If your Revit® models live in Forma® Data Management, there’s a good chance you already have access to a tool that tracks model health every time someone syncs—and most teams have never switched it on or opened the dashboard where that data lives. It’s called Model Analytics, and it’s one of the more useful tools in the Forma platform, even though it hasn’t gotten much attention.
We covered it briefly in our recent webcast on Forma entitlements for Revit 2027, but it deserves its own closer look.
The Problem: Model Health Issues Usually Show Up Too Late
Anyone who’s managed a Revit model at scale knows the pattern. Saves get slower. One team member’s sync time creeps up while nobody notices. Files quietly grow larger, linked models pile up, and eventually something breaks or someone loses an afternoon to a model that’s become sluggish for reasons no one can pin down.
The frustrating part is that most of this is diagnosable after the fact—too many loaded families, files that should be on their own worksets and aren’t, linked models that were never cleaned up. The signals were there. Nobody was watching for them.
What Model Analytics Actually Does
Model Analytics is a Revit extension that runs automatically every time someone syncs a workshared cloud model (or saves a non-workshared one). There’s no manual step: a “running analytics” indicator appears, the tool collects data, and the results land in the Insight tab in Forma Data Management.
Key Capabilities
- Real-Time Model Health Insights: Captures performance data at every sync, showing what was added, removed, or modified in the model.
- Health Scoring: Rolls warnings, sync behavior, file growth, and other risk indicators into simple health scores.
- Content Quality and Compliance: Flags non-approved or risky content so standards stay consistent.
- User Sync Compare: Timelines and charts of each user’s sync activity, highlighting the changes with the biggest impact.
- Historical Snapshots and Portfolio Analytics: Tracks model data over time and across projects, so you can spot trends instead of one-off problems.
- Web-Based Dashboards: Available at the model, project, and portfolio level for BIM managers, project admins, and designers.
- Availability: Accessed through Forma Insight and included with Forma Design Collaboration, Forma Data Management (excluding Build Essentials), Cloud Models for Revit, or Revit Cloud Worksharing.
User Sync Compare is arguably the most useful of these. If one person’s sync times are running consistently higher than everyone else’s, that’s a flag worth investigating—maybe their local files need cleanup, maybe they’re working in a part of the model that’s accumulating problems. Either way, it surfaces something a project lead would otherwise only notice once it became a visible slowdown for the whole team.
Who Sees What
Access is split by role. Individual users can see their own data—their own sync history, their own trends. Project admins get the full picture: everyone’s data, rolled up at the project and model level, so they can spot outliers and patterns across the whole team rather than just their own piece of it.
Why This Matters More Than It Sounds Like It Should
Model health tools tend to get ignored until something breaks, because most of them only tell you about a problem after it’s already slowed the team down. Model Analytics is different in one specific way: it’s passive. It runs on every sync without anyone having to remember to check anything, so the data is there before you go looking for it, not after.
What It Doesn’t Do—Yet
To be clear about where this tool stands: it’s a first version, and it’s better at showing you that something changed than telling you why. A spike in sync time or a batch of large, newly loaded families will show up on the health dashboard, but someone still has to dig in and find the cause. That’s still a real time-saver. Instead of hunting blind, your BIM lead knows where to start checking the usual suspects: an unusual number of loaded families, linked files that aren’t on dedicated worksets, or a jump in warnings and errors.
Getting Started
Model Analytics has to be switched on before it collects anything. A hub admin activates it for the hub (Hub Admin > Settings) and for each project you want analyzed.
Next, the extension needs to be installed on every workstation where someone works on those cloud models. It supports Revit 2024 and later: in your Autodesk Account, open the Revit product details, select your version, and download the Model Analytics Revit Extension under Extensions. It won’t appear on the Revit Add-Ins tab—the results live in Forma, not Revit.
From there, it runs on its own. The only thing left to do is open the Insight tab and look at what it’s been collecting.
Get More Out of What You Already Own
Model Analytics only pays off when it’s turned on, installed on every workstation, and someone actually reads the dashboards. Hagerman’s AEC team can confirm whether your subscriptions include it, help your hub admin get it running on active projects, and walk your BIM leads through what the first few weeks of data are telling them.
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