To Save Documents to BIM 360

1. In Civil 3D, when you are ready to save a new drawing to BIM 360, click Save on the Quick Access Toolbar.
2. In the Save Drawing As dialog box, click to display your BIM 360 accounts on the connected drive.

   An account within the connected drive, and the projects within the account, are indicated by a hub icon .

3. Navigate to the account, project, and folder location where you want to save the drawing.
4. Enter a name for the drawing.
5. Click Save.

   A message box is displayed.

• When saving a file to the cloud for the first time, it will take time for it to propagate to other users. If you click save again too soon, you may receive a message indicating that the file is write protected.
• A new version is created when the file is saved .
• When you save a new drawing to BIM 360, the drawing will be locked after the synchronization process is complete.
• On the Prospector tab in Toolspace, the following icon will be displayed for the drawing, which indicates that it is saved in BIM 360 and locked by you:
• When viewing the connected drive in Windows Explorer, the drawing will initially have a status of New. Desktop Connector will automatically upload the drawing to BIM 360 and the status will change to Synced.
  Note: For more information about the different statuses, see BIM 360 Page (Start Tab).
• New documents are assigned a version of V1 in BIM 360. Each time you save the drawing, the version will be incremented by 1.
• Desktop Connector has a Pending Actions window that you can review. For example, when you save a drawing in a BIM 360 project, a Workspace Sync action will be displayed in the Pending Actions window to let you know that the drawing is being uploaded to BIM 360.
• If you have a drawing open and locked, and then use the Save As command to save it to a different name or location in BIM 360, the original drawing will be closed and unlocked. The drawing with the new name or location will be open and locked so you can edit it.