Does BIM Require License?
BIM 360 offers project teams tools that facilitate better coordination, effective communication, and faster resolution of conflicts enhancing the efficiency of project outcomes. It empowers project management teams to minimize costs, enhance speed and efficiency throughout the entire project lifecycle.
BIM 360 design is BIM 360 service and an individually licensed product. BIM 360 warrants enabling design collaboration service within the project and obtaining a license within the Autodesk account portal.
BIM 360 design requires “Bring your own license.” Therefore, to initiate any BIM 360 project, project-based permission along with a license managed through the Autodesk account portal is required.
How to activate BIM license?
A BIM license needs to be activated by those users who are accessing BIM 360 for the first time. However, this license cannot be activated through the URL manage.autodesk.com.
Instead, it is activated through a special email that is generated when a user is invited to join a project or assigned to Host a project. The email is sent from BIMent@Autodesk.
BIM license management is a matter of concern for most users considering leveraging BIM 360 products and services.
Let us now delve into BIM 360 license management for different BIM products and services:
BIM 360 Team license is attached through a specific contract number to a HUB. Once assigned, no changes are allowed in the HUB. The HUB is typically the buyer’s HUB.
A BIM HUB can include the following details:
• List of users with different levels of permissions such as Team administrators, Team Members, or Project contributors.
• Types of projects which could be open/closed/secret.
• Roles within the project such as Project Administrators, Editor, Viewer.
• Settings that determine the types of users on the HUB.
• Settings to determine how users are invited.
A BIM Team license adds a storage space of 500GB to the HUB on the cloud.
If you have a Team license, you can be invited to be a part of any project on other HUBs in the world.
It also entitles you to invite other users with BIM Team license to collaborate on projects in your HUB.
BIM 360 Team, Docs, Field, Glue, Plan, Layout
The Construction Company or the Lead Design acquires packs of user licenses.
License packs for each service need to be purchased separately. However, these licenses can be used for multiple projects. These license packs can also be assigned to external parties.
These licenses can be recycled as well. For instance, if a user does not require access to a project, he can be removed and another user can be added if required. This implies that all the comments, Metadata or any other uploads by the previous user are retained for the rest of the team to use.
You can create unlimited buildings without any payment. You can also add an unlimited number of tickets, contacts, and assets. There is no limit to the amount of data that can be uploaded, stored or downloaded. However, viewing, searching, and reporting is restricted to the latest 100 tickets/building.
A subscription is required in case you need to access more than 100 most recent tickets. On subscribing, all the buildings in a particular portfolio will convert to paid.
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