Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration – Cloud BIM & Design Collaboration

Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration, formerly known as Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro, is a cloud-based design collaboration and coordination solution for architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) teams.

It enables multidisciplinary project teams to co-author designs, manage project data, coordinate models, track changes, identify clashes, and securely exchange design information through a connected common data environment.

What is Autodesk Forma Design Collaboration?

Forma Design Collaboration connects architects, engineers, BIM teams, project managers, and other design stakeholders in a shared cloud environment. Teams can collaborate on project models and data while maintaining controlled workflows, permissions, version history, and visibility into design changes.

The solution combines cloud-based design collaboration with model coordination and supports collaborative authoring workflows for Autodesk Revit, Civil 3D, and Plant 3D.

Core Capabilities

• Cloud Design Collaboration – Connect multidisciplinary design teams through shared cloud-based project workflows.
• Revit Cloud Worksharing – Enable distributed Revit teams to co-author models from different locations.
• Model Coordination – Aggregate multidisciplinary models and coordinate design information.
• Automated Clash Detection – Identify conflicts between project models and turn them into actionable issues.
• Design Data Management – Organize, control, and securely share project information.
• Change Management – Track and compare design changes throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Features

• Design Package Exchange – Publish, share, compare, and consume multidisciplinary design packages.
• Automated Clash Detection – Detect model conflicts across aggregated multidisciplinary designs.
• Advanced Change Analytics – Compare design versions and monitor important changes.
• Connected Issues – Identify, assign, track, and resolve design coordination issues.
• Design Review – Review drawings and PDFs, add markups, comments, and project feedback.
• Project Standards & Controls – Standardize project structures, permissions, naming conventions, and workflows.
• Project Insights – Monitor project metrics, coordination activities, issues, and design progress.

Revit Cloud Worksharing

Forma Design Collaboration enables Revit Cloud Worksharing, allowing architects and engineers to collaboratively author Revit models in the cloud.

• Co-author Revit models from different locations
• Synchronize design changes between project team members
• Centralize Revit project data in the cloud
• Improve collaboration between architectural and engineering disciplines
• Reduce dependency on traditional local file-server workflows

Collaboration for Civil 3D

Infrastructure and civil engineering teams can use Collaboration for Civil 3D to centralize project information and collaborate on Civil 3D projects through a secure cloud environment.

Collaboration for Plant 3D

Forma Design Collaboration also provides collaborative cloud workflows for AutoCAD Plant 3D, helping distributed plant design teams work with centralized project data.

Model Coordination & Clash Detection

Model Coordination enables teams to combine multidisciplinary models and automatically identify clashes between building systems and design disciplines.

• Aggregate multidisciplinary BIM models
• Automatically identify model clashes
• Review coordination conflicts
• Create and assign issues
• Track issue resolution
• Improve coordination before construction begins

Common Data Environment

Forma Design Collaboration provides connected data management capabilities that create a centralized source of project information. Teams can manage files, versions, permissions, design packages, and project records within controlled cloud workflows.

Design Change Management

Project teams can compare model versions and understand how designs have changed over time. Change visualization and analytics help teams identify modifications that may affect other disciplines and make informed coordination decisions.

Typical Use Cases

• Multidisciplinary BIM collaboration
• Revit cloud worksharing
• Architectural and engineering coordination
• BIM model coordination and clash detection
• Civil 3D project collaboration
• Plant 3D project collaboration
• Design review and approval
• Distributed and remote design teams
• Common data environment implementation

Benefits

• Connects geographically distributed design teams
• Provides centralized access to current project information
• Reduces coordination errors and unnecessary rework
• Improves visibility into design changes
• Identifies clashes earlier in the design process
• Creates controlled information-sharing workflows between disciplines
• Improves accountability through issue tracking and project history

Ideal For

• Architectural firms
• Engineering consultants
• BIM managers and BIM coordinators
• Civil engineering firms
• Plant and process engineering companies
• Construction companies
• Project managers
• Multidisciplinary AEC project teams

Web-Based Collaboration Platform

Forma Design Collaboration is primarily a web-based cloud collaboration solution and does not require a dedicated desktop operating system for its web interface. Connected authoring workflows work with supported Autodesk desktop applications such as Revit, Civil 3D, and Plant 3D.

What's Included with Forma Design Collaboration?

• Design Collaboration
• Model Coordination
• Forma Data Management
• Insight
• Administration
• Revit Cloud Worksharing
• Collaboration for Civil 3D
• Collaboration for Plant 3D

Forma Design Collaboration vs BIM Collaborate Pro

Forma Design Collaboration is the successor name to Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro. Organizations and users familiar with BIM Collaborate Pro can therefore look to Forma Design Collaboration for Autodesk's current cloud-based design co-authoring, collaboration, and coordination offering.

Licensing

• Named-user subscription licensing
• 1-year subscription options
• 3-year subscription options
• Commercial business deployment