Autodesk released an integration platform called Autodesk Construction Cloud Connect on May 27 that expands its cloud partner network and solidifies connections to other widely used construction software.
软件的汇率政策urer also added new application program interfaces for BIM 360 and PlanGrid, and announced 15 new native software integrations for its platform, for a total of a 140 such integrations in the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
使用ACC Connect，承包商可以为其基于云的Autodesk产品构建自己的自定义数据集成，而无需编写新代码。这个数据共享平台是由Plangrid Connect演变的，Plangrid Connect允许Plangrid应用程序与其他施工软件平台进行通信，然后在公司通过Autodesk收购。
“在我们使用的应用程序和客户和分包商合作伙伴使用的应用程序之间传输数据通常可能是一个复杂，昂贵且容易出错的过程，”加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳（Pasadena）CW Driver的信息技术总监Blaine Crawford说。基于承包商和建筑经理。
CW Driver has been trying to streamline the sharing of its project data for the last six years. The company switched last year from a Windows server to an Egnyte cloud file server for all its project files.
“We needed a way to make sure that we had data on Egnyte synchronizing with PlanGrid,” Crawford says. CW Driver’s projects, such as the $64-million Cal State Dominguez Hills Innovation and Instruction Building, had become increasingly complex, with larger image files, drawings, documents, bulletins, CCDs and change orders all needing to flow from Egnyte to PlanGrid.
Crawford began discussions with Autodesk on how to make that happen last August. Using ACC Connect, CW Driver built an integration between Egnyte and PlanGrid for its regular project workflow.
克劳福德说：“现在，这种集成在所有新项目中，我们正在现场推出手机。”新利18备用网址他指出，将其项目数据转移到云中，帮助承包商在Covid-19大流行期间继续工作。
Autodesk’s contractor customers that use BIM 360 now have the ability to integrate with construction applications including Agile Handover, Contecht, Matterport, MSuite, Plannerly, Reconstruct, Shedmate and SignNow. PlanGrid users now have integrations with DataStreet, Extracker, FACS, ProjectMates and Zters. Both BIM 360 and PlanGrid also now integrate with Allegion Overtur and StructionSite.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based MSuite provides cloud software BIMPro, FabPro and FieldPro, which manages building information models, fabrication and field construction of assemblies for trade contractors. Its integration connects BIM 360’s models directly to MSuite’s tools.
“When they’re looking at the model view, as soon as that model gets published, they’re going to see the update, but more importantly, our list is updated,” MSuite President Britton Langdon says. “Their work instructions get a revision. We’re able to track revision history. We’re able to track all of that.”
兰登说，可以通过BIM 360和MSUITE的工具来跟踪正在进行翻新的一部分，以在爱荷华大学的Kinnick体育场制造用于安装的运输电池模型。他说：“我们能够实时跟踪该过程的哪个阶段，需要花费多长时间，无论是在计划和预算之后还是落后于计划和预算。”
Better Data Flows Seen for Complex Projects
EBC, Inc. began using BIM 360 six years ago and has been using Microsoft’s Power BI to create visuals of its project data. The Montreal-based building and infrastructure contractor is working on major projects such as the University of Montreal’s new MIL Campus, and is also working in road and tunnel construction, civil engineering design and the mining sector.
The MIL Campus itself is a $350-million, 290-acre initiative. “It's really a university campus that was built specifically for medical sites,” says Phillipe De Guise, manager of corporate BIM services at EBC. “You've got rooms where they're actually going to be dissecting bodies. You've got rooms where scientists are going to be doing research. There's a tremendous amount of diversity or what the rooms are and what they're meant to be used for… you had so much diversity to be managing that, each room was like a new challenge.”
EBC正在使用BIM 360的一些更新来跟踪复杂的项目。新的集成简化了通过BIM 360共享视觉仪表板和其他数据来投影利益相关者的过程。
De Guise说：“项目团队现在可以遵循他们的项目正在发生的事情，EBC的管理委员会也可以。”“借助最新的更新和不断发展的集成，我们现在可以使用新的数据连接器和Power BI进行一些个性化和特定的报告。”
MIL校园是第一个项目在EBC treated building elements as assets within BIM 360 and tracked them that way. “It's fairly new. It's fairly fresh that we've applied that [BIM 360 asset modules],” De Guise says. “With the coming of the new asset modules in BIM 360, it's a no brainer that it's going to be a big plus for all of our future projects.”
EBC在MIL项目之前已将设备和材料作为资产进行了跟踪，但是它使用更麻烦的过程进行了操作。
“It was manually and there was a lot of waiting for information from other sources, from [Microsoft] Excel and after that, they would plug it into Bluebeam and all of that was very much manual,” says Nicolas St-Pierre, BIM manager for EBC’s buildings division. “Now, it's very much done automatically and mathematically within BIM 360."
就软件集成的下一步而言，Autodesk表示，其与分包商和非构造计划（如会计和文件共享软件）连接的策略仍在进行中。
“The expansion of our integration capabilities underscores our commitment to driving construction productivity,” says Angi Izzi, director of partnerships for Autodesk Construction Solutions.
