Share cloud model with consultant not using BIM 360 Design

[adt]

Hi all, am I missing something obvious?  MEP consultant has Revit but not BIM360 Design.  Must I download a copy of the file and post it to A360 Drive or another fileshare program in order to transfer them a copy?  I realize we will have to do this multiple times throughout the project but just want to make sure I wasn't unnecessarily adding a step.

Thanks, 

Andrew

[martyn.messerli]

@adt As long the MEP team has no access to the BIM 360 Design Project and Cloud for Revit, I see no other way then having this manual step to do the "collaboration". 

Not sure how this works out with licence. @KyleB_Autodesk maybe you have some insides.

-Martyn

[KyleB_Autodesk]

If the consultant does not have any BIM 360 Subscription, then you are correct that you need to user other mechanisms to share the data with them.  An alternative option is to purchase a BIM 360 Docs subscription, which they can use to access the published RVT data you and your team are working on.

-Kyle

[anil_mistry]

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[adt]

I think my follow up would be to ask if I'm not missing something within BIM360 Design where I can click on the file and send a download link.  In A360 I could go to the dropdown next to the Revit model, hit share, and get a link to copy/paste in an email.  Is that an option that's not available or am I just not seeing it in BIM360 Design?

[robincapperw]

BIM 360 Docs needs a share link/view function/login for non-project viewers (similar to team). I can understand the need for an Autodesk login (for ID management) but they should authenticate using Enterprise systems (Active ID, Octa or whatever) and not consume a license for viewing/download. It is unrealistic to expect an enterprise to support full Docs licenses for occasional participants. 

Eg our design team is 5, our project participants (issue edit/review needed) ~170, our potential enterprise viewers ~10,000.

It would also be useful if license allocation was dynamic and pool based, with admins allocation of full time or floating status to users (default floating). If the pool of floating users (ie active) was exceeded you wait until someone goes offline

[erik439WJ]

Apparently there is no solution to this?  We struggle enough with consultants not even using Revit (having to export a DWG to them or FTP the Revit file).  I thought the whole point to BIM 360 was to make collaboration easier.  Clearly, if not all consultants are going to use Revit, then most definitely only a fraction of those will use BIM 360 (as we're discovering).  You would think AutoDesk would want to make sharing the file easier if we're actually paying for BIM 360 licenses for most of the team (especially since there is a place to upload the file to outside of the cloud).  But it seems that the solution is the same as it is with basic Revit: Use Bluebeam Studio to share the file and forgo using BIM 360 pretty much altogether.

[ThierryMonteyneSWECO]

A public URL was announced somewhere end of November 2019. The ADSK production team showed it in a webinar, but it is not there YET, a delivery date was not set and the public roadmap for BIM360 has also gone blank.

However this may sound usefull, I agree some of the comment in this topic, specially the potential of 10.000 viewers which sounds pretty realistic. We are also loosing battles in meetings trying to convince BIM360 as a CDE to be setup on long term projects (with the retirement of Buzzsaw), suddenly MMS becomes less important to partners who do not use Revit, resulting in alternate CDEs available out there.

[mishaylab]

Hello,

Does anyone know if this process is any easier yet (is there now a public url link that is shareable?) or do we basically need to save the Revit model as a detached model with worksets and send via a file-share service for any non-BIM360 consultants that want to import our model into their Revit model (not just view through BIM360 Docs)?

Seems like sharing with consultants outside of BIM360 should be easier than this... 

Thanks for any insight!

~Mishayla 

[robincapperw]

There now is a share link but it only allows file download, not (unlike 360 Teams) viewing. Half the solution I need as would rather have public link for view than download!

https://blogs.autodesk.com/bim360-release-notes/2020/03/25/bim-360-docs-march-2020-release-notes/?_g...

[ThierryMonteyneSWECO]

A lot has changed since the origin of this topic.

1. There was the public share (download file(s) from BIM 360);
2. Now you also have Shared Views within Revit 2021.