Forma Design Collaboration provides access to functionality from various products including Autodesk Forma, BIM 360, Revit, Civil 3D, and Plant 3D.
In Revit, this includes access to Revit Cloud Worksharing. This requires Revit 2018.3 and later for both Autodesk Forma and BIM 360 projects.
In Civil 3D, this includes access to the Autodesk Collaboration for Civil 3D entitlement. This requires Civil 3D 2020.5.1 and later for Autodesk Forma projects, and Civil 3D 2020.2 and later for BIM 360 projects.
In Plant 3D, this includes access to the Autodesk Collaboration for AutoCAD Plant 3D entitlement. This requires Plant 3D 2021 and later for both Autodesk Forma and BIM 360 projects.
In the Autodesk Forma platform this includes access to Forma Data Management, Design Collaboration, Model Coordination, Insight, Hub Admin and Project Admin.
In BIM 360 this includes the Forma Data Management, Design Collaboration and Model Coordination modules, and access to BIM 360 Glue.
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Access, including access to the Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D, and Collaboration for AutoCAD Plant 3D entitlements for Forma Design Collaboration customers, is provided to individual users by a Contract Manager or Software Coordinator from the Autodesk Account.
The Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D, and Collaboration for AutoCAD Plant 3D entitlements must be assigned separately in the Autodesk Account. See the Provide Access to Revit Cloud Worksharing topic to learn more about managing entitlements in the classic view. The same procedure applies for Collaboration for Civil 3D and Collaboration for AutoCAD Plant 3D.
The Autodesk Forma platform has two levels of administration: account and project.
Hub Admin:
Project administrator:
When you purchase subscriptions to Autodesk Forma products, the hub administrator is required to activate the account. The hub administrator can then create and manage projects and add account members and manage their subscription assignments.
When a hub administrator has created a project, they are added as the first project administrator. Project administrators can add project members and control their product access to Design Collaboration and Model Coordination. Access to Forma Data Management is provided by default.
Invited members receive a link to join the project. After clicking this link, members simply sign in using an Autodesk ID and password.
For Revit workflows, it is worth noting that there are two layers of team setup required. First, an administrator must provide members with access to Forma Data Management, where the files in the collaborative workflows are stored. Next, an administrator must provide members with access to Design Collaboration, and add them to a team so they can access the shared team folder.
Every project starts with preconfigured, top-level folders to support a specific process or data type:
When project administrators set up teams for Design Collaboration (applicable to Revit workflows), new shared and consumed folders are created automatically in Forma Data Management in the Project Files folder (named Shared and Consumed by default). This automated method of folder creation is recommended as all the required subfolders and permissions are created when a team is added.
Design Collaboration only supports files inside the Project Files folder.
In Design Collaboration, a project administrator can manage teams and team members. After a team is created, a dedicated Team Space is added. The required folders for sharing and consuming packages are also created, as discussed above. The teams must be created before using Design Collaboration.
As an alternative, you can create your own folders in Forma Data Management for the shared and consumed spaces, and assign teams to these folders during team setup.
The shared and consumed folders are required for the data exchange workflows using packages, the project timeline, and the change visualization interface in Design Collaboration.
Design Collaboration improves multi-firm project teams’ ability to meet the demands of a modern construction project. Enhanced permissions allow individual teams to work in their own space, and 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.
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