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Module 8 - Design Project Brief: Collaborative Modeling

Overview

In this assignment you’ll work together with other students to suggest improvements to the current design for a small mixed-use retail and office building. The focus of this assignment is on:

  • learning and practicing techniques for collaborative modeling
  • creating and publishing views that highlight your contribution to the shared model
  • comparing and highlighting the changes that you’ve made to the model

Getting Started

Models of the existing design for the mixed-use building have already been uploaded as a workshared model to Autodesk Construction Cloud (BIM 360) Documents for you to use. 

Open and use the model associated with the day of the week that you choose to complete this assignment.

  • For example, if you choose to work on this assignment on Monday, open the Cloud Revit model at:

    • STANFORD BIM360 EDU-CEE > Fall 24 - CEE 120A_220A > Project Files > _Module 8 >  Mixed Use Bldg - v2025 - Monday.rvt

  • If you choose to work on this assignment on another day of the week, open the Cloud Revit model with the name that matches the day you work on this assignment.

Design Approach

This assignment is all about learning to work collaboratively with other members of a project team through sharing a Cloud Revit model and highlighting your changes to the shared model.  So, there’s no specific design goal for your work.

Feel free to make any changes to the shared model that you’d suggest as improvements to the design.  You can:

  • Change the existing walls, doors, windows, exterior or interior features.
  • Add interior walls or furniture to show tenant improvements to a space.
  • Add on to the existing building or add an adjacent structure.
  • Add site improvements around the building.

The sky’s the limit!  The only guidelines are:

  • You should spend 10 to 20 minutes making suggested design changes -- no longer than that!!!
  • Your changes should be visible / easily identifiable in a view that you will submit.

What’s Expected

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Although the first videos in this module demonstrated how to create a new Cloud Revit model (so you'll know how to create one on your own), for this assignment, you’ll be making changes to an existing Cloud Revit model and synchronizing your changes to share them with other collaborators. You don’t need to create a new cloud model for this exercise.
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Step 1: Use Revit to Make Changes to an Existing Cloud Revit Model

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Step 2: Create a New View Highlighting Your Changes

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Step 3: Add Your New View to the List of Views to be Published

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Step 4: Publish the Latest Version of the Shared Model to Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)

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Step 5: View the Cloud Revit Model and Compare Versions in the Autodesk Construction Cloud Web Interface

Sharing Your Project

Please share the two requested images of your suggested changes to the design in a posting on this linked Notion page:

✏️Module 8 - Design Project Submissions: Collaborative Modeling

Be sure to include:

  • An image of the new 3D view you added to the shared model in Revit with a brief text annotation describing the changes.
  • The screenshot of the Autodesk Construction Cloud model viewer showing the comparison between the version that you published and a prior version.