When you click Process new revision set or Process upload, CIM Build queues your files for analysis. The platform runs them through a sequence of automated processing stages — from splitting raw PDFs into individual drawing sheets all the way through to generating structured audit checks and detecting clashes between disciplines. You can monitor every stage of this pipeline in real time from the Status page.Documentation Index
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Pipeline stages
Drawing Processing
CIM Build splits uploaded drawing PDFs into individual sheets and analyses each one. It extracts drawing metadata such as sheet numbers, titles, revision marks, and discipline assignments. This stage is the foundation for all drawing-based analysis — clash detection, change register comparisons, and the drawings viewer all depend on it completing successfully.The status page shows progress as “Processing pages 234/450” so you can see exactly how far along your upload is.
Specification Processing
For uploaded specification documents, CIM Build reads through each PDF and extracts individual requirements. It identifies discrete clauses, provisions, and obligations from the raw document text, structuring them into a form that downstream analysis tools can work with.
Specification Check Generation
Using the requirements extracted in the previous stage, CIM Build generates a set of audit checks — structured questions and criteria that can be run against your drawings. These checks populate the Audit Checklist tool and provide the basis for specification compliance reviews.
Clash Analysis
CIM Build cross-references drawings from different disciplines to detect potential conflicts — for example, where a structural element intersects with an MEP service route. Clash analysis requires the contract baseline to be set and drawing processing to be complete before it can run.
The Status page
Click Status in the left sidebar to open the Status page at any time. It shows you the current state of all processing activity for your project.System status
At the top of the page, the System Status section gives you an at-a-glance summary. It shows an overall progress bar and a status line such as “2 analysis systems running · ETA ~23m”, so you know roughly how long to wait before results are ready.Processing tools
Below the system status, individual processing tools are listed in two groups: Inputs & Preparation- Drawing Processing — splits and analyses uploaded drawing PDFs
- Specification Processing — extracts requirements from specification documents
- Specification Check Generation — creates audit checks from extracted specifications
- Clash Analysis — detects conflicts between disciplines
- A Running or Complete status badge
- A description of what it is currently doing (e.g. “Processing pages 234/450”)
- A progress bar showing how far through the workload it is
Pipeline Detail panel
The Pipeline Detail panel lists every individual file and its current processing step. Each file shows whether it is queued, processing, or done. This is useful when you want to check whether a specific drawing has finished processing before using it in analysis.Workflow Runs
The Workflow Runs section shows the individual workflow executions that make up the pipeline. Each run displays its status (Queued, Running, Completed, or Failed), duration, and an expandable detail view. If a workflow shows as Failed, expand it to see the error details. Org-wide Workflow Runs shows organisation-level workflows that may affect your project, such as background indexing tasks.Use the Refresh button on the Status page to pull the latest status if the page does not update automatically.