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Using Traces to collaborate on drawings with AutoCAD Web

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Using Traces to collaborate on drawings with AutoCAD Web

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- [Instructor] We're staying in AutoCAD Web for the moment. I want to show you a really neat tool that allows you to collaborate with other people that might be using the same drawing. Now at the moment, the drawing itself is open in AutoCAD web. It's the same drawing that we saved previously on AutoCAD desktop. It is our GF1031SoutheastMadison_ Cloud.DWG file. Now, the reason I know that, the file name is up here. Can you see? Top left. Now I'm going to zoom in on the restrooms and the zoom functionality is exactly the same. Can you see that? Using the mouse, roll up and down on the mouse to zoom in and out, and hold down the wheel on the mouse to pan. Now I'm going to zoom in on the restrooms and I'm going to add a thing called a trace. Now, traces are incredibly useful because they kind of add a sheet of tracing paper on top of the drawing, and allow you to add information on that tracing paper that allows people to see things that aren't physically part of the actual DWG itself…

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