Issues in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) or BIM 360 allow teams to identify, assign, track, and resolve problems that arise across the project life cycle. The Add Project Issues tool locates these issues and places them on the earth based on their positioning in georeferenced engineering documents or using the BIM project address. This allows you to communicate and analyze priority issues alongside their geographical context.
Use cases
This tool provides solutions to visualize and analyze project issues, such as:
- Spatial analysis of project issues to understand the geographic distribution of problems that are causing design conflicts, construction delays, cost overruns, or safety hazards.
- Optimize resource allocation by identifying the most critical open issues that require immediate attention.
- Overlay pertinent GIS data to gain a better perspective of the potential risks associated with project issues such as subsurface infrastructure or environmental impacts.
- Use chart widgets to filter issues in a map based on their status, issue type/subtype, and the company assigned to them. This enhances communication between responsible parties and aids the reporting of issues in a clear and concise manner.
Tool settings
The Add Project Issues tool settings allow users to enable or disable the Use Project Address parameter.
| Element | Description |
|---|---|
1 | The Use Project Address feature retrieves the address set for the ACC or BIM 360 project. When enabled, issues lacking a linked document will be placed at the project address based on their source BIM project. By default, this setting is enabled. |
2 | Click the Save button to store your configuration settings. |
Configure the tool
To configure the Add Project Issues tool, complete the following steps:
- Select the Add Project Issues tool
. Note:
By default, Add Document Extents will always be selected, as the 2D document extents are needed to correctly position project issues on the earth.
- Click the Settings button
to enable Use Project Address if you want to locate issues that lack a linked document. These issues will be placed at the project address set in your ACC or BIM 360 project. - Click Save. The tool settings close.
Output
Once the tools have completed, the Issues table will be populated with the list of synchronized project issues from ACC or BIM 360. The Issues table provides a combination of Autodesk BIM project data, such as linked documents, issue number, status, type/subtype, and GIS feature layer data.
Regular updates
The volume and turnover rate of issues is unique to each BIM project. Issues uploaded from ArcGIS GeoBIM are available immediately in ACC or BIM 360. However, issues created directly within the BIM projects are not automatically synchronized to ArcGIS GeoBIM until the next run of the Add Project Issues tool.
Regular runs of the Add Project Issues tool are essential for maintaining an up-to-date view of issues in your project. This ensures timely identification and assessment of issues in their geographical context.
Limitations
Some limitations for this tool include:
- Project issue synchronization in ArcGIS GeoBIM is one way. Issues created in the source BIM project are not automatically synced to ArcGIS GeoBIM.
- Issues created in BIM 360 lack GPS location metadata and will be placed at the center of the linked engineering document in ArcGIS GeoBIM.
- Issue points in ArcGIS GeoBIM do not contain elevation values.
- Issues created via the ArcGIS Field Maps integration with GeoBIM are not automatically uploaded to the source BIM project. See Upload ArcGIS Field Maps issues to learn more.