Estimated effort: 3 hours

Maximum Score: 6 points

Assignment Overview

Welcome to Building Modeling for Design & Construction. Before you design anything, your tools have to work.

This course runs on three connected environments. Autodesk Forma is where you will do site and conceptual design in the cloud. Revit is where you will develop the detailed model and produce documentation. Forma Data Management (FDM) is where you will publish, version, and coordinate your models with other disciplines. These have to talk to each other, on your machine, under your Stanford provisioned Autodesk account.

This first assignment is deliberately light and mostly mechanical. The point is to surface every install, license, GPU and permission problem now, in Week 1 when there is slack in the schedule, rather than in Week 4 when you are mid project and something will not open.

Test 1: Create a new Forma project. Sign in to the class Forma workspace, create a project, and confirm you can order context data for any location.

Test 2: Create a new Revit 2027 project. Confirm Revit launches, is licensed, and that the US content libraries are installed.

Test 3: Open an existing Revit model. Download either the Revit Sample House v2027 or Pacific Continental Residence Sample model (using this link) and confirm it opens without missing family or link warnings.

Test 4: Publish to Forma Data Management. Upload the test model to your project, Module 1 folder, create a share link, and confirm the link opens in a fresh browser window. Option (non-graded): Create a Forma Board and drop your Revit file in the workspace. We will use this functionality later in the course.

What to Submit

Post a screenshot from each of the four tests as a new card in the Module 1 - Submissions gallery on Notion.

If any test fails, post the error anyway and bring it to Friday check in. A failed test reported in Week 1 is not a problem. A failed test discovered in Week 4 is.

Introduce Yourself

Also complete the Introduce Yourself post.

Points to Ponder

Please also share your comments on 3 of the 5 Points to Ponder questions in a new posting on this linked Notion page: