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BIM 360 Admin Update – Expanded Default User Roles

Sijie Zhang
October 2, 2018

We heard feedback from our customers that BIM 360 was missing some critical user roles. BIM 360 added 20 additional default roles as shown below. The expanded set of roles are available for new projects as well as existing projects. For a short period of time for existing projects, in Document Management, the project admin can only assign permissions to a role that has people already assigned to it. Once this limitation is removed, the admin can assign Document permissions to a role before any users have been associated with that role.

  1. Architect
  2. BIM Manager (new)
  3. Civil Engineer (new)
  4. Commercial Manager (new)
  5. Construction Manager
  6. Contract Manager (new)
  7. Contractor
  8. Cost Engineer (new)
  9. Cost Manager (new)
  10. Designer
  11. Document Manager
  12. Drafter (new)
  13. Electrical Engineer (new)
  14. Engineer
  15. Estimator
  16. Executive
  17. Fire Safety Engineer (new)
  18. Foreman (new)
  19. HVAC Engineer (new)
  20. Inspector
  21. Interior Designer (new)
  22. IT
  23. Mechanical Engineer (new)
  24. Owner
  25. Plumbing Engineer (new)
  26. Project Engineer
  27. Project Manager
  28. Quality Manager (new)
  29. Quantity Surveyor (new)
  30. Safety Manager (new)
  31. Scheduler
  32. Structural Engineer (new)
  33. Subcontractor
  34. Superintendent
  35. Surveyor (new)
  36. VDC Manager (new)

Please refer to the help page for detailed role-based default permission.

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Sijie Zhang

Sijie is a Product Manager for BIM 360 HQ/Administration at Autodesk. Before joining Autodesk, Sijie worked as a Research Engineer, Technical Safety Engineer, and R&D Program Manager at Chevron, where she worked with multiple stakeholders and developed and deployed technology initiatives. She led research and development projects for advanced visualization for construction and automated design review to support major capital project designs and executions. Sijie received her PhD in Civil Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2014 and her research area includes BIM, VDC, Construction Safety, Rule-Checking, and Semantic Data Modeling.

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  1. Avatarrholland951

    Hi Seijie, Do you know what the timeframe is for custom roles to be introduced to Docs?

    1. Sijie ZhangSijie Zhang (Post author)

      Hi rholland951, we are actively working towards custom roles. The target timeline is early next year. Thanks!

  2. Avatarfrederick.regala@autodesk.com

    Hi Sijie – can we possibly add Architect – Interior or Interior Architect? This are for project where there may be two architects. One focused on shell or exterior while another is focused on the interiors. From my architecture background, some architects take offense, when labeled as Interior Designer. Thank you!

    1. Avatarfrederick.regala@autodesk.com

      *projects

    2. Sijie ZhangSijie Zhang (Post author)

      Hi Fred, thanks for the feedback. We are still working towards Custom Roles, once we have that, customers can add their desired role or job title. Thank you!

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