ArcGIS GeoBIM is a solution for exploring building information modeling (BIM) models, engineering documents, and project management issues in a geographic context to analyze risks, costs, and timelines. ArcGIS GeoBIM allows you to integrate and visualize GIS data with engineering documents to make coordinated decisions across project teams.
Key features
With ArcGIS GeoBIM, you can do the following:
- Manage data by automatically georeferencing BIM documents, issues, and projects into hosted feature layers.
- Link Autodesk BIM 360 or Autodesk Construction Cloud data to features in ArcGIS web maps and web scenes to help you find detailed BIM and engineering information after locating it in a geographic context.
- Create apps using configurable templates that you can use to query, visualize, locate, and view the location of engineering documents, issues, and projects and to view complete, up-to-date engineering details for one or more projects.
- Collaborate on design coordination, planning across time, and issue management.
- Visualize geographic features and BIM objects side by side to show relative context of the projects.
- Manage issues with dashboards to visualize risk, safety, and performance of issues in one or more BIM projects.
- Integrate ArcGIS GeoBIM with ArcGIS Field Maps for field operations.
The ArcGIS GeoBIM user experience consists of two components: the ArcGIS GeoBIM Project Manager and one or more ArcGIS GeoBIM apps.
Projects page
The Projects page is the first page that appears when you access ArcGIS GeoBIM. This is the first step in creating an ArcGIS GeoBIM project. On this page, you can view, create, share, edit, and delete ArcGIS GeoBIM projects.
ArcGIS GeoBIM Project Manager
The ArcGIS GeoBIM Project Manager allows you to create ArcGIS GeoBIM apps. This is the page that appears after you click the project on the landing page. There are five components (pages) that you need to create a project in the Project Manager: the Accounts page, the Tools page, the Links page, the Apps page, and the Maps page.
Accounts page
The Accounts page can only be accessed if you have ArcGIS Online Creator account access. You can create an account using your BIM 360 account information on this page. The account identifies the BIM 360 or Autodesk Construction Cloud projects that apply to a specific ArcGIS GeoBIM project. An account provides application authorization so that ArcGIS GeoBIM can access Autodesk Construction Cloud data in a secure manner. The Accounts page allows the creator to create an account connection that includes the name, type (Autodesk BIM 360), and Autodesk Forge Client ID.
Learn more about setting up ArcGIS GeoBIM
Tools page
The Tools page is designed to provide a schematic interaction with the synchronization operations that can be performed by selecting the needed process and choosing the appropriate settings for it. You can get the latest feedback on the operations by refreshing and checking the layers added to the page table.
The panel on the left allows you to select specific folders to process and tools to run, to apply custom properties for each tool or to perform special GIS analysis for the synchronized data. Each tool card has a Settings button 
on the lower right that will open custom properties and settings that you can apply to the tool.
The Select Folders button 
allows you to select specific folders from the projects you selected on the Accounts page. Configuring the selected folders helps to reduce the time taken for the geoprocessing tools to run and allows you to enhance focus solely on the project information that is important to you and your team. The exclusion of unselected data improves the overall efficiency and ease of navigation while working in ArcGIS GeoBIM.
The Add Document Extents tool 
generates georeferenced 2D polygons representing the extent of the CAD/BIM documents. The Settings button allows you to select the specific file formats to include and add thumbnails for the design files. Other customizable options include the force synchronization feature and the ability to add a default WKID to be used inside the tool.
The Add Document Models tool 
creates simplified, performant 3D models from the selected Revit and IFC documents and adds them automatically to a project web scene. These lightweight shells are a useful alternative for visualizing design concepts without the need for detailed geometry or data. If the BIM files are consistently moving through stages of design iterations, this tool can be run again to ingest the latest published version of the model. The significant reduction in file size offers fast loading time and smooth web scene navigation.
The Add Project Issues tool 
allows you
to locate design, engineering,
and construction issues based on engineering document
locations and project addresses. The Settings button allows you to select the Use project
address option to locate issues that are lacking an associated linked document.
The Add Project Boundaries tool 
generates 2D polygons on a map based on document extents. The Settings button for this tool
allows you to select one or more output shape types.
Links page
The Links page allows you to add data (web map or web scene) and link BIM 360 or Autodesk Construction Cloud projects to layers and features in the map. The Links page can be accessed by all users but can only be modified by a user with an ArcGIS Online Creator account.
Apps page
The Apps page displays and stores all the apps that you create. Creators can view, edit, and delete apps on this page. ArcGIS GeoBIM has two types of apps: the viewer app and the issues dashboard app.
Maps page
The Maps page displays and stores all web maps associated with an ArcGIS GeoBIM project. After you configure and save an app using the app editor, the web maps selected for the app are displayed on the Maps page. The Maps page is also used to enable ArcGIS Field Maps integration in the ArcGIS GeoBIM project.
Learn more about enabling ArcGIS Field Maps in ArcGIS GeoBIM
ArcGIS GeoBIM app
An ArcGIS GeoBIM app connects web maps, web scenes, and georeferenced BIM 360 project data. The ArcGIS GeoBIM app consists of these elements: the Map widget, the Link Explorer, the Table widget, the Elevation Profile widget, the Editor, and the Details group.
The Map widget is located at the top of the project. It is where the project’s web map or web scene appears.
The Link Explorer is located in the Explorer group and it allows you to link more documents to the features in the Map widget.
The Table widget is located in the Explorer group. The Table widget has these elements: the Documents table, Issues table, Schedules table, Notes tables (Location, Line and Area notes), and BIM Projects table. The Documents table contains the list of documents (models) in the web map or web scene. The Issues table contains the list of issues in the web map or web scene. The Issues table can be used to view issues, upload ArcGIS Field Maps issues to Autodesk and edit ArcGIS Field Maps issues. The BIM Projects table contains the list of BIM 360 or Autodesk Construction Cloud projects in the web map or web scene. The Schedules table contains all time-aware activities for the project.
The Elevation profile widget is located in the Explorer group. The Elevation Profile widget generates and displays an elevation profile for any line in a web map or web scene.
The Editor is located in the Explorer group. The Editor is used to add custom Note features or edit the geometries of features within the project layers of an ArcGIS GeoBIM app.
The Details group appears on the right when you click the launch button for a specific issue, document, BIM project, or schedule in the Table widget. The Details group provides information on a specific issue, document, BIM project, or schedule in the Table widget. The Details group has four elements: Forge Viewer, Issue Details, BIM Project Details, and Forge Explorer.