Autodesk BIM 360

The Autodesk BIM 360 EDMS Connector integrates BIM 360’s model and document management with Newforma Project Center through the EDMS plugin architecture, enabling construction teams to access BIM 360 models, drawings, and project documentation directly within Project Center’s Project Files activity center. This seamless integration eliminates the manual overhead of switching between BIM 360 and Project Center, allowing teams to leverage Project Center’s comprehensive workflow capabilities—including Submittals, RFIs, Document Control, search, and markup sessions—on BIM 360 files while maintaining synchronized version control and check-in/check-out status across both platforms.

By bridging cloud model coordination with construction administration workflows, the connector enables organizations to maintain BIM 360 as their authoritative model repository while empowering project teams to execute all construction workflows through Project Center’s interface, creating a unified environment where BIM coordination and project management converge without platform silos or context switching overhead.

The Autodesk BIM 360 EDMS Connector eliminates this disconnect by surfacing BIM 360 files directly within Project Center’s Project Files activity center, where they appear alongside local network files as native Project Center content. The connector leverages Project Center’s EDMS plugin architecture to establish a live connection between BIM 360 and Project Center, automatically indexing BIM 360 files through the Project Center Server to enable full-text search across both platforms.

Users access BIM 360 models and drawings through familiar Project Center interfaces—the Project Files activity center, Supporting Documents tabs in Submittals and RFIs, and Add File dialog boxes—without leaving Project Center, while the connector maintains bidirectional check-in/check-out synchronization so files checked out in Project Center appear locked in BIM 360 and vice versa. This integrated approach enables teams to initiate RFIs from BIM 360 models within Project Center’s Action Items activity center, attach cloud-hosted drawings to Project Center Submittals, and share BIM 360 content through Project Center email file transfers—all while maintaining BIM 360 as the authoritative model repository with full version history, access controls, and coordination metadata managed by Project Center workflows.

Key Features

Eliminate Context Switching

Users complete all construction administration work within Project Center's familiar activity centers while the connector seamlessly accesses BIM 360 content behind the scenes.

Extend Project Center Construction Administration

Submittals, RFIs, and document transmittals managed in Project Center can reference BIM 360 files directly without manual downloads or external file management overhead.

Maintain Single-Source Model Authority in BIM 360

Project Center accesses BIM 360 as the authoritative model repository rather than creating duplicate file copies that diverge over time and compromise coordination accuracy.

Reduce Administrative Overhead

Automated synchronization eliminates manual file transfer, version reconciliation, and checkout status tracking between BIM 360 and Project Center systems

Enable Comprehensive Information Discovery Across All Project Sources

Unified search within Project Center finds documents regardless of whether they reside in BIM 360 cloud storage or local Project Center file structures.

Features

Eliminate Manual File Transfers Between BIM 360 and Project Center

The EDMS plugin architecture surfaces BIM 360 files directly within Project Center's Project Files activity center, eliminating the need to manually download models from BIM 360 and upload them to Project Center workflows.

Enable Full Project Center Workflow Capabilities on BIM 360 Files

BIM 360 files accessed through Project Center gain full access to Project Center's comprehensive workflow and collaboration features, transforming cloud-hosted models into active participants in construction administration processes managed within Project Center.

Maintain Synchronized Check-In/Check-Out Across Both Platforms

The connector establishes bidirectional check-in/check-out synchronization that maintains file locking status across both BIM 360 and Project Center, preventing editing conflicts and version overwrites that compromise model coordination quality.

Accelerate Project Information Discovery with Cross-Platform Search

The Project Center Server automatically indexes BIM 360 files through the EDMS connector, enabling full-text search across cloud content alongside local project files from a single Project Center search interface accessible throughout all Project Center activity centers.