Automated drawing extraction lets members:
You can access automated drawing extraction from the Files tool which is available directly in some products, and also from Docs which is included in all the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform product offerings. This allows members to manage, review, and collaborate on their drawings in the same common data environment for all stages of the project lifecycle; design, preconstruction and construction phases.
This helps prevent drawing duplication between different products and help maintain a single source of truth.
Project administrators can create title block templates which contain selected attributes and predefined capture areas drawn on the title block. Members can select a template for drawings of the same paper size and title block layout at the start of the extraction process. This helps to save the time and effort of manually defining capture areas and editing attributes.
You can extract any custom attributes which exist in the project by adding them to title block templates, or during the extraction process by drawing capture areas on the title block.
The Files tool allows you to define a folder structure tailored for drawing organization on your project. You can save extracted files to those folders including naming standard enforced folders. For example, individual drawings can be organized in folders for different phases or disciplines of a project.
Grant specific folder permissions to access and action drawings.
Naming standards enforce the standardization of file names for folders with a naming standard applied. You can save extracted files to naming standard enforced folders, checking file names in the file validator so they conform with the naming standard.
After your drawings are extracted and saved to a folder, automatic hyperlinks will be turned on for that folder and all its subfolders. This means that any sheet number callouts are automatically converted into links if they reference drawings with the same sheet number attribute value in the folder and its subfolders. See Automatic Hyperlinks Settings for more details.
As extracted files are saved to folders, they can take advantage of other file actions and workflow capabilities in the Files tool, such as review approval workflows.
The following are limitations in the Automated Drawing Extraction feature.
You can’t extract values for Description system attribute.