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Set Up Your Work the Way Your Company Works

Everything you do in Stru (reviewing a drawing set, generating a calc package, producing an RFI) starts with files. The Files area is where they all live. A few minutes of setup here means every job has its own folder, your drawings are where reviews expect them, and every document the AI produces lands somewhere predictable. Typical setups engineers use:
  • One project folder per job: drawings, specs, and deliverables for each project together, ready for a Drawing Review.
  • A Standards folder with your company templates: so reports and RFIs come out formatted your way.
  • Shared organization folders: so your whole team works from the same set. See Sharing & Permissions.
Open Files from the account menu in the top-right corner of the app, or go straight to app.stru.ai/files.
The Files home screen with the Documents, Projects, Uploads, and Organization areas

Documents

Everything the AI generates for you, organized into one folder per conversation, automatically

Projects

Your personal project folders, where drawings and reviews live

Uploads

Files you uploaded outside a project (mostly older uploads; new chat attachments go to conversation folders)

Organization

Your team’s shared project folders and the shared Standards folder
A “project” is just a folder. The top-level folders under Projects and Organization are called projects, and the terms are interchangeable. When an agent in the chat asks you to select a project, it’s asking which of these folders to read from and save into.
There is no undo. No trash, no version history: deleting a file or folder removes it for everyone who has access, permanently, and edits replace what was there. For stamped drawings and issued deliverables, keep an offline copy, and read Deleting before you share broadly.

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Where Does My File End Up?

You never have to file anything by hand. Every file lands in a predictable place depending on how it entered:
Why one folder per conversation? Under Documents, every conversation gets its own folder, named after it, so nothing the AI makes for you is ever lost, even for quick one-off questions. Work that belongs to a job goes to that job’s project folder whenever a project is selected, so your project folders stay organized by job, the way you’d file it yourself.

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Getting Files In

There are two front doors: the Files area and the chat.
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In the Files area

Open the folder you want the files in and click Upload in the toolbar at the top right (next to + New Folder), or simply drag files from your computer into the folder. From the Files home screen, you can drag files straight onto the four area cards.
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In the chat

Click the + button in the message box and choose Upload from computer, or drag the file anywhere onto the page. The file is stored automatically (see the table above). Full details in Using the Chat Input.
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Already uploaded? Don't re-upload

If the file is already in your Files, type @ in the message box and pick it. The agent gets the existing file. See Mentions & Attachments.

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Setting Up a Project Folder

Say you just got drawings for a new job. Here’s the setup:
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Create the folder

In Projects, click + New Folder, name it after the job (e.g. “Escambia Substation”), and press Enter.
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Upload the set

Open the folder and drag in the drawings, specs, and anything else that belongs to the job.
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Turn on what the job needs

Right-click the folder’s row in the Projects list (on a trackpad: two-finger click, or Control-click) for the folder actions: enable reviews for a drawing set (see Drawing Review), or share it with the team (see Sharing & Permissions).
Right-clicking a folder row shows Manage access, Rename, Enable Reviews, Set as Standards Folder, and Delete
Folder actions live on the folder’s row, not inside it. To rename a folder, enable reviews, set it as your Standards folder, or delete it, right-click its row in the parent listing. Inside an open folder, the toolbar only offers content actions (New Folder, Upload, Manage access, Launch Review).
Check the box next to one or more items, then drag the selection onto a folder in the list. That’s the move. A hint appears in the toolbar when a move is possible.
Yes: create a folder inside another folder. The breadcrumb trail at the top jumps back to any parent level. A nested folder does not inherit its parent’s type: every new folder starts plain.
Check the box next to each file or folder. The toolbar shows bulk actions: Delete (n), and Open in Split View when exactly two PDFs are selected.

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Folder Types

Every folder is one of three types, each with its own icon in the file list:
A Projects list showing review folders with the indigo icon and a plain folder with the yellow icon

Plain folder

Pure storage, no review tools. Every new folder starts as this.

Review folder

Carries the drawing-review workflow: a Launch Review button, a Reviews section, and automatic file labeling. See Drawing Review.

Standards folder

Your company’s reference library: templates and formats the AI follows. See Your Standards Folder.
Change a folder’s type any time by right-clicking its row: Enable Reviews / Disable Reviews switches between plain and review; Set as Standards Folder designates your standards library.
A folder is exactly one type at a time. A Standards folder can’t have reviews enabled, and a review folder can’t be designated as Standards; switch it back to plain first. A folder with reviews in its history keeps its Reviews section until those reviews are deleted.

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File labels in review folders

In a review folder, every file you upload is automatically labeled with a Category (Drawing, Spec, Report, Code, Calculations) and Language, shown as editable dropdowns, so you can correct anything the detection got wrong. The Include checkbox controls whether the file is part of the review scope. Plain folders don’t show these columns.
A review folder's file list with Include, Language, and Category columns and the Launch Review button

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Opening and Previewing Files

  • PDF, Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx): the paged document viewer. Drawing sheets are typically PDFs, so they open here.
  • Images: a lightbox with download, fullscreen, and next/previous.
  • Excel (.xlsx): an in-app spreadsheet preview with sheet tabs.
  • Markdown, plain text, CSV: in-app text previews.
  • CAD and BIM models (.ifc, .dxf): open in the 3D/2D viewer from a chat conversation; see The Canvas.
Select exactly two PDFs (check their boxes) and click Open in Split View in the toolbar. Both sheets open side by side. Useful for revision comparisons.
The document viewer opens with a chat panel beside it. The chat knows which document you have open and can answer questions about it. The dropdown at the top of the viewer switches between documents in the same folder.
Right-click a file for Manage Access, Rename, Download, and Delete.

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Deleting: Read This Before You Share

Deleting a file or folder removes it for everyone who has access, not just for you. A confirmation dialog stands in the way of an accidental one-click delete, but once confirmed the item is gone. There is no trash to recover it from, and no version history to roll back to.
Editors can delete, and Editor is the default role on organization folders. If a folder holds files you can’t afford to lose (stamped drawings, issued deliverables), tighten access to specific people via Manage Access or keep an offline copy.

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Troubleshooting

Shared items appear inside your own Files tree at their natural location. Check your notification for a direct link, then browse to it under Projects (or Organization for org-wide projects). More in Sharing & Permissions.
Your role on it is Viewer: view, preview, and download only. Ask one of the folder’s Owners to raise you to Editor. Roles are explained in Sharing & Permissions.
The chat’s project menu hides folders where you can’t upload, because the agent saves its output into the selected project. Ask a project Owner to raise your role to Editor.
Open or refresh the folder’s file list; detection catches it up automatically.

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Quick Reference

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Next Steps

Sharing & Permissions

Give your team the right level of accessSharing & Permissions guide

Drawing Review

Run an AI review over a drawing setDrawing Review guide

Your Standards Folder

Deliverables in your company’s formatStandards Folder guide

Using the Chat Input

Attach and reference files in conversationsChat Input guide
Questions? Email support@stru.ai or book a call.