AutoCAD: Mobile and Web Collaboration

Learn how to take AutoCAD on the go and online with the mobile and web app versions.

Introduction

• The move toward using web and mobile platforms with AutoCAD
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files
• The new AutoCAD 2022 interface
• The AutoCAD web, mobile, and other apps

1. Using Your Autodesk Account

• Logging in to your Autodesk account through AutoCAD
• The AutoCAD web and mobile folders
• Saving a DWG to the web and mobile folders
• Opening a DWG from the web and mobile folders
• Other cloud-based storage for DWG files

2. Collaborative Tools in AutoCAD

• Using the Share Drawing feature in AutoCAD 2022
• Sharing views through AutoCAD
• Using the Autodesk Viewer with shared views from AutoCAD
• Pushing files to Autodesk Docs
• Trace palette: View traces from the Autodesk web app
• Comparing different versions of the same DWG file

3. Working with the AutoCAD Web App

• Opening drawings from the web and mobile folders
• Opening drawings from other cloud-based providers
• An overview of the AutoCAD web app interface
• Making changes to drawings in the AutoCAD web app
• Adding traces using the AutoCAD web app
• Saving drawings with the AutoCAD web app
• Opening drawings in the desktop app from the AutoCAD web app
• Opening cloud-based drawings in the AutoCAD desktop app
• Working with the Trace palette in the AutoCAD desktop

4. Collaborating with LiDAR Devices

• What is LiDAR?
• Mobile devices with built-in LiDAR
• Using the Canvas app with iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPad Pro
• File formats out of the Canvas conversion

5. Working with Converted Files from Canvas

• Checking a converted DWG file
• Adding layers and annotations to the DWG file
• Setting up a title block in the layout tab
• Sending the DWG out as a DWF file

6. Autodesk Design Review

• What is Autodesk Design Review?
• Using Autodesk Design Review to mark up an existing DWF file
• Opening the marked-up DWF file using the Markup Set Manager
• Saving the file as a revised DWF file through AutoCAD

7. Using External Reference (Xref) Files

• Why use external reference (xref) files
• Adding an xref file to your host drawing file
• Clipping xref files
• Editing xref files
• Working with xref files in the AutoCAD web app

Conclusion

• Next steps