About Bridge
Bridge is the enabling technology that allows you to easily share project information with other Autodesk Construction Cloud projects and accounts. It creates copies of content in the target project to improve cross-team collaboration, reduce rework, and improve control of project information.
When you share with and receive content from other projects, you can manage that shared content in the Bridge tool.
Check out this overview video to learn about the basics of the Bridge tool:
In this topic, you'll learn about:
Who Can Use Bridge
| General Contractors | When working on large-scale projects, general contractors may want to split out different parts of the project into their own project instances within Autodesk Construction Cloud. This can be easily accomplished with Bridge and enables general contractors to share any relevant documentation that applies to the larger source project. |
| Subcontractors | Specialty contractors often struggle to access the right data and information because they are at the helm of the general contractor who owns the project in Autodesk Construction Cloud. If they are removed from the project, Bridge can help subcontractors access the information they need. They can then control and manage their own documentation processes. |
| Designers | Design teams could be creating valuable IP in their work that they don’t necessarily want to share with all project stakeholders. With Bridge, they can select the documents that need to be shared or elect not to share updated versions. This flexibility allows them to maintain their IP in their own account without risking privacy concerns. |
| Owners | Owners require visibility into the progress of a project or they may require certain deliverables from the construction teams. But beyond access, they want to own all the documentation and not have it nested under a GC’s project instance. Bridge can help those construction teams share relevant information with the owners so that they can own and control all data from their own infrastructure. |
Key Functionalities of Bridge
Share content with other projects
When you share content with another project, you can view and manage the outgoing content in Bridge. Learn how to share:
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Note: You can also share project items like RFIs, submittals, and reports to the Files tool and then use Bridge to share them with other projects. Learn more
Sheets (Autodesk Build)
As-builts (Autodesk Build)
If you choose to automatically sync the content you share, you create a bridge between the two projects. You can manage the automations you create and delete a bridge.
Receive content from other projects
When other teams share content with your project, you can view and manage the incoming content.
Import content from other projects
In the Bridge Tool, you can import content from other projects into your project. Learn how in:
The Bridge tool is also available in Design Collaboration. Learn more in Bridge for Design Collaboration.