### BIM360 and Forge for AEC Message and Samples As I pointed out in the [overview of Forge for AEC and BIM360](http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2018/06/forge-for-aec-and-bim360-overview.html), I am participating in a *Digital Construction Live* event in the UK next week and presenting there on Forge for the BIM domain. Today, let's focus on the real message and some live samples putting it to use: - [The real message](#2) - [BIM collaboration roles and magnitudes](#3) - [Forge for AEC sample](#4) - [Connecting Forge with BIM360 sample](#5) #### The Real Message The real message about Forge for AEC and BIM360, according to Jim Quanci, with whom I luckily was able to chat yesterday, is this: - A number of people work on the project team, in a BIM360 project: managers, plumbers, projects superintendents, etc., on both desktop and mobile. - The rest of the organisation, a much larger number of people, does not work in that (rather complex, specialised) environment. - The organisation can save cost and time by letting everybody concerned always see what is going on in each project. - A majority of the collaborators do not need or want the full BIM360. - Using Forge, you can easily pop up your own web page to provide them with whatever information they need. I explained this principle in more depth in my presentation on [rational BIM programming](http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/10/rational-bim-programming-at-au-darmstadt.html) at Autodesk University in Darmstadt, Germany, last year. One of the main motivating aspects in that talk is basically exactly what Jim points out: #### BIM Collaboration Roles and Magnitudes I am not a very graphical person, and generally use much too few images in my presentations. Exceptionally, though, I did create a graph for that one, to explain the orders of magnitude of difference in numbers of BIM collaboration participants in different kinds of roles in the design process segments targeted by Autodesk and supported by the Forge platform: - Design – architect, engineer – Revit - Visualise – client, everybody – Forge Viewer - Collaborate – management – Glue + Plan - Make – construction – Field + Layout - Use – inhabit, maintain, FM – Building Ops Please excuse the obsolete BIM360 naming in the list above. It keeps changing all the time — the principles remain the same. In extreme cases, these numbers might vary by several orders of magnitude: