This section is intended to help you get up and running with BIM Collaborate Pro. It includes information on purchase, account setup, and project setup and activation.
Note: These help topics focus on projects on the BIM 360 platform. For projects on the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform, the details are very similar. Autodesk Construction Cloud-specific getting started topics can be found here.
Note: Customers who previously subscribed to BIM 360 Design will see the name change to BIM Collaborate Pro in Autodesk Account, which additionally includes access to Model Coordination, Insight, Glue, and the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform.
BIM Collaborate Pro provides access to functionality from BIM 360, Revit, Civil 3D, and Plant 3D.
Teams manage their Revit data in Design Collaboration while Civil 3D and Plant 3D data is managed through Document Management and Desktop Connector.
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A subscription or contract for BIM Collaborate Pro is available through:
BIM Collaborate Pro access, including access to the Revit Cloud Worksharing, Collaboration for Civil 3D, and Collaboration for AutoCAD Plant 3D entitlements, is provided to individual users by a Contract Manager or Software Coordinator from the Autodesk Account.
Note: The BIM Collaborate Pro entitlement is only available in the Classic View of the Autodesk Account. See the Assign Products and Services to Users in the Classic View topic to learn more about managing entitlements in the classic view.
BIM 360 has two levels of administration: account and project.
Account administrators:
These actions are carried out within the Account Admin module.
Project administrators:
These actions are carried out within the Project Admin module.
When a BIM 360 subscription is created, the first account administrator receives a welcome email that is required to activate BIM 360. After BIM 360 is activated for your account, an account administrator can manage your account profile. This includes steps like customizing the account name and image and inviting additional account administrators.
The next key step for an account administrator is to create a project and activate Document Management and Design Collaboration.
Project administrators can now add project members and provide those members with permission to access the Document Management and Design Collaboration modules.
Invited members receive a link to join the project. After clicking this link, members simply sign in using an Autodesk ID and password.
For Revit workflows, it is worth noting that there are two layers of team setup required. First, an administrator must provide members with access to Document Management, where the documents in the collaborative workflows are stored. Next, an administrator must provide members with access to Design Collaboration, and add them to a team so they can access the shared team folder.
Every project starts with preconfigured, top-level folders to support a specific process or data type. These are called the Plans and Project Files folders. When project administrators set up teams for the Design Collaboration module (applicable to Revit workflows), new Shared and Consumed folders are created automatically in Document Management in the Project Files folder. This automated method of folder creation is recommended as all the required subfolders and permissions are created when a team is added.
Note: This section is only applicable for Revit workflows that utilize the Design Collaboration module in BIM 360. This section is not applicable to Collaboration for Civil 3D. Refer to the Collaboration for Civil 3D help to complete the setup for Civil 3D workflows.
In the Design Collaboration module, a project administrator can manage teams and team members. After a team is created, a dedicated Team Space is added in the Design Collaboration module. The required folders for sharing and consuming packages are also created, as discussed above. The teams must be created before using Design Collaboration.
As an alternative, you can create your own folders in Document Management for the Shared and Consumed spaces. You can assign teams to these folders during the team setup.
The Design Collaboration module improves multi-firm project teams’ ability to meet the demands of a modern construction project. Enhanced permissions allow individual teams to work in their own space, and collaborate with complete control of how other project teams see the state of their work. The Design Collaboration module provides an experience catered to the way teams think about their project data.
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