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2. Do we have a dedicated 3D view that has been

published?

If not, the +Create Issue button will be grayed

out

Tips - Don’t be afraid to create multiple

published 3D views, for each room being
reviewed. Give them a name that makes sense.

Create a Publish Set for views dedicated to

creating issues. Add or remove views as needed. Have you noticed the links “See issues in Autodesk
Docs” and “Go to Model Coordination”? They help
Make sure to schedule Publishing in ACC! That
you to jump directly to ACC from Revit.
leaves you covered - most of the time, that is!

a) If you’ve only just published the 3D view a THE MANAGE ISSUES BUTTON
minute or two ago, you may need to close and
reopen Revit. Possibly a couple of times - it This brings up the Issues browser that shows
takes Revit a few minutes to realize that it has a
• The issues that have been created
dedicated view ready for issues.
• Whether Open or Closed
So, let’s get started with a look at the first two - and
most important - tools available to us on the Issues • Due dates
toolbar. Before we click on each tool to see what we
shall see, we must make sure to be in a 3D view that • Who the issue has been assigned to
has been published.
If you click on the three dots (I heard someone,
call it the Snowman icon - how cute!) you get the
THE OVERVIEW BUTTON options to either Export report (to PDF)
This shows us Model Issues that have been created
as well as Clash tolerance and Clash tables that
may be in the model. In this example we see that
one issue has been created, and no action has been
taken on the clash detection front.

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or Export as BCF.

(What’s a BCF, you may ask, O Gentle Reader?

Bim Collaboration Format is an open standard

file format used in the AEC industry to facilitate
communication and collaboration on BIM
models. Users can exchange model-based issues,
comments, and markups between different BIM
authoring tools)

All of this can be set up in Revit without opening

ACC - all that you need to do is click the blue
+Create issue button at the bottom of the browser.

This brings up a flyout with scrollable options that

allow flexibility to tailor issues to specific situations -

These options are what really superpower this add-

in by bringing up the Issues browser that offers
options like -

• Issue title
• Status
• Issue type
• Description
• Who it’s assigned to
• Due date
• Root cause

When an option is selected, you are prompted to click

on the model to place “pushpins” and create an issue.

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- in the Issues browser just click on the Issue to go
straight to the published view.

And here’s the game changer - by default all issues

created are published to the cloud. You can choose to
Unpublish them if you want - but why on earth would
Click on the desired element to place the pushpin - you want to pull the teeth of this sterling innovation?
the element will light up. Since I’m fussy and I don’t
On that note, let’s make a quick trip to the Cloud to
like dust collectors, I’m going to click on the open
verify the results of our prior attempts. Issues are
shelving to create a Design Issue to replace the open
found under Docs.
shelves with upper cabinets. Along with the infamous
Spinning Wheel, you will see a progress message -

Look at the view - you will now see pushpins of

any issues that have been created. Yellow is the
active pushpin you’re editing. Other pushpins
are a very becoming shade of pastel pink (great
choice, Autodesk!). You will now see a thumbnail
of the issue location in the view, and options in the
browser that you can edit to customize the issue.
Just click on the little pencil Edit icon and you’ll be
rockin’ and rollin’!

Once crested, navigating to desired issues is easy

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The lovely issue I’d just created shows up at the top on what’s going on in the project with fewer tools
of the list! Magical, isn’t it? - hence fewer loose ends and less clutter. And this
tool comes to you along with the ACC you already
We can click on the issue, and we are taken to a know and love. So why not leverage it?
screen which looks very familiar - are we back in
Revit? No, we aren’t - we’re still up in the cloud!! With that final question, I now bid thee farewell, O
Gentle Reader! Till the next issue of Inside Track -
This interface not only allows you to edit and KEEP REVIT-ING!
monitor the issue, but you can navigate through
the view - orbit, walk, zoom, pan - to manage them.
A bit about myself. I’m
In addition, you can create an Issue in ACC and view the BIM Manager at
and address it in Revit. Slick, isn’t it? Abonmarche, based in
glorious Grand Rapids,
There’s more to this ACC capability but that would be Michigan (Great Lakes,
the subject for another entirely different discourse. anyone?). Started my
Autodesk journey with
Now, O Gentle Reader. You may still be wondering AutoCAD Release 10
about the reason for all this excitement. Some points (remember that dreary DOS
I’d like to repeat and emphasize for your edification - interface - and the need for
super-duper spelling skills?).
• The Revit Issues Add-In establishes a bi- Learned enough Revit to
stay one chapter ahead
directional link between Revit and ACC. of college students in the
classroom. That changed
• Issues can be created and viewed in each - and in a hurry when I made a
in real time. triumphantly painful return
to industry as a BIM Specialist
• You don’t need Revit skills to view and review, and had to use Revit in the
create, assign, and track project issues. worst way possible. I HATED
it and grieved for my beloved
• All of this without the need to step into AutoCAD Until I figured Revit
additional tools (for instance, Bluebeam or out - the rest, as they say, is
Plangrid). history. Autodesk Expert Elite
in 2018, presenter at Autodesk
• Issues can be exported from both Revit and ACC University since AU2019 (and
I have Best Speaker awards
as PDFs.
for 2021 and 2022 to show
for it!). And now here I am,
This makes things SO much easier for non-Revit
to educate, enlighten, and
using Project Managers, for instance, to keep tabs hopefully, entertain.

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