Import data clasic and Autodesk Forma

[fasalgadoEWK2K]

Hello team Autodesk Forma.

in the new generation can we have the possibility of importing multiple sources?

I recommend that it is possible to import the same formats as autodesk infraworks, in addition to allowing raster images to be automatically inserted in the corresponding geographic location, it is also very important to import autodesk coordinate system engines.

Clasic

BETA

Thanks 🙂 

Note: this post was revised after the rebranding from Spacemaker Next-gen to Autodesk Forma

[krzysztof_jedrzejewskiAT8YZ · Accepted solution]

Hey! 

Thanks for this note, it helps a lot to understand what is important 🙂 
For now we have limited the imports to only .obj and .ifc since we want to ensure reliability on smaller number of formats before exteding the file format pallet. 
As for Geo-Referencing - It is one of the things that we are currently looking into introducing into the product 

What type of data are you looking into importing? 

[krzysztof_jedrzejewskiAT8YZ]

One more question - Could you elaborate on what you mean by the sentence below? Just to make sure that we understand each other correctly 🙂 

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@fasalgadoEWK2K wrote:

it is also very important to import autodesk coordinate system engines.

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[eklingerHFVZ3]

I just want to second this request. I have had people in my firm chose to use classic because they were unable to load in a PDF or CAD file of their concept to use as a guide for modeling. Having, at bare minimum, the same import functionality in next gen, as was available in the classic should be a priority. 

[fasalgadoEWK2K]

As in my case, I tried to explore the beta but when I saw that import limitation I went back to the classic, this issue must be a priority, thank you very much

[Alex.WalkerASH7R]

Hi, If we are working in Revit and Autocad mainly for our housetypes and we want to include these in forma is there a workflow for importing these in (I have heard of people using the Revit link to forma, but it sounds more to be used site wide rather than for modelling individual houses?) any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[krzysztof_jedrzejewskiAT8YZ]

Hey Alex! 
Could you elaborte on the workflow you imagine? 
What exactly do you model in AutoCAD and Revit and what would you utilize Forma for? 

[Alex.WalkerASH7R]

So as I work in housebuilding we mainly use AutoCAD for all our surveying requirements such as levels for existing and proposed. What I would like to do is import an autocad survey to give a more specific grading of the land in Forma so I can get a better idea of how the houses will lie on site. Once I’ve got that I’d like to export to Revit to work up the site in real world coordinates.

[krzysztof_jedrzejewskiAT8YZ]

Great, thank you! 

One last question - What would you import from AutoCAD? 
A 2D underlay / A 3D vector lines or other 3D object? 

For immidiate answer - Right now we have a 2D .dxf vector underlay import & 3D .obj and .ifc import. 3D import can be turned into the terrain as far as I recall. 
For future - We have an ongoing discussion and experimentation with AutoCAD Web team, therefore I am curious of the "ideal" scenario 🙂 

[Alex.WalkerASH7R]

If we get a surveyor to send over an existing plan the cad is normally node points that are situated on a Z plane to give the contours. I’ll give those a shot and see how that turns out, thanks for your assistance. If you’d like to discuss anything further re our workflow with autocad/civil3d please drop me a line, I’d be interested in any input re this.