What's new in Construction Cloud 2026: a guide to the latest features

First on the list is the long awaited ability to extract metadata from drawing title blocks. This new feature will extract data from title blocks contained in PDF drawings and uses OCR to populate your custom attributes automatically. Moreover, you can create templates for use across different title block sizes and configuration.

This is especially useful for extracting data such as drawing title, revision, and suitability code, all attributes of drawings that we need but are only optional data in the naming standards feature in Autodesk Docs.

Auto triggers for review workflows were introduced some months ago, enabling documents to automatically be submitted to a defined workflow when they were uploaded. These have now been improved to include additional triggers (copy and move files) and conditions.

This opens up new possibilities for passing documents through a series of workflows seamlessly. Furthermore, dependent upon metadata, for example suitability code, different workflows can be triggered, reducing time spent manually selecting the next workflows, and removing the possibility of errors.

Anyone familiar with Assemble (another of Autodesk’s cloud offerings) will see the similarity in this new feature. We have always been able to select an object and view its properties but now we can see the properties of all objects in our selected models; simply select the models from your list in Model Coordination (IFC, Revit, Navisworks, and more) and open the model viewer. You’ll see the object table button in the bottom left corner of the viewer. When you select it a default set of columns will be displayed. They are a little underwhelming at first but click the “columns” button and you’ll be able to select from the combined properties of all your models instant quantities (yes, you can export the entire table direct to Excel!), or verifying object classification or COBie data (model conditioning at your fingertips). There are a host of other table options available, and these can be saved as configurations for use across different models.

Navisworks has search sets and now Model Coordination has “Object Exclusions” or reverse search sets if you prefer. You can create a series of exclusions to remove those annoying “false” clashes and focus on the important and real ones. And what’s more, once you have created them you can import them into any of your projects and simply apply them, happy days!

And what better way to finish than with a great new Cost Management feature? These adapters are built into the platform, no need for pesky API work (if you have the capabilities within your organisation), just select from the list and configure.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss how to effectively implement these, or any of the hundreds of recent platform improvements into your current ACC configurations.