To Track Drawing Changes

Use this tool to track changes made to a project drawing set during any phase in the engineering process .

1. Click Project tabProject Tools panelMark/Verify DWGs. Find
2. Specify to mark either the project or the current drawing.
   Note: To use this command, your drawings must be named and part of the active project.
3. Specify to mark AutoCAD Electrical toolset components. You can also select:

   • Include non-AutoCAD Electrical toolset blocks to mark all blocks even if they do not carry AutoCAD Electrical toolset intelligence.

   • Select Include wires/lines to detect changes to any lines or wires in the drawings.

4. Click OK.
5. Enter your initials and any comments about the drawing set, and then click OK. This information (along with the current time and date) is included in later reporting.

   Invisible flags are placed on the wire numbers and component tags. These flags do not change the appearance or functioning of the drawings. However, they may increase the drawing size by a small amount.

6. After you make edits to the drawings or receive the drawings back from your client, reopen the drawings in AutoCAD Electrical toolset so you can verify the changes.
7. Use the Mark/Verify Drawings command to report the accumulated changes made to the drawing set.
8. Specify to verify the drawings and click OK.

   A list of the detected changes is displayed in a report dialog box.

9. Specify to display the data in the AutoCAD Electrical toolset report format, save the report, or print the changes. You can also select to surf through the list to examine each detected change in context.