About Design Collaboration

Design Collaboration 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 they need to be constantly in sync, while in other cases they need to control the exchange of information between each other.

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

Note: Design Collaboration is part of the Forma Design Collaboration offering. See Get Started with Forma Design Collaboration for more information.

Design Collaboration Features

Design Collaboration includes the following features, enabling easy navigation and sharing of 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.
As you explore the data that has been exchanged between teams, you can compare the latest and previous versions to understand what has changed in the design.
Bridge capabilities that expand the data exchange workflows to a cross-project ecosystem.

Tip: Watch our series of overview videos that describe the key workflows in Design Collaboration.

Open Design Collaboration from other Autodesk Forma products

Users with a BIM Collaborate or Collaborate Pro subscription can access Design Collaboration from other products in the platform using the product picker:

Design Collaboration can be used in conjunction with other products and tools available in the platform, depending on your subscription. For more information, refer to these help sites: