Markup Import and Markup Assist use machine learning to identify markups and provide a way to view and insert drawing revisions with less manual effort.
Markups can be imported as a PDF, PNG, or JPG and are overlaid on top of your drawing in the Trace workspace. Markups in the imported file are automatically identified as mtext, mleaders, and revision clouds. Markup Assist lets you insert those identified markups into the drawing as geometry.
Markup Import
Use Markup Import to place a marked-up version of your drawing on top of the original file to make it easier to view and incorporate changes to your drawing. For example, if you have a PDF version of your drawing that has text and revision notes added, use Markup Import to overlay the revised drawing on top of the original. Or, if you have a printed version of your drawing that contains hand-written revision notes, you can take a photograph of the printed version and then import it as a JPG or PNG.
The imported file is automatically placed and aligned on top the drawing file in a new trace. If the imported file is not aligned correctly, you can manually align, move, scale, or rotate the imported file.
When viewing imported markups, you can change the background transparency to adjust the visibility of the imported markup.
Markup Assist
Markup Assist automatically identifies markups as text, leaders, and revision clouds. Click an identified markup, then insert it as an mtext, mleader, or revcloud object. You can edit the text before inserting it, or choose to copy the text to the clipboard.
To Import a Markup
- Click . Find
- Select a PDF, PNG, or JPG markup file to import.
The markup file can be a digital copy, a photograph, or a scanned version of the original drawing.
- Move, align, rotate, or scale the markup if the imported markup file isn't automatically aligned to the drawing correctly.
To Use Markup Assist
- After importing a markup, with the trace open, turn on TRACEBACK and MARKUPASSISTMODE.
- Click an identified markup.
- If the identified markup is text, choose to insert the object as mtext, as an mleader, or copy the text to the clipboard. You can edit the text before inserting it.
Inserting the object adds it to the drawing as geometry.
- If the markup object is identified as a revision cloud, you can insert it as a revcloud.
New Commands
MARKUPASSIST - Analyzes an imported markup and can help place text callouts and revision clouds faster and with less manual effort.
MARKUPIMPORT - Imports a marked up drawing (image/pdf) in-place into your DWG as a new trace.
New System Variables
MARKUPASSISTMODE - Controls whether identified markups are highlighted.
MARKUPPAPERDISPLAY - Indicates whether or not a digital markup is currently active.
MARKUPPAPERTRANSPARENCY - Controls the level of transparency when a digital markup is active.