- We're going to take a look at Fieldwire.
So as you can see on this screen here
they call themselves the construction app for the field.
So let's take a look and see how we can use this
in the field to switch to digital drawings.
Now, this is another product
that is meant for teams of any size.
So, if I go over to the pricing tab here
just to give you an idea.
Anybody can download a free trial.
What you'll have up to five projects and 250 plan sheets
inside of that free trial app.
If you need more then the plan prices go up from there but,
this is one of those examples of a digital drawing app
that you can download if you're just a consultant
or an individual or somebody working at a company
that's tired of carrying around those paper drawings
and you just want to go digital by yourself or with a team,
this will accommodate that.
So, I've already got an account set up.
I'm going to go over here and click on the login button.
And it signs me in, to my account.
So again, I'm just on the trial plans.
This is the same thing that you would get
if you downloaded the free trial.
I don't have any projects set up,
so let's go ahead and take care of that.
We'll just call this our sample project.
Tells us we can upload our plans
and this is another one of those examples of being able to
store our plans in Dropbox or Box
and grab them from the cloud there.
I'm just going to go ahead and upload
plans from the computer
and we'll go back to that
construction management sample drawing file
that we've been using, that has the 93 sheets
all combined into one pdf.
And we'll click on upload.
Okay, once our upload process is complete
we'll click on next.
It's going to ask us to set our categories for tasks.
And tasks is not something that I'm going to look at
in this particular episode.
So I'm just going to say I'll do this later.
And this is where we can now add users.
So, we're starting to look at this concept
of collaborating with others using the same set of drawings.
All I need to do is add somebody
by putting their email address in here
and clicking on invite.
And that'll add them to this project
and they can view the same set of drawings
that we're going to view.
I'm going to go ahead and close that.
And I don't know if you've seen in the background here,
but our drawings are processing, so
as you've seen this kind of common theme
is we've gone through the different apps
and pieces of software out there that are made for
viewing and working with construction drawings.
It's going through this process of splitting them up
into individual sheets and naming them and tagging them
so, we're going to give it a minute
and let it finish that process
and take a look at what we do next.
Here you can see on the screen is the process progresses.
It's starting to find and extract those individual sheets.
Still working on processing them, but you can kind of scroll
through and get an idea of it's progress
as everything gets processed.
And you see it's doing a pretty good job.
Once again I've, get it pulling out the sheet numbers
and the sheet names.
And as each one finishes, you'll start to see a thumbnail
of the drawing itself.
Okay, and as the processing finishes
and we start to see thumbnails for all of our drawings.
That says, "Fieldwire has automatically named 91 plans."
So, I think that means there's still
a couple of sheets to go.
But it's asking us to confirm individually or confirm all.
Which means it just wants us to make sure
it's named them properly.
So, it looks pretty good from what I can see here.
We're going to click on confirm all.
And it's probably still processing a couple of drawings.
But, this is a little bit different than the way
some of the other apps have processed the drawings
because this allows us to go ahead and start using
these individual sheets,
as the last sheets are finished processing.
So, let's go ahead and do that and see
what we can do here with Fieldwire.
I'm going to click on the foundation plan.
And open the foundation plan.
And again, it says this is currently processing
hyperlinks on this sheet.
But it's still going to let us use it.
And go ahead and pull information off of it.
And again you can see kind of a common theme
through all of these systems.
For digital drawings, we have a markup tool bar
that allows us to measure things.
Add drawings and lines, shapes.
What I want to focus on for this particular app
are things that you can do to make the drawings
easier to navigate when you're working on your phone
or your tablet out in the field.
And we can add hyperlinks to the detail callouts.
And that allows us to jump right to those detail pages.
And sometimes this is a manual process.
What we've seen in the past
is it's been an automatic process.
But in this case there's no hyperlink here, so
anytime that happens or it doesn't recognize
a detail callout as something that needs to hyperlinked
to another drawing, that's very easy to add
by just clicking on add hyperlink.
Now in this case, a hyperlink can be an image.
It can be an actual hyperlink out to a weblink
or another file.
And what I want to do is I wanted to choose this one
and I'm just going to go ahead an drop it
right next to the detail callout.
And this is going to allow me just to link to one of
the other drawings in my set.
And I want to link to A-506.
So as I start typing that,
you'll see that it narrows down the list.
And I just want to select A506.
And, you know, that easy
I've added a hyperlink to my drawing.
So, again when I'm on my phone
or on my tablet and I'm out in the field
I don't want to have to keep going back to all plans
and finding this plan sheet.
I can just click on this hyperlink.
Click on the thumbnail.
And go straight to that detail sheet.
This makes digital drawings a lot easier to work with
out on the field, on those devices where my
screen real estate is a little smaller
than what we've got here on the web interface.
And then I also wanted to point out
that I am in the web interface.
And again that's been a common theme
throughout most of these digital drawing apps.
And that is typically that the process of setting up
and processing your drawings,
setting up a new project
is going to be done in the web interface.
And then you're going to switch over to the mobile apps
for most of your work out on the field.
Let's jump back to our plan list.
And confirm those last two plans.
And with that we're set.
We've got all of our drawings uploaded
and imported into Fieldwire.
I did this with a trial plan, it didn't cost any money.
And I can be up and running using digital drawings
right now today.
I can open these drawings on my phone
when I get to the job site.
And I've got everything accessible to me without
grabbing any rolls of paper drawings.