Our Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) integration allows you to connect your Common Data Environment to Sensat to automatically access files so they can be visualised together seamlessly with all your other project data. This allows you to maintain a single source of truth in Autodesk Docs (or BIM 360 Docs) and have confidence that content visualised in Sensat is always up-to-date, covers all disciplines, and retains its metadata.
Key features
Visualise geolocated data stored in your CDE seamlessly together.
Automated hourly sync to Sensat based on your approval workflow.
Eliminate the risk of data being outdated or missing entirely from Sensat.
How it works
An administrator must first enable the integration and configure which folders to sync from ACC to Sensat (see below).
Every hour changes made to files in ACC will sync to Content in Sensat. This includes new files, revisions, changes to any file attributes, and deletions.
Once files have been synchronised to Sensat they can be visualised in the same way as manually uploaded files.
Set-up and Configuration
A BIM360 admin must enable the Sensat Integration through the BIM360 admin panel.
Visit https://admin.b360.eu.autodesk.com/ for EU projects, or https://admin.b360.autodesk.com/ for US projects.
Verify in the Projects tab that you are in the correct account by searching for the name of the project:
Next, visit the Settings area and select Custom Integrations, followed by “Add Custom Integration”:
Select ‘Document Management’ and press ‘Next’:
Select “Invite a Developer” and enter “infrastructure@sensat.co.uk” as the email address and press “Send”:
An email will be sent to the Sensat team containing a form for us to complete. At this stage, please contact your Customer Success representative to verify that you are in the process of setting up the integration.
Once our team has completed the form, the BIM360 admin will need to go back to the admin panel & “approve” the Custom Integration:
Once the integration is set up and approved, contact your Customer Success representative again. At this point, you will need to provide the URLs of the specific ACC folders that you want to sync to with Sensat.
To get a folder URL, select the desired folder in ACC and copy the URL.
Note: Only list folders that directly contain files. If there are additional files within subfolders that need syncing, please list each subfolder separately.
Folder Sync configuration:
One ACC folder can be mapped to one Sensat folder.
A Sensat project can have multiple folders synced from different ACC projects.
A folder in an ACC project can be configured to sync to multiple Sensat projects.
The folder sync configuration can then be changed at your request.
The following file types will be automatically synchronised: .dgn, .dwg, .glb, .ifc, .dxf, .rvt, .nwd. If other files are present in your ACC folders, they will not be visible in Sensat.
All attributes present on the files will be synchronised and visible in Sensat. However, due to limitations of the ACC API, the "Description" attribute cannot be synchronised.
What you will see
Synced folders will be displayed in Content. They can be identified by the "sync" icon
You can click on synced files to view their attributes
The ‘Last Updated’ and ‘Version’ attributes will always be shown.
Due to limitations of the ACC API, the ‘Description’ attribute cannot be synchronised.
Other attributes will only be shown if they are populated in ACC.
To add a synced file to your workspace follow the usual add content flow. Learn how here.
Permissions
Click "Manage access" on a synced folder to update who can access the files in Sensat
Note: only users with "Full access" or the "Super admin" role can update permissions on synced folders
Select users or groups who should have access to the folder
Click done to update the folder permission
| No access | Can view | Full access |
Can visualise | X | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Can download | X | X | ✔️ |
Can manage access | X | X | ✔️ |
Can edit | X | X | X |
Can add content | X | X | X |
Can organise | X | X | X |
Can delete | X | X | X |