- [Instructor] We're now back
in the AutoCAD desktop app again,
and we're looking at our GF-1031 Southeast
Madison Cloud drawing file.
Now, I'm using the drawing file
that I've saved to my local drive on my computer now.
I'm not in the web or mobile folders.
I'm not in my Microsoft OneDrive folders.
This is just my regular drawing
on the hard drive on my computer.
Now, what I want to do is just show you
a couple of other ways of sharing your AutoCAD files
so that you can collaborate with stakeholders
on your projects and so on.
So what we do is we go to the Collaborate tab on the ribbon,
and we've got the Share panel here.
We can share the drawing
or we can share views of the drawing.
When I click on Share Drawing, you'll recognize this
from when we'll be using the AutoCAD web app.
You can see there that I can share a View Only link
to the drawing or an Edit and Save a Copy link.
Notice, the link there opens up in web.autocad.com.
So either of these shared links
will force the file to open in AutoCAD web.
There you go.
So you're making people use AutoCAD web
when you send them a link to the drawing.
And you can copy the link,
and you can preview the drawing if you need to as well.
That's one way of sharing your drawings and you can do that
via the web app and the mobile app as well.
The other way of sharing your drawings
is this Shared Views technology.
And it utilizes a thing called the Autodesk Viewer.
Now, I'm just going to pop this palette over here to the left,
and at the moment we've got no shared views created.
So if I click on New Shared View here in the palette,
what it will do is it'll create shared views
of this particular drawing that I've got open at the moment.
And I'm going to share the Current View Only
and I'm going to create 2D Views Only.
Bear mind, you can utilize this for 3D AutoCAD,
if you wish as well.
'cause obviously you can show off different views
of different sides of your 3D model, for example.
When I click on Share Now, it'll prompt me saying
that background processing of the view is ready to start.
And this again will give us a little icon
in the bottom right corner on the status bar,
letting us know that the processing is kicked in.
So when I click on Proceed,
you can just see this little icon starting
to flash down here.
There we go.
Publishing shared view.
Now, it takes a few seconds to actually publish that view.
And there you go.
The shared view upload is complete.
It's not a complicated drawing.
It's not a big, complicated 3D model.
So what I can do now is I can view this in a browser
using a thing called the Autodesk Viewer,
which again is free.
So when I click on View in Browser Now,
what'll happen is it'll open it up in the viewer like so.
Takes a few seconds.
Again, based on your internet speeds
but there's my drawing in the Autodesk Viewer like so.
And what I can do now is I can sign in again
using my Autodesk account.
Takes a few seconds, again, based on internet speed.
There's my email address, put my password in.
And when I put my password in,
what it does is it gives me the ability
to have other tools that are available
when I'm working in the Autodesk Viewer.
Now the Autodesk Viewer will allow me to view
any type of Autodesk file.
It doesn't have to be a 2D drawing like this.
It could be a 3D event model.
It could be a 3D AutoCAD model.
It could be a 3D Revit architectural visualization.
It could be any type of Autodesk file.
But what I love about it is I can zoom in and out like so.
Quite happily, I can pan as well like so.
I can move around.
I can look at my different views.
So there's my model like so.
There's my 2D view.
Now, the only view that I brought in was the current view.
If I brought in all the views,
I could have had things like my layout tabs and so on.
I've got the layers there.
It allows me to turn the layers on and off.
So for example, I can sort of move this around.
I can dock it and things as well.
If I come all the way down to the bottom here,
if I want to turn off my grids, for example.
There's my grid reference for my grids.
So if I click there and click there,
you see the grid lines disappear like so.
And you've just got the dimensions left behind.
Switching back on again, they come back into the drawings.
So that's my layers like so.
I can close that at any time.
And then I can look at properties.
I've got a little properties there.
So, now need to select an object, for example,
but there aren't any properties to display.
But I can go and click on an object if I want to,
I'd have to select it first thing.
So obviously I'd have to select.
So I've go Home, fit, pan, zoom,
measure and markup there as well.
So I haven't got anything selected to actually pick on
at the moment, but I'm just going to close
the properties like so.*
I can add comments to the drawing as well.
So if I add a comment now, for example,
I click in here and I can add a comment.
So let's say that I want somebody
to check the dimension style.
So shorthand is check dim style.
If I click on Post now, you'll see that I've posted that
at a particular time of day in the 2D view saying
"Check the dimension style."
I can export that out if I want to.
And I can also, you'll notice,
reply and resolve if I need to.
So the comments can be added.
I can print.
I can take a screenshot.
Again, I can share the file if I want to.
So, what I've got there now is a tool
whereby I can get anybody to view any part
of my AutoCAD drawing.
Now, if I just quickly jump back into AutoCAD now,
what you'll see is I've got the ability
to refresh this here.
And there's my view that I've shared.
And it's lasting for 30 days.
It expires in 30 days.
There's the comment.
When I click on it, there's my comment
to check the dim style.
If I'm happy with that, I can resolve it.
And then it just disappears.
I can also look on the ellipsis here.
I can show as resolved.
I can view in the browser, copy the link.
I can extend the time if it's getting to near the 30 days.
And I can also delete the shared view as well.
Yes, I will delete the shared view.
Thank you very much.
And we're back to no shared views
in the shared views palette.
It's a very, very useful piece of functionality
if you've got a view in a drawing
that you just need to send to somebody quickly
and they know they've got access to the internet
so they know they've got a browser
so they can open it up in the Autodesk Viewer.
Perhaps make some comments,
perhaps mark it up a measure from it
using those tools in the Autodesk Viewer on the internet.