OpenSpace BIM+BIM built for the field

Without proper training, finding your way around a model is tricky. Saved Views makes navigation fast and easy for anyone. When you want to view something specific in your model, you might need to turn off layers, elements, or systems. Once you’ve turned off those items in BIM Compare, simply save the view so you (or other team members) can come back to it later. For added flexibility, you can create a saved view based on a specific location (such as “First floor bathroom-no ceiling”), or you can choose a visibility-only view that applies to any relevant location in your model (such as “Slabs hidden”).

Improve installation planning, coordination, and communication with BIM Element Overlay. Choose items from your model, such as an HVAC grille, and position them in your jobsite imagery. Overlays can help you better understand spatial relationships and sequencing before work begins, and better coordinate how different systems will be installed around each other, preventing field clashes. Use BIM Element Overlay to align stakeholders, anticipate installation challenges, and improve coordination efforts without switching between multiple platforms.

If you have laser scan data on a project, you can use that data to compare your on-site build to your model with point clouds in BIM Compare—perform visual clash prevention within OpenSpace. Now your field teams can access and view the information and solve coordination problems instantly, without relying on a BIM specialist. By integrating your point clouds in OpenSpace, you’ll have all your reality capture data in one place—making it even easier to find what you need when you need it.

Ensure models are in the hands of the field with our BIM offline feature. Since connectivity can be an issue on-site, and it’s time consuming to search for a spot with a connection, you can access a downloaded model in our mobile app for reliable viewing out on the job—no network or wireless connection needed.

As you compare and analyze your on-site condition against the model, easily call out any discrepancies by creating a BIM Compare Field Note—these notes include the image and the model in a single view. Mark up, tag, and immediately share your Field Notes with all relevant team members. Anyone you add as an assignee or to the email alert list can delve into the issue and respond directly in the Field Note, improving the quality of your discussion and making issue resolution faster.

Field Notes in OpenSpace integrate easily with BIM coordination tools, resulting in streamlined communication and workflows. Export multiple Field Notes to a BCF file and then import them as issues into any solution that accepts BCF format. Now you can access your Field Notes directly from your BIM program, including all associated data as well as 3D coordinates (meaning your imported data lives in the correct coordinate space).

Import your model into OpenSpace directly from BIM 360 Docs and Autodesk Construction Cloud Build. Save time with this streamlined process, eliminating the manual two-step process of downloading a federated model and then uploading the file to OpenSpace.

With OpenSpace BIM+ you can associate multiple models to a project, avoiding the two-step process of federating a model and then uploading it. Break up large models into multiple smaller ones so you can coordinate by floor, for example. By uploading multiple models, it’s easier to focus on the area you’re analyzing—just choose the model you want to view and avoid spending time hiding models you don’t need to see. Plus you’ll see faster load times in BIM Compare when viewing smaller-sized models.

To confirm and quantify your BIM return on investment, you can quickly find out the number of times a model is viewed and who is viewing that model.