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Ace, the Acelab agent, can read your project’s Documents. Ask about specs, requirements, products, warranties, dates, or responsibilities, and Ace searches your files and answers with citations you can click to open the exact page.

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Ask Ace about your documents

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Open a project

Ace answers about the project you’re working in. Open the project, or its Documents page.
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Ask your question

For example: “What does the spec require for door hardware finishes?” or “Which flooring products are listed as basis of design?”
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Check the sources

Each statement Ace takes from a document has a number, like [1]. The source names the file, the section, and the pages. Click it to open the file at that page.

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Ask about the file you’re viewing

When you open a file in the Documents preview, Ace stays open beside it and knows which file and page you’re on. Ace searches that file first, and only searches the rest of the project if the file doesn’t answer your question. This makes it easy to ask “What does this section say about submittals?” while you read.

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Attach a file in Ace

Drop a file into Ace, or click the paperclip, to ask about it right away.
  • Ace reads PDF, PNG, and JPG files.
  • If a project is open, the file is saved to that project’s Documents, the same as uploading it there. The file card shows Reading…, then Ready, and links to the file in Documents.
  • If no project is open, Ace asks which project the file is for. Pick one from the choices under the reply, and Ace saves the file there and answers.
In later messages, Ace finds the file in your project’s Documents, so you don’t need to attach it again.

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Other things Ace can do with Documents

  • List the files and folders in a project, and show a file’s summary.
  • List the project’s SmartDocs.
  • Read the pages around a passage when one passage isn’t enough.

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What Ace won’t do

  • Guess. If your documents don’t cover a question, Ace says so and tells you what it searched for.
  • Answer before a file is read. If a file is still processing, Ace tells you the answer will be ready when reading finishes.
  • Edit your documents. Ace can’t change, move, or delete files.
Ace only sees files Acelab has read. Files that show Failed, or file types other than PDF and images, aren’t searchable. Retry a failed file from Documents.

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Learn more

Documents overview

How Documents works.

Extracting products from documents

Add the products in a file to a schedule.