Cloud and Collaboration

ACC is now Autodesk Forma. Here is what BIM 360 became, which plan actually includes Revit Cloud Worksharing, and what does not survive a migration.

Getting current drawings to tablets and phones in the field is messier than it looks. Here is why emailing and VPNs fail, and what actually works.

Your consultant is on an older Revit version and you cannot share models. Link their model instead of opening it, or match the version. Here is how.

You finish a drawing, it looks perfect on your screen, and you email the DWG to the architect or the surveyor you are teaming with. An hour later, the phone rings. “Your xrefs are missing.” But it was all there when you sent it. A DWG is rarely alone Start with the thing most people…

You send a proposal to a client, you wait, and then they tell you it was sitting in their spam folder the whole time. This is one of the most quietly damaging tech problems a firm can have — and the fix is a one-time setup most firms have never done. Your important email, the…

You already pay for Microsoft 365, and OneDrive and SharePoint are right there — it seems like the perfect place for your CAD and Revit files. For some files it is. For others, it is a trap that quietly corrupts your work. The thought is natural: everyone could reach the files from anywhere, they would…

Your file server is getting old. Or you are opening a second office. Or someone asked why your team cannot get to project files from home. And the big question lands on your desk: should you keep a server in the closet, or move everything to the cloud? It is a real decision with real…

When your firm was one or two people, sharing a Revit model was easy. But the moment two people need to work on the same model at the same time, you hit a wall — and that wall has a solution built right into Revit, if you set it up correctly. Only one person can…