Use Activity Insights to see your teammates' contributions to shared drawing files, view version histories, and collaborate across AutoCAD products.
Activity Insights records each contributor's updates to a drawing file, streamlining collaboration and helping you pick up where you left off.
Activity Insights Location
Activities are written to the Activity Insights Location specified on the Application tab of the Application Preferences dialog box. The default location is /Users/{username}/Library/Application Support/Autodesk/ActivityInsights/Common.
To use Activity Insights for collaboration, change this to a shared location.
Activities Outside AutoCAD
There are some activities that occur outside of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT that are included in the Activity Insights display. They can include the following:
- Drawing renamed using Finder
- Drawing copied using Finder
- An older release of the product is used to make edits to the drawing
The user for these activities is shown as Unknown user on the Activity Insights palette.
Collaborating Across AutoCAD Products
All AutoCAD products record drawing activities. However, AutoCAD LT currently only displays Version activities on its palette, and AutoCAD for mobile does not have an Activity Insights palette. When working with collaborators across different AutoCAD products, make sure you are all saving to the same Activity Insights location.
AutoCAD, AutoCAD for Mac, and AutoCAD for web displays all activities for the open drawing even if a specific activity isn't supported within that AutoCAD product. For example, the STANDARDS command is only supported in AutoCAD on Windows. But if used, the Standards activity will show up in the Activity Insights palette for AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD for web.