Autodesk confirms Forma will replace Revit “over time”
The Urban Forecast
Asked directly whether Forma will replace Revit, Autodesk answered: over time, yes. Every practice that standardised on Revit now has a migration question it did not choose.
The answer came in a press release FAQ, which is an unusually plain way to confirm the end of the tool most UK practices have built their production around.
Design, analysis, coordination and documentation will migrate progressively to the Forma cloud platform. Revit continues in the meantime as a Forma Connected Client, and Autodesk has promised no abrupt transition and continued investment in Revit. Civil 3D becomes a Forma Connected Client on the same basis, and a new Forma Street Design product was launched alongside.
Amy Bunszel framed the announcements under the heading of project intelligence: AI trained on proprietary project data rather than on the open internet. A standalone, agent-first Assistant is planned for 2027, intended to span products, projects and teams rather than sit inside a single application. Mike Haley, who leads AI and research, made the pitch for why that data is different.
It's not just a pile of text. It's geometry. It's engineering intent. It's the project history.
AEC Magazine notes that agent permissioning, monitoring and action logging remain underdeveloped, which is the part that matters if these tools are going to touch issued information.
Our take: “over time” is doing a great deal of work. For a practice with a decade of Revit families, templates and trained staff, a progressive migration to a cloud platform is not a software upgrade. It is a business change, and the timetable belongs to the vendor.