inCitu announces the launch of their new integration with Autodesk Forma®, the first end-to-end, cloud-based, AI-native platform built for architects, engineers, contractors, and owners.

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inCituAR for Data Exchange (“inCituDX”) connects Autodesk® Revit® models directly to inCitu's location-based augmented reality platform. The integration enables AEC teams to access a model stored in Autodesk Forma Data Management™ and place it at real scale on a real street corner, accessible to any viewer via a QR code, with no manual file export and no app download required.

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AEC teams working on housing, transit, and infrastructure projects build detailed models in Revit that inform critical design decisions and approvals, but communicating those proposals to non-technical stakeholders such as residents, community boards, or elected officials has historically required a separate visualization workflow. inCituDX streamlines that process by connecting to Revit models stored in Forma Data Management, pulling a curated subset of the Revit model into inCitu and generating a geolocated augmented reality (AR) project that can be shared and viewed on site within minutes.

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inCitu's scene editor also allows integration users to adjust geometry and origin point before the project is geolocated to a real address, published, and shared via QR code. Viewers on site see the model at real scale; viewers elsewhere can use inCitu's tabletop AR mode. Updates to the Revit model also update and refresh the AR project without rebuilding it from scratch.

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City governments, planning agencies, and AEC practitioners already use inCitu to bring proposals into public engagement workflows. The City of Phoenix used inCitu to let residents preview affordable housing developments before construction began. The Central Ohio Transit Authority integrated inCitu into a guided bus tour along a proposed BRT corridor, generating over 2,000 AR views. Planning agencies in Tampa and Kauai used inCitu to present climate resilience and infrastructure plans related to impacted sites, supporting community engagement processes that led to policy adoption.

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"AEC teams are producing detailed, data-rich models, but that information rarely reaches the people most affected by the projects those models represent," said Dana Chermesh-Reshef, Founder and CEO of inCitu. "inCituDX makes it possible to take what's already been built in Revit and bring it into a community conversation, on location, without duplicating the work."

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“As construction technology evolves, design and construction teams generate increasingly data- rich models,” said James Cook, director of industry and technology partnerships at Autodesk. “The new inCitu integration with Autodesk Forma helps democratize access to relevant, granular model data and improves stakeholder visibility through rich, interactive model viewing in an AR context.”

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The inCituDX integration is available now on the Autodesk App Store. An inCitu account is free to start at app.incitu.us.

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