IMAGINiT ACCelerate vs HUDA for Autodesk Forma user management

IMAGINiT ACCelerate and HUDA solve the same daily job. In Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud), project membership is set project by project, so adding one person to 20 projects means 20 trips through project admin. Both tools turn that into a single bulk run. They wrap it in very different packages.

Short version: ACCelerate is a subscription governance platform from IMAGINiT, a large Autodesk reseller, with a free trial on the Autodesk Marketplace. Beyond bulk membership, it reassigns open issues and RFIs when someone leaves and audits permissions against your company standard. HUDA is our free tool on the Autodesk Marketplace. It does membership and folder permissions only, shows you the full diff before anything runs, gives you a rollback file after, and keeps none of your data.

If you need governance across a big hub, look hard at ACCelerate. If you need to stop clicking through projects this week, install HUDA and try it on a real onboarding. It costs nothing.

We’re a certified Autodesk Platform Services partner, and both tools sit on the same public APS APIs. Everything we say about ACCelerate below comes from IMAGINiT’s own product page, launch press release, blog, and Autodesk Marketplace listing, as of October 2026.

Side by side

“Not advertised” means IMAGINiT’s public pages (checked October 2026) don’t mention it, not that ACCelerate can’t do it. If any of those rows matter to you, confirm directly with IMAGINiT.

What IMAGINiT ACCelerate is

IMAGINiT launched ACCelerate in October 2025 as “a new SaaS-based tool that helps administrators of Autodesk Construction Cloud eliminate repetitive tasks and strengthen governance across projects.” It’s delivered as a subscription, with a free trial on the Autodesk Marketplace, and “designed for firms with twenty-five or more users or multiple active projects.” The product page is built around three capabilities:

• Batch user management. “Add, update, or deactivate users with a single spreadsheet upload,” and “apply roles, permissions, and admin rights consistently.” IMAGINiT’s blog adds “reusable permission presets for consistency.”
• Reassignment. “Reassign issues, RFIs, submittals, and forms from one user to another,” or redirect them to a company or role instead of an individual, across selected projects or your entire environment.
• Security audit. “Generate a full permissions report across projects, folders, and tools,” then compare current settings against your company’s security template.

The last two are what set it apart. When a project engineer leaves mid-job, their open RFIs and submittals still carry their name. Moving those by hand across 30 projects takes a day of clicking; ACCelerate does it in one pass. The audit answers the question IT asks every quarter: who can see what?

IMAGINiT also runs a large Autodesk services practice. For a firm that already buys its Autodesk licenses and training there, ACCelerate comes from a vendor it already works with.

What HUDA is

HUDA is a wizard-style web app we built and published on the Autodesk Marketplace. It does the membership work an admin spends real hours on, with checks at each step so you can run it on a live portfolio.

• It creates the users who don’t exist yet. Upload your list, and HUDA spots the emails with no Autodesk account, creates them in your hub, sets their access, and sends the invites. Normally that’s a separate trip to Account Admin before you can even start.
• Add, update, and remove, one row per change. Same person onto 10 projects? 10 rows, each with its own role. It reads like editing a spreadsheet, with email autocomplete and inline validation.
• Folder permissions. Viewer, downloader, uploader, editor, or manager on a specific folder, picked from a visual folder tree. That’s the access external consultants and subcontractors need.

Before anything runs, you get a dry-run diff of every add, update, and removal across every project. After it runs, you get per-row results, a retry for failed rows, and a rollback CSV that undoes the whole run.

Free, and it holds none of your data

HUDA is free. No seats, no sales call, no trial clock.

It runs in your browser and talks straight to the Autodesk APIs. There’s no HUDA database keeping a copy of your users, projects, or folder structure. When your security reviewer asks where the member data goes, the answer is: nowhere new.

That makes the evaluation cheap. You can run one real onboarding through HUDA this afternoon and know whether it covers your case, before you open a procurement conversation with anyone.

Where they overlap

Both tools do the core job: add, update, and remove people across many Forma projects without opening each one. Both set roles per project. Both work from spreadsheet-shaped input.

If that’s all you need, the deciding factors are price, whether you can see the change before it runs, and how each vendor handles your member data.

Where ACCelerate is the better fit

Be honest about scope. ACCelerate wins when membership is only part of the problem:

• Offboarding is the hard part. People leave with open issues, RFIs, and submittals assigned to them, and you need those moved fast. HUDA doesn’t touch those objects.
• You answer to an audit. You need a permissions report across projects, folders, and tools, checked against a company standard.
• You want standard presets applied the same way across every project.
• You already work with IMAGINiT and want the tool, training, and support from one place.

Where HUDA is the better fit

• You want a tool that stays free after the trial. No seats, no renewal.
• You onboard and move people constantly and want to see every change before it runs, then undo it if something’s off.
• You need to create users who have no Autodesk account yet without a side trip to Account Admin.
• You hand out folder-level access to consultants and subcontractors.
• Your security team prefers tools that don’t keep a copy of your account data.
• You might need a custom build later. HUDA is our codebase, so wiring it into your HR system or ERP is a Forma software development project we can take on.

How to choose

• Offboarding, reassignment, and audits across a large hub: ACCelerate.
• Day-to-day membership and folder access, with preview and undo, for free: HUDA.
• Both: they don’t conflict. A hub can run a free tool for daily changes and a governance platform for the quarterly audit.
• Not sure: install HUDA and run one real onboarding through it. If it covers you, you’re done. If you hit the reassignment or audit wall, start the ACCelerate trial and you’ll know exactly what you’d be paying for.

For the other options, including native Forma and Naviate Cloud Manager, and the underlying gap all these tools fill, see our post on bulk user management for Forma and ACC.

FAQ

What is IMAGINiT ACCelerate?

A subscription SaaS tool from IMAGINiT, launched in October 2025, for administering Autodesk Forma (ACC). It does batch user management from a spreadsheet, reassigns issues, RFIs, submittals, and forms between users, and audits permissions against a company security template.

Is there a free alternative to IMAGINiT ACCelerate?

For bulk membership and folder permissions, yes: HUDA is free on the Autodesk Marketplace. It adds, updates, and removes members across projects, creates missing users, and shows a dry-run before any change. It doesn’t do issue / RFI reassignment or permission audits.

How much does ACCelerate cost?

IMAGINiT doesn’t publish a price. It’s sold as a subscription with a free trial on the Autodesk Marketplace; contact IMAGINiT for a quote. HUDA is free.

Can both add one user to multiple Forma projects at once?

Yes. ACCelerate does it from a spreadsheet upload. HUDA does it row by row (one row per project) and shows you the full diff before it runs.

Which one can undo a bulk change?

HUDA gives you a rollback CSV after every run. IMAGINiT’s public pages don’t mention an undo feature as of October 2026; ask them if you need it.

Does either store my user data?

HUDA runs in your browser and keeps none of your account data. IMAGINiT’s Marketplace listing explains how ACCelerate authenticates (it acts as the signed-in admin) but not where data is hosted or how long it’s kept; ask during evaluation.

Does HUDA reassign RFIs or submittals when someone leaves?

No. HUDA handles membership and folder access. If reassignment is your main need, ACCelerate is built for it.

Try HUDA, or build what you need

HUDA is free on the Autodesk Marketplace. Both tools install from the Autodesk Marketplace, so if you manage more than a handful of Forma projects, the cheapest way to compare them is to run the same real onboarding through each.

Need something neither tool does out of the box, like membership synced from your HR system or a white-labeled admin tool for your own clients? That’s the kind of APS integration we build. Talk to us.

Lagarsoft is a certified Autodesk Platform Services partner specializing in AEC software integrations, BIM data pipelines, and custom construction technology. Based in Uruguay, working with AEC firms across the US, Canada, and Europe.