About Communicator for Revit

Communicator is a live chat panel that works with BIM 360 Team single sign-on to provide contextual communication and collaboration tools for teams working on building and construction project.

Communicator is installed with Revit Cloud Worksharing. Your company must subscribe to the Revit Cloud Worksharing service.

Communicator launches automatically when Revit starts. If you open a BIM 360 Team model, the Communicator panel becomes active.

Note: Communicator only works with BIM 360 Team. If you open a BIM 360 Docs model, the Communicator panel is inactive.
When you open Revit, Communicator displays in a floating window.
Note: To open Communicator if it is not running, or to bring the window to the foreground, in Revit, click Collaborate tabCommunicate panel Communicator. Even if you open multiple Revit sessions, you can only have a single Communicator process running.

When Communicator is open, an icon displays in the taskbar . The icon flashes when you receive a new chat message.

Video: Using Communicator for Autodesk Revit

The following image identifies the main areas of the Communicator window.

Click a view icon to:
Access preferences by clicking your BIM 360 Team account picture, and the Settings icon:

The name of the project and last-updated date and time display.

Icons to the right of the project name allow you to:

The main area of the window changes based on the selected view. In this example, the Project view is selected showing members and model activity for the current project.

Project member tools are available from the All Projects panel by expanding the project, and right-clicking the member picture. You can select to: