{"id":750692,"date":"2025-05-13T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&#038;p=750692"},"modified":"2025-05-13T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:03:44","slug":"automate-your-cad-and-bim-data-sharing-with-arcgis-pro","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/automate-your-cad-and-bim-data-sharing-with-arcgis-pro","title":{"rendered":"Automate Your CAD and BIM Data Sharing with ArcGIS Pro"},"author":5752,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25022],"tags":[20422,295842,23372,23382,165542],"arcuser_issues":[492012],"class_list":["post-750692","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hands-on","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-arcpy","tag-bim","tag-cad","tag-data-sharing","arcuser_issues-spring-2025"],"acf":{"short_description":"Did you know you can automate the process of sharing CAD and BIM data in ArcGIS Pro? Learn how.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Computer-aided design (CAD) and building information modeling (BIM) data often undergo frequent changes by civil engineers, architects, and CAD technicians during the course of any project. These changes mean other project team members need to be kept in the loop for downstream decision-making. Sharing this data manually can be a pain\u2014which is why parts of the process can be automated in ArcGIS Pro.\r\n\r\nProject and asset managers invariably need timely and centralized access to up-to-date data for tracking progress and resolving issues. By reducing the time spent integrating 3D CAD and BIM content into 3D web scenes, GIS teams can mitigate all kinds of project risks for stakeholders.\r\n\r\nVarious workflows can benefit from tips and tricks to speed up the process, such as creating spatial representations of CAD and BIM data, preparing content, and publishing a scene to the web. In ArcGIS Pro, some of these steps can be automated with scripting, enabling faster sharing of CAD and BIM data."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":750702,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Import and Add CAD and BIM Data<\/h2>\r\nLet\u2019s say you\u2019re a GIS analyst working for a transportation department. With a project underway to replace a railway track segment, you\u2019re responsible for keeping infrastructure data centralized in a\u00a0web scene\u00a0for project coordination.\r\n\r\nIn this scenario, railway\u00a0corridor models\u00a0are stored in Autodesk\u00a0Civil 3D\u00a0drawings. Highway and pedestrian bridge components, which add context for maintaining the railway, are represented in Autodesk Revit\u00a0models and Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data. This design data contains\u00a0real-world coordinates\u00a0and a\u00a0projected coordinate system, eliminating the need to\u00a0manually georeference\u00a0them in ArcGIS Pro. This CAD and BIM data is stored in Autodesk Construction Cloud.\r\n\r\nTo start,\u00a0connect and import content\u00a0stored in Autodesk Construction Cloud into ArcGIS Pro. From the\u00a0Insert\u00a0tab, click\u00a0Connections, and select\u00a0New BIM Cloud Connection. Provide a connection name and Autodesk account credentials.\r\n\r\nIn the Catalog pane, expand the BIM Cloud Connections entry. Then, expand the named connection folder to browse engineering files. Download files of interest, such as Civil 3D files containing corridors for the rail lines.\r\n\r\nUse\u00a0Check Status\u00a0to detect changes to CAD and BIM files, including the Civil 3D drawing for the replacement track segment. Update the accompanying files in the ArcGIS Pro project home folder using\u00a0Refresh From Source. After refreshing, the scene will reflect the current data, such as the latest design for the segment."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Multiple approaches are available for integrating CAD and BIM data into\u00a0ArcGIS Pro scenes. The following approach, which involves running sequences of\u00a0geoprocessing tools, is optimized for working with 3D content:\r\n<ol>\r\n \t<li>Represent CAD and BIM data as spatial features. For example, run\u00a0Make Feature Layer\u00a0and\u00a0Save To Layer File\u00a0for the rail corridor objects stored in the Civil 3D files. For BIM files, run\u00a0Make Building Layer\u00a0to create\u00a0building layers.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Whether created from one or\u00a0several engineering files, package the data into scene layer packages (.slpk files). For BIM datasets, this creates composite layers that organize design and engineering data as spatial features by\u00a0discipline. Package 3D CAD content into\u00a03D object scene layer\u00a0packages.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>After creating scene layer packages, publish them for efficient web streaming.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":750712,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>Automate Your Data Sharing<\/h2>\r\nInstead of manually running these geoprocessing tools, you can automate these steps using\u00a0ArcPy. With ArcPy, you can customize functions to process specific files in bulk. You can also add methods to automate more complex workflows that delete unwanted elements, update attributes, or copy elements between categories before creating scene layer packages.\r\n\r\nYou can further increase efficiency by automating the publishing steps. Using your\u00a0authentication scheme,\u00a0create a script to access your online organization, whether ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise. Boost automation by scheduling script calls, such as on evenings before recurring stakeholder meetings.\r\n\r\nAutomating this part of the workflow reduces time spent manually updating the scene layer content. It also ensures that stakeholders using the web scene for project coordination can make decisions based on current design information for the railway track segment.\r\n\r\nYou can also take these web scenes even further for cross-team coordination by creating and configuring project-specific web apps using\u00a0ArcGIS GeoBIM\u00a0and\u00a0ArcGIS Experience Builder.\r\n\r\nReducing manual efforts when\u00a0integrating CAD and BIM data in ArcGIS Pro and publishing web scenes for use by other stakeholders saves valuable time for focusing on other spatial analysis and visualization tasks. Other teams can greatly benefit from these automations, such as project and asset managers needing timely access to centralized subsets of evolving project data."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Automate Your CAD and BIM Data Sharing with ArcGIS Pro | Spring 2025 | ArcUser<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Did you know you can automate the process of sharing CAD and BIM data in ArcGIS Pro? 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