Autodesk Forma: Cloud-based software for early-stage planning and design
Improve project outcomes with conceptual design and modeling tools and real-time analytics.
What is Autodesk Forma?
Autodesk Forma (formerly Spacemaker) helps planning and design teams deliver projects digitally from day one. Use conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and automations to make solid foundations for your projects.
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Unlock efficiencies with intuitive project setup, design automations, and fluid connectivity with Revit
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Use data-driven insights in real-time to make fast, smart design decisions that reduce risk and improve business and sustainability outcomes
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Improve collaboration and secure buy-in by using data and visuals to tell a compelling design story that can help you win more bids
Autodesk Forma overview (video: 2:06 min.)
Overview of Autodesk Forma features (video: 2:31 min.)
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Latest Forma features and news
BLOG POST
Rapid wind analysis offers instant insights
Predict wind conditions instantaneously, and see how your building mass impacts your site.
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The power of Autodesk Forma and Revit combined
Maximize the performance of your conceptual design studies with two-way interoperability.
IN THE NEWS
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AEC Magazine's Martyn Day on Forma, "one of the most significant milestones in the company’s AEC software history."
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What you can do with Autodesk Forma
Analysis being used in Autodesk Forma
Better decision support with real-time analytics
Uncover greater insights into your site and its surroundings in real time with AI powered analyses for key factors such as sunlight, daylight potential, wind, and microclimate. Better insights mean better outcomes.
Comparing analyses in Autodesk Forma
Make, evaluate, and optimize for better projects
Model complex design concepts in full 3D in just minutes. Test and evaluate multiple design solutions, and optimize for a multitude of constraints.
Interoperability features in Autodesk Forma (video: 2:16 sec.)
Bring your data and designs downstream
Connect your favorite design tools to Forma through extensions. Starting with file-less sync with Revit, Autodesk Forma helps project teams fluidly move proposals from planning into detailed design.
Other capabilities of Autodesk Forma
Automatic datasets
Forma sources specific datasets such as terrain, buildings, and boundaries (select markets only).
Smart design tools
Draw fluidly in 2D and 3D with dynamic tools that automate functions and takeoffs while you design.
Parking design
Rapidly get relevant parking metrics including number of parking spots and access driveways.
Powered by cloud computing
Continue to design while you run analyses in the cloud. See the results in seconds or minutes.
Import and export
With support for file formats, including IFC and OBJ, move your work to and from other AEC software.
Free viewer access
Share your projects in the cloud with team members, regardless of subscription status.
"Forma gives us unprecedented access to data, which allows us to work smarter and go where our clients need us."
– Tony Fiorillo, Chief Information Officer, CUBE 3
50-66%
reduction in time taken to develop full concept design
"Autodesk Forma opens up new possibilities for design and collaboration"
– Knut Ramstad, Architect and Chief Technology Officer, Nordic Office of Architecture
“Now we can go from days to hours of work for many tasks, which gives us more time to focus on the design and architecture.”
– Adam Sjödin, Architect, Urban Planner and Digital Strategist, Sweco Architects
"Forma was obvious in our strategy because it allows the integration and centralization of information"
– Michaël Fauchet, BIM Manager, Patriarche
Save with Autodesk Forma in the AEC Collection*
The AEC Collection provides a cost-effective bundle of CAD, BIM, and cloud software for those who design, build, and make. Save big on Forma, Revit, AutoCAD, and more in the AEC Collection versus standalone.
The Collection provides designers, engineers, and contractors a set of useful tools that support projects. *Compared with purchasing included products separately
Discover the power of Forma in the AEC Collection
Connect your BIM to data-driven design
Connect your design workflow from Forma to Revit and back again, from desktop to cloud.
Revolutionize your site planning
Win more projects by rapidly studying your sites with real-time key figures and design tools.
Forma resources
WEBINAR
Revolutionize your site planning with Autodesk Forma
See how to use Forma to make a site plan in minutes, and overcome density and environmental challenges.
LEARNING HUB
Get to know Forma
Discover our learning resources, and get started with Forma in just a few simple steps.
THE AEC PLATFORM
Our vision for Forma
Learn about Autodesk’s vision for the Industry Cloud, and how it will unite teams, workflows, and data.
Autodesk Forma: Make tomorrow’s cities
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
Released in 2023, Autodesk Forma is the first set of capabilities of the industry cloud for AEC. This first offering expands the BIM process to the early planning and design phase. Conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and automations help planning and design teams make solid foundations for projects.
Currently, anyone who is involved in early-stage planning. Whether you’re an architect, urban planner, or real estate developer, Autodesk Forma helps you make solid foundations for your projects.
The Autodesk Platform consists of industry clouds and a set of common, cloud-based services that will provide a single environment that connects the tools, data, and capabilities you and your partners need at every phase of a project.
Autodesk has released Autodesk Forma, an initial set of capabilities of the AEC industry cloud for early-stage planning and design. Conceptual design capabilities, predictive analytics, and automations help planning and design teams to make solid foundations for projects. In the future, Forma will unify workflows across teams that design, build, and operate the build environment. Read more here.
The price of an Autodesk Forma subscription is
Autodesk Forma is also available through the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection. The price of the Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection subscription is
If you have an active subscription, you can log into Forma with your Autodesk account at http://app.autodeskforma.com/
Not a subscriber? You may be eligible for a free trial
Buy Autodesk Forma here. When buying your subscription, enter the same email address and password combination you used to sign in to your trial. Learn more about converting a trial to a paid subscription.
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All Spacemaker subscribers will continue to have access to the software, now named Forma. If you have any questions about your existing Spacemaker subscription, please contact us here.
Autodesk Forma has import/export support for a range of AEC software, including support for IFC and OBJ, as well as two-way file-less sync with Revit.
Available data sources vary across from country to country. You can find a breakdown of what is available in your market here.
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