Matt Arsenault
Update – November 25, 2025
Want to test out Forma’s cloud capabilities directly in Revit? We’ve included these in the latest Revit preview release, so you can enjoy the benefits of Revit becoming a Forma Connected Client and help shape its development. Apply to be a part of the program here.
I’m thrilled to announce that Revit will become Autodesk’s first official Forma Connected Client. The Forma Connected Clients initiative is a major step in Autodesk’s industry cloud strategy, as a label that recognizes when a desktop product is deeply integrated into the Forma Industry Cloud.
Forma Connected Clients enable AECO professionals to utilize shared, granular data and AI-powered cloud capabilities – both within and across the desktop tools they already use. By building deep connections between desktop products and the Industry Cloud, we’re unlocking capabilities, workflows, and data that span multiple design solutions — all powered by Forma.
With Revit becoming the first desktop product to be connected to Forma, Revit users will be able to tap into Forma capabilities and access shared granular data across solutions such as Forma Site Design and the newly announced Forma Building Design. This will allow design and engineering teams to seamlessly collaborate using shared data, removing the need to import and export data between design applications. Instead, design data will be connected through the Forma Data Management common data environment, and accessible whenever you need it regardless of if it was authored in Revit, Forma Site Design, or Forma Building Design.
In addition to having shared access to design data across design applications, some of Forma’s outcome-based design capabilities such as Forma Analysis and Forma Data Marketplace will be available directly in Revit.
By making Revit a Forma Connected Client, we are extending its value more than ever. We’re giving our architects and engineers the power of the Forma Industry Cloud while enabling them to stay in the tools they trust and use every day. Forma is not replacing Revit, it’s extending it.
Revit users will have access to Forma’s wind analysis, bringing CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) wind analysis directly in Revit, empowering design teams to drive more sustainable design decisions within the tools they use today. With Revit being a Forma Connected Client, Forma’s wind analysis can be run directly from Revit in the cloud and view analysis results without leaving the tool. Wind analysis results which were generated within Forma Site Design or Forma Building Design will also be available in Revit, meaning analysis results are shared across all connected design applications.
Over time, additional sustainability and building performance analysis types from Forma will be available within Revit.
Revit users will also have access to purchase contextual data from the Forma Data Marketplace directly within Revit. Contextual data such as terrain, surrounding buildings, parcels and other data can quickly be sourced from external providers and added to design models. Making this more powerful is the shared geolocation data, which helps ensure the data that is ordered is also located properly without manual placement. Together, this real-world context gives designers a decision-making edge.
Contextual data ordered within Forma Site Design or Forma Building Design will be available in Revit, without the need to reorder the data. Contextual data will span all Forma design applications and Forma Connected Clients.
Our Forma Connected Clients initiative will see additional existing desktop solutions evolve into Forma Connected Clients. We’ll be bringing the Forma Industry Cloud to more users and empower broader capabilities and more powerful cross-product workflows for more customers and industries. With the first release of capabilities in Revit, we are excited to see how architects and engineers can more easily connect early stage and detailed design and drive decision making with outcome-based capabilities.
While the capabilities in Revit as a Forma Connected Client are still in development, you can already preview and try these out yourself with the Revit Preview Release program. Apply today and be part of shaping its future. In the meantime, please follow our Forma LinkedIn channel for future updates.