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Update the Desktop Connector app

Update the Desktop Connector app

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

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Update the Desktop Connector app

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- [Instructor] A simple tip for you this week, I want to talk about the Desktop Connector. If you've got the Desktop Connector installed, this is a tool that allows you to have essentially Dropbox-like functionality for you BIM 360 account. So you can go to a drive on your Windows Explorer and it will list here something like this, BIM 360, and then it will give you access to your accounts and projects. And within those folders, you can actually drag and drop files that will become available to those project teams. So if you're using this tool, one of the nice features about it is that it allows you to maintain links to file formats other than Revit. So the BIM 360 platform supports Revit files really well, and you can do interlinking between different cloud-based workshare models, but if you need to link a DWG or an IFC file or something like that, then you would always have a problem with that without the Desktop…

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