- [Narrator] You'll notice in this particular video
we're not in AutoCAD, we're actually in a web browser.
My web browser of choice is Microsoft Edge Chromium,
the most recent version,
and I'm going to be running the AutoCAD web app
through my browser to get access to the drawing
I either save to my OneDrive account,
all my AutoCAD web and mobile folders.
Now, the benefit you have is AutoCAD web and AutoCAD mobile.
To sign in you simply use the same credentials
as your Autodesk account that you use to sign in
when you sign in to your AutoCAD desktop app.
So all I've got to do here is click on sign in, like so.
That'll sign me in.
I put my email address in, click on next,
pop my password in, very quick and easy,
providing you remember your password, obviously.
So I'm logging in now.
And what'll happen now is
it'll take me into my Autodesk AutoCAD web app.
Now you'll notice there
there's all different folders available,
and you'll also notice as well
that I've got the ability to jump
between AutoCAD web and mobile,
and also my OneDrive account.
So there's my AutoCAD 2023 essential training folder
in my OneDrive account.
So you'll notice there there's a BAK file
'cause obviously I saved it,
and there's always a backup file
in my settings, in my options in AutoCAD.
But there's my cloud DWG file there.
And as you can see, it's got the date, the time, the size,
and also who owns it.
And also who it might be shared with
because you can share drawings
from the AutoCAD web app very quickly and very easily.
You can also share from the AutoCAD desktop app
very quickly and easily too.
So that's OneDrive.
If I go up to AutoCAD web and mobile,
these are my web and mobile folders
that are linked to my Autodesk account.
And if I start scrolling all the way down,
I need to find my drawing that begins with GF
for ground floor.
That's exactly why I named it that way,
so I knew I could find it easily.
So as I come down my list, there's A,
and you can see it's all alphabetical, and there's GF there.
And there's my file there.
So I'm going to click on that file
in my web and mobile folders.
Now, depending on your internet speed,
it could take a while to open the file.
I'm lucky I've got quite fast cable internet
here at the moment.
And there's my drawing in the AutoCAD web app.
Very quick and easy,
and it's opened up in a browser-based version of AutoCAD.
It's cool, isn't it?
When you think about it.
Now, the good thing is you could be working
in a client office
and possibly not have access to the internet.
So you can't go and look at your drawings perhaps
that are in your OneDrive folder
or your AutoCAD web and mobile folders,
'cause you don't have access to the desktop app.
But you can just say to one of your clients in the office,
can I just jump on your browser?
And you go to web.autocad.com.
It's that simple.
You jump in, sign in using your Autodesk account credentials
and you then into your web mobile folders,
where you can open up a drawing like this
quickly and easily.
Now, the AutoCAD web app is very, very much based
on standard AutoCAD technology.
So you can see here in the model tab,
I can zoom in and out just using my mouse
as per what you can in the desktop app.
I've also got my ISO A1 landscape layout tab.
There it is there with my title block,
with my view port.
I'll jump back to the model tab now.
I've got a command line down here where I can type commands.
I've got here, my status bar with a much more
minimalized set of settings as compared to the desktop app.
But I can still click here
and customize if I need to, like so.
I've also got some tools up here.
I can save the drawing, plot the drawing,
jump into settings.
I can share the drawing if I want to.
I can also open in the desktop app
if I've got the desktop app open.
If I click on share, that will allow me to share
a link to the drawing through the AutoCAD web app.
So I can send a view only link,
or I can send an edit and save a copy link like so.
And notice, the HTTPS address is web.autocad.com
with all the various bits and pieces after it.
So what it means is it will open up the file
in the AutoCAD web app for the recipient of the link,
which is clever when you think about it.
So I'm in the AutoCAD web and mobile folders.
There's my drawing name at the top of the screen.
I've got my properties, I've got my layers,
I've got my blocks.
And I've also got any external reference files
that might be attached to my drawing.
There are no X refs for this particular drawing,
but when it comes to blocks
there's a lot of blocks in here.
So these are all the blocks currently in the drawing.
There's lots and lots of them.
So if I get all the way down to the bottom
you can see that takes a few seconds to update,
but that's pretty quick
considering you're on the internet, okay?
So that's not bad at all.
So I'm just going to zoom back up there using the little
pulley bar there on the right-hand side.
So like I said, there's no X refs in the drawing,
but we've also got this technology here, traces.
I'm going to cover that in the next video.
I'll show you how to create a trace
in a web app-based version of your drawing,
and then how to open it up again in AutoCAD.
So we'll have the trace set up in the web app,
and then we'll open it up in the AutoCAD desktop app.
Other tools that you have are obviously your draw,
annotate, and modify tools here, like so.
So you can see that you've got various tools
available for modify.
Notice the icons are exactly the same as the desktop app.
That's for recognition.
If I look there, I know that that's offset.
If I look here, I know that that's scale.
If I look there, that's fill it.
And they're all the same as the AutoCAD desktop app.
So I'm going to jump back up to properties now.
And if I select something like a dimension, click on it,
the grips look exactly the same,
tells me what layer it's on,
tells me it's a rotated dimension, and so on.
I then hit Escape to deselect.
It's exactly the same,
if I select something like a block, there's a block there,
tells me it's a block reference, what layer it's on,
what the name of the block is, et cetera, et cetera.
So it's a very quick and easy tool to use
because it's so familiar.
I've also got my layer dropdown at the top here.
There's my layer dropdown there, and the little one
with the tick next to it is the current drafting layer.
So it all looks incredibly familiar, isn't it?
I've also got here the ability to zoom window,
and also to zoom extents.
And I've also got here undo and redo.
So there's the technology there to allow me to work
on most basic modifications and additions
to a drawing in a web-based version of AutoCAD.
So that's AutoCAD web for you.
What I'm going to show you now in the next few videos
is how we can collaborate with AutoCAD web.