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Help me understand the differences between these two tasks

I'm comparing the Backup Project and the BIM360/ACC Download tasks. They both seem to do the same thing but with slightly different means.

The Backup Project task is more of a true backup for BIM360/ACC (appears to pull additional information like Issues, checklists, RFIs, linked files etc). This information (which could be quite a lot) is then zipped and put in a designated location (on the host or a server location). This appears to work with live Revit models (and apparently it will bundle in linked files if it can find them). 

The BIM360/ACC Download task seems to be more of a simplified version. If I understand correctly, this specific task just copies the (published) files hosted in the cloud. If it's not on the cloud (i.e. local CAD, PDF data linked into the cloud Revit model) it won't be collected.

Are there any other specific nuances I'm missing? 

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Dan,

You've basically got it - the only other bits of nuance I'll tell you:

- The Backup Project runs inside of Revit and will do an open of each file and a Save As - so you've got the live version (if your project is set to run against live models). It downloads just the files that are "visible" to your project (via Project File Filters, etc). It basically will just download the project files, and any identifiable links in them.

- The BIM360/ACC Download task runs just in the Windows Task Server, and just downloads files via Forge (equivalent to "Download Source File" in bim360.com)-  so from a Revit perspective these would be published files only. It also is happy to download any and all kinds of files that it finds in BIM360/ACC - irrespective of whether they're strictly included in the project from a task automation sense.

-Matt

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