- [Instructor] We're staying in our GF-1031,
Southeast Madison underscore cloud drawing.
That's the version that we're using at the moment,
the local version of the drawing.
Now in the previous video,
I showed you how using my Microsoft OneDrive,
I could save my drawing up to the cloud,
for use by other people,
I might have a project folder in my OneDrive account
that people can get access to,
and obviously work on the project drawings.
Now AutoCAD has its own inbuilt cloud based facility,
and it's for use with the AutoCAD web app,
and the AutoCAD mobile app.
Now if you've got an AutoCAD subscription
for your desktop app, you will have access to the web app
and the mobile app as well.
All that functionality comes bundled into AutoCAD nowadays.
So if you are signed into AutoCAD,
using your Autodesk account,
which is up here in the info bar, top right,
you can see there's my Autodesk account there,
I've got a little blue icon,
indicating that I'm into my Autodesk account.
You have to be signed into your Autodesk account
to run AutoCAD nowadays as well,
because it's a subscription based license.
So you've got to be signed in,
so that means you've got access to the web
and mobile folders over here, on the quick access toolbar.
So I can open my drawing from the web and mobile folders,
I can also save my drawing to the AutoCAD web
and mobile folders.
And this is a prescribed part of the cloud,
based on my Autodesk account.
So if I click on save to web and mobile now,
what'll happen is it will open up the save to AutoCAD web
and mobile dialogue box,
and you can see I've got loads of different folders in here,
and all different drawings as I start coming down,
you can see I've got all these different drawings
in there as well,
and they're all different drawings that I use
on a day to day basis for all different projects
that I'm working on.
So I'm just going to leave it to save in AutoCAD Web
and mobile, there's the file name there,
when I click on save, there's one already in there.
Because I've obviously tested this
to make sure that it works for the video, right?
So I'll say yes to replacing it.
And that is now saved in my AutoCAD web and mobile folders.
And you can see the file path at the top of the screen,
in the title bar, changes as well.
So what I've done there now,
is I've saved that to my web and mobile folders,
which means if I go into AutoCAD web, or AutoCAD mobile,
I can can access my drawing
and work on it in either of those two applications,
and it gives me an incredible amount of mobility.
I can be working on AutoCAD web,
which is AutoCAD in a browser.
I can be working on AutoCAD mobile,
which is AutoCAD on a mobile device,
such as a tablet, or a smartphone.
I use my iPad Pro for my AutoCAD technology all the time,
and it's great, because I can be working at my desk,
save my drawing to the web and mobile folders,
and then I can go out on site with my iPad Pro
and my Apple Pencil, and work on the drawing there and then.
You don't even need an internet connection.
You can work offline and synchronize later as well,
which really helps, because I can still work
without an internet connection
on a site that might not have good internet,
or good phone coverage, for example.
But what I've done here in this video,
is I've saved to the web and mobile folders.
And basically I've now got the same drawing
in three different locations.
I've got it in the web and mobile folders,
in the previous video,
remember, we saved it to my OneDrive account.
And when we first started,
we downloaded the drawing from the library,
to perhaps our C drive on our computer.
So we've got three different versions of the drawing
that we can utilize, in three different locations.
Ideally you want to tie those together,
and make sure from a file naming philosophy,
and a CAD standards philosophy, that you're making sure
that everybody's using the right drawing.
But you can see how quick and easy it is
to get those drawings out for mobility,
and for collaboration on specific projects.