Review markups live on the PDF and stay there. Bringing them into Archicad means opening the marked-up set next to your layouts and re-entering anything worth tracking as an issue, sheet by sheet, at every revision.
The Drawboard Connection for Archicad is available now through the Add-On Manager. Here’s how you can use it.
After signing in through Archicad's Interoperability palette, choose one of the Publisher Sets you already maintain, pick the destination project, and enter the revision the set is going out as before publishing.
Archicad renders the PDFs before uploading them one at a time, so a full documentation set takes a few minutes to land in the project.
Publishing runs off your existing Publisher Sets, so the layouts, order, and naming your team settled on months ago carry through untouched. Reviewers open the set they would have received anyway.
Example: A documentation lead publishes the same Publisher Set they use for client issues, and the consultant team has the drawings in front of them without anyone exporting, renaming, or uploading a file.
Once the layouts land, the review runs entirely in Drawboard Projects. Reviewers mark up the live drawing wherever they work, whether that's the web app on a desktop or an iPad in a site office, and raise Tasks against specific locations on the sheet so there's an owner and a status attached to anything that needs following up.
When a review needs to happen together, everyone works through the set in a live session on the same drawing. Guests join free without an Archicad license or a paid Drawboard seat, so the builder's site manager can mark up the sheet himself rather than describing the problem on a call for someone else to redraw.
Tasks, comments, and assignments stay in Drawboard Projects and are how the review gets closed out. Once it is, the marked-up drawings are what go back to Archicad.
Example: A project architect runs a live review with the structural engineer and the builder's site manager. The site manager circles a slab penetration that clashes with a duct run and adds a Task with a photo from the site, with no software to install and nothing to reconcile afterward.
Once the review has run its course, the import section of the palette lists every drawing you have published to that project. Bring the whole set back in at once, or pick off the layouts the review actually touched.
Each markup comes in as a native Archicad Issue, positioned on the layout it was drawn on and carrying what the reviewer wrote on the page. A callout over a stair detail arrives over the same stair detail in Archicad, with its text intact, so nobody is reading a PDF in one window and hunting for the matching layout in another.
From there they behave like any other Issue. They sit in Issue Manager alongside whatever else the team is tracking and get marked complete as the modeling gets done, which keeps design review comments in the same list your coordinator is already working from.
Example: A BIM lead imports a full set after a client review, works down the Issue list layout by layout, and closes each one as the model catches up.
The Drawboard Connection for Archicad is available now on every Drawboard Projects plan, so there's no tier to move up to before you can publish a set. It joins existing integrations for Revit, Procore, Aconex, and Autodesk Forma.
Publishing a set and reviewing it stops being two jobs handled in two places. You publish from Archicad, your team and consultants work through the drawings in Drawboard Projects, and the markups come back onto the layouts as Issues you can work straight down.
Add the Drawboard Connection for Archicad today.
Need help? Check out our Support Center article, or contact us.
Review markups live on the PDF and stay there. Bringing them into Archicad means opening the marked-up set next to your layouts and re-entering anything worth tracking as an issue, sheet by sheet, at every revision.
The Drawboard Connection for Archicad is available now through the Add-On Manager. Here’s how you can use it.
After signing in through Archicad's Interoperability palette, choose one of the Publisher Sets you already maintain, pick the destination project, and enter the revision the set is going out as before publishing.
Archicad renders the PDFs before uploading them one at a time, so a full documentation set takes a few minutes to land in the project.
Publishing runs off your existing Publisher Sets, so the layouts, order, and naming your team settled on months ago carry through untouched. Reviewers open the set they would have received anyway.
Example: A documentation lead publishes the same Publisher Set they use for client issues, and the consultant team has the drawings in front of them without anyone exporting, renaming, or uploading a file.
Once the layouts land, the review runs entirely in Drawboard Projects. Reviewers mark up the live drawing wherever they work, whether that's the web app on a desktop or an iPad in a site office, and raise Tasks against specific locations on the sheet so there's an owner and a status attached to anything that needs following up.
When a review needs to happen together, everyone works through the set in a live session on the same drawing. Guests join free without an Archicad license or a paid Drawboard seat, so the builder's site manager can mark up the sheet himself rather than describing the problem on a call for someone else to redraw.
Tasks, comments, and assignments stay in Drawboard Projects and are how the review gets closed out. Once it is, the marked-up drawings are what go back to Archicad.
Example: A project architect runs a live review with the structural engineer and the builder's site manager. The site manager circles a slab penetration that clashes with a duct run and adds a Task with a photo from the site, with no software to install and nothing to reconcile afterward.
Once the review has run its course, the import section of the palette lists every drawing you have published to that project. Bring the whole set back in at once, or pick off the layouts the review actually touched.
Each markup comes in as a native Archicad Issue, positioned on the layout it was drawn on and carrying what the reviewer wrote on the page. A callout over a stair detail arrives over the same stair detail in Archicad, with its text intact, so nobody is reading a PDF in one window and hunting for the matching layout in another.
From there they behave like any other Issue. They sit in Issue Manager alongside whatever else the team is tracking and get marked complete as the modeling gets done, which keeps design review comments in the same list your coordinator is already working from.
Example: A BIM lead imports a full set after a client review, works down the Issue list layout by layout, and closes each one as the model catches up.
The Drawboard Connection for Archicad is available now on every Drawboard Projects plan, so there's no tier to move up to before you can publish a set. It joins existing integrations for Revit, Procore, Aconex, and Autodesk Forma.
Publishing a set and reviewing it stops being two jobs handled in two places. You publish from Archicad, your team and consultants work through the drawings in Drawboard Projects, and the markups come back onto the layouts as Issues you can work straight down.
Add the Drawboard Connection for Archicad today.
Need help? Check out our Support Center article, or contact us.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
