Ability to automatically/schedule Revit cloud model publish without links

[rrogersRM]

As a general contractor, we often Bridge projects with the design team and their models are typically published with links. When they are bridged over to our project, they essentially become useless because they can't be linked through the Desktop Connector because of the "zip file" issue. If there was a way to modify the "schedule publish" feature in Design Collaboration to publish without links, that would resolve this issue.

Thanks!

[roy_peryea]

Hi @rrogersRM , have you tried linking through External Resources instead of Desktop Connector?

It is recommended to link using the External Resources for Revit Cloud workshared models and Cloud models for Revit (non-workshared).

This support page has some more information - https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Difference-between...

FYI this is a recommendation that is not specific to Bridge.

[rrogersRM]

@roy_peryeaYes, great point. I work for a general contractor and we have one project where we are doing that, however not all contractors have BIM Collab Pro, especially some of the smaller firms, so they're unable to do this.

Having this option would be greatly beneficial for those contractors.

Thanks!

[BIM03_EU]

Yes, we really need this. Hello Autodesk — it's already 2025. This feature is essential!!