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welcome to the online video series presented by structure studios this video will review smart data smart data provides automatic detailed calculations for your projects and will explain how to review these calculations in this video found on the left side of the screen below the library tab clicking the smart data tab will open the smart data panel first we'll start by reviewing the selected data tab which is available for pool studio visit era and VIP 3d will also review VIP 3d exclusive features such as automatic and custom data as well as how to automatically have smart data fill out your construction pages later in this video similar to object properties but much more the selected data tab will show us the detailed calculations about whatever is selected in the project for example let's click on the pool in our project in 2d as we do we see details appear for the selected shape such as perimeter area height and material choices as we move our mouse over each piece of data in our smart data list a green highlight appears on the data and on the object in both 2d and 3d indicating what is being calculated we can keep the highlight active by clicking on the eye to the left of the data for example clicking the eye to the left of rebar displays what is currently calculated in green these highlights appear in both 2d and 3d giving us another way to review these calculations it's important to note that these calculations will only be as accurate as the drawing itself if shapes are drawn in a way that make them overlap or not line up properly values will not be calculated as accurately less accurate drawing will result in less accurate calculations ensure your drawing is clean to get the most accurate data Smart Data also cannot account for variations in the real world such as dirt quality or uneven excavation as each company in person works a little different than the other we can customize how data is calculated and appears in smart data using the configuration menu on the smart data tab in configuration we can adjust values such as concrete thickness rebar settings and how to display certain measurements when we press ok we'll see the new settings applied to our smart data for full details on each setting please refer to the smart data calculation detail help page online let's select several hardscapes to get their data we can either draw a box around the hardscapes we want with the move tool or press and hold ctrl and click on each one we now see the number of hardscapes we selected and the combined values for all selected shapes some data cannot be displayed on a single line so we can click the white arrow to expand the data for example we have several different surface materials applied so clicking the arrow displays each unique material apply to our selected shapes if changes are made to our project we need to recalculate our data currently all of our data appears in white in the panel which indicates it has been calculated if a change is made such as moving a shape or adjusting height the data will become red meeting it is stale and must be calculated again for example we decided to turn coping offer on on our selected hardscapes as we do the values become red and the calculator icon highlights telling us the data needs to be recalculated clicking on the calculator will recalculate and refresh our data at the bottom of the selected data we'll see the detail section clicking on this will display the individual shapes or objects we have selected we'll see the names of the various shapes a selection circle a white arrow and VIP 3d users will see the add custom data button we'll review this later clicking the white arrow or the name of the shape will show us the data for that specific shape or object we can mouse over the data or click on the green I to see it highlight just that specific shapes details we'd like to select just one specific hardscape we can click on a blank section of the grid and click back on the shape or we can use the selection circles here instead as we click on the circle this shape becomes the only one selected and our data is updated to reflect this change we can also rename a shape by double clicking on the name under details and typing in a new value this will also update it here and under object properties where we can also rename selected shapes the details section comes in handy when selecting different shape types at once for example with select objects from any stage turned on we can select both a pool and a hard scape when we do the data displays only common values such as count area in material under the detail section we can find the full calculations for both our hard scape and pool individually continue watching this video for details about VIP 3d exclusive features including automatic data custom data and automatically loading data into our construction page layout first VIP 3d members have access to automatic data here we'll find automatically calculated data for categories such as pools hardscapes and our markup layers clicking on the category name will expand it to show the data being calculated unlike selected data nothing needs to be selected to calculate this data these categories will automatically display everything from the listed stage just like selected data we can mouse over the data to see it highlighted click the green I to keep it actively displayed we can even see these highlights in both 2d and 3d clicking in the selection circle on the category will select the corresponding shapes we'll do this in the hardscapes category if we're not in the stage where the shapes are created we may be prompted to turn on select objects from any stage or we can go to the hardscapes index stage we use the hardscapes to draw several different types of shapes including the pool decking raised areas and planter boxes because there are various uses for hardscapes we want to make separate categories for our calculations we have a few ways to do this at the bottom of each automatic data category we'll see a plus minus and reset button we'd like to remove several hardscapes from this category is there existing in the clients yard and not needed in our calculations we'll select the existing hardscapes by pressing and holding ctrl and then left clicking on each and then we'll click the minus button these selected shapes will be removed from automatic data and we'll see our calculations update including the count we can add them back by selecting the shapes and pressing the plus button or press the reset button at any time we'll leave these shapes removed for now we can also create custom groups will select the removed hardscapes again with ctrl + left click with the shape selected pressing the add custom data button at the bottom of the smart data panel or in the selected data tab will create a new custom data group we'll double click on the name to edit it and call our custom data group existing hardscapes clicking the save as default icon will make this custom data group appear in all future projects also exclusive to VIP 3d all of our data can be quickly added to our construction plans in page layout we could even automatically have data load with our template in each project our existing template already has text added for hardscape data will replace this with smart data block and fill these details in automatically we'll select our text to delete it then click on the insert object button in the panel we'll select smart data block and press ok just like when adding legends the menu will ask what we'd like to see appear in our smart data block under the smart data block settings we can check entire categories or click the arrow to select individual pieces of data we can even add our custom data sets we added earlier data groups that are not present in the project won't appear in the list when hide unused data is checked unchecking it will reveal all categories even those without any active data will check the hardscapes option for now we can customize the visual appearance of our smart data block and preview the changes in the window at the top our first option is to add a group header at the top of each category we can adjust the font style and size color alignment and background for the header below that we can adjust the font settings for the label on the left as well as the value on the right adjusting the column setting will make the data evenly spaced out over that number of columns we can also add gutter lines between each column and adjust the line style color and size lastly we can choose to add a border around the block and adjust its settings as well the final option is the checkbox that you have verified the data is accurate it's required to check all calculations that are automatically generated make sure the items you've anticipated are part of each calculation make sure your shapes are drawn correctly and to scale ensure real numbers take into account over break over excavation voids rock displacement settlement and any other real-world challenges when we're ready pressing ok we'll add the smart data block to the page we can click to place it and move as needed if we need to make a change or format our smart data block we'll press object settings to change any of these options we can make other changes by clicking on the data directly in the block we can click and drag to move the data up and down the list with a piece of data highlighted we can press Delete to remove it from the block double clicking on data allows us to manually type in text if the value on the right is adjusted a yellow question mark will appear on the screen but not on our printed page to notify us that the information was entered manually click the question mark to restore the default value next we can see a section where we would normally enter our pool area information manually we'll delete this text have another smart data block select our pool and click OK to insert it when we're done we'll put our block in place we can do this with all of our existing text fields before long we have our text replace with dynamic smart data blocks when we're done we can save the smart data blocks as single templates to insert on pages or save the entire page including our smart data blocks in our next project in page layout we can insert this template and it will include the values for the specific project we're in and they'll automatically be filled in for us in the smart data blocks now we'll save time on our future projects as all of this data automatically fills thanks for watching for any questions you can reach us at 877 eight eight nine nine six or email support at structure studios calm you