With BIMcollab, you have the ability to connect to your own BIM tools and create, edit, and review the BIM communication that revolves around the BIM models in your own tool. And you have a complete overview in the BIMcollab web application.
For Issue Management, BIMcollab serves as a centralized hub by effectively handling challenges encountered during BIM projects
The Issues tab
The Issues tab allows users to have an overview of the discrepancies and communications within BIM models and track the resolution process. Through integrated collaboration tools, team members can assign tasks, attach relevant information, update, and create issues. All the synchronized issues would be viewed here in one place. To view the issues along with your 3D models, you cango to the Model tab.
Let's go over the User Interface in the Issues tab. The numbers in the image above are explained below, or have a link to a complete explanation article.
2. Import issues, BCF (*.bcfzip, *.bcf) or text file (*.csv)
3. Create reports from issues in different file formats. (PDF, Excel, CSV, BCF)
4. On top of all the issues, you can find different view modes.
The 'triangle symbol' will show a list of the recent activities in this project.
The 'vertical rectangles' will show graphs that are available to follow up on the issues.
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Once in graph mode, a 'gear' symbol appears that allows for control over which graphs are visible on the page and consequently would be visible in the reports.
The 'document symbol' shows the generated reports, if any.
The '9 little squares' activate the tile view for the issues.
The 'horizontal lines' activate the list view for the issues.
5 & 6. Select all, one or multiple issues at once.
Once a few issues are selected, the top ribbon changes to reflect the tasks you can perform on these issues together. Such as Follow, Delete, Resolve, Resolve and close, Deselect all, or Edit.
7. Mark issues to show a specific selection of them.
The colored flags allow you to mark issues as a ‘favorite’ and later on quickly retrieve your list of marked issues. To do that, select an issue and press any of them.
These flags can also be selected from the individual issue menu (11).
8. Default quick filter options.
9. Create your own filters and save them to be used later.
10. Control which columns are visible in your overview.
11. The 'three horizontal lines' behind each issue represent the Issues Menu.
Clicking this menu icon reveals many other possible tasks that can be performed on one issue, such as edit, clone, follow, resolve, close, or mark an issue with a flag.
Lastly, clicking on any of the issues would take you to a single issue's viewing mode, and you can see all the information that belongs to that issue. You can go back to the issue overview by clicking on the issue tab again.