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Connect Autodesk Construction Cloud

If your drawings live in Autodesk Construction Cloud, import them without ever downloading a file. Link an ACC Docs folder to a Structured AI project: the set comes in with its folder structure, new versions are picked up as your team publishes them, and findings go back to ACC as native Issues.

Use case: point Structured AI at your project's "For Review" folder in ACC Docs, run your QA/QC checks, and send the flagged findings back to the team as ACC Issues they resolve in Build.

IT setup comes first

Before anyone can connect, an ACC account admin must authorize Structured AI for your company's ACC account — a one-time step that takes about two minutes. If that hasn't happened yet, start with Part 2: IT setup. Until it's done, everything in Part 1 shows "Waiting for your ACC account admin to authorize Structured AI."

Part 1: Using the connector​

Once your admin has authorized the app (Part 2), this is the everyday flow.

Connect your Autodesk account (once per user)​

  1. In Structured AI, open Settings → Integrations → Autodesk Construction Cloud and click Connect.
  2. Sign in with your Autodesk account and accept the permissions.

Structured AI acts with your ACC permissions: you only see hubs and projects you're a member of, and importing a project's files requires view + download permission in its Document Management.

Import drawings from ACC​

  1. On the home screen, click Import project → Autodesk Forma / ACC (or link ACC to an existing project from the project page).
  2. Pick your hub → ACC project → folder. Subfolders can be included.
  3. Structured AI imports the drawings and starts extraction, same as a direct upload.

Keep the set in sync​

The link remembers where the set came from. When files change in ACC — new versions published, sheets added, renamed, or moved — Structured AI detects the changes so you can pull them in and re-review only what moved.

Publish findings as ACC Issues​

Push flagged issues from Structured AI back to the linked ACC project as native ACC Issues, so the team triages and resolves them in Build alongside everything else — no Structured AI account needed to work the punch list.

Publishing runs under the Autodesk connection of the person who linked the ACC folder, so that account needs permission to create issues in the ACC project. The ACC project also needs at least one active issue type with an active subtype.

Disconnecting​

Settings → Integrations → Disconnect removes your stored Autodesk connection. (To revoke access for the whole company, see Part 2.)

Part 2: IT setup (authorize Structured AI)​

This is the step that must happen before anyone in Part 1 can connect. It's done once per company, by an ACC hub admin (called account admin in older ACC accounts — not project admin), and takes about two minutes. Individual Structured AI users don't need any special ACC role.

  1. Go to acc.autodesk.com/projects and open Hub Admin.

    ACC home with Hub Admin highlighted in the top-left

  2. In the left sidebar, click Custom integrations.

    Hub Admin with Custom integrations highlighted in the left sidebar

  3. Click Add custom integration.

    Custom integrations page with the Add custom integration button highlighted

  4. Fill in the dialog:

    • Autodesk Platform Services Client ID:

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    • Custom integration name: Structured AI

    • Description (optional): Structured AI — imports drawings for automated QA/QC review and publishes findings back as ACC Issues.

    Add custom integration dialog with the Client ID, name, and description filled in

  5. Click Next. ACC shows a permission warning — this is Autodesk's standard notice for every custom integration. Click Proceed anyway.

    Permission Warning dialog with the Proceed anyway button

  6. That's it — Structured AI now appears in the list as Active.

    Custom integrations list showing Structured AI as Active

Authorization can take a few minutes to propagate on Autodesk's side. Structured AI detects when it lands — the import dialog updates automatically. If a user beat you to it, the dialog they're looking at includes this same Client ID in a copy-paste instruction block they can send you.

Revoking access: deleting the custom integration under Hub Admin → Custom integrations revokes access for the whole account. Individual users can also disconnect just themselves (see Disconnecting).

Troubleshooting​

  • "Waiting for your ACC account admin to authorize Structured AI" — Part 2 hasn't been completed for your account yet, or it hasn't finished propagating (give it a few minutes; the dialog rechecks automatically).
  • A hub or project is missing from the picker — you must be a member of that ACC project, with view + download permission on its files.
  • Publish fails with "no active issue subtype" — the ACC project needs an active subtype under an active issue type configured in Build.
  • Publish fails with a permission error even though you can create issues — publishing uses the connection of whoever linked the ACC folder; that account needs issue-create permission in the ACC project.
Available on request

The ACC connector is enabled per organization. If your drawings live in ACC, talk to us.