Individually as a evolving products, Docs, Design Collaboration, and Model Coordination are fine. While not perfect, they contain numerous features we require to achieve the desired results with authored design models. But their individuality and UI fragmentation on the platform is also their greatest weakness and cause of confusion to users. Here are some points for consideration. Each module is interfacing with the same model that is stored in Docs. Design Collaboration and Model Coordination are UIs that purely facilitate model workflows. This is actually no different to Reviews and Issues found in Docs. Therefore, since Design Collaboration and Model Coordination purely facilitate workflows, like Reviews and Issues, then why are these features not integrated more closely into the Docs UI? Workflows should not be considered additional modules. They are a fundamental part of day to day work with the models. Furthermore, with Design Collaboration being an extended UI of the Docs folders/files, it causes great confusion between users who are not not delivering complex models via Docs, and those who are delivery complex models via Design Collaboration. Design Collaboration ends up being an incomplete picture of model distribution across the entire delivery team. This is due to those delivering simple models not needing the extra expense of a BIM Collaborate license. This creates inequity on the platform that negatively affects overall project delivery and platform adoption. This issue remains no better in ACC. While the Build, Takeoff, and Cost Management modules have a Files tab reflecting the entire Docs space, the Design Collaboration and Model Coordination do not. Is there something special about Build, Takeoff, and Cost Management that they get such a feature? This again demonstrates inequity of platform features. This leads to the final point that if Design Collaboration and Model Coordination were to also receive a Files tabs, then this effectively makes Docs redundant. You could essentially roll Docs, Design Collaboration, and Model Coordination into a single highly-valued module called Design, with Files being a common tab across Design and the other Build modules. When we see the Build modules constantly growing, it's frustrating to see the design stage remain quite stagnant and fragmented. It's time to consolidate them together. This request sits closely alongside my other recent request for a Docs/files redesign to move away from using folders.
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