Catenda Hub is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform that allows all stakeholders to get involved in virtual design and construction, without the need of having access to advanced VDC tools.

Catenda uses open standard formats to ensure interoperability across all authoring and clash detection software that are supporting the IFC standard.

This article contains information about the following topics:

An invitation is sent to you via email by Catenda with a link to the next steps of registration. Using this link you can create an account with your personal credentials.

After your registration is complete, you can access your projects on Catenda Hub from any web browser.

https://hub.catenda.com/signin

Once you login you will land on a page where a list of available projects is displayed.

Select your project to land in the project environment.

In left side menu you are presented with the following main function areas;

Further reading: Dashboard page, Documents page, Models page, Topics page

This is the delivery area of Catenda Hub where you can upload all file types by simply selecting the desired destination and dragging and dropping to upload (just like Windows Explorer). You can also upload via the upload button in the top right corner.

When a document match is found in the folder, Catenda creates a new revision and keeps the records of all superseded revisions.

Simply search for required documents using the search bar or filter sidebar and select them. Filters can be saved for future usage.

After selecting your documents click on the download button.

The documents will be downloaded onto your PC.

The document viewer in Catenda supports a lot of file types ranging from PDFs to various Microsoft files (doc, ppt, xls, etc.) as well as point cloud files. The Viewer also supports video files such as mp4.

Simply search for the required file using the search bar or filter sidebar and click on it to open in the viewer.

Use the markup tools to identify areas you would like to communicate with other project members. The markups can be added to existing topics or you can create a new one which can be placed on a topic board of choice.

Further reading: Uploading, Filtering documents, Document actions, Viewing, Markups

In the models area, you are presented a list with all models available to you based on your access rights. These can be selected and turned on in the 3D viewer, enabling you to intuitively view and navigate through federated models.

Further reading: 3D viewer, Revision selector
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Topics is where you have your communication channels in the form of topic boards. Topic boards are controlled by access rights and can be connected to external solutions such as authoring and clash detection tools for a smooth exchange to interest points (clashes, RFI, tasks, clarifications, etc.). These topics can be created and replayed with all necessary object in any other software that supports BCF (BIM Collaboration Format)

Further reading: List view, Table view, Topic board actions, Topic board settings,

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