Autodesk Construction Cloud

The Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) EDMS Connector integrates ACC’s document management with Newforma Project Center through the EDMS plugin architecture, enabling design and construction teams to access ACC/Autodesk Docs models, drawings, and project documentation directly within Project Center’s Project Files activity center. This seamless integration eliminates the manual overhead of switching between ACC and Project Center, allowing teams to leverage Project Center’s powerful workflow capabilities—including Submittals, RFIs, search, markups, and file sharing—on ACC files while maintaining synchronized check-in/check-out status across both platforms.

By bridging cloud document storage with construction administration workflows, the connector enables organizations to maintain Autodesk Construction Cloud as their authoritative document repository while empowering project teams to execute all construction workflows through Project Center’s familiar interface, creating a unified environment where cloud collaboration and project management converge without platform silos or context switching overhead.

Benefits

Features

Eliminate Context Switching

Users complete all work within Project Center's familiar interface while the connector seamlessly accesses ACC content behind the scenes.

Extend Project Center Construction Administration

Submittals, RFIs, and document transmittals can reference ACC files directly without manual downloads or external file management.

Maintain Single-Source File Authority

Project Center accesses ACC as the authoritative repository rather than creating duplicate file copies that diverge over time.

Reduce Administrative Overhead

Automated synchronization eliminates manual file transfer, version reconciliation, and checkout status tracking between systems.

Enable Comprehensive Information Discovery

Unified search finds documents regardless of whether they reside in ACC cloud storage or local Project Center file structures.

Features

Eliminate Manual File Transfers

The EDMS plugin architecture surfaces ACC/Autodesk Docs files directly within Project Center's Project Files activity center, eliminating the need to manually download documents from ACC and upload them to Project Center workflows

Enable Full Project Center Workflow Capabilities on ACC Files

ACC files accessed through Project Center gain full access to Project Center's comprehensive workflow and collaboration features, transforming cloud-hosted models into active participants in construction administration processes.

Maintain Synchronized Check-In/Check-Ou

The connector establishes bidirectional check-in/check-out synchronization that maintains file locking status across both ACC and Project Center, preventing editing conflicts and version overwrites

Accelerate Project Information Discovery with Cross-Platform Search

The Project Center Server automatically indexes ACC files through the EDMS connector, enabling full-text search across cloud content alongside local project files from a single Project Center search interface. Users can locate ACC drawings by searching for specification numbers, model files by project phase keywords, or contract documents by clause text; all through Project Center's unified search that returns results from both ACC and local file sources with equal fidelity