Using AI in your AEC software
Practical, honest guides to driving the tools you already use — Revit, AutoCAD, Navisworks and more — with Claude in plain language. Real example prompts, how the Model Context Protocol works, and where AI genuinely saves time.
What is MCP for AEC?
The Model Context Protocol explained for AEC & BIM — the open standard that lets AI operate Revit, AutoCAD and more. Start here.
Read the guide →AI for BIM
What AI can genuinely do across BIM tools today: query, edit, create, coordinate, take off and document — and where the real limits are.
Read the guide →AI for Revit
Control Autodesk Revit with Claude: bulk parameter edits, model QA, geometry, schedules and IFC export — with 10 real example prompts.
Read the guide →Revit MCP explained
What Revit MCP is, Autodesk's read-only 2027 Tech Preview server, and how to get read-and-write access across Revit 2024–2027.
Read the guide →AI for AutoCAD
Draft and automate AutoCAD with Claude: drawing and editing, dimensions, quantity takeoffs, layers, Plant 3D and Map 3D reads.
Read the guide →AI for ArchiCAD 29
Automate Graphisoft ArchiCAD with Claude: elements, zones, layers, properties, views and BIM data — 733 tools, in plain language.
Read the guide →AI clash detection
Run and triage Navisworks clash tests with Claude: summarise by severity, group, track status and generate coordination reports.
Read the guide →AI for SketchUp
Model, run solid booleans with exact volumes, take off quantities, tag IFC and build LayOut sheets with Claude — 373 tools, free.
Read the guide →AI for Civil 3D
Alignments, profiles, corridors, surfaces, LandXML and coordinate transformations across 4,541 EPSG zones — driven in plain language.
Read the guide →AI for Navisworks
Create and run clash tests, triage results, work with TimeLiner 4D schedules and export reports — 87 tools for Navisworks 2026/2027.
Read the guide →AI for Tekla Structures
Beams, plates, bolts and rebar, GA and assembly drawings, bulk UDA edits — 198 tools through the official Tekla Open API.
Read the guide →AI for MS Project
Build linked schedules, track progress, manage resources and compare baselines in the desktop Microsoft Project — 299 tools.
Read the guide →AI for Autodesk Docs
Manage ACC and BIM 360 files, folders, issues and project admin from Claude — cloud-only, no CAD install needed. 71 tools.
Read the guide →Start free
Create a free HuskyBIM account and connect Claude to the AEC software you already run.