Using Allplan to log in to Bimplus

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Using Allplan to log in to Bimplus Using Allplan to log in to Bimplus

To upload data straight from Allplan to Bimplus, you must use Allplan to log in to Bimplus from your Allplan workstation. You get the necessary login details after registration at Bimplus.

 To use Allplan to log in to Bimplus

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→  → You have are a registered Bimplus account or you have been invited to Bimplus →  Allplan participant (see "Ihre Bimplus Registrierung") → Allplan is running

1. Click Login  on the Allplan menu bar.
   The Bimplus dialog box opens.
   
   

2. Enter you login details.

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   Note: Use

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   the email address and

   the

   password you

   selected or received

   specified when you registered at Bimplus. As an alternative, you can also use your login details for Allplan Connect.

3. Click Login.This connects Allplan with Bimplus.

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Linking an Allplan project with a Bimplus project

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Linking an Allplan project with a Bimplus project Linking an Allplan project with a Bimplus project

If you want to upload planning data of a specialist model from an Allplan project to Bimplus

for the first time

, you must link the Allplan project with the corresponding Bimplus project first.

The Bimplus project used for linking is usually created by the BIM coordinator responsible for the construction project. As an alternative, you can also create a new Bimplus project while uploading the data. However, only Only the owner of a Bimplus account can team is allowed to create new Bimplus projects in this account. So if a Bimplus project has not yet been created for an Allplan project, the account owner must personally upload the data from an Allplan project team. Therefore, the team owner must upload the data for the first time. In doing so, the account owner can create

 To link an Allplan project with a Bimplus project

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→  Allplan → Allplan is running →  You → You have used your Allplan workstation to log in to Bimplus (see "Planungsdaten aus Allplan nach Bimplus hochladenUsing Allplan to log in to Bimplus") →  The → The relevant Allplan project is open →  → You have the required rights (account owner or project administratorsee "Rights in Bimplus")

1. Make sure all design elements you want to upload to Bimplus are visible in the project.
   To check do this, set check the status of the relevant drawing files, which should be set to Current, Edit or Reference mode. In addition, make all layers visible by selecting at least the Visible, frozen layer status current, open in edit mode or open in reference mode. Then check the status of the layers, which should be set to at least Visible, frozen.
   
   

2. Open the File menu, point to Export and click Export Bimplus Data.
   The Allplan Bimplus Upload dialog box opens.
   
   

3. If Only if you are a member of several Bimplus teams:
   Go to the TEAM area and select the relevant Bimplus team.
   
   

4. If the Bimplus project has not yet already been created:
   In Go to the PROJECT area below the Projects table, click Image Removed Create new Bimplus project and enter a name for the new Bimplus project (only the account owner is allowed to do this- Projects table and select the Bimplus project to which you want to upload the planning data (possible for Bimplus project administrators and Bimplus project editors).

   Or:

   If the Bimplus project has already not yet been created:
   Go to the PROJECT area below the Projects table in the PROJECT area and select the Bimplus project to which you want to import the planning data (the account owner and project administrators are allowed to do this).
   , click Image Added Create new Bimplus project and enter a name for the new Bimplus project (only possible for the Bimplus team owner).
   
   

5. Go to In the PROJECT area below the Models table, click Create new Bimplus model and enter a name for the new Bimplus specialist model.
   
   

6. Click Upload.
   This links the Allplan project with the selected Bimplus project and uploads , uploading the planning data from Allplan to Bimplus.
   
   

7. A message appears as As soon as the operation is completeprocess has finished, you can see a message. Click OK to confirm this message.

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Getting information about the Bimplus project linked with an Allplan project

To get information about the Bimplus project linked with an Allplan project

1. Select the Task Board palette (see "Displaying the Task Board palette in Allplan").
   
   
2. Click Image Added Settings at the bottom of the palette.
   The Settings dialog box opens, displaying information about the Bimplus project linked with the current Allplan project and about the Bimplus team editing this Bimplus project.

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Updating the planning status of an Allplan project on Bimplus

As soon as an Allplan project is linked with a Bimplus project,

Updating the planning state in Bimplus

you can decide whether you want to update (= overwrite) the

planning

status of the specialist model or create a new revision of the model. You can decide this every time you upload planning data from this Allplan project.

To update the planning

status or create a new revision

1. Make sure all design elements you want to upload to Bimplus are visible in the project.
   To check do this, set check the status of the relevant drawing files, which should be set to Current, Edit or Reference mode. In addition, make all layers visible by selecting at least the Visible, frozen layer status current, open in edit mode or open in reference mode. Then check the status of the layers, which should be set to at least Visible, frozen.
   
   

2. Open the File menu, point to Export and click Export Bimplus Data.
   The Allplan Bimplus Upload dialog box opens.
   
   

3. If Only if you are a member of several Bimplus teams:
   Go to the TEAM area and select the relevant Bimplus team who is to edit the project.

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   Note: If you have the required rights, you can also create a new Bimplus project in another Bimplus team and add the model as a new model to this new Bimplus project.

4. Go to

   In the Upload setting

   area and decide whether you want

   , choose to update the existing model or to create a new revision.

   Update the current model
   Replaces the current model with the design elements selected in step 1.

   Create a new revision
   Creates a new revision of the model, keeping the original version. You can still display and edit the old version using the Bimplus web portal.
   
   

5. Click Upload.
   This uploads exports the planning data from Allplan, uploading the data to Bimplus.
   
   
6. A message appears as As soon as the operation is completeprocess has finished, you can see a message. Click OK to confirm this message.

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