Goodbye ACC, Hello Forma: What’s Really Changing at Autodesk? (Replat)

 

Autodesk recently announced that the Autodesk Construction Cloud is becoming Autodesk Forma, and everyone in the industry is asking what that really means.

Is Forma replacing ACC? Is it something totally new? And what happens to tools like Build, Docs, and Takeoff?

In this live episode of BIM After Dark Live, I’m joined by longtime friend of the show, Scott Davis from Autodesk, to talk about what’s actually happening and what it means for you and your projects.

Click here to view the replay... 

Autodesk Construction Cloud: Beyond Revit Worksharing - Replay

 

On this episode of BIM After Dark Live (Autodesk Construction Cloud: Beyond Revit Worksharing) I welcome back Scott Davis to expand on Autodesk Construction Cloud ("ACC").  Many of you know of the term (or know of "BIM360") and use it for Revit Cloud Worksharing... As great as the Revit Cloud Worksharing is (and it is great), you may not know about all of the other incredible features ACC has to offer... We will dig into how you can take full advantage of the tool you are paying quite a bit of money for... and take live questions along the way..

Some of the things we plan to touch on include:

Insight - Power BI templates

Markups in issues

Bridge

Sheet Collections

Locations - Import From Revit

Correspondence

Download PDFs from Build

...and more!

Click here to view the episode now.... 

Also, don't forget to check out Scott's previous episode here... 

The End of Navisworks?! (3D Coordination in the Cloud) - Episode 84

 

3D Coordination (also known as MEP Coordination or Clash Detection) is one of those things that is vital to the success of a BIM project... Did you know that it can all be done in the cloud now?!  No more playing "FTP jockey" and uploading, downloading, and verifying your data is up to date...  Could this be the end of Navisworks?!

In last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I talked about how you can take advantage of using Autodesk Model Coordinate and more efficiently coordinate your models with your consultants, sub-contractors, and more...

Topics we covered were:

- The advantages of Revit Cloud Workshared Models on ACC / BIM 360

- Taking advantage of "views".

- Understanding the "Clash Matrix"

- Filtering Views, reviewing clashes, and navigating the viewer...

- And more....

Click here to view the replay of episode 85 now... 

The FREE Viewer Autodesk DOESN'T want you to know about...?

 

Have you ever wanted to share an interactive Revit model view, diagram, or section with a client or collaborator?  Or maybe you want to open a Rhino file without installing Rhino?  Well, this free viewer from Autodesk is pretty damn incredible... And for some reason they don't seem to want us to know about it?!

In this video I'll walk you through how to set up share a Revit model with someone and NOT need them to create an Autodesk account to view it!

Click here to watch the video tutorial now and learn about this super secret tool... 

BIM 360 Design Collaboration. Explained. (FINALLY!)

Well.... that was... EPIC!  

On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I was joined by Scott Davis (AEC Tech Specialist for Autodesk) to shine some light on the BIM 360 / Autodesk Construction Cloud platform with an emphasis on Design Collaboration...  

All you need to know is we chatted for almost 2 hours and well over 100 people hung out and were active in the chat room the entire time!

Scott and I talked about the differences between BIM 360 and Autodesk Construction Cloud, How to setup a project, add members, create teams, setup a Revit Cloud Workshared model, and the three different Revit linking options... While taking many questions from the chat!

Of course, we also talked about publishing and consuming packages ;)

Whatever this platform ends up being called in the future, adoption of it across project teams is (and will) change the industry... I truly believe that.

Click here to enjoy the discussion....