As-built Export

The As-built Export feature in Handover speeds up the handover process and improves the accuracy of your documentation.

Project administrators can export current information from their project into a ZIP file for handover documentation, project closeout, and archiving. The export may include files, sheets, RFIs, submittals, and more. The export also includes local linking, where you can click links to related project documents that are downloaded in the ZIP file and open them on your device.

You can also share as-builts with other Autodesk Construction Cloud projects using Bridge.

In this topic, you'll learn how to:

• Create As-built Exports
• Download As-built Exports
• View and Use Downloaded As-built Exports
  • Local Linking in As-built Exports
• Share As-builts with Other Projects Using Bridge

Create As-built Exports

Project administrators can set up and export current as-built information for a project.

1. Go to Project Admin.

2. Click Handover in the navigation menu.

3. Click the As-built export tab.

4. Click Create as-built to set up an as-built export.

   

5. The following default options are preselected. These are the project items supported for an as-built export:

   • Sheets – Current sheet versions and published markups
   • RFIs – Closed RFIs
   • Submittals – Closed submittals
   • Files – Current file versions for basic file types (PDF, JPG, PNG, XLSX, DOCX), not including markups
   • Issues – Closed issues
   • Forms – Open, closed, and archived forms
   • Photos – All photos

   Click Edit details to deselect any items you don’t want to include or to change the settings.

   

6. For each project item, select from these options:

   • Sheets

     • Sheet versions – Include all sheets or only current sheet versions.
     • Sheets markups – Include all markups, only published markups, or only published markups linked to RFI references.

   • RFIs

     • Include all RFIs (draft, open, and closed, but not voided) or only closed RFIs.

   • Submittals

     • Include all submittals (draft, required, open, and closed, but not voided) or only closed submittals.

   • Files

     • Include all files, basic file types (PDF, JPG, PNG, XLSX, DOCX), model files (RVT, DWG, NWC), or pick specific file types for current file versions, not including markups.
     Note: You can include up to 15,000 files.

   • Issues

     • Include all issues (open, in review, pending, and closed) or only closed issues.

   • Forms

     • Include all forms or only closed and archived forms.

   • Photos

     • Include all photos.

7. (Optional) If you don’t include all supported project items, you can turn on Include references to project items not selected. This adds any supported references and attachments to the as-built, even if you don’t select them.

   For example, you create an as-built with only Issues. If you turn on this option and some issues have references to RFIs, the RFI references are included in the as-built. References appear in a "Reference and attachments" folder in the downloaded export. This lets you access these references offline. Learn more about viewing as-built exports offline

   Note: Forms, Issues, and RFI Attachments are not supported in an as-built export.

   

8. Click Create.

9. You see a notification confirming the as-built export is in progress. It can take from one to several hours to generate your export. You get an email with a link to download the export when it’s ready.

Download As-built Exports

After you create an as-built export, the download link is in the As-built Export log.

1. On the As-built Export page, click the as-built. A panel opens.

2. Click Download ZIP at the bottom of the panel.

   

View and Use Downloaded As-built Exports

To access the as-built folders, unzip the downloaded file on your computer.

Each supported tool has its own folder. If you include references, you also see a "References and Attachments" folder. The following is a macOS example of an as-built with only Issues selected.

Local Linking in As-built Exports

The As-built Export feature supports local linking between files in the exported ZIP file. This means that you can click links to referenced project items, and the corresponding downloaded file opens on your computer without needing to switch between the PDF export and Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) web.

For example, if an issue has a form reference and that form was downloaded, clicking the link opens the downloaded form report.

• Links between RFIs and sheets are included as local URL links in the PDF.
• Photos linked to an RFI show up as thumbnails in the PDF.
• Titles of project items are not links, so they don’t open the item in Autodesk Construction Cloud on the web.
• Any links to unsupported references and attachments are disabled to prevent viewers from seeing expired links. For example, since Assets is not a supported reference type, a link to an asset is disabled. However, due to technical limits, the color of disabled links stays the same as active links.

The Preview app on Mac works with these limits:

• RFI references on sheets are not available.
• Local links between files in the exported folder are not available.

Share As-builts with Other Projects Using Bridge

Bridge is the enabling technology that lets you share project information with other Autodesk Construction Cloud projects and accounts. Learn more about the Bridge tool in About Bridge.

Project administrators can share as-builts with other projects where they are a project administrator or a member. You need Edit permission or higher in the target folder that you want to share with.

1. Click Share on the As-built Exports log.

   

2. (Optional) Enter a title for this event. In the Outgoing tab of the Bridge tool, this title appears as a line item in the log to help your team track what was shared.

   Note: <>:"/\|?*` are not allowed.

3. Select a target project.

   Note: If the project you want to share with is in a different data storage region, first click Select another data region. Then you can select a project hosted in that region from the menu.

4. Select a target folder for the as-built.

5. Click Share. You will get an email when sharing is complete.

You can track the shared as-built in the Outgoing tab of the Bridge tool. Learn more.