Acelab

Armaan Shah

Patricia Causey

Select materials and create documentation.

Working on Projects

Capture the full context of your project — location, building type, occupancy, sustainability goals, and team — so Material Hub can work smarter for you from day one.

Project Setup Overview

Learn how to add teammates and external collaborators to projects.

Managing Project Collaborators

A Guide to Efficiently Reusing Project Structures or Copy Project

Create Project from Template

Learn how to use the General Research project for private exploration and comparison.

Using the General Research Project

Learn how to update project details, duplicate an existing project as a starting point, or remove a project you no longer need.

Editing, Copying, and Deleting Projects

Navigating and organizing your projects page

Projects Page Overview

IBC Chapter 6 - Building Types

Create projects to organize your materials decisions

Projects Overview

Generate precise and detailed schedules in Acelab 

Schedules

Learn how to build and customize smart tables with material information.

Working With Schedules

Use Schedules to generate different types of documentation

What Can You Do With Schedules?

Learn the basics to begin working with schedules

Getting Started with Schedules

How to create Views in Schedules to be used internally or shared externally

Views in Schedules

Learn how to sort products in Schedules to customize how they are ordered.

Sort in Schedules

Learn how to use filters to customize which products appear in your schedules.

Filters in Schedules

Learn how to hide columns in Schedules to customize your views

Hide in Schedules

Learn how to customize the height of rows in Schedules

Height in Schedules

Customize your schedules by moving the fields (columns).

Reorganizing Fields in Schedules

Build and organize your schedules to suit your needs

Customizing Schedules

Learn more about the fields in Schedules and how to add them

Understanding Schedule Field Types

Learn how to change the name and type of project fields in Schedules

Editing Project Field Types

Learn how to add, edit and select options in Default Fields in Schedules.

Editing Default Fields

How to create standardized fields at the company level that appear across all your firm's projects

Creating Company Fields

Changing Field Types

Learn more about all the Acelab Default fields available.

Acelab Default Fields Description

Learn how to edit the masterformat section of products from Acelab's database and placeholders added to Schedules.

Changing Masterformat Section

Complete list of accepted file types for attachment fields in Schedules

Attachment Field: Accepted File Types

Add default and custom fields to display the information your need

Adding and Editing Fields in Schedules

Learn how to add a product from the Firm Library to a Project.

Adding Products to Schedules from Your Firm Library

Learn how to add products you found through a Product Search.

Adding Products to Schedule from a Product Search

Reuse products from one project by copying them directly into another project's schedule.

Copy Products to Another Project

How to add, edit, and manage custom (non-catalog) products in your project schedule

Adding Custom Products to Your Schedules

Learn how to replace a product or placeholder with another product while retaining data already added to custom fields.

Replacing a Product in Schedules

Learn how to remove products from a schedule.

Removing Products from Schedules

Bulk-import product data from a spreadsheet into your Materials Hub schedule in minutes — no manual entry required.

Import From File

Search the Acelab catalog — all without leaving your schedule

Explore Products: Add Products to Schedules

Learn how to format your CSV file correctly before importing products into a Schedule, so you get clean results the first time.

Preparing Your CSV for Import into Schedules

Install the AceClipper browser extension to save product information from manufacturer websites directly into Acelab.

Adding Products with AceClipper

Add custom products and products from your firm library 

Adding Products to Schedules

Learn how Schedule's real time collaboration boosts productivity.

Real-Time Collaboration

Learn how to tag your collaborators when adding a comment in Schedules.

Tag Collaborators in Comments

Learn how to create and share schedules with contractors, consultants, clients.

Share Schedules

Learn how to export your Schedules views as CSV files.

.csv Export from Schedules

Export your Schedule to a print-ready PDF

PDF Export from Schedules

Leave cell-level comments on any product in your schedule to ask questions, flag decisions, and keep your team aligned.

Commenting in Schedules

Share, export, and real-time collaboration

Collaborating in Schedules

Learn how SpecPlanner automates product specification

SpecPlanner Overview

Learn how to automate specifications and create checklists to organize materials selection.

Getting Started with SpecPlanner

Check out best practices for using SpecPlanner

SpecPlanner Use Cases

Learn how to populate specifications using templates

SpecPlanner Templates Overview

Create a New Template from Your Current SpecPlanner and Overwrite an Existing Template.

Creating and Overwriting SpecPlanner Templates

Change the name, description and tags, or delete templates.

Editing and Deleting SpecPlanner Templates

Manually Add/Remove Sections - SpecPlanner

Learn how to add products to SpecPlanner.

Add Products to SpecPlanner

Learn how to change products from one masterformat section to another in SpecPlanner.

Change Section - SpecPlanner

Learn how to remove a product and re-add it to SpecPlanner

Removing Products from SpecPlanner

Learn how to substitute a product in your specifications

Replacing Products in SpecPlanner

Learn how to optimize SpecPlanner display with different height options.

Height - SpecPlanner

Learn how to export your specifications to a Word or Text file.

Exporting your SpecPlanner

Learn how to add Acelab and Company Fields to your SpecPlanner, navigate large field sets, and rename or revert MasterFormat section names.

Customizing Your SpecPlanner

Build a concise, drawing-ready specification directly inside your Acelab project — no separate spec manual required.

How to Create a Sheet Spec in SpecPlanner

Automate and Organize Your Specifications

SpecPlanner 

Learn how to use Acelab's template to track ethical material selection based on Design for Freedom Principles.

DFF Ethical Material Tracking Template

Streamline your project creation process with Acelab's templates.

Project Templates

AIA Materials Pledge Reporting

Learn how to complete reporting in the Material Hub

AIA Material Pledge Reporting

Acelab App

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