BidLight + ACC / Autodesk Forma setup guide

BidLight + ACC / Autodesk Forma setup guide

Allow BidLight in your ACC account once, link a Revit model, and BidLight reads and publishes it on its own servers. Approved shop drawings are delivered back to the ACC folder you choose.

Before you start

  • An Autodesk account with access to the ACC project's files.
  • An ACC account admin, for the one-time integration.

BidLight Client ID

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Your ACC account admin enters this once, under Custom Integrations. The live value is always the one shown with a Copy button in BidLight's own ACC file picker - use that if the two ever differ.

Setup

Step by step

Where to connect ACC/Forma in BidLight

01

Allow BidLight in your ACC account

Account admin, once per ACC account. ACC Account Admin, Custom Integrations, Add custom integration, then enter the BidLight Client ID and give it Document Management access. A client's hub only appears in BidLight after their own admin has done this.

02

Connect your account

In BidLight, open My Projects and press Connect ACC. Sign in with Autodesk and press Allow. The Autodesk logo turns blue once you are connected.

My Projects in BidLight, with the Connect ACC button in the strip
My Projects: press Connect ACC in the strip under the heading.
The ACC tab in the BidLight profile
Or connect from Profile > Autodesk (ACC).
03

Link the Revit model

On the project card, click the Autodesk logo, then choose hub, project, folder and the .rvt file, and press Link. No Revit is needed: BidLight reads and publishes the model on its own servers. The card shows a spinner and the time remaining.

A BidLight project card showing the ACC logo and the settings gear
Each project card: the logo links the project, the gear beside it opens its delivery folders. The logo is in colour once you are connected.
04

It keeps itself current

When a newer version is saved to ACC, BidLight picks it up within about ten minutes and publishes the changes. Links held in the same ACC folder as the host model are included.

05

Choose delivery folders

Click the settings icon beside the Autodesk logo. Pick an ACC folder for each kind of file - Shop drawings, Drawings, the Revit model and Navisworks coordination models. Each project keeps its own folders.

The ACC delivery folders window before the account is connected
Before you connect, the settings window sends you to Connect as well.
06

Turn on delivery

In that window, or on the Shop Drawings page, tick ACC. Each approved revision then lands as a new version of the same file in ACC.

The Shop Drawings page bar with ACC ticked under Deliver approved drawings to
Shop Drawings page: tick ACC to deliver approved drawings.
Process

How it flows

01
Revit model in ACC
The host model and the links saved in the same ACC folder.
02
BidLight servers
The model is read and published without Revit, and kept current within about ten minutes of each save.
03
Coordinate and approve
Versions compared, issues assigned, shop drawings reviewed and approved.
04
ACC folder
Approved shop drawings delivered back as new versions of the same file.
Coverage

What the integration covers

Read from ACC and deliver back to ACC, with one link per model and a folder for each kind of file.

Into BidLight

Revit models from ACC
Link a .rvt and BidLight exports and publishes it on its own servers - no Revit seat needed.
Linked models
Links held in the same ACC folder as the host model come in with it.
New versions, automatically
A newer save in ACC is picked up and published within about ten minutes.
Coordination
Each published version compared element by element, with issues tracked to resolution.

Out to ACC / Forma

Approved shop drawingsDelivered on approval
Each approved revision lands in your ACC folder as a new version of the same file.
DrawingsFolder ready
Choose the folder for drawing sets in the project's settings, ready for drawing delivery.
Revit modelsFolder ready
Choose the folder for the published Revit model, ready for model delivery.
Navisworks coordination modelsFolder ready
Choose the folder for the coordination model, ready for coordination model delivery.

If something looks wrong

  • If BidLight asks you to reconnect your Autodesk account to allow uploads, Disconnect and Connect again once.
  • A missing hub means that account's admin has not yet added the BidLight Client ID.

Still stuck? Contact support, or see the other integration guides.