sPRINT

“As a designer, I want to be able to print directly from BIM360, so that I don't need to open Revit everytime.”

Printing PDF’s from Autodesk Cloud (BIM360/ACC) used to be a time consuming task. Going through all drawings and requesting PDF’s took a while and BIM managers need to quality assurance large drawing sets. sPrint is a Chrome extension that allows batch-print PDFs and download things (derivatives) from Autodesk Cloud Platforms.

Problem

  • Users spend unnecessary time on the frustrating task of exporting drawings from Revit. 
  • Everyday there’s a new set of drawings that needs to be exported to PDF to add markups to, show to the team, and send to external stakeholders. 
  • Designers have in the past used ‘Clarity’ but it’s being abandoned because of the lack of trust, since it only works 20% of the time, and Revit is frozen while exporting and can’t be used. 
  • The drawings are ready for exporting in BIM360, but it’s only possible to print one sheet at a time, in low pixel quality. The result is burnt resources and frustration when exporting. 

Tech-Stack

  • Chrome Extension 
  • Bim360/ACC
  • Autodesk Platform Services (APS) 
  • AWS Lambda Function

Team

  • Victor Wanderlay Barbosa, Design System Analyst 
  • Daniel Boba, Software Developer 
  • Zuzanna Czapla, Design Application Manager 
  • Ellen Berglund, UX Designer 
  • Mario Romero, Design Application Manager