Connecting Autodesk Construction Cloud

Why connecting Autodesk Construction Cloud is useful (ask Cogram about your ACC projects, files, issues, RFIs, submittals, and more in plain language) and how an admin sets it up.

Connect Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) so you can ask Cogram about your ACC projects, files, issues, RFIs, submittals, and more in plain language: read-only, and always within your own Autodesk permissions.

Why connect Autodesk Construction Cloud

Cogram is an AI platform for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Connecting ACC lets you ask the Cogram Agent about your Autodesk project data in plain language, alongside your meetings, emails, and reports in Cogram, without switching to Autodesk or digging through folders.

Cogram reads live from Autodesk when you ask. Nothing is synced or stored, and every read happens as the signed-in user, so you only ever see what your own Autodesk account is already permitted to see. That keeps the integration safe to roll out across a whole organization: no shared credentials, no copied data, no new permissions to manage.

Cogram's access is read-only. It reads the projects, folders, files, and metadata your Autodesk account can see. It cannot create, edit, move, or delete anything in Autodesk.

What you can ask about

• Projects: the ACC projects and accounts (hubs) you can access.

• Files and folders: the document tree in a project, and previous versions of a file.

• File details: metadata and model properties for a document.

• Document contents: Cogram can read a PDF, Office, or text document from ACC (up to 25 MB) and answer questions about it. Model files (RVT, DWG, NWD) can be listed and downloaded, but not read.

• Issues: issues logged on a project.

• RFIs: RFIs on a project, with their status and details.

• Submittals: submittal items and their review status.

• Forms: filled project forms, such as daily reports and checklists.

• Photos: photos captured on a project.

• Sheets: published sheets in a project.

• Assets: assets and their status.

• Locations: a project's location breakdown (buildings, levels, areas).

• Cost: cost data on a project.

• Downloads: a link to open or download a specific file.

Revit and other model files. For a model file such as an .rvt, you can find it in the project folders, list its version history (who published each version, when, and the file size), ask for its model properties (the element data ACC extracts for its viewer), and get a download link. The model file itself can't be read as a document — ask for its properties or download it instead.

Example prompts

• "List the projects in our Autodesk Construction Cloud account."

• "What's in the Drawings folder of the [project name] project?"

• "Find the latest version of the curtain wall shop drawings in [project name]."

• "Summarize the open issues on [project name]."

• "What's the status of the open RFIs on [project name]?"

• "Show me the submittals under review on [project name]."

• "Get me a download link for the door hardware submittal."

• "What are the model properties of [drawing or model file]?"

• "Who published the latest version of the [model file] model, and when?"

Naming the project (and the folder or file, if you know it) gets you a faster, more precise answer. If the Agent can't find something, it's usually a permissions or naming difference in Autodesk: confirm your Autodesk account can see it.

Setting up the Autodesk connection

Two one-time steps make ACC data available: a Cogram user connects their own Autodesk account, and an Autodesk admin approves Cogram once for the whole account.

The Connect and Approve steps live on Organization Settings → Connectors, which is available to Cogram organization admins. Other users don't open this page; when they first ask the Agent for ACC data, it prompts them to connect their own Autodesk account (the same sign-in as Step 1).

Prerequisites

• An Autodesk Construction Cloud account on a full ACC subscription (Custom Integrations is not available on Trial / Essentials tiers).

• For the one-time approval: an Autodesk admin (Hub Admin) for your account.

• In Cogram, an organization admin opens Organization Settings → Connectors and selects the Autodesk Construction Cloud connector.

1. Connect your Autodesk account

Who: each Cogram user, for their own account. On the Connectors page an org admin connects their own account; everyone else connects from the Agent.

1. Open Organization Settings → Connectors and select the Autodesk Construction Cloud connector.

2. Under Step 1 · Connect your Autodesk account, select Connect.

3. Sign in to Autodesk and approve the access request.

Step 1: select Connect

Sign in to Autodesk, then select Allow

When the window closes, Step 1 shows Connected as <your Autodesk email>.

You can connect before your Autodesk admin has finished Step 2. Until the approval is in place, the connection succeeds but returns no project data. Complete Step 2, then verify.

Once connected, Step 2 shows the values to approve in Autodesk

2. Approve Cogram in your Autodesk account

Who: an Autodesk admin (Hub Admin), once per Autodesk account.

This authorizes Cogram's application to read data the connected users can access. The Step 2 card appears once you have completed Step 1; once approval is confirmed it collapses to a short confirmation.

1. In the Step 2 card, copy the three values Cogram shows: Client ID, App name, and Description (each has a copy button).

2. Select Open Autodesk to open Autodesk Construction Cloud in a new tab. This lands you on your ACC home; from there, open Hub Admin.

3. In Autodesk, go to Hub Admin → Custom Integrations and select + Add custom integration.

4. In the dialog, paste your copied values into the matching fields (the field names differ slightly from Cogram's):

   • Autodesk Platform Services Client ID ← Cogram's Client ID

   • Custom integration name ← Cogram's App name

   • Description ← Cogram's Description (optional free-text; safe to skip)

5. Save the integration and make sure it is Active.

6. Back in Cogram, select Verify connection.

Once approval is confirmed, the Not approved yet status clears and Step 2 collapses to Cogram is approved — you can access your ACC data.

Expected result

• Step 1 shows Connected as <your Autodesk email>.

• Step 2 reads Cogram is approved — you can access your ACC data (it collapses to this one-line confirmation; the button there becomes Re-verify).

• Cogram can now read your ACC projects, files, and metadata on demand: ask the Agent using the example prompts above.

Troubleshooting

Symptom: Verify connection stays on Not approved yet even though you just approved the integration in Autodesk. Likely cause: Verify checks ACC using your connection, so it needs Step 1 completed first; or the Custom Integration was added but not set to Active, or the values were mistyped. Fix: Confirm Step 1 shows Connected as …, then in Autodesk confirm the Custom Integration uses the exact Client ID Cogram shows and is Active. Re-paste from the copy buttons and select Verify connection again.

Symptom: "Not approved yet" and you are on an Autodesk Trial or Essentials plan. Likely cause: Custom Integrations requires a full ACC subscription; the setting is unavailable on Trial / Essentials tiers. Fix: Upgrade to a full ACC subscription, then complete Step 2.

Symptom: Cogram says your Autodesk connection has expired. Likely cause: The stored authorization lapsed (for example, after a long period of no use). Fix: In Step 1, select Connect again to re-authorize.

Disconnecting

To remove the connection, in Step 1 select Disconnect. Cogram immediately loses the ability to read your ACC data until you reconnect. Disconnecting does not change anything in Autodesk.

Next steps

• Agent: how to work with the Cogram Agent across all your project data, including your connected ACC data.

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