Using Data Exchanges Today
Our growing Data Exchange ecosystem offers a wide range of powerful features designed to enhance interoperability and collaboration across applications. These features include:
- Create, Modify, and Manage Exchanges: You can easily create, modify, and manage your exchanges with detailed data from Revit, Rhino, and Autodesk Docs (Autodesk Construction Cloud).
- View Exchanges in Autodesk Viewer: Stakeholders can visualize and interact with shared data using the Autodesk Viewer without needing access to the original authoring application.
- Bring in Shared Data to Other Apps:
Import shared data into various applications, such as:
- Inventor (for geometry data)
- Rhino (for both geometry and property data)
- Revit (for geometry data)
- Microsoft Power Automate (for property data only)
- Leverage Exchange APIs and Geometry Utilities SDK: Use exchange APIs and the Geometry Utilities SDK to access shared exchange data in other apps or custom services. You can also access and compare the revision history of an exchange.
- Automate Exchange Creation with the createExchange GraphQL Mutation: The createExchange API enables the automation of data exchange creation. If you have multiple models published to Autodesk Docs or set up in your AEC data model structure, this API enables you to create exchanges using the same base data from each model with a single operation. This eliminates the need to manually create exchanges via the Autodesk Docs user interface.
- Developer Documentation: Our developer documentation includes a How-to Guide, Code Samples, and Reference Guide to help you quickly start creating and reading data from an existing Data Exchange.
Additional Resources
To learn more about creating, modifying, managing, and viewing Data Exchanges from an end-user application perspective, refer to the following resources:
- Join our Connectors Public Beta to create, update, and manage exchanges directly from Revit and Rhino.
- Create, update, and manage exchanges from published Revit models.
- Bring in your exchange data into Inventor, Power Automate, Revit, and Rhino.
Explore and let us know how you might integrate, contribute to, and extend the ecosystem to enhance app interoperability, team collaboration, and automation.
Future Enhancements
We are expanding the above-mentioned features to provide further filtering capabilities when creating and consuming exchanges. Additionally, we are increasing the number of apps integrated into this exchange ecosystem.