BIM 360 Glue Features

The evolution of construction layout

Make construction layout tasks more efficient with the Layout feature and the BIM 360 Layout iPad app.

• Connect the BIM 360™ Layout iPad app with a total station to easily locate and verify point locations on the job site.
• Provide field layout personnel with the most up-to-date coordinated model to conduct layout activities.
• Eliminate the manual process of prepping and transferring point coordinate details to field data controllers for layout.
• Easily communicate and share issues collected in the field directly in the coordinated model for action by the VDC team in the back office.
• Analyze layout productivity data to determine best practices for future planning and execution.

Cloud-connected office-to-field workflows

• Upload models with layout points created in Point Layout directly from AutoCAD, Revit, and Navisworks into BIM 360 Glue, and sync with the BIM 360 Layout iPad app.
• View and share point sets with project members in the BIM 360 Glue web interface or the BIM 360 Layout iPad app.

Immersive, model-based interface and navigation

• Real-time model navigation for conducting layout, QA/QC, and as-builting on the job site.
• Control the total station remotely using guide and point-turn functionality.
• The BIM 360 Layout iPad app provides step-by-step instructions using known point and re-section workflows for total station setup.
• 2D viewing options and navigation use intuitive, gesture-based pan and zoom controls.

Connected BIM for the entire team

Provide all project stakeholders with one-click access to BIM.

• Easy access to coordinated single source of truth for BIM data.
• Provide secure access—virtually anytime, anywhere—to the most current project data.
• Support more effective team communication with notifications and activity tracking.

One-click access to BIM

• Collaborate across distributed teams.
• Improve decision-making with nearly anytime, anywhere access.
• Access precise model views and shared markups directly from notifications.

Project review tools for collaboration

• Review and annotate project models and send notifications to the team.
• Respond to markups received from BIM 360 Glue project members.
• Measure between model objects with intuitive point-to-point tools, object snapping, and automatically calculate XYZ differences and the shortest distance between objects.

Transforming BIM coordination

Empower your team with real-time, continuous BIM coordination.

• Help make BIM accessible to everyone on the project team and streamline project review workflows.
• Create confidence in planning results by using powerful clash detection tools that take advantage of Navisworks software for construction project management.
• Make better decisions earlier by more effectively communicating in the context of the coordinated project model.

Cloud-based multidisciplinary BIM coordination

• Empower your team to identify and resolve conflicts more effectively, before and during construction.
• Work with up-to-date project models and data.
• Send notifications and collaborate with the team.

Collaborative project reviews

• Review complex multidisciplinary project models from virtually anywhere.
• Streamline project review workflows.
• Annotate project models and send notifications to the team.

Mobile access & review

Anytime, anywhere access to BIM projects and data.

• Easy, secure, authenticated access to up-to-date, multidisciplinary BIM 360 Glue projects.
• Intuitively explore multidisciplinary BIM projects in the field, online or offline.
• Navigate through saved views, measure distances, and access intelligent object properties.

Immersive mobile experience

• Navigate using intuitive gesture-based pan, zoom, and orbit.
• Walk through the model with gravity-assisted navigation optimized for BIM.
• Select, hide, and reveal individual discipline models and objects.

Verify measurements in the field

• Measure between model objects with intuitive point-to-point tools and object snapping.
• Automatically calculate XYZ differences and the shortest distance between objects.

Navisworks integration

Cloud-connected workflows for BIM coordination, collaboration, and analysis.

• Use BIM 360 Glue for model management and team collaboration, and Navisworks for advanced analysis.
• Directly load coordinated BIM 360 Glue models into Navisworks for 4D animated timelines, model-based quantification, and other advanced analysis.
• Publish coordinated models from Navisworks Manage to BIM 360 Glue to provide one-click-to-BIM access for the entire team.

Connect workflows with Navisworks

• Access and open coordinated models from BIM 360 Glue, and use BIM 360 Glue to distribute models from Navisworks.

Share coordinated project models

• Glue models directly from Navisworks to BIM 360 Glue projects.
• Send links and notifications to project reviewers and stakeholders.
• Virtually anytime, anywhere web and mobile access to BIM.

Design tool integration

Supports more than 50 file formats and round-trip BIM workflows in key Autodesk design tools.

• In-product, round-trip support for coordination and clash resolution in Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software.
• Help simplify multidisciplinary BIM coordination workflows by minimizing file format complexity and compatibility issues.

Clash pinpoint and clash resolution

• Streamline model conflict resolution more effectively with round-trip coordination workflows.
• Upload the latest 3D model views directly from Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software.
• Access and isolate clashing elements to more easily resolve conflicts.

Manage and coordinate project models

• Drag and drop project models from more than 50 design tool formats.
• Automatically manage model versions.
• Track project activities with automatic notifications.

Integrate with business processes

Connect BIM and critical business workflows with bidirectional integrations.

• Integrate BIM 360 Glue with certain Autodesk design tools, third-party project management, and ERP solutions.
• Extend access to BIM across the internal team by embedding live models in systems such as Microsoft SharePoint.
• Link live models with project management workflow systems.
• Provide an open platform to custom implementations to fit almost any customer’s existing workflows.

Application integration

• Connect project model views to external project control systems for RFIs and other processes.

Object-level data access

• Link documents directly to intelligent BIM objects.
• Access intelligent BIM object data, hyperlinks, and attachments from virtually anywhere.