Cross platform features provide functionality in AutoCAD desktop, the AutoCAD web app, and the AutoCAD mobile app.
Trace provides a safe space to provide feedback to a drawing without altering the existing drawing. The analogy is of a virtual collaborative tracing paper that is laid over the drawing that allows collaborators to add markups and comments on the drawing. Create traces in the AutoCAD web app, the AutoCAD mobile app, or AutoCAD desktop (Windows or Mac), then send or share the drawing to collaborators so they can view the trace and its contents.
Checkout allows a user to edit and propose changes to specific objects in a drawing that someone else has open for editing. Instead of waiting for the drawing to be released by the user who is editing, you can check out the objects you want to edit, edit them in the Trace environment, and then submit your changes for review to the user who has read-write access. The user with read-write access can then merge the changes into the drawing.
Markup Import and Markup Assist use Autodesk AI to identify markups and provide a way to view and insert drawing revisions with less manual effort. Markups can be imported as a PDF, JPG, or PNG and are overlaid on top of your drawing in the Trace environment. 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.
If you're working in the AutoCAD web app and your computer has AutoCAD 2018 or later installed, you can use the Open in Desktop button to open a drawing in desktop AutoCAD. Your drawing is automatically saved and then opened in your locally installed version of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT desktop.
Share a link to a copy of the current drawing to view or edit in the AutoCAD web app. All related DWG xrefs and images are included.