About Design Collaboration

Design Collaboration is an Autodesk for Government module that dramatically improves multi-firm project teams’ ability to meet the demands of a modern construction project.

Each project requires unique approaches, and has different dynamics between the teams tasked with delivering on time and on budget.

Based on this diversity, Design Collaboration allows teams to choose how they work with other teams. Sometimes teams need to be constantly in sync, while at other times teams need to control the exchange of information they share with other teams.

With constant development of the project BIMs spanning multiple teams in different parts of the world, Design Collaboration also provides a crucial common view of the project. Without this view, finding changes may be difficult, and time may be lost.

Data set courtesy of BNIM.

Design Collaboration Workflows

Enhanced permissions in Autodesk for Government allow individual teams to work in their own space, enabling them to collaborate with complete control of how other project teams see the state of their work. Design Collaboration provides an experience catered to the way teams think about their project data:

• A project timeline visually communicates the exchange of deliverables between teams.
• An automated and always up-to-date viewing experience allows everybody on the team, even those not working in Revit, to understand the current state of the BIM, and how it has changed over time.
• A managed process of data exchange between teams using packages allows sharing teams to curate the information most relevant to their latest efforts, and consuming teams to understand those updates in a visual and actionable way. No more uploading models to a shared folder and calling it “collaboration”.
• As you explore the data that has been exchanged between teams, you can view changes between the latest and previous versions to understand what has changed in the design.