- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our interface
dot DWG file.
And what I want to talk you
through now is utilizing your AutoDesk account
with your AutoCAD interface.
Now, it's really important because in the later versions
of AutoCAD, it's a subscription based product.
So you have to sign into your AutoDesk account
to actually get access your AutoCAD license.
I explained this earlier, over here on the info bar
you can see the little blue head and shoulders like so,
and that tells me that I'm signed into my AutoDesk account.
If I click on the little fly out here, I can gain access
to my account details, explore purchase options,
manage my AutoCAD license, check my privacy settings.
I can also sign out and quit AutoCAD if I want to.
But ideally you want to stay signed
into your AutoCAD via your Autodesk account.
I'm just going to hit escape a couple of times
and show you why.
Because it's now a subscription based piece of software,
AutoCAD gives you access to your web and mobile servers.
Now, if I just go up here and hover again,
like so, can you see there?
It says, it gives me access
to online servers that integrate with my desktop software.
So what that means is not only do they integrate
with the license server
so that I can use my AutoCAD license,
but they also give me access to AutoCAD
web and mobile folders.
Now these are available over here
on the quick access tool bar,
there's open from web and mobile,
and there's save to web and mobile.
And what this means is I can save my drawings
to those web and mobile folders
so that I can use the AutoCAD web app
in a browser to view my drawings.
I can also view my drawings in the AutoCAD mobile app.
As long as those drawing are saved
to those web and mobile folders.
Now those web and mobile folders
are in this thing that you've probably heard
of already, the cloud.
So basically what I'm doing is I'm saving a drawing
to an AutoDesk server somewhere on the planet.
And it means I can then sign in via the internet,
via the mobile app to gain access to my drawings.
The major benefit is the mobility.
You can literally take your drawings anywhere now.
They don't have to sit on your desktop PC
or your laptop anymore.
So if I now went to open here from web and mobile,
what this will do is it'll allow me to open
up a drawing from my web and mobile folders,
my little piece of cloud storage space that relates back
to my AutoDesk account,
see I've got various sub folders there.
And as I scroll down, there's all different drawings
and things that I've been working on.
So these are all stored in the cloud
in my AutoCAD web and mobile folders.
Now we will go into this
in a bit more detail later on in the course,
so don't worry about it right now.
But what I want you to make sure of is obviously
you're signed in with your AutoDesk account here
and you're using your subscription license of AutoCAD.