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Make coordination collaborative

Collaborate across design and construction teams with integrated solutions for model coordination. Navisworks and Forma provide VDC users with a feature-rich, high-quality desktop client while leveraging cloud capabilities to share models and resolve issues across teams.

Powerful desktop review

Navisworks Manage provides powerful project review software for advanced coordination and clash detection, model aggregation, 4D/5D simulation and 3D model review. Access models shared in the cloud directly in Navisworks, and sync updates made in Navisworks with the model in Forma to keep teams up to date.

Design coordination in the cloud

Facilitate comprehensive constructability reviews by aggregating multi-discipline models in Forma. Create specific coordination spaces where designers and BIM experts can test designs and easily navigate federated models to check for constructability issues.

Automatic clash detection

When multi-discipline, multi-format models are uploaded into Model Coordination in Forma, automatic clash detection checks for conflicts. Clashes are identified, and design issues can be managed early. Review clashes in context, prioritise severity and assign them to the right team members for resolution.

Qualify clashes

Easily turn clashes into issues and assign them for resolution in Forma. Review clashes automatically grouped by system, object type or layer and easily focus on just the ones you need to see. Classify a clash as either “issue” or “not an issue” as you review team comments along with multi-contextual models.

Federated design sharing

Design sharing across project hubs lets teams aggregate and review multi-trade, multi-format models, always from the latest design. Bundle your team’s models, views, sheet sets and supporting documents to share with other project teams. Track design packages from the entire project team along a timeline.

Visualise design changes

Understand the impact of design changes across teams with connected change management. Review shared design data before accepting, to first see how new design information affects work-in-progress. Compare versions to visualise modifications, track changes and communicate updates in context.

Design meetings

Improve team coordination and project management with centralised construction meeting minutes. Schedule meetings, create agendas and monitor attendee participation. Assign action items and keep everyone on the same page with easy visibility into commitments made and an organised history of all meeting records.

Correspondence

Keep project communication organised and connected to workflows like meetings, issues and project files. Every exchange is searchable and easy to retrieve when reviewing design records.

Connected issues

Issues in Forma enable teams to identify, assign and resolve issues in the tools they use every day. Collaboration can take place at any time during coordination, accelerating the delivery of quality construction projects. Act directly in Revit or Navisworks for roundtrip issue resolution.

Mobile app

Stay connected with enhanced model viewing on mobile – improving communication and collaboration between office and field. When BIM managers share multi-trade models with teams in the field, superintendents and project engineers have the context they need to make critical decisions faster.

Document management

Ensure that teams always access the latest drawings, models and documents. Forma Data Management provides a single repository for all file access for Forma and Navisworks. Streamline reviews and maintain confidence that everyone is working from the most current project data.

Permissions and control

Control and secure access to project data with role and group-based permissions. Assign the right level of visibility and editing rights for each discipline, ensuring that teams only access relevant folders, packages and files, while maintaining project integrity and data security.

Custom project templates

Establish project standards that guide how teams work from the start. Define templates, permissions and naming conventions to maintain consistency across disciplines and deliverables. Streamline set-up, improve governance and ensure every project begins with the right structure for collaboration and handover.

Streamline file uploads with integrations

Seamlessly send 2D or 3D files from Autodesk tools such as Revit or AutoCAD with native integrations or drag and drop directly from your computer. Use Desktop Connector to open, save, move, rename and delete files directly from your desktop.

Insights in the cloud

View metrics and trends from design reviews and coordination to track progress, identify recurring issues and monitor team performance. Create custom dashboards with Autodesk and partner cards from the Card Library for a more tailored view of project performance.

Bridge

Connect cloud models from different projects and accounts without moving data or compromising control. Teams can maintain ownership within their own environments while linking models for seamless collaboration, automatic updates and secure multi-stakeholder design.

Model conditioning

Group, sort and organise the BIM data, then power your downstream workflows by enriching your model with metadata.

Collaborative design review

Conduct more efficient, data-driven design review sessions using a cloud-based environment that gives all stakeholders access to project models.

3D quantities

Streamline model-based takeoff. Gain instant access to complete project inventory to easily organise project data by user-defined parameters, like tender package, locations, phases, WBS and work-activity codes.

Change management

Understand, visualise and quantify changes occurring within each design iteration. Run variance to easily identify what has been added or removed in the model and which quantities have changed.

Work-in-place tracking

Leverage models for work-in-place tracking by simply selecting model-objects and updating the status in the field. Connecting these statuses to model objects provides a visually rich progress report of completed work that is directly tied to the project quantities.

Forma Data Management integration

Publish Revit models directly to Assemble from Forma Data Management so that everyone can access the latest project information.

Convert laser scans to mesh models

Using Autodesk Recap Pro, construction teams can capture and convert detailed laser scans of real-world conditions into usable 3D models. These digestible models form the foundation of reliable as-builts and allow teams to verify that what's being built aligns with the original design.

Manage large data sets

Tools allow for classification, editing, and refinement of meshes, turning large datasets into usable surfaces and elements for models. Accurately represent existing conditions by extracting 3D and linear features from real-life scans.

Aggregate and review with multi-format models

With Forma, shareable 3D models and point clouds are accessible to teams both in the office and on the jobsite. This makes it easier to view and understand as-built conditions right from the start. Bring point clouds into Navisworks Manage and use powerful clash detection to verify clashes and constructability.

Integrate with Revit

The plug-in for Revit offers a streamlined workflow to manage large mesh datasets, enabling the addition of complex mesh objects into projects as Revit Families.

Create powerful visualisations

Deliver a digital twin in Tandem and empower your clients to easily interpret their operational data. With robust 3D twin viewing and supporting charts and heatmaps, data insights are instantly visible. Pre-load twins with curated data visualisations so clients can focus on the datasets most relevant to them.

Provide your clients with maps to their asset

Link documentation to assets, such as operations and maintenance manuals, warranties, product data sheets, laser scans, and more. Tandem automatically maps relationships between spaces and systems. This once time-consuming, manual process can now be completed in just a few clicks.

Stay on schedule with simple progress boards

Help ensure every digital twin you build meets your contractual obligations with customisable data dashboards. Easily track and review progress to check that all asset data gets populated accurately. Dashboards isolate missing data for you, so you can quickly see what’s left to do.

Expedite twin building with templates

Establish a repeatable process for building digital twins. Structure data and drive consistency. Choose templates from our library or customise your own to use across multiple facilities.

Easier handover

Once the digital twin is built and verified, Tandem makes the handover process fast and easy. Transferring the digital twin of your client’s facility when you give them the keys can help to ensure they have access to all asset and operational data from day one.

Turn models into field-ready layout points

Automatically generate and export layout points from BIM models in Revit, Navisworks and AutoCAD. Export location points in direct file formats compatible with robotics total stations.

Increase accuracy on site

Use model-driven coordinates to position building elements with precision, minimising layout errors and rework.

Verify installation in real time

Import as-built field data and compare it to the model to detect issues early and confirm installation accuracy.

Close the loop between model and reality

Bring as-built data back into your models to maintain an accurate, up-to-date representation of the project.