Many aspects of iTwin Design Review are particularly relevant to engineering analysis workflows. Project managers or other stakeholders in a project may not be skilled in, or have access to, the analytical software used by engineers to analyze and design a structure. These individuals may instead have a practice of reviewing a set of 2D drawings or a BIM model that is disconnected from the engineering analysis models. In this case, the reviewer may not have a complete understanding of the assumptions used by the designers. iTwin Design Review can therefore help project managers catch incorrect assumptions or errors during the design phase before it becomes a construction problem.

Some of the practical applications of this technology to the traditional engineering review and collaboration process include:

• Have a conversation with participants via chat in the context of a 3D model, annotating and marking up objects, and leaving questions, comments, and markups for specific stakeholders.
• Include stakeholders, such as project managers and other engineering disciplines, that are not users of Engineering Simulation software, in this review process. All that is needed is a web browser and anyone invited can contribute to the review.
• Resolve issues raised by team members directly in the desktop application.
• Save a record of conversations (chats) in the review so that reasons for key decisions can be revisited at a later point if needed.
• Create specific views of the structure, with objects of interest isolated and zoomed to, that collaborators and reviewers can see immediately without needing to recreate the view themselves.