- [Narrator] We're going to take look at
another mobile-centric
digital drawing app
that's out there for the construction industry,
called PlanGrid.
PlanGrid's an app that's available for Android,
iPhone and iPad,
and it's specifically made for working with
digital construction drawings in the field
so that I don't have to lug around
those rolls of paper drawings.
The nice thing here is that since I can get
PlanGrid on my phone,
I never have to be without a drawing that I need.
I no longer have to think about which jobs
I'm going to today to make sure I grab the
right set of drawings before I head out in the morning,
I can just open the app on my smartphone or my tablet,
log into my account,
and open what I need to see.
And think about this,
almost everyone on the site these days has a smartphone,
so going digital really should do away with the days
of delays being caused by not having the correct
drawings on the site.
So let's take a look.
I'm at the PlanGrid.com page,
and I just want to click over to the pricing tab
and show you that you could
download a free 21 day trial,
if you want to follow along with me.
And after the 21 day trial,
you can upload to different versions,
depending on what kind of capacity you need
mostly related to how many sheets you need to store.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click over to the sign in screen
because I've already got an account.
And we'll go ahead and enter my log in information,
and log in.
Now when you do this,
you might have a sample project or two
if you're opening this for the first time,
but we don't have the project yet that we want to work with
for this particular demonstration,
so we're going to click on new project
and create a new
sample job,
and we'll say this is an active project,
and click on create.
Okay, it's going to create that project for us,
it's going to tell me that I'm the only team member,
I don't have any documents or any drawings in here yet.
So let's go ahead and fix that by clicking add sheets.
I'm going to add a new version set,
and I'm going to say it was issued October first,
and we'll call it the for construction set of drawings.
Click on next,
and I can drag and drop files here,
I can select files from any of my cloud storage accounts,
in my case I just want to click on select from computer
and find that sample construction management drawing file
that we've been using,
and click on open.
So, we're going to click on upload
and see what it does with that.
So we get a screen that tells us it's
separating our sheets out.
Again, taking that one large file
and making individual sheets
that are easier for us to access and open
when we're out in the field,
and we'll give it just a minute to do that.
As it starts showing us its progress there,
you'll see that it's naming sheet numbers
based on what it finds in the title block
and we have the option to go in and edit
any of these that we want.
But what I'm going to do is just
scroll down
and wait for it to finish processing
so I can tell it that all the sheet numbers are correct.
And after a few minutes,
once it's done processing,
I'm able to click on the sheet numbers are correct box,
and it tells us it's going through a final processing step
of finding sheet titles and tags.
And let's scroll down through this
and we can see that it's pulled often,
a pretty good job of pulling off our sheet titles,
architectural site plan,
site plan details, foundation plan,
and it's also added tags.
Now tags is a feature that PlanGrid uses
to help us sort, filter, and find our drawings
quicker when we're out in the field.
And it does a basic job of that,
for example taking our A drawing sheets
and putting an architectural tag on them.
And if we scroll down,
past the architectural drawings,
we should see that the F drawings,
it's labeled as fire protection,
so that's great.
P is the plumbing drawings.
Again, giving us a basic sorting by discipline type of tag.
Now I can also add my own tags.
So for example,
scroll back up to the top,
I might go ahead and take my architectural site plan
and my site plan details,
and add a civil tag to those,
because I've already looked at those drawings
and I know they have
things like grating and drainage details on them.
So, let's go ahead and add the civil tag to both of those.
So now these will be tagged as civil
along with my C drawings that were already tagged as civil.
And I might also do things like
oh, I'm going to take the foundation plan
and, I don't see a tag in here for concrete,
but I want to go ahead and create one,
so I just type concrete,
and click on create tag called concrete,
and you know, I might also go up to my
architectural site plan
that I know has all of my concrete driveways and side walks,
and add that concrete tag to it as well.
So, you can go through these
either now and add tags,
or you can still go back and add tags
after you publish these to the project,
but we're going to say we're done processing
and sorting and tagging these things,
and we'll go ahead and click on publish to project,
and let it dump these into our job.
Click on the for construction set to see what it's done,
and you can see that it's got our drawings dropped in here.
Some of them have one tag,
this one has three tags.
And if we click on home,
you'll see that we now have 93 sheets in there.
We still don't have any documents,
but I can use this to add things like our spec book
and our project contract.
For now, we're going to stick with the drawings though.
So we'll click on view all sheets again.
Go back, and I just want to go back to that tag feature.
So these are all the tags that are assigned to our drawings.
Again, this is a nice feature
that helps me find what I need quickly.
I can
click on concrete
and I can see that architectural site plan
and the foundation plan
because those are the ones
that I tagged with the concrete tag.
Now maybe you've also noticed,
and I'm going to click on home again,
that I'm here in the web view for this project,
which is really where you
set up the project and add drawings,
but now that I've got the drawings added,
what I really want to do is be able to
take these out to the field.
So let's switch over and see what
these look like on an iPad.
Okay, at this point I'm out in the field,
I have my iPad with me,
I have my PlanGrid app loaded up,
I'm going to just tap on the PlanGrid icon,
and it's going to log me into my PlanGrid account
and I'm going to see that sample job that we just created,
the third one on the list there,
and I'm going to go ahead and tap that.
Gives me a notification that
I have not yet accessed this job on this device,
and asks me if I want to download all the drawings.
So let's talk about what it's doing there.
Really at this point,
I probably want to be maybe in my office
where I'm on wifi
and I'm not paying for cellular data or that type of thing,
because what it's going to do this very first time is
it's going to download all of the plan sheets.
After this, all it's going to do is
download sheets that have updates to them,
so markups or measurements that have been added.
So it's just this first time that it's the bigger download.
But let's go ahead and click on download.
Okay, once the progress indicator
tells us that those drawings have been downloaded,
I'm ready to go ahead and tap on sample job,
and here I can see all of those 93 sheets
that I uploaded back on my desktop.
I now have access to them all out in the field.
So let's just for example click on our first floor plan.
And very easy to use all of the features on your iPad,
things like pinch to zoom in and out,
and single finger to pan around the view
and find the information that we need.
You'll also see kind of a familiar looking toolbar
on the right side of the screen
that allows us to do things like measure,
any time I measure I have to first calibrate that tool.
I can also do things like add arrows,
and clouds,
and I have the option to take
each one of these markups that I add
and make those personal markups,
or to publish them back so that
everybody who sees these drawings can view them.