store
and for your Apple device on iTunes.
You can even get a procore app in the Amazon store
for your Kindle Fire device.
And this is a really cool solution, it's one of the only
construction solutions that I found that you can easily load
on to a Kindle Fire tablet and that's kind of nice,
because let's say you're one of the subcontractors
and you're finding yourself needing to outfit your crews
with a procore solution so that you can access
the digital drawings for the project.
You can buy a Kindle Fire tablet for fairly inexpensive
amount compared to a lot of other hardware solutions.
And just load the procore app right onto it.
And you'll have access to the digital drawings
that I'm going to show you how to set up.
Let's jump back over to the procore screen.
Now one thing to keep in mind, though,
that even though all of those apps are free to download,
unless you already have a procore account
that you have administrative rights to,
you're not going to be able to just download a free trial
right now and follow along with me.
So you have to have that app and a procore subscription.
I already have an account,
so I'm going to switch over to the pro core login screen.
And I've got everything filled out.
So I'm just going to click on login.
I've got a couple companies that I have access to
I'm going to select the one that we're going to use for this
example and click on continue.
This brings me to a screen that has all of my projects,
so I can run lots of projects from the procore solution,
I'm going to scroll down to the LinkedIn learning
sample project that we'll use.
And that'll, that opens this up
and brings me to the project homepage.
And there's really nothing on here right now,
because I haven't set any projects up here yet.
So I'm going to go to my toolbox.
And again, when I click on that,
you'll see lots of tools for lots of processes.
Stay focused on drawings for right now.
So I'm going to select drawings, you'll see we get a screen
that says there are no drawings in this project.
So let's take care of that.
Over on the right side of the screen,
we're going to click on upload drawings.
I can drag and drop my drawing files here
or I can just click on attach files
and select upload files from your computer.
We're going to use our sample construction management
drawing files here.
We're going to click on this
and select on open remember this is just a PDF file.
It contains all of the sheets for our sample project.
So we're going to click on open.
And you'll see here a progress bar,
that tells me that that file is now uploading
into the procore system.
So while that's working, I'm going to go ahead
and name this set.
I'm going to say that this set is the construction drawings.
It's going to ask me for a set date
and if I hover over the question mark here, it says,
this is the date the architect has issued
the set of drawings.
So I would find that on the drawings themselves,
I'm just going to go ahead and pick a date.
And I'm going to leave that the same
as the default drawing date.
And in this box, I can pick the date that I received
these drawings from the designer.
So again, that's nice because one of the things that we
track in construction is when we actually got the drawing.
Sometimes that makes a difference in our contracts,
so I'm going to go ahead and say even
though they issue these drawings on October 1,
we didn't receive them till October 9.
Now once I have that,
and I see up here that the drawings have been uploaded,
I'm ready to just click on process.
Now you'll see over here on the right side of the screen,
I have my construction drawings are in the queue.
The next step is to wait for the procore system
to process the documents.
And you'll see here on the right side of the screen,
that I've got a little progress bar,
it says it's scanning that file,
and it's extracting all of the information.
So what it's doing in the background
is it's taking that single PDF file
that contains 93 sheets of construction drawings,
and it's pulling those apart
and setting up my individual drawing pages.
It says you'll be notified on completion.
Again, this is this processing is all happening
in the cloud, so at this point, I could close out,
go on to something else.
The procore system would send me an email
when these are done processing,
or we can just wait for this progress bar to continue.
Also keep in mind that depending on your system
and what kind of internet browser you're using,
you may have to actually go up here and click on refresh,
in order for this progress bar to continue,
but at some point the system will be finished processing
our drawings, and we'll be ready to go on to the next step.
Let's see what that looks like.
Okay, our status has changed to ready for review.
Since 93, sheets require our attention,
so we're going to click here
again on the right side of the screen,
we're going to click here to review.
So let's see what it's done for us.
So without really having to do anything
it is found the title block,
and it's extracted some text
to say that this is drawing number A-101.
And it's pulled the drawing title off correctly
as architectural site plan.
So I think it's done a good job
of finding our sheet naming information.
We're just going to click on confirm and go to review.
And now we're at our review screen.
And this screen is basically telling us that
all 93 drawings have been extracted from that PDF file.
And all 93 drawings have been given a drawing number,
and a sheet name.
And they've also been given a revision number.
And the system has sorted these out according to discipline.
So it's found all of my eight sheets
and sorted those together in the architectural drawings.
And if I scan through here, I would find my C sheets
and you'll see that it has dumped those
into the civil drawing folder.
And it's added our drawing date and our received date.
Now, again, we're at the review screen,
and it's asking us to confirm
that all of this information is correct.
So this is the opportunity to scroll through
and make sure that it's properly found
all of the sheet names and sheet numbers.
And here on my first page, this is this was my title sheet,
it didn't really have a title block,
so it didn't know what to pull out for our drawing number.
So I'm going to go ahead and follow the same naming
convention that you see down here.
And I'm going to call this sheet A-000.
And I'm just going to leave everything else alone.
At this point, it's going to ask me to confirm that this
information is correct for all of the drawings in the set,
and it's showing me 10 at a time,
so I'm just going to select all of them and confirm selected.
I'm just going to go ahead and step through that
for all 93 sheets.
But you would want to scan through
and make sure that it found everything correctly
so that they're easy to find later.
Let's go ahead stick with me while I confirm all of these
and we'll see what the final end result gives us