Autodesk Data Exchange Connector for Revit – exchange BIM data

A new way of exchanging BIM data

The Autodesk Data Exchange Connector for Revit is a new, generally available tool designed to facilitate seamless data exchange between Revit and various other design and business applications, such as Rhino, Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Civil 3D, Navisworks, Dynamo, Tekla, Grasshopper, Power Automate and more. This connector helps streamline multidisciplinary project coordination, analysis and visualisation, improve documentation workflows, and simplify drawing creation through shared reference geometries and properties. It uses the Autodesk cloud platform (ACC, BIM360, APS) for modern file-less, granular data exchange. You can also link your own application through its API SDK.

Benefits for your BIM projects

Here are some key benefits you can use for your BIM projects:

Streamlined Coordination: It helps in coordinating with teams using different software by allowing easy exchange of subsets of data, improving collaboration and reducing errors 

• Flexible Positioning for Precise Alignment:
  With the positioning feature you can accurately place exchanged data when importing into Revit. This ensures spatial consistency across models, eliminates manual adjustments, saves time and improves coordination accuracy between architectural, structural, and MEP models.

• Group Creation for Better Organisation:
  Exchanged elements can be grouped together. Grouping allows teams to manage and track coordinated components more efficiently. This structure simplifies updates during the project lifecycle.

• Easily Update References for Up-to-Date Models:
  As changes occur in downstream applications like Tekla, Inventor and Rhino, the connector allows easy updating of exchanges within Revit. Your Revit model will stay always current and synchronised with the latest coordinated data, reducing the risk of outdated documentation or model conflicts.

Enhanced Documentation Workflows: The connector simplifies documentation workflows by sharing granular data on geometries and properties, making it easier to create accurate drawings and reports

• Retain Dimensions and Tags Through Updates:
  When reloading updated exchanges, annotations like dimensions and tags are also preserved. This dramatically reduces rework and ensures documentation integrity.

• Use Exchanged Data as a Reference in Documentation:
  Exchanged models can be used as reference geometry in Revit documentation, allowing teams to produce consistent, accurate drawings without importing the full model. This enhances drawing quality and maintains performance.

• Apply Revit Filters, View Templates and Annotations:
  Leverage existing Revit tools—filters, view templates, and annotation styles—on exchanged data for a seamless documentation workflow. The imported elements will align visually and contextually with your project standards.

Business Intelligence Integration: You can share Revit data with business intelligence platforms like PowerBI, enabling powerful workflows for tasks like Design QA/QC 

• QA/QC:  Dashboards to automatically extract key model data, like room areas, fire ratings, door schedules, or element parameters, and visualise them in real-time dashboards. These can highlight inconsistencies, missing data or deviations from standards, allowing BIM coordinators and QA managers to track quality issues early and across multiple projects.
   

• Combining Model Data:  Integrate model data with other sources such as asset data from Autodesk Build using the Autodesk Data Connector to enable 4D progress visualisation.
   

• Sharing Project Insights:  Present insights to stakeholders through interactive dashboards that can be filtered by discipline, project phase, or location. This approach simplifies decision-making, enhances transparency, and bridges the gap between design and business users.

Compatibility and Simple Operation: The connector is compatible with multiple versions of Revit (2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and integrates with Autodesk Construction Cloud accounts (both US and EMEA).

• Create a Data Exchange (DX) from a Revit model tailored to your specific design disciplines, worksets, element categories, phases and view filters using a 3D view. Forget about conversions, file sizes and file formats.

• Export/Import DX data to/from downstream tools like Inventor, Tekla, Rhino, and AutoCAD for detailed modelling and coordination, enrich your model with coordinated structural details, enabling precise drawing production.

• Use Revit as a central coordination hub, integrating DX data from multiple sources without redundant import/export and conversion steps. This ensures model alignment and consistent documentation across all disciplines.

Data Exchanges (file-less packages, subset of your design stored in a neutral format in the cloud) can be generated either using this connector (a Revit plugin), or directly inside Autodesk Docs (from any 3D view).

You can download the Revit Data Exchange Connector from: manage.autodesk.com/products/updates. See also the BIMDeX extension.

Contact ARKANCE for support on how to implement Autodesk Data Exchange Connector in your design workflows.