- [Instructor] We're starting a new chapter now
about how you can utilize some of the collaboration tools
that are available to you within AutoCAD.
For that purpose,
we've got a new drawing for you.
It's called GF, for ground floor, 1031
SoutheastMadison_cloud.
And based on the far name, obviously you might be aware
that we're going to start utilizing
some of the Cloud-based tools in AutoCAD to collaborate.
When we talk about collaboration with AutoCAD,
collaboration is making sure
that people have got access to the drawings
and your design intent and your content and so on.
So what we're going to look at first,
in this particular video,
is the ability to save your drawings to the Cloud.
Now I use a Microsoft Office account
and I also have a Cloud-based Microsoft OneDrive folder
that I use as well.
It's all linked to my Office account
for my day to day business.
So what I can do is I can very, very quickly
just jump up to save as here, like so.
If I go to my OneDrive account,
which is all linked up
to my Microsoft Windows operating system,
you can see there that I've set up a folder
called AutoCAD 2023 Essential Training.
If I double click in there,
you can see we've also got a drawing of the same file name.
The reason there's one there already
is I've been testing the links
and making sure that I can save
to the appropriate locations.
So if I now just click on there and click on save,
it will prompt me,
do I want to replace it?
Well, I'll say yes, in this case
because what I'm doing is I'm saving my drawing
that is on my C drive on my computer,
to my AutoCAD 2023 Essential Training folder
in my OneDrive account.
So I'll say yes to that.
And that is now saved in the Cloud.
That is how quickly and easily it is
to collaborate with your drawings in the Cloud
using something like Microsoft OneDrive.
Now there's loads of other proprietary
Cloud-based providers out there.
You've got things like Google Drive.
You've got things like box, Drop Box and so on.
I use Microsoft OneDrive as my personal preference
but that's how quick and easy it is
once you've got the technology set up
to collaborate with your AutoCAD drawings.