Navigate the User Interface

Learn the primary user interface elements to help navigate your way around BIM 360.

Knowing some of the common components between the modules makes navigation through BIM 360 easier.

Module Banner

Each module has a banner at the top with basic navigation capabilities informing you of your location in BIM 360.

  1. Account/Project Selector: Toggle between different accounts and projects you have access to, or search for a specific project.
  2. Module Selector: Toggle to the BIM 360 module you want to work with. You can only select currently activated services for the current project.
  3. Tabs: Focus on particular project aspects in a module. Not every module has tabs.
  4. Secondary Tabs: Explore and take action on project aspects through the secondary tabs that appear in a banner below related tabs on the module's main banner.
  5. Help Menu and Autodesk Profile: This area can take you to more resources including Forums, Support, and the Learning Panel.
Note: Each module has a help section that discusses the UI specifics for that module.

Learning Panel

The Learning Panel is a guided, interactive learning experience built into the product to help you learn about some of the primary capabilities of a module. The Learning Panel can be accessed from the help menu in the module banner or from the icon in the lower right corner of the screen.

The top items expand to show videos demonstrating particular workflows. These videos can be expanded to fullscreen view.

Important: Once the panel is dismissed, it can only be accessed from the help menu.

More Menus

In several list views, you can click More menus (...) that offer additional actions. In some scenarios, the icon won't appear until you hover over an item.

More Menu

Column Ordering

You can change the order of columns in BIM 360 table views. If reordering columns increases your task efficiency, move a column to the desired location on the left or the right.

Note: Changing column order has no effect on what other members see.

To change the order of columns in a table:

  1. Click the Settings icon settings icon.
  2. You can also deselect undesired column headers to hide columns.
  3. Drag column headers to the desired location.
Note: The list of column headers is organized from top (representing the left side of the table) to bottom (representing the right side).

For example, if one of your priorities is being able to quickly identify issues on documents, you can move the Issue column next to the Document Name column.

Custom column ordering