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Project QAQC

Project QAQC runs automated consistency, completeness and coordination checks across your drawings, specs and models - schedules versus plans, missing details, mismatched tags. Every issue is flagged and linked straight to the spot on the sheet, so you can confirm it in one click.

Use case: flag every door missing its fire rating before the set goes out.

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Running a check​

  1. Open Project QAQC from the tools rail.
  2. Say what you're reviewing for in the review intent box at the top. Blank is valid, but filling it in is what turns the whole library into the subset that matters for this pass.
  3. Work from the recommended checks - the checks that fit this set and that brief - or browse the full library below. Checks are grouped by discipline (architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, civil, and general) and by topic within each discipline. Hover a check to see exactly what it validates and what it flags. There's also a search box if you know the check's name.
  4. Select the checks to run and the sheets to run them on (or the whole set). Checks you built or imported appear in the same list, marked Custom or Shared.
  5. Start the run. Checks work in the background; watch them in the tasks tray and keep reviewing while they go.

If the project's documents are still processing, the check doesn't fail and you don't have to wait for it. It's saved with a Waiting for documents badge and starts on its own the moment processing finishes.

The upload wizard works out which checks fit a new set for you - they're waiting here in the recommendations when you open the project. See running checks at upload time.

Reviewing findings​

Findings appear in the Project QAQC feed as they come in:

  • Every finding is cited. Click it and the viewer jumps to the exact location, already zoomed, with the evidence highlighted.
  • Confirm or dismiss each finding. Your judgement carries forward to the next run - marking something "not an issue" doesn't have to be redone every time the check re-runs.
  • Assign real issues to teammates; they're tracked in Issues & Comments.

How checks work​

Different checks use different techniques under the hood: some read the drawings visually, some cross-reference schedules against plans, some reason across many pages (for example, matching every tag on the plans against the schedule and flagging mismatches in both directions). What they share:

  • Evidence-first. A finding always points at something you can see on the sheet.
  • Set-wide. Checks cross-reference between sheets, schedules, and details, not one page at a time.
  • They know what you've told us. Checks read the project's memory, so a fact your team recorded - "the east wing is built and barricaded", "we review to the 2021 IBC on this job" - is applied when judging what applies. That's how you stop a check re-raising something you've already settled, without switching the check off.

Which checks do I have?​

Your organization's check library is tailored to what you review. If there's a check you need that isn't in your library, or a check your firm runs that no one else does, you have two options: