- [Instructor] Let's see what else I can do
with these drawings.
What I'd like to be able to do is add some markups
on this page, so I didn't add any shortcuts
for any markups, but I can still get to
some additional tools here in this search box.
Let's type mark, and so I started typing markup,
and this gives us some options
for marking up our drawings.
Let's do a text call-out so we can see what that looks like,
and we'll just go ahead
and drag this out.
I'm just right-clicking and dropping that arrow,
and then I can move this around
and put the actual text box wherever it makes sense
on the drawing, so that it's not cluttered.
And I'm just going to say, is this the
correct elevation?
So at this point, I've added a nice callout
to my drawings, and this might be in this case a note
to somebody else that I'm going to email this drawing to,
kind of a request for information.
Is this the correct elevation?
And you'll see that when I added it here,
I also end up with a list of comments over here
in the pane on the right side of the page.
So if I end up with a bunch of these comments
on my drawing, I've got a text version or a list version
of all of the markups that I add to my drawing,
and this gives me kind of a quick and easy way to
scroll through these and find the particular comment
that I'm looking for.
Now the Adobe Acrobat software also has a mobile version
of this so, just like we've seen
with some of the other software,
if I'm going to go ahead and work with Adobe Acrobat,
I can markup and measure my drawings,
and get them prepared to use in the field,
and then, I can save these either to the cloud
or I can email them to somebody
and we have the ability to open those up
on our mobile device,
but let's take a look at how that might work.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on this icon here,
and that simply saves this document to the Adobe cloud,
so again, this is a paid version of Adobe Acrobat.
It comes with Adobe Cloud.
That allows me to save this drawing to my Adobe Cloud.
I could now go to my mobile device,
my Android phone for example, and download Adobe Reader
onto that, and just log in to my Adobe Cloud
and get the same set of drawings.
Let's look at a few more options for doing that.
I'm going to click on home,
and I'm going to click on add account over in storage.
Just to show you that,
there's also the ability here to save your documents
in Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, a SharePoint site,
any file sharing site that your company might already use.
If it's one of these, you can go ahead
and save your drawings directly
to one of these cloud-sharing accounts,
and then use your mobile device to open up the document.
So to wrap this up, let's switch over here
and take a look at our mobile device
and what these drawings look like on our mobile device
using Adobe Reader.
Okay, I saved those sample construction drawings
on the desktop, and now I'm going to go ahead
and open them up on the mobile device,
so you can see what that looks like.
And I've already downloaded the free Adobe Acrobat reader
app onto my Android phone, so I'm just going to tap that icon.
You'll see that open up,
and again, I can find files from the document cloud
that I talked about on the desktop app
and in this case, I went ahead and also saved those
that sample drawing file to my Dropbox account
because that's what I have set up on the phone,
and I wanted to show you Dropbox.
So once I have Dropbox linked to Adobe Acrobat Reader,
I can just scroll through my list of files,
find the construction drawing file, tap once,
and you'll see those same construction documents
that we just worked with on the desktop
open up here on your phone,
and you're ready to view and get information
from these construction drawings out there on the job site.
Now, you see it took just a little while
to open up all those pages because again remember,
in this case I'm just working with a single file
that has all the pages in it,
and you can see that as I scroll through,
but there's a couple of features here on the mobile app
that make finding the sheets you're looking for
a little easier.
At the top of the page, I'm going to tap the icon
that is the three lines,
and when I do that, I get a menu that opens up,
and it shows me those bookmarks that I had on the desktop,
so I can find just my architectural drawings
and scroll through those or I can tap that icon again
and jump right back on the menu
and tap on mechanical,
and I'm just looking at my mechanical drawings.
I also have the ability to tap on the comment icon,
and find the comments.
In this case, that's the comment that we added
on the desktop version,
and I can just tap right on that comment
and it zooms right to the sheet where that comment is,
and it highlights the comment for me.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom in,
so you can see that comment that we added in the desktop
right here on our mobile device.
Is this the correct elevation?
So again, we're in that mode of sharing comments
between our desktop at the office
and our mobile device out in the field and on the job site.
And just one or two more features to look at
before we exit here.
Now besides just viewing these markups
that I added on the desktop, I do have some limited ability
here to add my own markups and right now at the bottom
of the screen you'll see a little toolbar.
If that toolbar's not here, you can find it by tapping
the menu icon on the upper left side of your screen.
If the toolbar wasn't already there on your app,
it would be listed here as add markups,
but since we've already got it here
at the bottom of the screen,
let's just tap on the markup icon,
and you'll see it opens a little toolbar
that just gives me some limited ability to do some markups
like adding text or just adding some drawings.
I can circle things, add arrows.
I'm done with that.
We can say who added this, so if I'm sharing these drawings
with multiple people,
it'll keep track of who added those markups,
and again, now if I tap on little three line icon
up at the top of the screen,
you'll see that it finds that I've added that markup.
Now again, don't forget to save this back to the cloud
so that everybody that's sharing these drawings
sees the markups that you just added.
Well, that about wraps it up for Adobe Acrobat.
This should give you a really good idea
of how to use this software to view, markup,
and even take some measurements
on digital construction drawings in the PDF format.
Now if you want to learn more about using Adobe Acrobat
and get into how to customize the work space,
learn a little bit more about the details
and nuances of using the markup tools in Adobe Acrobat,
go check out a course here in our online library
by Kelly Vaughan.
It's called Adobe Acrobat for the AEC Industry,
and if you're already paying for Adobe Acrobat,
this is a quick and simple solution.
And Adobe Reader for mobile device is also always
a quick and free option
for viewing and making some simple comments
on your drawings while you're on the go or on the job site.