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Upload files to a project’s Documents so your whole team can find, preview, and search them in one place.
You need a Creator or Admin role on the project to upload files.

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Upload files

1

Open Documents

Go to your project and click Documents in the project menu.
2

Choose a folder (optional)

To upload straight into a folder, select it in the left panel first. Files uploaded from All files or Unfiled aren’t added to a folder.
3

Click Upload

Click Upload at the top of the file list. In an empty project, click Upload your first document.
4

Add your files

Drag files into the Upload files window, or click browse to pick them. You can add several files at once. To take a file off the list before uploading, click the X next to it.
5

Upload

Click Upload (or Upload n files). Each file shows its progress and a check mark when it’s done. Click Close when every file is uploaded.
After upload, Acelab starts reading PDF and image files. They show a Processing status until they’re ready. You can keep working while this happens.

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Accepted files

You can upload PDFs, images, Office, CAD, BIM, and archive files, up to 1 GB each.
Acelab reads PDF, PNG, and JPG files to build summaries, search, and product lists. Other file types are stored and can be previewed or downloaded, but their contents aren’t read.

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If a file won’t upload

  • “.xyz files are not allowed.” The file type isn’t accepted. Convert it or zip it.
  • “This file is larger than the limit.” Split or compress the file.
  • “This file is empty.” Check that the file has content and try again.
  • Upload failed partway. Click Retry failed to upload the failed files again.

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Upload files through Ace

You can also drop a PDF or image into Ace while you’re in a project. Ace saves it to that project’s Documents and answers questions about it. See Documents and Ace.

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Next steps

Extracting products from documents

Add the products in a file to a schedule.

Documents overview

Folders, search, preview, and statuses.