AUTODESK PLATFORM
One industry cloud for AECO. Autodesk Forma.
Unite owners, designers, and builders in one AI-native industry cloud. Boost creativity, strengthen collaboration, and drive smarter project outcomes.
One cloud. Every phase. Every team.
Replace gut feel with cloud-powered analysis. Test ideas, weigh trade-offs, and make data-backed decisions before breaking ground.
Bring teams together in one space with real-time collaboration and shared data to drive better design outcomes, faster.
Connect design intent to construction reality, anticipate risks, and stay on track with connected workflows and data.
Transform building management with live data to optimize performance, reduce downtime, and extend asset value.
Capabilities powered by the cloud
What sets Forma apart
Cloud based project data management for everyone
Teams, data, and workflows connected in a cloud-based common data environment built for AECO.
Autodesk AI
Power up the project lifecycle with AI
Test wind and noise before you build
Spot wind and noise issues early, so you can refine your design before approvals (or budgets) are at risk.
Forma Data Management
Project data, connected.
Cloud-based project data management for everyone
A cloud-native common data environment, connecting AECO project data and workflows across the lifecycle.
Forma Data Management
Project data, connected.
Cloud-based project data management for everyone
A cloud-native common data environment, connecting AECO project data and workflows across the lifecycle.
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The Forma Industry Cloud is Autodesk’s AI-native, end-to-end platform designed to connect fragmented AECO workflows in a single, predictive risk-focused ecosystem. This helps support more informed decision-making across planning, design, construction and operations.
Forma industry cloud is for organizations across the AECO ecosystem—including architects, engineers, contractors, and owners—who want to design, build, and operate projects using connected data and AI-powered insights. It supports teams throughout the entire project lifecycle, from early planning and design to construction and operations. By connecting people, workflows, and project data in a single cloud platform, Forma helps multidisciplinary teams collaborate more effectively, make better decisions earlier, and deliver more predictable, sustainable project outcomes.
The Forma Industry Cloud brings together Autodesk’s design and construction solutions into one connected platform.
Forma Site Design is a cloud-based design software for site planning and analysis. Plan every site with confidence, with AI-powered analysis, contextual data, and 3D modeling.
Forma Building Design is a design and analysis software for the schematic design phase. Architects and designers use Forma Building Design to explore more ideas before it’s time for BIM.
The Autodesk Construction cloud joins Forma. ACC capabilities have become an integral part of the Forma industry cloud, unifying design and construction workflows with shared, data, security, and user management. Forma now includes Forma Build, Forma Takeoff, and other construction modules.
Forma Connected Client, available in the Revit Tech Preview, offers capabilities powered by the Forma Industry Cloud that help you move faster, with greater insight and less rework.
Forma Design Collaboration (formerly Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro) streamlines design review and model coordination with automated workflows, clear communication, and accountability—reducing rework and accelerating project delivery.
Forma Data Management (formerly Autodesk Docs), serves as the common data environment (CDE) for Forma. Standalone subscribers to AutoCAD, Revit, and Civil 3D now have access to Forma Data Management Essentials, integrating desktop design tools with a centralized, cloud-connected environment for managing project data.
Together, these products unify planning, design, construction, and operations workflows under the Forma cloud—while keeping the functionality and access you already rely on.
If you have an active AEC Collection or standalone subscription, you can log into Forma Site Design with your Autodesk account. Login to Forma here. Not a subscriber? You may be eligible for a free trial. Are you a student or educator? Get free software for students and educators. Learn more about Forma Site Design here.
Forma Building Design will launch in 2026. In the coming months, we’ll launch a closed beta where you can explore these capabilities firsthand and help shape the future of building design. Access will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis. Register here to join the waitlist.
Your current subscriptions and contracts will remain the same. With Autodesk Forma, you’ll gain access to new cloud connected capabilities over time without losing access to the tools you already use.
No. Your data will remain accessible where it is today.
Design and Make Platforms are integrated, cloud-connected software solutions that allow users to design, manufacture, and deliver anything from new buildings and infrastructure to products and media-and-entertainment productions. Design and Make Platforms unlock data and connect project workflows, allowing companies to deliver better, faster outcomes across the project lifecycle.
Industry clouds will comprise products that connect processes and streamline workflows in that industry, offering capabilities that span the full lifecycle of a project.
Autodesk Forma: Our industry cloud for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations unifies building information modeling (BIM) workflows across the teams that design, build, and operate in the built environment, enabling data to flow seamlessly throughout project phases, stakeholders, and asset types.
Autodesk Fusion: Our industry cloud for manufacturing will connect your data and people, delivering next-generation workflows across the entire product development lifecycle, from top floor to shop floor, throughout your organization and ecosystem.
Autodesk Flow: Our industry cloud for media and entertainment will connect your workflows, data, and teams across the entire production lifecycle from earliest concept to final delivery.
Autodesk Platform Services (APS), formerly Forge, is a set of evolving APIs and services to help you customize solutions, create innovative workflows, and integrate other tools and data with our platform. APS also offers an app marketplace of prebuilt solutions that help you quickly connect gaps and a central cloud-information model that streamlines how teams create and share project data.
Companies worldwide face a rapid evolution in business trends and practices; from the way people work to the way supply chains operate. Demographic pressures, shifting consumer priorities, and demand for sustainable solutions are creating challenges across every industry. Traditional siloed tools and ways of working no longer meet these needs. Therefore, industries are witnessing a shift toward cloud-connected and integrated software solutions and data-driven approaches to address today’s challenges.
The Autodesk Platform will enable both digital and industry transformation by reimagining project workflows, simplifying how you access and use our tools, and connecting data across the entire lifecycle of a project to realize its full value. The platform will empower distributed teams to work fluidly across boundaries of projects. With products that are easy to use, learn, and deploy, you can harness project data to generate insights that flow through the entire project lifecycle. By removing barriers to collaboration and bringing data-backed insights to everyday decision making, The Autodesk Platform removes barriers to collaboration and provides data-backed insights, so you can spend less time coordinating processes or predicting outcomes and more time focusing on critical business decisions.
Businesses are experiencing an environment of increasingly distributed teams. Disconnected workflows and siloed data are common problems that cross industry lines. The Autodesk Platform will let you customize, extend, and connect Autodesk products with other solutions to create end-to-end workflows that meet your business objectives. These end-to-end workflows will connect project data and unlock the insights to ensure you and your stakeholders have the latest information in real time. By connecting the right people to the right data at the right time across entire project lifecycles, you’ll be able to accelerate collaboration and remove friction. And connected data opens future opportunities for automation and artificial intelligence, removing guesswork and manual work and leaving more time to focus on the outcomes that matter most to you.