Atrium and Bond
Signing in to Bond, company and local modes, the Bond library, projects from Bond, BOM data, syncing and support.
Bond is the web platform at bonddh.ir where your company's catalog, projects and business data live. Atrium is where you design. When you sign in, the two work on the same data: what you save in Atrium is in Bond's web app right away, and the other way around.
Works without a Bond account too. Local mode keeps everything on your computer. Signing in adds your company's catalog, the Bond library, shared projects, support tickets and the AI assistant.
Sign in
Open Settings → Connection and choose Sign in with Bond…. Enter your Bond username and password.
- Your password is never stored. With Remember me on, Atrium keeps only an encrypted sign-in token that works for your Windows user on this computer. Sign out removes it.
- The right mode from the start. If you're remembered, Atrium checks your sign-in during the splash screen and opens straight into company mode.
- Your company's server is found for you. Atrium connects to your company's Bond server based on your account. There's no server address to type.
- Your permissions follow you. What you can see and change is set by the roles your company administrator gives you in Bond.
Company mode and local mode
| Local mode | Company mode (Bond server) | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | A database on this computer | Your company's Bond server |
| Sign-in | None | Bond username and password |
| License | 30-day trial, then a personal license | No separate license |
| Bond library, shared projects, AI assistant | No | Yes |
The interface is the same in both modes. A third mode, the shared database, is for workshop networks; see Install & first run.
The Bond library
The Bond library is a collection of ready-made materials, parts and assemblies prepared by the Bond team. Anyone signed in can browse it.
- Open the library from the hub, or pick from it while you work, for example when choosing a material or a part.
- Click Add to my workspace. Atrium copies the item into your company's workspace, along with what it depends on: a material's colors, a part's allowed materials, an assembly's components.
- Choose the category it goes into. The new item appears in your lists and counters right away.
The library itself is read-only. To change an item, add it to your workspace first, then edit your copy.
When the library has a newer version
If the Bond team improves an item you've added, a banner on your copy tells you a newer version is in the Bond library. Click Update from library to refresh it.
- Your name, code and prices stay, along with anything else you changed yourself.
- For an assembly, new components are added. Parts and sub-assemblies you already have each show their own update.
Projects from Bond
Your company's projects open in Atrium straight from Bond, with the same structure as on the web:
Project → Edition → Alternative → Plan
Site surveys, the existing state of each floor or unit, sit under the project. A plan drawn in Bond's web app opens in Atrium exactly as it was drawn, and a plan you draw in Atrium opens on the web. See Plan and Projects.
BOM data
Atrium doesn't have a BOM panel of its own. Instead, every time you save an assembly, Atrium works out the bill-of-materials data for each component and uploads it to Bond with the assembly:
- Counts, including copies and array members. Hidden components count as zero.
- Lengths of profiles, including end offsets.
- Areas of boards.
Bond turns this into the BOM and the price of each alternative, which you see in Bond's web app.
Tip
If someone else saved the same assembly before you, Atrium tells you instead of overwriting their work.
Syncing
- Only changes. When you open a document, or come back to Atrium's window, Atrium asks Bond what changed since last time, for example on the web, and refreshes only those items.
- Thumbnails. Thumbnails download in the background and are kept in a disk cache. When you save an assembly, its thumbnail goes up to the server on its own.
- Fast opening. When you open an assembly, all of its components load together.
Your company's data
- Nothing stays behind. Company data isn't kept on the device. Atrium clears its caches when you close it.
- Prices on the server. The prices and times of processes, and your company's tools, are stored on your company's Bond server.
Support tickets
Tickets you open in Atrium go to the Bond team and are the same tickets you see in Bond.
- Click the support button in the header to report a bug, share an idea or ask a question.
- Attach screenshots and files, or paste an image with Ctrl + V.
- Replies show up inside Atrium, and the button shows how many are new.
- When something breaks, the error dialog has a Report to Bond button that creates a bug ticket and gives you a tracking number.
Your Atrium version, Windows version, license and the section you had open are attached automatically. Only the Bond team sees them.