Conduit Launches on the Autodesk Design & Make Marketplace for Revit, AutoCAD and Forma Workflows

Conduit helps BIM/VDC teams turn manual processes into production-ready applications that they can test, deploy, version, and maintain.

Conduit today announced its availability on the Autodesk® Design & Make Marketplace for teams building custom applications for Revit®, AutoCAD®, and Forma®.

Built for BIM Managers, VDC Directors, and AEC technology teams, Conduit enables teams to describe workflow needs in plain language and turn them into production-ready applications, starting with Revit and AutoCAD add-ins and Forma apps.

AEC teams know which workflows slow them down. The challenge is turning those repeated operational needs into applications teams can use, maintain, and trust. Conduit is designed to help BIM/VDC teams close that gap.

Conduit brings AEC-specific context and production guardrails and aids in application versioning, deployment, maintenance, and rollout that firms can trust. Teams describe the workflow they need, clarify requirements, generate the tool, and manage the process of compiling, deploying, versioning, updating, and maintaining it over time.

“We built Conduit for the backlog every AEC team has but rarely has time to attack,” said Fran Maranchello, co-founder of Conduit. “Our goal is to help teams move faster from workflow request to internal tool, without turning every automation idea into a custom software project.”

“Autodesk solutions sit at the heart of countless AEC design and make workflows,” said James Cook, director of industry & technology partnerships at Autodesk. “Automating and streamlining those workflows with repeatable, AI-powered applications through tools such as Conduit enhances and accelerates the value AEC teams experience with their technology.”

Workflow validation from an 80-person team’s VDC project manager

One workflow tested with Conduit focused on model history tracking across Revit projects, helping teams understand how models evolve over time, which elements are being modified repeatedly, and when changes begin in response to ASIs, change orders, or drawing package updates.

“Conduit helped us take a very specific Revit workflow—tracking model history across projects and understanding how models evolve over time—and turn it into a working internal tool in a fraction of the time we would normally expect. An application like this would typically take us 3 to 4 weeks to scope, develop, package, and deploy manually. With Conduit, we were able to get to a working version in 1 day. The biggest difference was speed of iteration. Instead of treating this like a one-off custom development project, we could keep refining the application and move toward team rollout within the same platform. For this tracker specifically, the value is better visibility into how the model is changing: which elements are being modified repeatedly, why certain areas keep being worked on, and when changes begin in response to ASIs, change orders, or drawing package updates.”

— Victor Leyba, VDC Project Manager, Built3D

Conduit’s availability on the Autodesk Design & Make Marketplace gives BIM/VDC teams a clearer way to find and evaluate Conduit within the Autodesk ecosystem they already use.

Forma administrators can now link Conduit directly from the Apps section in their Hub admin settings, making it easier to connect Conduit to the environments where their teams already work.

If your team has a Revit, AutoCAD, or Forma-related workflow that keeps coming up in meetings, tickets, spreadsheets, or “we should automate this someday” conversations, Conduit wants to hear from you.

Bring us one workflow your team repeats often.

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Autodesk, Autodesk Forma, AutoCAD, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Conduit is not affiliated with Autodesk.