ArcGIS GeoBIM is a solution for exploring building information modeling (BIM) models, engineering documents, and project issues in a geographic context to analyze designs, site characteristics, risks, costs, and timelines. ArcGIS GeoBIM allows you to integrate and visualize GIS data with engineering documents and issues from Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) to make coordinated and collaborative decisions across project teams.
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Autodesk Forma is the new name for Autodesk Construction Cloud; however, you may still see references to the old name in some areas of this documentation.
ArcGIS GeoBIM also supports Autodesk BIM 360 project documents and issues.
Key features
ArcGIS GeoBIM offers a variety of features to manage, view, and engage with your BIM project data, allowing you to do the following:
- Connect multiple Autodesk Forma projects to a single ArcGIS GeoBIM project to simplify planning and resource management, especially when project timelines and resources overlap.
- Automatically georeference project documents and issues into hosted feature layers, maps, and scenes, so they can be viewed and analyzed in their real-world context.
- Configure selected folders and file types prior to running the ArcGIS GeoBIM tools to reduce data clutter.
- Ingest lightweight 3D models derived from complex Revit and IFC models.
- Link Autodesk Forma project documents to features in maps and scenes, and simplify data management in the geospatial context.
- Create ArcGIS GeoBIM apps from configurable templates. Use apps to locate, analyze, and engage with georeferenced engineering documents, issues, and schedules, plus other supporting GIS data.
- Render the latest published Autodesk Forma files in the Autodesk Viewer, while concurrently analyzing map or scene content through a side-by-side display.
- Use interactive issue charts to visualize and filter project issues in both the Map and Table widgets based on their assigned status, type, subtype, and company.
- Integrate ArcGIS GeoBIM with ArcGIS Field Maps to extend workflows into the field.
You can also extend the BIM data ingested by ArcGIS GeoBIM to the wider ArcGIS platform (including Map Viewer, Scene Viewer, Experience Builder, and more) to broaden the scope of analysis and collaboration across your organization. ArcGIS Experience Builder allows you to create unique web experiences with your BIM data and add interconnected tools, such as the GeoBIM widgets.
Projects page
The Projects page is the first page that appears when you access ArcGIS GeoBIM. On the Projects page, you can create a project, share a project, search for projects, view project details, edit project information, and delete a project
ArcGIS GeoBIM Project Manager
The Project Manager appears after you create or open an ArcGIS GeoBIM project from the Projects page. The Project Manager consists of the Accounts , Tools , Links, Apps, and Maps pages.
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Only the Accounts page is available until an account connection has been configured.
Accounts page
The ArcGIS GeoBIM Accounts page can only be accessed if you have ArcGIS Creator account or above. The account identifies the Autodesk Forma projects that apply to a specific ArcGIS GeoBIM project and provides application authorization so that ArcGIS GeoBIM can access your Autodesk cloud data in a secure manner.
See create a project account to learn more.
Tools page
The Tools page is designed to provide a schematic interaction with the synchronization operations in GeoBIM. The Tools page can be accessed by all users but can only be modified by a user with an ArcGIS Creator account.
The Tools page includes a select folders option to configure specific folders to include in the synchronization operation, as well as the Add Document Extents, Add Document Models (Beta), Add Project Issues, and Add Project Boundaries tools. Simply select the needed process and configure the appropriate settings before starting the geoprocessing run. You can get the latest feedback on the operations by refreshing and checking the layers added to the Table and Map widgets.
See introduction to ArcGIS GeoBIM tools for a high-level overview of the Tools page.
Links page
The ArcGIS GeoBIM Links page allows you to add data (web map or web scene) and create links of Autodesk Forma project files to layers and features in the map, as well as create link rules to automatically generate links. The Links page can be accessed by all users but can only be modified by a user with an ArcGIS Creator account.
See Add links to individual features and Add links to features using rules to learn more.
Apps page
The ArcGIS GeoBIM Apps page displays and stores all the apps that you create in a project. Creators can view, edit, and delete apps on this page. In ArcGIS GeoBIM, you can create Viewer apps and Issues dashboard apps.
An ArcGIS GeoBIM app connects web maps, web scenes, and georeferenced Autodesk Forma project data. The ArcGIS GeoBIM app consists of the Map widget, Explorer group, Details group, and Issues chart.
The Map widget is where the project’s web map or web scene displays and contains tools such as the Building Explorer, 3D Analysis, Time Slider, and Create New Issue.
The Explorer group allows you to view and interact with project data, as well as control the layout of the Table, Links Explorer, Elevation Profile, and Editor widgets. You can also track and edit issues created in the ArcGIS Field Maps mobile app before uploading them to the Autodesk Forma project.
The Details group appears when you click the launch button 
for a selected issue, BIM project, or schedule in the Table widget. It provides information on the selected feature in a tabular layout. The Details group also contains the Autodesk Viewer, to display the latest published Autodesk Forma project documents, and the Autodesk Explorer, to create links from ACC documents to features in your map and scenes.
The Issues chart allows you to view the status, type, subtype, and company fields for your synchronized project issues. Selecting data in the charts filters the issue data in the Map and Table widgets and causes all associated issues to be automatically selected and highlighted.
See Create ArcGIS GeoBIM apps to learn more.
Maps page
The Maps page displays and stores all web maps associated with an ArcGIS GeoBIM project. After you configure and save an app, the web maps selected for the app are displayed on the Maps page. The Maps page is also used to enable the ArcGIS Field Maps integration in the ArcGIS GeoBIM project, which further extends data and collaboration to teams in the field.
See Enable ArcGIS Field Maps in ArcGIS GeoBIM to learn more.