The best construction management software for BIM integration

Autodesk's Model Coordination help describes a clash service that checks the models in a coordination space for clashes when automatic clash detection is on. Autodesk Forma is our pick for construction teams that coordinate Revit and Navisworks models and want cloud clash review linked to project issues, provided the order confirms model and RFI tool entitlements, file and software versions, clash-to-issue-to-RFI permissions, production release status, and the field-viewing workflow and full charges. Autodesk documents its RFI tool under Forma Build and names Model Coordination in its Model Management packages. Have Autodesk demonstrate the clash-to-RFI route with the roles and licences on your order.

Procore's Clash Manager guide starts from results in the Navisworks Clash Detective and creates one coordination issue for each selected clash or group. That makes Procore the better pick for a contractor that wants Navisworks clash results carried into Procore coordination issues and RFIs, with published models available to field users.

What should a team coordinating Revit and Navisworks models weigh?

Autodesk's list of files supported for clash covers RVT, DWG, tracked IFC and tracked NWC models plus Data Exchanges from Revit and Inventor, and it says formats outside that list can be opened in Navisworks for clash detection. Procore's clash procedure runs inside Navisworks, on the Windows computer where its BIM Plugin is installed. So the first thing to settle is which of your models each route checks, by file type and by the tool that exported the file. buildingSMART's IFC documentation describes different exchange views and compatibility considerations between releases, which is the reason to write the IFC version and the Revit and Navisworks releases you run into the order.

Autodesk's Revit 2027 help says a cloud model has to be opened in the Revit release it was created in, and moving to a newer release means upgrading the cloud model or saving it back to the cloud as a new model. Procore's Navisworks publishing tutorial accepts NWD or NWF files and has the publisher choose a status for each model, such as construction for work approved for field installation. A vendor demonstration should show which revision of a model reaches clash review and which one reaches the field. The UK BIM Framework's guidance on shared information workflows says the workflow is developed first and the technology is selected to support it, and it treats revision and status as metadata recorded with the information.

buildingSMART's BIM Collaboration Format page ties each issue to a viewpoint in the model and tracks who the issue is assigned to and its status. A request for information (RFI) is a separate record, so test whether the issue and its model view stay attached once an RFI exists, signed in as the roles that will do the work on your project. Both vendors document the path as two steps, a clash becoming an issue and an issue being linked to an RFI, each with its own permissions.

Autodesk's FAQ for its new mobile viewer lists issues as unavailable on aggregated models and says the older viewer can be switched on. Procore's iOS help for its Models tool documents augmented reality for a published model whose grids were pushed from Revit. Viewing a model on a phone and opening a coordination issue on that model in the field are separate capabilities, and the one on your order is the one to see running on your own model and device before you sign.

Procore's help says its BIM tools come with an account that includes Procore BIM, and its Model Manager beta guide limits that newer tool to registered beta participants who have signed a beta agreement. Autodesk's guide to its Model Management subscription types describes more than one packaging of Model Coordination, each with its own product list. Autodesk's Model Management overview sends buyers to sales for pricing and Procore's pricing page takes a quote request, so charges get compared on two written quotes. Ask for each quote to list the tools by name, the users who get them, the production status of each tool, and the Revit and Navisworks licences the workflow assumes.

Autodesk Forma and Procore on the BIM coordination workflow

Autodesk Forma: clash detection runs as a cloud service in Model Coordination

Autodesk's construction site says Autodesk Construction Cloud is now part of Autodesk Forma, and its Forma Design Collaboration page says BIM Collaborate Pro has evolved into that product. In the Model Coordination tool, an administrator sets up a coordination space tied to a Forma Data Management folder, and reviewers either create an issue from a detected clash or mark the clash as not an issue, per the help overview. A new file version triggers a new check once the file is processed, and Autodesk's Model Coordination FAQ puts a check at a few minutes to a few hours and caps a clash-enabled coordination space at 1,000 models.

Tracked IFC, in Autodesk's supported-files topic, means a file exported from a listed set of tools, with Revit, ARCHICAD, Tekla Structures and Vectorworks among them. Tracked NWC means an NWC from Revit, from AutoCAD-based applications or from the ReCap 2026 scan-to-mesh process, and a Revit NWC export needs the Convert Element Ids option turned on to be recognized as Revit. A Data Exchange from Revit or Inventor is clash-checked only when it was created or updated after August 13, 2026 with the latest connectors.

A Revit model reaches the cloud when it is saved as a cloud model into the Projects folder in Forma Data Management, one of the routes in Autodesk's Revit 2027 help, and Revit then opens the latest cloud version and can restore earlier ones. Autodesk's BIM coordination page says a new upload makes the latest model and its previous versions available to anyone viewing or running clash detection in the coordination space. On the Navisworks side, the Coordination Issues Add-In help for Navisworks 2026 supports access to Model Coordination data from Navisworks 2020 onward, for models stored in Autodesk Docs and included in a coordination space. From Navisworks 2026, issues are created from clash results in the Clash Detective, and clash and issue statuses sync in both directions.

An issue made from clashes keeps its model location and a thumbnail, and several clashes can be turned into issues in one batch, according to an Autodesk blog on Model Coordination practice. Autodesk's help on issue references says the reference section of an issue can attach an existing RFI or create a new one, and the link runs both ways. Have Autodesk confirm who can see RFI references and create RFIs from issues under the package and roles in your order. Autodesk documents the RFI tool under Forma Build, with up to 10 reviewers per RFI.

Field users reach models through the Forma mobile app, which Autodesk's Forma Build page makes available to members on Forma Build and Forma Design Collaboration, among other products. Autodesk's new-viewer FAQ leaves issues off aggregated models, so the demonstration to request is a coordination-space model and one of its issues opened on a field device. Autodesk's mobile help lists views, issues, a model browser and level tools for 3D models in the app.

Granger Construction moved clash coordination from Navisworks to the cloud product, then named BIM Collaborate, on a $68 million, 127,000-square-foot replacement psychiatric hospital in Michigan, according to a customer story Autodesk published on November 14, 2023. Granger's virtual design and construction (VDC) manager says in the story that anyone with permission can clear clashes without Navisworks expertise, and that subcontractors check their own work earlier.

Autodesk's subscription guide, updated April 9, 2026, describes three ways to buy Model Coordination: the Model Management bundle on an unlimited-access model, Forma Design Collaboration by user, and Navisworks Manage by user. All three lists name Model Coordination, with Forma Data Management and Design Collaboration alongside it. Pricing for the bundle comes from Autodesk's sales team, per the Model Management overview.

Procore: Navisworks clash results become coordination issues and RFIs

Clash Manager is a component of the Procore BIM Plugin that runs inside Navisworks, and Procore's plugin page says the plugin is installed on the same Windows computer as the Autodesk software, with Windows administrator rights. The Clash Manager guide describes a grouping algorithm called Distill and a heatmap of the ten highest-clash areas. From the Clash Detective results tab, a user creates one coordination issue for each selected clash or group. A Procore marker then appears beside the linked clash in Navisworks, and a sync action carries changes in both directions.

A coordination issue links to a new draft RFI or an existing one, from the web tool or from the issue list in the plugin, in Procore's issue-to-RFI tutorial. The issue changes status when it is linked and again after an official response is added to the RFI. While it remains linked to an open RFI, it cannot be closed or linked to another RFI. The new RFI starts as a draft, and an Admin on the RFIs tool sets it to open to start its workflow.

The Navisworks route in Procore's publishing tutorial takes an NWD or NWF file of up to 5GB through the plugin, and the user needs Admin permission on the Models tool. The publisher can switch on automatic revisions, so a new version publishes as a new revision. A second route, in Procore's Documents tutorial, publishes a model already stored in the Documents tool with no desktop step, for models uploaded after August 1, 2023.

Procore's Models tool is in its iOS and Android apps for viewing published models. On iOS, the Models help says grids pushed from Revit can be viewed in augmented reality, where a user can hide elements in the object tree and create a coordination issue or an observation. For model files over 1.75GB the same page suggests a device with more RAM, such as an iPad Pro.

Truebeck Construction kept running clash reports and creating issues in Navisworks and tracked them in Procore, according to an undated customer story on Procore's site, and linking an issue to an RFI updates its status and hyperlinks the RFI. Haselden Construction's story cites a project where 103 coordination issues were found and 35 of them became RFIs, and a VDC specialist there describes going from model to issue to RFI on an iPad.

Model Manager is a separate Procore tool, and its beta participant guide makes it available only to registered beta participants who have signed the Procore beta agreement, with a project admin enabling it project by project. Procore's FAQ on beta features describes beta software as prerelease and under active development. A production order names the Models tool, the Coordination Issues tool and the BIM Plugin, which Procore's help documents apart from that beta. Procore's June 1, 2026 announcement of its common data environment presents BIM Model Manager as a feature and says the environment launches first in the UK and Ireland.

Procore's FAQ on what Procore BIM includes ties those same tools to an account that includes Procore BIM and sends interested buyers to their Procore contact. Have Procore's quote list any Navisworks licences needed for the people who run clash tests and confirm who supplies them.

Which should a team coordinating Revit and Navisworks models choose?

Autodesk Forma is our pick for construction teams that coordinate Revit and Navisworks models and want cloud clash review linked to project issues, provided the order confirms model and RFI tool entitlements, file and software versions, clash-to-issue-to-RFI permissions, production release status, and the field-viewing workflow and full charges. We weight the cloud clash service for this buyer because a new file version in the coordination space triggers a new check, and reviewers turn the results into issues in the same tool. Have the ordered roles demonstrated through clash review, issue creation and the RFI handoff.

Procore's documented issue status path and iOS augmented reality are an advantage for the contractor who puts field coordination first. We still put where clash review runs first, because for this buyer the clash check is the step each new model version passes through.

Procore's plugin creates the coordination issue inside Navisworks and syncs it both ways, so a VDC team that already runs clash tests in Navisworks keeps them there. That makes Procore the better pick for the contractor that wants Navisworks clash results carried into Procore coordination issues and RFIs, with published models available to field users. Order it on the Models, Coordination Issues and BIM Plugin tools, and get any Model Manager capability confirmed in writing as a production entitlement.

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