Drawing Viewer Overview

The Drawing Viewer is where project teams interact directly with drawings to review plans, compare changes, and collaborate visually. It provides tools for navigating sheets, viewing drawings in different layouts, adding markups, and connecting drawings to project discussions and tasks.

This article provides a high-level overview of what you can do in the Drawing Viewer. Each feature is covered in more detail in the linked articles that follow.

What You Can Do in the Drawing Viewer

• Navigate drawings using pan, select, zoom, and keyboard shortcuts to move efficiently through sheets.

• View and compare drawings using single view, new tabs, split view, and overlay mode.

• Add measurement markups to calculate distances, areas, and quantities directly on drawings.

• Use annotation tools like freehand markups, text, and shapes to communicate visually.

• Collaborate using pins, including comments, quality list items, and RFIs, which stay connected to specific locations on drawings.