Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro Reviews & Insights

Score8.4 out of 10

61 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

Users have found Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro to be an invaluable tool for various use cases in the construction industry. One key use case is its role in facilitating collaboration and coordination among project teams. With BIM Collaborate Pro, subcontractors can easily share BIM models and drawings with stakeholders, enabling efficient collaboration and preventing clashes before on-site execution. This has proven to be particularly helpful in resolving conflicts and ensuring that there are no clashes in the field, ultimately improving project outcomes.

Another significant use case of BIM Collaborate Pro is its contribution to quality control during construction progress. By providing a digital solution for managing inspections, observations, and issue management, the software streamlines quality control systems and reduces paperwork. This enhances efficiency by allowing quick accessibility to large data storage, reducing the number of punch list items that need to be addressed at the end of a project. Additionally, BIM Collaborate Pro's document management feature serves as a centralized location for subcontractors to access relevant contract documents, reference materials, and BIM information. This improves organization and accessibility, leading to smoother project workflows.

Furthermore, BIM Collaborate Pro has been praised for its positive impact on safety management on construction sites. The software facilitates collaboration among subcontractors by addressing safety requirements and root causes, ensuring a safer working environment. Its ability to store data such as checklists and safety documentation digitally allows for quick accessibility and reduces the risk of missing critical safety information.

Lastly, BIM Collaborate Pro plays a crucial role in client communication and understanding through visual representations of information. The software's capability to share visual models and drawings with clients enhances communication and helps clients grasp complex concepts more easily.

Overall, Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro proves to be a versatile tool that addresses various needs within the construction industry. Its features enable collaborative project coordination, problem detection, issue resolution, quality control improvement, enhanced safety management, streamlined document management, and effective client communication.

Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro Reviews

5 Reviews

Engineering

What's inside BIM C PRO.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 6, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For the last eight months, I have been working on BIM, and BIM Collaborate Pro is one we use to collaborate on our projects. Our team works on several projects simultaneously, and our clients work on the same with ease. It helps our clients have daily updates on projects as they use BIM C pro, where they can use our projects and compare them with their projects simultaneously.

Pros

It helps to collaborate on different components of projects that work according to different specifications in one place.
With this the client can have all date at once where they can review all things.
The place where an architect and other Engineers coordinate to get a full-fledged model.

Cons

Well, while collaborating on the architecture and structural model, we need some place commands to make changes in the model rather than asking permission from the modeler.
In BIM, we mainly collaborate for multiple softwares. Hope it can have interchanging options between two different softwares.

Likelihood to Recommend

Well, most of my time is spent in architecture, but I have to look for structure, MEP, etc. So I have got different people for this job, and instead of submitting different plans for each unit, I would rather collaborate with them and explain all elements of a model to the client, which is more helpful.

Osman Shaikh

Design Engineer in Engineering at Indovance (Civil Engineering, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Autodesk Bim 360......HONEST REVIEW

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Bim360 as a user on a few projects. This helps us to share our BIM models and drawings to shareholders, review them, and get the thing in right without any clashes prior to carrying it out on-site. We use BIM360 extensively for our coordination work between our subcontractors. We had our modeling departments resolve conflicts between trades and then by building off the models that we access in the field using BIM360. Bim360 is well suited for hosting drawings and sharing normal-sized files with people. This software allows us to quickly find problems and resolve the issues.

Pros

The feature of Clash control to ensure that all systems are coordinated appropriately is the best one.
The Live updates between design teams keep them up to date for quicker design and free up personnel from having to do file transfers.
It can store construction data/documents, 3D BIM architectural models, structures & temporary works.
This software allows Revit models to be stored and collaborated on in the cloud.

Cons

This software does not integrate with all other software well.
Its not User friendly and you have to invest time to understand it well.

Likelihood to Recommend

I used this software almost every day and recommend it to subcontractors all the time. It is best for the design professional and not for the construction professional. Collation of data at project completion was the major benefit of this software which was backed up by the ability to attach evidence at checklist creation. BIM 360 is a building information modeling product that offers to share data and project designs. There is not much that I dislike about this platform at this time but this software can sometimes be very slow when trying to synchronize and that could make you lose time in your design.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Oil & Energy company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Good at what it does, but lacks some features

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At our company BIM 360 Document Management is being used for three primary functions:

Contract Documents - This is the location where subcontractors go to get the posted set of RFIs that have been vetted by our team and are to be proceeded on. This is how we manage the information that subcontractors should see vs. not see.
Reference Documents - Any additional as-builts, misc. documents or things we want to share with the subs, no more Engyte/Dropbox needed.
BIM information - Turns out BIM 360 Docs is great for the work-sharing of Revit files. AutoCAD does not seem to be stable especially with Xrefs. Cant wait to see this get consolidated with the GLUE file platform.

Pros

Provide access to updated contract drawings on the iPad and desktop applications.
BIM collaboration with Revit files.
Drawings load very fast.

Cons

CAD file collaboration is unstable.
Can not search the text of drawings or specs to find words. This is a huge deal breaker.
Cannot zoom in all the way on the drawing to see details blown up.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bim360 is well suited for hosting drawings and sharing normal sized files with people. Most subcontractors are now using Plangrid and other software which do not contain the "posted set" so they do not have all the RFIs they are supposed to proceed on unless they open docs and match the posted that the GC has done on docs. This results in them always chasing/updating the posting set, falling behind, and building old work.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Construction company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

BIM360 Review

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

January 17, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using it for active design projects within one of our offices. The main issue BIM360 is addressing for us is the ability to have live updates between files. The communicator feature gives us the ability to monitor who is in a file and what activity they are accomplishing. Some of the other features allow for non-Revit users to review and comment on documents during the design process as well.

Pros

Live updates between design teams. This keeps the team up to date for quicker design and frees up personnel from having to do file transfers.
The cloud-based platform gives your company a little bit of a break on computer requirements.
Allows multiple offices and/or cloud-based consultants to collaborate on a design as if they are one office or one company.

Cons

The ability to rebuild a model cannot be done. You have to rename the original file and then reload a new model.
When you roll back your file using history, it deletes all the history back to the rollback. It would be nice if all it did was bring the history file up to the current.
It would be nice for your files to automatically update to BIM360.

Likelihood to Recommend

The best scenario BIM360 is suited for is when you have multiple consultants working on a project. Another good time is when you use a sub-consultant on a project and the sub-consultant needs live access to the files. A scenario where it is less appropriate is when the design team is in the company or when live updates are not necessary.

Verified User

Professional in Engineering (Architecture & Planning company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Bim360 Review from a Contractor

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

COFICO has been using Bim360 for most of their live projects. At the moment, we are running Bim360 Docs and Bim360 Field for 2 building projects, which is getting more and more benefits from one of the most useful CDE platforms. Bim360 is used by project team members. This helps us to share our BIM models and drawings to shareholders, review, and get the thing in right without any clashes prior to carry out on-site. Besides, with Bim360360 Field, we can improve our quality control system by changing to a digital solution with quick accessibility and huge data storage, which is great to reduce paperwork on a checklist, issue items, etc.

Safety on-site is managed better with Bim360 Field, particularly in collaborating all sub-contractors in site condition issues, safety requirement, safety root causes... From that recorded data every day, the company/project safety system will be definitely improved. Eventually, Bim360 could save us time and money, because it helps to improve the coordination and communication on the field, and it lets us see the issues and problems before they get more expensive for us to pay.

Pros

Well-integrated with BIM softwares from Autodesk, keeps the BIM workflow run well from design to construction on site
A lot of great features and functions as per each Bim360 software
Ability to customize for our own format on checklist, drawings, etc.

Cons

Need more link-able options between all softwares in Bim360
Need to improve performance with huge data models on mobile devices
Need the ability to share licenses between all softwares in Bim360

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for

Viewing drawings and BIM models on the field across all shareholders
Systematic QA/QC and safety checklists
Auto-generating reports for better improvement
Reducing paperwork

It is not suitable for tender, though.

Hung Lam Vu Ngo

BIM Lead in Engineering at COFICO - Construction Joint Stock Company No. 1 (Construction, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Bim360 Review from a Contractor

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Well-integrated with BIM softwares from Autodesk, keeps the BIM workflow run well from design to construction on site
A lot of great features and functions as per each Bim360 software
Ability to customize for our own format on checklist, drawings, etc.

Cons

Need more link-able options between all softwares in Bim360
Need to improve performance with huge data models on mobile devices
Need the ability to share licenses between all softwares in Bim360

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for

Viewing drawings and BIM models on the field across all shareholders
Systematic QA/QC and safety checklists
Auto-generating reports for better improvement
Reducing paperwork

It is not suitable for tender, though.

Hung Lam Vu Ngo

BIM Lead in Engineering at COFICO - Construction Joint Stock Company No. 1 (Construction, 201-500 employees)

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2 years of experience

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