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Using Autodesk Assistant in ACC

Note:

Autodesk Assistant in ACC is available to customers with Enterprise Business Agreements (EBA) and Account Unlimited Agreements.

  • All customers with access to Autodesk Assistant can use the assistant to ask questions about their project’s specification data.
  • Beta functionality for querying additional project data is available to project administrators as part of certain subscription accounts. Contact your account representative to learn more about the Autodesk Assistant features in beta.

Autodesk Assistant in ACC saves your team valuable time by quickly answering questions that would normally require manual searching of specifications and other project documents. Ask questions in plain language to find, connect, and act upon data across your project. (Note: Product data beta functionality is currently only available for certain subscription accounts.)

To use Autodesk Assistant in ACC, you can write any question you have about your specifications data (or project data in beta). You can also select a question to ask from a list of sample prompts.

Note: While Autodesk Assistant in ACC provides quick answers based on your data, always double-check its responses against the original documents. Think of Autodesk Assistant in ACC like having a helpful, but new team member—its suggestions are valuable starting points, but still need your expert review. When Autodesk Assistant in ACC provides information, take a moment to click the linked references to verify details, especially for critical decisions about materials, methods, or compliance requirements. This simple verification step helps make sure that your project follows the specifications as intended.

Write a Query to Ask a Question about Your Project

  1. By default, the Specifications option is selected in the assistant drop-down, and you can query data from your project specifications.

    • If you are part of the Project Data beta, you can select Project Data from the drop-down to query an expanded set of project documents. (If you are not part of the beta, this option will not be available.)

  2. In the panel’s prompt entry box, write and enter a question related to your specifications or other project data.

    • You can ask anything about your Specification data.
    • If you are part of the Project Data beta, you can also ask anything about additional Project Data including data from your specifications, RFIs, issues, submittals, schedules, and change orders.
    • The assistant can provide various answers, depending on your question or prompt. For example, you can prompt the assistant to:
      • Answer specific questions about your data
      • Generate lists of items
      • Draft summaries that can be used for project communication purposes
    Note: There is a limit of 100 queries per 24-hour period for each project member using Autodesk Assistant in ACC.

  3. Click Submit to enter the prompt.

    Tip:

    • Save a prompt that you’ve submitted by hovering over it in the conversation thread and clicking the Bookmark icon that appears.
    • Find your saved prompts in the Prompt Library accessible from the drop-down menu at the top of the panel.

  4. Review the response and ask follow-up questions to refine the response.

    Note: There is a limit of 100 queries per 24-hour period for each project member using Autodesk Assistant in ACC.

Select a Question from the List of Sample Prompts

  1. Autodesk Assistant provides a few sample prompts or questions that you can try. These are located right above the prompt entry box in the panel. Click one of the sample prompts and that question is automatically populated in the entry field.

  2. Many more sample prompts can be found in the Prompt Library, including your own saved prompts. Learn more about the Prompt Library.

  3. Click Submit to enter the prompt.

  4. Review the response and ask follow-up questions to refine the response.

    Note: There is a limit of 100 questions per 24-hour period for each project member using Autodesk Assistant in ACC.

Generated Responses

After you’ve entered a query, Autodesk Assistant will generate a response using your specifications data (or project data in beta). The response will include linked references to specific sections of the source project document that you can review directly within the document.

Note: Because responses are AI generated, answers may not be complete or accurate. It is your responsibility to verify the answers by checking references and the specification.

You can continue to ask follow-up questions to refine a response. Easily copy the text of a response to paste into another document. You can also give thumbs up or thumbs down feedback to indicate the quality of the response you receive.

Refine a Response

After receiving a response to your question, you can continue to ask follow-up questions that build on previous questions and responses to get the information you’re looking for.

  • If you are not getting a satisfactory answer after several questions in a thread, we recommend starting fresh. Try starting a new chat and rephrase your new query in a different way.

    Tip: Click the Plus icon at the far top right of the panel to start a new query.

  • You can also regenerate or retry a query by using the Regenerate query link.

Copy a Response

Copy the content of a response in Autodesk Assistant by clicking the Copy to clipboard icon that appears when you hover at the bottom right of a response. You can then paste the text of the response in another document.

Prompt Library

In the Prompt Library, you can access sample prompts and your own saved questions.

Select Prompt Library from the drop-down at the top of the assistant panel to open a list of suggested prompts that you can use with the assistant.

Use a Prompt in the Prompt Library

In the Suggested tab in the Prompt Library, click a prompt to populate it in the panel's prompt entry box as a query. You can then submit the query to get a response.

Save a Prompt

You can save your own submitted question to the Prompt Library for future use. Save a question to the Prompt Library by hovering over your question in the conversation thread and clicking the Bookmark icon that appears.

Find and reuse your saved prompts in the Saved tab in the Prompt Library. To use a saved prompt, click the prompt to populate it in the prompt entry box as a query. You can then submit the query to get a response with current data.

Chat History

You can view the chat history by clicking Chat History from the drop-down at the top of the assistant panel. This opens a list of previous conversations.

Your Autodesk Assistant conversations are stored in Chat History for 30 days. Interacting with a stored conversation will restart the 30 day storage period.

Delete a conversation in the chat history clicking the Trash icon beside a conversation.

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