AutoCAD Connector for Data Exchanges
Use Data Exchanges to seamlessly share your design data across the applications your team uses daily - without the need to import and export entire design models. Power your collaborative workflows through neutral exchanges of object-level design data, enabling both you and your stakeholders to get only the data you need within your preferred tool.
The Autodesk® AutoCAD® Connector allows you to create, share, and bring in exchanged data to and from other Autodesk and non-Autodesk applications, such as Autodesk® Revit®, Autodesk® Civil 3D®, Autodesk® Inventor®, Rhino, Grasshopper, Tekla Structures, and Power Automate.
This application is supported only on the Windows operating system.
What is a Data Exchange?
A Data Exchange represents a subset of your design stored in a neutral format in the cloud. It allows you to access the relevant geometry and properties of your model, either as a whole or at a granular level, so that you can create custom workflows. You can use a Data Exchange to build interoperable workflows spanning across organizations, applications, and systems to share the right data with the right stakeholders in the right context. Data Exchanges provide control over the accessibility of data without exposing your source model files. Data Exchanges can also facilitate continuous validation and version control of model objects.
In a sample business scenario, let us consider two customers who are using Revit and Rhino applications. These customers need to align important geometry that is being designed in those applications. This task of coordinating the location of important geometries can be completed by using a Data Exchange. When the author of the Rhino model changes the design, they share the latest updates through a Data Exchange. The latest cloud-based data exchange can then be used downstream so that customers using Revit can efficiently receive updates to just the objects that changed. Receiving these delta updates reduces latency compared to the traditional file-based reference workflows, where the entire file is transferred between cloud and desktop systems.
For any support-related queries, contact us through Beta User Forums or Public Forum. You can also email us at data.exchange.support@autodesk.com.
The AutoCAD Connector is subject to the Autodesk Terms of Use and Autodesk Privacy Policy.
Third-Party Notice:
If you are authorizing a third-party application to access your Autodesk account, the application you are connecting to is provided by a third party and not provided by Autodesk, Inc. By clicking install, you are allowing the third-party app to access and use your data in accordance with the third party’s legal terms and privacy policy, and you assume all responsibility for such access and use via the third-party application.