IMAGINiT Clarity for Residential Volume Home Builders
Automate Revit and AutoCAD Masters and New Projects
IMAGINiT Clarity helps residential volume home builders automate repeatable BIM and documentation workflows across standard home ranges. It can batch update master models, apply coordinated changes across multiple house types and reduce the manual effort involved in keeping drawings, schedules and project information aligned.
Clarity also supports automation of facade and floorplan selection processes, making it easier to generate consistent outputs for different product combinations. Through the construction phase, teams can publish drawings, documents and model-based information automatically, helping maintain accuracy, improve turnaround times and deliver reliable information from sales and design through to site delivery.
Design Consulting is an Autodesk Gold Partner and Service Provider that supplies IMAGINiT Clarity software, add-on modules, implementation, custom automation and fully hosted Clarity Cloud solutions, helping businesses improve productivity without the complexity of managing their own automation infrastructure.
What Is IMAGINiT Clarity?
Centralised BIM Automation for Home Builders
IMAGINiT Clarity enables organisations to automate time-consuming BIM and CAD operations through a centralised platform. Instead of manually opening models, exporting drawings, creating reports or distributing files, Clarity executes predefined tasks automatically, either on demand or according to a schedule.
Designed for multidisciplinary project environments, Clarity helps teams standardise workflows, improve document accuracy and maintain consistent project information across multiple applications, offices and stakeholders.
By combining task automation, data analytics, model management and integration capabilities, Clarity transforms repetitive BIM administration into reliable, repeatable processes.
How IMAGINiT Clarity Works
A Unified Hub for BIM Automation
IMAGINiT Clarity works by managing Projects with tasks and analytics through the Clarity Management System (Host Server) and then tasks running on Task Servers, which to run Windows, Revit and AutoCAD tasks.
Projects are connected to a Data Source (e.g. Autodesk Forma, Network Drive, OneDrive) and Tasks and Analytics can be run on-demand, on schedule, synch to central or on trigger (e.g. parameter change in Revit) and then outputs can be published in destination storage locations.
Users run on-demand tasks through the Revit Clarity Add-in or by logging into the Clarity System via web-browser.
What Can IMAGINiT Clarity Automate for Volume Home Builders?
Automate Revit, AutoCAD and BIM Project Workflows
Clarity supports a wide range of automation tasks that can run outside normal design activities, including overnight, during weekends or at predefined project milestones.
Masters Automation
Clarity can also maintain and update master templates in batches, including rolling out new families across every master model and applying coordinated changes to geometry, parameters and standard content without manual rework.
Centralised Revit Family Management
Manage and standardise Revit families across home designs, ensuring consistent components, materials, specifications and documentation while reducing duplication and maintaining quality across multiple residential projects.
Automated Design Options and Variations
Streamline management of home designs, facades, floorplans and structural variations, helping builders efficiently manage multiple configurations while maintaining consistency across master models and project documentation.
Master Model and Project Replication
Automatically replicate master designs, templates and documentation into new Autodesk Forma projects, reducing repetitive setup, improving standardisation and accelerating project delivery across multiple housing developments.
Workforce Productivity and Usage Analytics
Monitor project activity, model access, user engagement and task performance to understand resource utilisation, identify workflow bottlenecks and improve productivity across drafting and design teams.
Automated New Project Creation
Trigger project creation from approved sales, customer selections or ERP workflows, automatically establishing project structures, copying master models and initiating documentation tasks without repetitive manual administration.
Automated Construction Documentation Publishing
Automatically generate and distribute DWGs, PDFs, drawing packages and schedules at defined construction milestones, ensuring site teams, contractors and stakeholders receive accurate, current documentation throughout delivery.
Customer Selection and Buyer Behaviour Analytics
Analyse customer selections, design variations, facade preferences and upgrade trends through integrated reporting, helping builders understand buyer behaviour, optimise standard offerings and identify profitable product combinations.
Licence-Free Access to Project Information
Provide sales, estimating, management and construction teams with browser-based access to published drawings, reports and project information without requiring individual Revit or AutoCAD software licences.
Automated Model Health and Quality Assurance
Schedule automated model audits, health checks and validation reports to identify warnings, inconsistencies and documentation issues before they affect construction, improving quality across large residential portfolios.
Standardised Documentation Across Housing Projects
Maintain consistent drawing standards, naming conventions, title blocks and documentation outputs across multiple housing designs, estates and drafting teams, reducing errors and improving operational efficiency.
Automated Quantity Takeoffs and Reporting
Extract model schedules, quantities and project data automatically to support estimating, procurement and construction planning, reducing manual reporting and improving information consistency across residential building projects.
Integration with ERP, CRM and Business Systems
Connect design workflows with ERP, CRM and project management platforms to synchronise project information, customer selections, construction milestones and documentation across the entire home building lifecycle.
Centralised Multi-Project Management
Manage automation tasks, project reporting and documentation workflows across hundreds of residential projects from a central platform, improving visibility, consistency and scalability without increasing administrative overhead.
Automated Change Management and Revision Tracking
Track design revisions, publish updated documentation and notify relevant stakeholders when models change, helping builders maintain accurate construction information and reduce costly errors caused by outdated drawings.
Reduced Revit Processing and Administrative Workloads
Offload repetitive Revit tasks to dedicated Clarity task servers, freeing designers from manual exports, model maintenance and reporting while increasing available time for productive design activities.
What Else Can IMAGINiT Clarity Automate?
Automate Revit, AutoCAD and BIM Project Workflows
Clarity supports a wide range of automation tasks that can run outside normal design activities, including overnight, during weekends or at predefined project milestones.
Drawing and Documentation Automation
- Batch PDF, DWG, DWF and IFC exports
- Navisworks model exports
- Automated drawing and sheet printing
- Scheduled document publishing
- Project deliverable generation
- Model transmission and packaging
Model Management and Maintenance
- Model health analysis and reporting
- Model comparisons and snapshots
- Revit model and family upgrades
- Scheduled project backups
- Model data extraction
- Supported model maintenance tasks
Data and Reporting Automation
- Revit schedules and parameter extraction
- Room, door, window and equipment reports
- Model metrics and standards checking
- SQL database extraction
- Power BI and Excel reporting workflows
- Automated project datasheets
Advanced Automation
- Batch Dynamo script execution
- Custom Revit API processing
- Supported AutoCAD scripts
- File synchronisation and transfers
- Custom integration workflows
- Automated multi-project processing
IMAGINiT Clarity Software and Add-On Modules
Expand Clarity with Advanced Automation, Security and Integration
IMAGINiT Clarity provides a central BIM automation platform that can be extended with additional modules to support enterprise security, external collaboration, higher processing capacity, space planning and integration with third-party systems.
IMAGINiT Clarity Base Application
The core automation platform for scheduling Revit and CAD tasks, extracting BIM data, generating reports, managing model health and automating project deliverables across supported systems.
Clarity Space Programming Module
Centralise building space requirements, room standards and planning data. Compare design information against project requirements, identify deviations and improve space planning accuracy.
Clarity ODP (Owner Data Portal)
Provide building owners and facility managers with browser-based access to selected BIM information. Support reviewing and maintaining asset and facility data without requiring direct Revit access.
Clarity ProjectWise Integration
Connect Clarity automation with Bentley ProjectWise to automate document conversion, file synchronisation, publishing, storage and attribute updates across supported engineering project workflows.
Clarity Aconex Integration
Connect Clarity automation with Oracle Aconex to streamline document publishing, file transfers, synchronisation and information exchange across construction and engineering project workflows.
Clarity Security
Extend security and administration for supported Revit Server environments. Provides infrastructure monitoring, administrative controls and secure collaboration capabilities for distributed BIM teams.
IMAGINiT Clarity Deployment Services
Clarity can be up and running within a day and DC offers full systems integration services, including installation, configuration, training and customisation.
IMAGINiT Clarity Cloud Hosting
Fully Managed BIM Automation Without Managing Your Own Servers
Design Consulting provides cloud hosting for IMAGINiT Clarity, allowing organisations to operate a centralised BIM automation environment without purchasing, configuring or maintaining their own server infrastructure.
Our hosted Clarity solutions bring task automation, scheduled processing, model management and BIM reporting into a professionally managed cloud environment. Organisations can connect supported Autodesk applications and project systems while benefiting from scalable infrastructure, centralised administration and ongoing technical support.
Whether you're managing a small BIM team or coordinating multiple projects across different offices, Clarity Cloud provides a flexible approach to deploying and operating enterprise BIM automation.
Challenges in Architectural Practices using Revit, AutoCAD and Construction Systems
Common BIM Automation and Project Management Challenges
Organisations operating Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD and other BIM applications without centralised automation often rely on manual processes, disconnected systems and individual staff to manage repetitive project tasks. As project complexity increases, these limitations create operational bottlenecks, reduce productivity and introduce inconsistencies across design and engineering workflows.
Manual BIM Processing
Staff must repeatedly open individual BIM models to manually export PDFs, DWGs, IFCs and other deliverables, consuming valuable time across multiple projects.
Repetitive Administration
BIM coordinators spend significant time on routine tasks such as printing, publishing, backing up models, managing files and distributing documentation across project teams.
Inconsistent Deliverables
Different teams follow varying procedures, naming conventions and documentation standards, resulting in inconsistent project outputs, increased errors and additional quality assurance requirements.
Limited Model Visibility
Model health, BIM standards compliance and project performance are monitored manually or infrequently, making it difficult to identify problems before they escalate.
Disconnected Project Data
BIM information is distributed across multiple applications, databases and document repositories, requiring manual transfers, duplicate data entry and ongoing reconciliation between systems.
Resource Constraints
Large BIM processing tasks consume valuable workstation resources, preventing designers from working efficiently while models are exported, updated, processed or published manually.
Delayed Information Delivery
Project stakeholders rely on manual publishing, reporting and document distribution, creating delays in accessing current design information and coordinating activities across teams.
Limited Scalability
Increasing project volumes generate additional administrative workloads, requiring more staff and processing resources to maintain consistent documentation, reporting and project delivery standards.
Impacts and Flow-On Effects
The Hidden Costs of Manual BIM Workflows
Without centralised BIM automation, repetitive tasks and disconnected processes create consequences beyond the time spent performing individual activities. These inefficiencies affect project costs, delivery schedules, resource utilisation, information quality and ultimately business profitability.
Operational Challenge | Impact | Flow-On Effect |
|---|---|---|
Manual document production | Increased administrative workload | Higher labour costs and reduced project margins |
Repetitive BIM tasks | Skilled staff spend less time designing | Reduced billable productivity and capacity |
Inconsistent processes | Greater risk of errors and omissions | Rework, delays and increased quality assurance costs |
Poor model health visibility | Problems are identified later | More expensive corrections and project disruption |
Disconnected systems | Duplicate data entry and manual transfers | Inconsistent information and unreliable reporting |
Workstation-based processing | Designers wait for resource-intensive operations | Lost productive hours and slower project delivery |
Delayed publishing | Stakeholders work with outdated information | Coordination errors and potential construction rework |
Limited automation capacity | Processing bottlenecks during peak periods | Missed deadlines and difficulty scaling operations |
Reliance on individual staff | Critical processes depend on specific employees | Operational disruption during absences and staff turnover |
IMAGINiT Clarity Features
Powerful BIM Automation and Data Management Tools
IMAGINiT Clarity allows organisations to streamline BIM administration by automating routine processes across Revit, AutoCAD and linked project platforms. It handles scheduled or user-triggered tasks including drawing exports, model publishing, data extraction, reporting and model health reviews, reducing time spent on repetitive work while improving consistency. By bringing these activities into one central system, Clarity helps teams maintain stronger control over deliverables, apply standard procedures and keep project information more dependable across disciplines. Its reporting, analytics and management tools also help teams track model performance, support collaboration and extend automation across offices, departments and demanding project environments with less operational overhead.
Task Automation
Schedule repetitive BIM and CAD operations, including model processing, drawing exports, printing, publishing and file management.
Automated Documentation
Generate PDFs, DWGs, IFC files, Navisworks exports and other project deliverables using consistent predefined workflows.
BIM Analytics & Reporting
Extract model information, analyse project health, monitor BIM standards and create reports to support informed decisions.
Data Extraction & Integration
Extract Revit parameters, schedules and model data for databases, dashboards, reporting systems and external applications.
Cloud Collaboration
Automate file transfers, backups and publishing between supported cloud platforms, document repositories and project environments.
Custom Automation
Extend workflows using Dynamo scripts, supported APIs and custom tasks to address organisation-specific requirements.
IMAGINiT Clarity Integrations
Connect BIM Automation with Autodesk and Business Systems
Clarity helps connect BIM workflows with design applications, project collaboration environments, document management platforms and business intelligence systems.
Civil 3D – Civil Engineering Automation
Streamline Civil 3D workflows through automated drawing exports, file processing and scheduled deliverables. Improve consistency across infrastructure projects while reducing repetitive tasks and manual document management.
Revit – BIM Model Automation
Automate Revit model processing, drawing exports, scheduled publishing, data extraction and model health reporting. Streamline repetitive BIM workflows while improving documentation consistency and reducing manual administration across projects.
Advance Steel – Structural Steel Automation
Support structural steel workflows with automated drawing processing, document exports and scheduled file management. Reduce manual administration and improve consistency across fabrication and engineering project deliverables.
AutoCAD – CAD Drawing Automation
Automate AutoCAD drawing exports, batch processing, PDF generation and scheduled publishing. Standardise CAD documentation workflows, minimise repetitive administration and improve the efficiency of project information delivery.
Forma – Cloud-Based Project Collaboration
Connect supported Autodesk Forma cloud workflows with Clarity to streamline project document management, publishing and information exchange. Improve collaboration between design teams and project stakeholders across connected environments.
Plant 3D – Plant Engineering Automation
Streamline plant engineering documentation through supported AutoCAD-based automation, drawing exports and file processing. Improve consistency across piping, equipment and plant design deliverables while reducing manual effort.
Bluebeam – PDF Documentation Workflows
Support Bluebeam-based document review workflows by automatically generating and distributing PDF deliverables. Improve document consistency, reduce manual preparation and streamline the exchange of engineering and construction documentation.
Procore – Construction Project Integration
Connect BIM automation with Procore project environments to support document publishing, file exchange and coordinated information delivery. Reduce manual transfers and improve accessibility of current construction documentation.
Google Drive – Cloud Document Management
Connect Clarity workflows with Google Drive to support automated file transfers, document storage and project information sharing. Improve accessibility while reducing manual file handling and repetitive administration.
OneDrive – Cloud File Synchronisation
Automate file transfers and synchronisation between Clarity workflows and Microsoft OneDrive. Streamline project document distribution, maintain organised file repositories and reduce manual uploads across design and engineering teams.
Dropbox – Automated File Sharing
Streamline project file management through automated transfers and synchronisation with Dropbox. Improve document availability, reduce manual uploads and support consistent information exchange between internal teams and external collaborators.
Network Drive & FTP
Automate file processing, exports, backups and document distribution across shared network drives. Maintain consistent folder structures, improve information accessibility and reduce manual administration within engineering project environments.
Microsoft Teams
Connect Clarity with Microsoft Teams to improve access to analytics and keep project information up to date. Help teams share updates, review insights and support better project coordination with less manual administration.
Power BI
Clarity links BIM data with Power BI to automate Revit data extraction and create tailored dashboards that improve visibility, support better decisions and simplify sharing project information.
Excel
Connect Microsoft Teams with IMAGINiT Clarity to share analytics and updated project information automatically. Improve visibility across project teams, support faster decisions and keep stakeholders aligned with current BIM data and reporting outputs.
AI Models
Connect IMAGINiT Clarity to an AI model through MCP to enable advanced task automation, structured data exchange and deeper analytics across BIM workflows, improving decision-making, consistency and operational efficiency.
How Clarity Fits Autodesk Workflows
Each day, teams open Clarity to check the latest model view before a coordination meeting or a site query. Design authors, project managers and construction leads look at the same status instead of exporting separate packs. Questions about what changed, what is at risk and what needs a decision can be answered from that shared view before work continues.
Model Health
Track whether models are fit to share. Surface warnings, standards gaps and items that need an author before the wider team relies on the file for design or construction decisions.
Project Status
Give leads a current read on progress across the model set. Milestones, open items and responsibilities stay visible without asking authors to assemble a fresh status pack each week.
Coordination
Help disciplines see shared coordination items in one context. Owners, priorities and next steps can be agreed while there is still time to adjust the model before work reaches site.
Reporting
Produce a consistent project report from the live view. Client and internal reviews no longer depend on rebuilding slides and spreadsheets from exports that may already be out of date.
Model Health
Track whether models are fit to share. Surface warnings, standards gaps and items that need an author before the wider team relies on the file for design or construction decisions.
IMAGINiT Clarity for Architecture
BIM Automation for Architectural Firms
Support your residential team with a more efficient way to manage BIM workflows, project data and routine model tasks. IMAGINiT Clarity helps home builders, residential designers and documentation teams reduce manual effort by updating Masters, design standards, design variations, automating repetitive processes such as drawing exports, publishing, reporting and model checking.
By creating more consistent workflows across projects, it can help improve accuracy, save time and keep information organised from design through to delivery. Whether you are handling standard house types, multi-residential developments or repeated documentation updates, Clarity provides a practical way to streamline project administration and strengthen day-to-day productivity across your organisation.
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