Identify benefits of data exchange over file exchange

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A data exchange enables you to connect multiple applications together via Autodesk Construction Cloud

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and provides you with more security and control over the shared data,

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as compared to a file exchange.

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With a file exchange, such as sharing a Revit model,

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the shared information also contains your sheets and families within the model,

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even if they are not being used.

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While you could purge the information by deleting all the sheets before sharing,

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this just adds additional steps and room for error when sharing with external parties.

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It becomes difficult to control exactly what is being shared.

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With a data exchange, you can be specific about what you are sharing,

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such as geometry or parts of the geometry.

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This enables you to decide and control which stakeholders will receive which pieces of information.

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For instance, if you want to focus on data about doors and sending this information to Power BI,

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you can extract only doors via your data exchange and send it to a stakeholder.

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Using that data within Power BI, you can extract pieces of your model by creating views

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that show specific geometry and send that to another Revit, Inventor, or AutoCAD user,

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or to any other platform that currently supports Autodesk data exchanges.

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In addition to having control over exactly what is being shared and with whom,

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the security that can be applied to data exchanges is much more advanced

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than the security within a normal file exchange.

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Using a data exchange also removes the need for creating different file formats.

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This is because every time you publish an updated version of your model,

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both the data exchange and the shared data can be updated.