If I have a dollar for every time someone asked me if Glue had a status for it’s clashes I’d be writing this blog from a beach in Maui…ah, who am I kidding, I wouldn’t be writing this blog
Anyway, I won’t be (theoretically) collecting those dollars anymore! The latest update to BIM 360 Glue is the introduction of Clash Status. You can now mark your clashes to be Open, Ignored or Closed and fixed clashes will now become Resolved instead of being removed. As for Ignored & Closed status, here’s an explanation from the Help…
Clashes can be marked as "ignored" by the team members working on the merged model. Only admins can "close" clashes, providing a more formal level of control for the VDC/BIM manager. Clash status can be changed back to "open" if needed. Glue recognizes if a clash from a previous version has been fixed. If the clash no longer exists, it will be automatically marked as "resolved."
Another update is the ability to add a Markup directly to the Clash. In the past, you could kind-of do this, but it was held as a Markup outside of the Clashes. Now you can just select a clash and add a Markup to it. The nice thing about the Markup in Clash is that it also adds a Markup to the Markup “tool”, so even Clash Markups can be viewed with the iPad app!
Note though, if you use the Filtering/Grouping, you can’t add a Markup to the Group, you have to pick individual clashes to add a Markup.
Oh, one more thing….these updates are available to ALL projects, new or old. Old projects (old meaning before July 11, 2014 basically) will prompt you for an update when you go into your Clash Test. It does a “one time update” and then you have the new functionality!
