About Activity Insights (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)

Use Activity Insights to see your teammates' contributions to shared drawing files, compare 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.

Note: Activities are logged even when the Activity Insights palette is closed. All activities are displayed the next time the palette opens.

Activity Insights Location

Activities are written to the Activity Insights location specified under the Files tab of the Options dialog box. The default Activity Insights location is C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Autodesk\ActivityInsights\Common.

To use Activity Insights for collaboration, change this to a shared location.

Note: When working with ACCDocs, drawings automatically store all activities in Autodesk Docs.

See Activity Types

Below is a list of some of the activities logged on the Activity Insights palette:

Action	Activity Insights tile
Saving an unnamed drawing	New drawing created
Saving changes to a drawing	Saved
Saving a version of the drawing stored within a supported cloud provider	Version (version number)
Saving to a different file format	Saved to different format
Actions with Xrefs	Partial list of Xref events: Referenced a DWG Referenced by other DWG Bound a DWG
Drawing file cleanup	Partial list of cleanup events: Purged Audited
Mechanical standards and revision	List of standards events: Drafting standard changed Symbol revision changed

Compare Different Versions

When you use Activity Insights with a supported cloud storage provider, you can easily compare previous and current versions.

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 yet 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 display 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. But if used, the Standards activity will show up in the Activity Insights palette for AutoCAD for Mac and AutoCAD for web.

Working with Mechanical Standards

Activity Insights palette displays more detailed information about events related to drafting standards and symbol revisions for AutoCAD Mechanical toolset.

Drafting Standard Changed

The Drafting standard changed event is logged when you modify the drafting standard in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset using the AMSETUPDWG or AMOPTIONS (Options dialog boxAM:Standards tabStandard elements) commands.

Symbol Revision Changed

The Symbol revision changed event is logged whenever you make changes to the symbol revision in AutoCAD Mechanical toolset using the AMOPTIONS command (Options dialog boxAM:Standards tabStandard elements).