Bim360 Design

[Rachal Langwith]

Yesterdaywe had a huge issue and none of our users could use this services. This is worst as we have lost substantial amount of business due to this failure. All 45 users were seating idle and lost two hours each. We were not able to find support from Autodesk and finally our client confirmed that there is a problem in BIM360 design service at Autodesk.

You can check the current state of all Autodesk Cloud Services under Looking at the history, it looks like Revit Cloud Worksharing was degraded on Monday (my time), which means you might have problems working with Revit. Maybe the cause was also due another problem since you mention a problem on Tuesday and we would have to investigate it?

We are working hard to improve the stability on our Cloud Services to provide our clients the best possible experience and we take those down times very serious and take actions on those incidents to make sure this can never happen again.

We have not seen any difference in typical production work on BIM360. Our load/ sync times for a major model are easily 15 minutes per operator, done numerous times during the day so as to both better collaborate and avoid work loss. This is consistent over the last year or more, and we've not seen any improvement, except by our own significant work to institute model simplification as it grows.

I can assure you we as Autodesk are always striving to improve our products by adding new features to simplify your workflows and we also have a special focus on performance and related experiance. We are working on multiple fronts on that topic and have even dedicated tasks to do so. Having this feedback helps to understand where we are still lacking.

Said that, I assume you are talking about a workflow where you and your team members are working on more or less large documents and uploading them to BIM360 using either the BIM360 Docs or Autodesk Desktop Connector. If this is the case you may want to have a look at Revit Cloud Worksharing. This has several benefits, e.g. Teams can work on the same Models and in your case, only changes are syncroniced with the cloud. So you don't have to upload the full document to the cloud which. Instead of uploading a file of hunderts of megabyte you just upload a fraction of it. This should be noticable in your workflow.

I have a project with design options uploaded to the cloud, i've already made a set in which there are 3D views with the different design options, but when i upload that to the cloud i don't see the links. On the other hand, i was able to upload linked models but the links also have their own design options, and in the web viewer i can only see the primary option for all of the files.

Is there a way in which i can do both within the same viewer? I want other people who don't use revit to be able to open the model and see the different options with their respective MEPF and structural models.

2_ Then in the Collaborate tab go to publish settings and add the extra 3D Views to the set that gets published to BIM 360. (otherwise it would only show a default 3D view and all 2D views)

3_ Once it's published, in BIM 360 you can go to model coordination and choose which view of each model you want to see together. This creates a BIM 360 Coordination View which you can save for others to see, the most usefull part is that it'll detect clashes, which you then can assign as issues to the corresponding party

BIM 360 customers can now track design changes to items or models of interest and review change data using a dashboard in the BIM 360 platform, in addition to the current Autodesk Construction Cloud offering. This feature provides automatic notifications when there are changes to design elements that your team care about, enabling better management of risk and prevention of unexpected changes.

Now, your design and construction teams can monitor changes to elements of the Revit model most important to them, by creating watch groups in the Changes tool. Teams get automatically notified when items in watch groups change throughout the project.

This workflow enables customers, especially project leads and designers, to keep an eye on changes to the most critical items they care about. Teams can save time and work smarter by eliminating tedious manual model queries and get alerted when unexpected changes are made to items in watch groups, helping to reduce risk and improve model quality overall.

BIM Manager, Project leads, and Designers can select the elements in the model that they care about from a model tree or the viewer, and add them to a watch group. The team are then automatically notified when those elements are edited, and can visualize and track any unexpected changes. Additional details of the change can be accessed in the Change Visualisation interface, enabling a more in depth review of what has changed.

The Changes dashboard gives a quick overview of what has changed in the design, as soon as the change happens. The icon indicates the number of new watched changes for each watch group. Expand a watch group to see the number of changes to each model and item included, or click on the watch group name to view the changes using the Change Visualisation interface.

Marco Ramolla is a Senior Product Manager in Autodesk Construction Solutions leading the Workflow group to provide pre-construction configurations and workflows. This includes Design Collaboration, Revit Issue Add-in and configuration of Design Collaboration and Model Coordination.

I am working for Structural engineer firm, recently have a project using BIM360 in Revit 2018.3 with Architecture (not the same company). My company had purchased BIM360 design license. Architecture setup the project in their BIM360, and they sent us invite by email. we accepted it, so I can see the project in my BIM360 account, but I only can review the document and download their Revit files. However, I can't upload my file to their BIM360, I can't use Collaboration to connect BIM360 in Revit, please see screenshot 1 & 2. In my BIM360 didn't has Design Collaboration option in Project Home, only Document Management available. So, I have no idea where's the problem now. Is it Architecture set my permission level too low or something else?

Make sure that your contract manager on the Autodesk account logs into manage.autodesk.com and goes to user management, then selects you and edits access so they can assign you a seat off of the BIM 360 Design (Revit Cloud Worksharing) service. It's not simply enough to have the license, you have to be assigned a seat AND be added to an active BIM 360 project. Sounds like you can access the project on the web but not in Revit so that's the first thing I would check.

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So we've been working in Revit 2020 using the BIM360 design/Collaboration for Revit or what ever it's being called these days. Basically our entire project team is working on "live" on the cloud. Document Management and Design Collaboration are both enabled.

You then go to either the Link Manager/Add or Insert/Link Revit function. The dialog that pops up shows BIM360 and the project name (if you select the pull down you see that BIM360 resides under External Resources). You Select the Project Name/Project Files/Team B (another consultant to the project) and the file you're looking to link in.

There are a few steps to the process but the short answer is that unless your lead BIM person says otherwise, the most common process is that you need go into the Manage Links dialogue and navigate to the Project > Consultant Name > Consumed Folder. This is a non-live snapshot of the Project.

I would be the lead BIM Person. Yes I want to link directly to the live version, not a published version as I can't rely on others to publish their models. I also can't rely on Autodesk's Automatic publish. I want the process to be exactly like the same process we've been using since 2015 when we first started working on A360 Teams. Only difference is being able to set permissions so people from outside their own company can't edit the other models in the project.

For our process (on the Architectural side) I always want to see the latest and greatest changes. If my consultants decide they'd like to do it another way, that's on them. They can choose to risk only looking at published models. I don't have time to constantly publish and share models.

So back to the original question. When I'm in a live C4R model in Team A's folder and I want to live link a model from Team B's folder; I'm assuming all I need to do is pick the add button and navigate to it inside the 360 project folder structure. Is that correct? Or is that bringing me to a "Published" version?

Unfortunately not as a continuing version to the existing file. There are basically 2 options. First would be to delete the existing file and upload the new one with the same name. Any links would need to be fixed as technically behind the scenes the system sees it as a new file even though it has the same name. The second option is to rename the existing file to another name so you can at least retain the history of the file and then do the rest as stated above. Hope that helps to at least clarify. I can see where uploading as a continuing version may be nice. You can always create it as a new idea on the idea station as well.

Generally, I would recommend the rename option as you can at least keep history that way. If the replace is frequent though you may get a lot of files which could be confusing. I suppose you could move them to another folder to clear things up.

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