Every Autodesk® Forma® issue you close in Autodesk® AutoCAD® Plant3D™costs you the same detour: switch to the browser, find the issue, read it, switch back, then hunt down the component it was raised on. Ten issues, twenty round trips — and that is after an email in a crowded inbox told you the issue existed at all.

P3D Issues moves that browser panel into the drawing session — a dockable palette inside Plant 3D, running on the Autodesk account you already sign in with.

The issue finds you

Assignments can arrive when you are not looking and may not be read until hours later. P3D Issues checks on your behalf: open or switch to a drawing in a Forma project, and anything newly assigned to you appears as a desktop notification with the issue number and title. Click the notification to open the palette. The palette does not even have to be running — the check happens quietly inside the drawing session, issues you have already been notified about remain silent, and so does the app when there is nothing new.

Assignments made to you by name work on your plain Autodesk sign-in. Assignments made to a role you hold need the one-time activation described below; the app reads your roles from the project itself, so there is nothing to configure by hand. Either kind can be switched off from the palette header.

From an issue to the component

Click an issue, press Zoom to component, and the flagged element is selected and zoomed in front of you. If it lives in a different DWG, the palette identifies the drawing to open. No searching by tag, no guessing which line it was.

From the component to an issue

Found an issue while modeling? Press New issue and pick the component. The plugin captures the current viewport as the snapshot and pins the issue to that element — you can then fill in the details. It stays a private draft until you press Publish, so nobody sees a half-written issue, and the snapshot lands in the Forma web panel exactly as it does in the palette.

Everything else you'd open the browser for:

• The full issue list for the current project, detected automatically from the active drawing, plus a picker for any other Forma project cached on this machine.
• Instant search across title, ID, description and drawing name. Filters by status, type/subtype, drawing and assignee, with sorting and filter chips.
• The complete detail panel: description, assignee, watchers, due and start dates, root cause, location, snapshot thumbnail and the whole comment thread.
• Comments and description edits written straight back to Forma.
• Status changed inline, from a dropdown built out of that issue's own permitted transitions — the available transitions are validated by the server.

Who it is for

Plant 3D teams already running Issues in Forma — designers answering review comments, checkers raising them, and anyone who ends up with the fix assigned to them.

What you need

An Autodesk® Forma® project (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud) with Issues enabled and your normal Autodesk sign-in. That is the whole setup: browsing, search, filters, comments, status changes, zoom to component and issue creation all work immediately, with nothing to configure on the account side. One optional one-time step — an admin adding the app under BIM 360 admin > Custom Integrations — replaces Autodesk user IDs with real member names and switches on role-based notifications.

It is a setting inside your own Forma account, not another Autodesk purchase, and a step-by-step guide (P3DIssues_Activation.html) ships with the app.

Runs in Plant 3D 2025, 2026 and 2027 (64-bit). Loads automatically on start — no NETLOAD, no configuration files. Quick Start and the full User Guide are built into the palette.