• Revit
  • Civil 3D
  • BIM Collaborate

Success Plan: Model Co-authoring for Buildings Maturity 1

The ability of members of a design team to collaborate securely in real-time on design models, while working remotely from a wide variety of locations, with simplified workflows and centralized data.


Course overview

The ability of members of a design team to collaborate securely in real-time on design models, while working remotely from a wide variety of locations, with simplified workflows and centralized data.

  • Do you want to use local worksharing on isolated projects within network or in a cloud environment?
  • Do you wish your model co-authoring, development were such that repeating the same steps is possible for wider adoption across the organization? Do you want alignment of standards for teams, linking, review etc?
  • Do you need multi-team / multi-discipline collaboration on multiple model files in cloud solutions, utilising team controls and permissions, issue management, mark-ups and version control?
  • Are you able to work through complex standards issues with high level of inter-dependency of capabilities?
  • Do you want state of the art practices and maximizing impact of business outcomes and values around model co-authoring?

Any of the modules in this course will help you accomplish any of the objectives above. Simply get started in the module of your choice depending upon the technology that your team has access to.

Course outline

15 min.

Share Civil 3D Surfaces with Revit Using BIM 360

Sharing design models between the architect and civil engineer helps reduce rework and improves collaboration. Use BIM 360 to share surface data after setting the geospacial coordinates for the project.

Sharing design models between the architect and civil engineer helps reduce rework and improves collaboration. Use BIM 360 to share surface data after setting the geospacial coordinates for the project.

This module takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Set the geospacial coordinates in both Civil 3D and Revit to ensure the models line up
  • Share the Civil 3D surface with Revit through the cloud using BIM 360


35 min.

Import Civil 3D Surfaces and Site Information into Revit

Importing a Civil 3D TOPO surface and site information into Revit allows you to see how the building will look in context with its surroundings. Learn how to take advantage of work already done by the surveyor and/or civil engineer, saving you time in recreating their work.

Importing a Civil 3D TOPO surface and site information into Revit allows you to see how the building will look in context with its surroundings. Learn how to take advantage of work already done by the surveyor and/or civil engineer, saving you time in recreating their work.

This content takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

  • Set up BIM360
  • Prepare the Civil 3D Model
  • Set the GeoLocation

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit and Civil 3D software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


20 min.

Coaching: Upload/Share Project Models Using Autodesk BIM Collaborate

Uploading and sharing project files is the first step in establishing a successful document management process for your project. It is essential to assign permission levels appropriately to ensure the right people have access to the right information inside Autodesk BIM Collaborate. In this module, you learn how to share your project models with other Teams using Autodesk BIM Collaborate.

Uploading and sharing project files is the first step in establishing a successful document management process for your project. It is essential to assign permission levels appropriately to ensure the right people have access to the right information inside Autodesk BIM Collaborate. In this module, you learn how to share your project models with other Teams using Autodesk BIM Collaborate.

This module takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to: 

  • Create packages in Design Collaboration 
  • Understand how to view other teams' packages 
  • Consume a package in Design Collaboration 

Capability: Document Management - The ability to manage the practices for the creation, review, modifucation, issuance, distribution and accessibility of documents, including design, best practices, safety, alerts and announcements

Benefits:

  • Improve Collaboration
  • Reduce Overall Design Time
  • Manage Design and Project Complexity

Audience:

  • Architect
  • Strucural Engineer
  • BIM Manager


30 min.

Coordinate Designs Across Disciplines by Setting the Shared Coordinates

Set up the shared coordinates at the beginning of the project to reduce design errors and make collaboration easier across disciplines. In this module, you learn what questions to ask in order to define the project coordinates. Then, you add the shared coordinates to the Revit model to ensure everything lines up across disciplines and design firms.

Set up the shared coordinates at the beginning of the project to reduce design errors and make collaboration easier across disciplines. In this module, you learn what questions to ask in order to define the project coordinates. Then, you add the shared coordinates to the Revit model to ensure everything lines up across disciplines and design firms.

This module takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Publish shared coordinates
  • Readjust sharing
  • Set up another discipline's model

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit and Civil 3D software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


15 min.

Efficiently share your model with the entire project team using BIM Collaborate

BIM Collaborate is an efficient way to share your design with the entire team. In this module, you learn how to upload your model to BIM 360 to monitor changes to elements in a multi-discipline project in the cloud and identify potential issues.

BIM Collaborate is an efficient way to share your design with the entire team. In this module, you learn how to upload your model to BIM 360 to monitor changes to elements in a multi-discipline project in the cloud and identify potential issues.

This module takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Upload Revit models to the cloud using BIM 360 Design
  • Upload non-Revit project documents to the cloud
  • Create and consume packages
  • Use cloud worksharing
  • View design changes
  • Update issues

Before you start

  • You must already have access to BIM 360 and a project created in BIM 360.

If your BIM Manager has not done this for you or if you do not have a BIM Manager, make sure you learn how to set up a project by going to the Setup BIM 360 for Better Project Coordination Using the Cloud module found under the BIM Management course.


1 hr. 20 min.

Coaching: How to: Collaborate in BIM Collaborate Pro (Part 1)

Learn how to package, link, and publish Revit models in BIM Collaborate Pro.

Learn how to package, link, and publish Revit models in BIM Collaborate Pro.

Topics include:

  • Quick BIM Collaborate Pro Preview.
  • Understand linking methods for Cloud Initiated Revit Models.


1 hr.

Coaching: How to: Collaborate in BIM Collaborate Pro (Part 2)

Learn advanced file sharing workflows in BIM Collaborate Pro, including data exchange, hyper-model navigation, and how to create and review issues.

Learn advanced file sharing workflows in BIM Collaborate Pro, including data exchange, hyper-model navigation, and how to create and review issues.

Topics include:
  • Design collaboration 
  • Consumer packages 
  • Create and review issues


45 min.

Coaching: How to: Collaborate in BIM Collaborate Pro (Part 3)

Review best practices for collaborating in BIM Collaborate Pro and learn how to backup and recover files and troubleshoot issues.

Review best practices for collaborating in BIM Collaborate Pro and learn how to backup and recover files and troubleshoot issues.

Topics include: 
  • Folder structure best practices 
  • Linking best practices 
  • Backup and recovery


25 min.

Create the Sub-structure

Learn how to get model building foundations ready for structural analysis by starting with the bearing walls in the foundation. Next, add isolated foundation pads with and without piers. Complete the sub-structure model with strip foundations underneath the bearing walls.

Learn how to get model building foundations ready for structural analysis by starting with the bearing walls in the foundation. Next, add isolated foundation pads with and without piers. Complete the sub-structure model with strip foundations underneath the bearing walls.

This content takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

  • Add bearing walls.
  • Assign materials to the model objects so that they have a consistent concrete specification.
  • Place a series of individual rectangular pads under the bearing wall in the lower level of the building.
  • Place a series of rectangular pads with a pier that will connect to the steel columns in the section of the building.
  • Although not required for analysis, join separate foundation objects so that they merge together geometrically.
  • Add strip foundations demonstrating an automatic layout as well as how to adjust individual foundations.
  • Add an additional foundation slab to see how it automatically merges with the strip foundations.

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


25 min.

Create the Super-structure

Learn how to select which walls and floors are to be considered part of the structural frame, from the architect’s model, and copy them over to the structural model. You will then learn how to add the building core, beams, columns, and braces.

Learn how to select which walls and floors are to be considered part of the structural frame, from the architect’s model, and copy them over to the structural model. You will then learn how to add the building core, beams, columns, and braces.

This content takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

  • Copy the elevator core and floor slabs.
  • Cut holes in the floor slabs to accommodate the elevator mechanism and a services riser shaft.
  • Add a slab edge to the ground floor concrete slab to thicken its perimeter.
  • Add beams and columns.
  • Add braces.

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


1 hr.

Coaching: Introduction to: BIM Collaborate Pro

Get familiar with BIM Collaborate Pro features and workflows, including account and project administration, Revit cloud worksharing, document management, design collaboration, and model coordination.

Get familiar with BIM Collaborate Pro features and workflows, including account and project administration, Revit cloud worksharing, document management, design collaboration, and model coordination.

Topics include: 

  • BIM 360 Platform and BIM 360 Design
  • Revit Cloud Worksharing
  • Document Management
  • Design Collaboration


30 min.

Coaching: How to: start and administer a project in BIM Collaborate Pro

Learn how to administer the BIM 360 account site and start a BIM Collaborate Pro project.

Learn how to administer the BIM 360 account site and start a BIM Collaborate Pro project.

Topics include:

  • Autodesk Account roles and entitlement 
  • BIM 360 roles and account admin tasks 
  • Project setup 


15 min.

Efficiently share your model with the entire project team using BIM Collaborate

BIM Collaborate is an efficient way to share your design with the entire team. In this module, you learn how to upload your model to BIM 360 to monitor changes to elements in a multi-discipline project in the cloud and identify potential issues.

BIM Collaborate is an efficient way to share your design with the entire team. In this module, you learn how to upload your model to BIM 360 to monitor changes to elements in a multi-discipline project in the cloud and identify potential issues.

This module takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Upload Revit models to the cloud using BIM 360 Design
  • Upload non-Revit project documents to the cloud
  • Create and consume packages
  • Use cloud worksharing
  • View design changes
  • Update issues

Before you start

  • You must already have access to BIM 360 and a project created in BIM 360.

If your BIM Manager has not done this for you or if you do not have a BIM Manager, make sure you learn how to set up a project by going to the Setup BIM 360 for Better Project Coordination Using the Cloud module found under the BIM Management course.


30 min.

Coordinate Designs Across Disciplines by Setting the Shared Coordinates

Set up the shared coordinates at the beginning of the project to reduce design errors and make collaboration easier across disciplines. In this module, you learn what questions to ask in order to define the project coordinates. Then, you add the shared coordinates to the Revit model to ensure everything lines up across disciplines and design firms.

Set up the shared coordinates at the beginning of the project to reduce design errors and make collaboration easier across disciplines. In this module, you learn what questions to ask in order to define the project coordinates. Then, you add the shared coordinates to the Revit model to ensure everything lines up across disciplines and design firms.

This module takes approximately 25 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Publish shared coordinates
  • Readjust sharing
  • Set up another discipline's model

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit and Civil 3D software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


30 min.

Allowing Multiple Users Access to a Revit Model Using Worksharing

There is a trick to allowing everyone to work in one model without overwriting what someone else has done. Share one central Revit model with a wide team using worksharing.

There is a trick to allowing everyone to work in one model without overwriting what someone else has done. Share one central Revit model with a wide team using worksharing.

This module takes approximately 30 minutes to complete. By the end of the module, you should be able to:

  • Activate Revit worksharing
  • Understand what worksets are and how to use them
  • Detach a central model

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


35 min.

Import Civil 3D Surfaces and Site Information into Revit

Importing a Civil 3D TOPO surface and site information into Revit allows you to see how the building will look in context with its surroundings. Learn how to take advantage of work already done by the surveyor and/or civil engineer, saving you time in recreating their work.

Importing a Civil 3D TOPO surface and site information into Revit allows you to see how the building will look in context with its surroundings. Learn how to take advantage of work already done by the surveyor and/or civil engineer, saving you time in recreating their work.

This content takes approximately 35 minutes to complete. By the end, you should be able to:

  • Set up BIM360
  • Prepare the Civil 3D Model
  • Set the GeoLocation

Before you start

  • Please make sure you have the Revit and Civil 3D software loaded.
  • If you have technical difficulties, please reach out to product support


1 min.

Find a partner

Work with your Autodesk partner to train your team.

If you have attempted to implement your Autodesk technology on your own and still have questions, working with your Autodesk partner would be the best next step. If you are not already working with an Autodesk Partner, find a partner today.