Multi Drawing View: How to see your entire drawing set in one scrollable view in Drawboard Projects

Design reviews involve moving through dozens or hundreds of drawings. You check one sheet, move to the next, jump back to verify a detail, forward again to see how elements connect. The more drawings in your set, the more time you spend navigating between them.

Multi Drawing View lets you see multiple drawings simultaneously in one workspace. You can view your entire drawing set together in a continuous scrollable list, a customizable grid, or side by side.

This changes how you navigate and review. Instead of opening individual files and switching between them, you scroll through your drawings like pages in a document, zoom into any sheet without losing sight of the others, and mark up across multiple drawings in one session.

Here's a closer look at the three view modes, how markup navigation works across your drawing set, and how Multi Drawing View changes coordination workflows.

Choose the layout that fits your review

Multi Drawing View gives you three viewing modes, accessible from the quick toolbar on the bottom-middle of the canvas:

• Single View – View drawings one at a time, so you can focus on a single sheet’s details and annotate it more precisely without distractions or worrying about navigation.
• Multi-drawing List – Combines your drawings into a single, continuous, scrollable flow. Pan and scroll through your drawings as if they were one long document, which is best for sequential reviews or when you need drawings large enough to see important details but want to work faster than clicking between files.
• Multi-drawing Grid – Open your drawings in a customizable grid for a "bird's-eye view" of your project, or just pick the right number of drawings for your screen size. Use more rows or columns to zoom out, or use fewer for larger, more detailed reviews. 

For more control, open the view settings to customize:

• Layout direction (vertical or horizontal scrolling)
• Grid columns (choose how many drawings appear across)
• Double layout option (see exactly two drawings at once)

Example: An electrical engineer uses the multi-drawing list with a double-page layout to scroll through architectural plans alongside their lighting layouts, keeping both visible at once without clicking back and forth or using two windows.

Navigate to markups across your entire drawing set

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The markup list now works across your entire drawing set when you're in Multi Drawing View mode. When no drawing is selected, the markup list shows all markups across all drawings. When you select a specific drawing, the list filters to show just that drawing's markups—but you can remove the filter to return to the full project view.

You can also filter markups by author, type (pen, callout, stamp, text, etc.), or color, so it’s easier to find specific kinds of annotations across large drawing sets.

This helps with:

• Tracking specific markup types – See all callouts or all stamp markups across the project and jump directly to any one
• Following reviewer feedback – Filter by author to see all markups from a specific team member or discipline
• Design review coordination – Navigate through all markup feedback without opening files individually
• Finding previous markups – Locate that annotation from last week without remembering which drawing it was on

Click any item in the markup list and you'll navigate directly to that location on the drawing.

Example: A design lead filters the markup list by the structural engineer's name, sees all their markups across 80 drawings, and clicks through to respond. They can also filter by callout or stamp types, author, and even markup color to see only specific markups.

See tasks and comments for each drawing

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Tasks and comments work differently. To see a drawing's tasks, issues (like RFIs and Punch Lists), and comments, select that drawing by clicking on it. The task list and comment panel update to show what's on that specific sheet, and task pins become visible on the canvas.

This keeps the visual workspace manageable when you're viewing many drawings at once. Select different drawings as you review to see their specific coordination items.

Example: A QA reviewer scrolls through drawings in grid view, clicks on sheets that need attention, and checks the task list and comments for each one to see open punch items, their status, and any discussion threads.

Mark up across multiple drawings in one session

Multi Drawing View is a fully live workspace. Everything you can do in single-drawing mode works here—zoom, pan, annotate, measure, drop pins, access your markup library.

Mark up Drawing 12, pan to Drawing 13, continue annotating, scroll to Drawing 14, then add your dynamic stamp of approval on them all in seconds. Your review stays fluid, and you maintain visual context of how drawings relate to each other while you work.

All your standard tools are available:

• Drawing and markup tools
• Pin drops for Tasks and Issues
• Markup library access
• Measurement and calibration tools
• Comment threads

You can work across multiple sheets without losing your place.

Example: During a coordination review, a mechanical engineer identifies a duct routing issue that affects three consecutive floor plans. They mark up all three locations in one session, maintaining visual context of how the issue progresses vertically through the building.

Why multi-view helps coordination workflows

Multi-view removes friction from four common coordination workflows:

• Cross-discipline coordination becomes visual – Instead of mentally tracking which disciplines' drawings you've checked, you can see them together. Use double layout or grid view to keep structural and architectural drawings side by side, or MEP layouts visible alongside floor plans.
• Markup tracking at scale gets clearer – The markup list shows you every annotation across your project. Filter by author or type to find exactly what you're looking for, then navigate directly to any markup without searching file by file.
• Drawing set comprehension improves – On complex projects, understanding how sheets relate to each other matters. Which drawings cover the same area? Which details reference which plans? Multi-view lets you see these relationships visually instead of inferring them from drawing titles and sheet numbers.
• Repetitive checks move faster – Verifying that standards are applied consistently, checking that coordination changes made it into every relevant drawing, and confirming details across similar sheet types all speed up when you can scroll through the set instead of opening files individually.

The result: less time navigating, more time reviewing.

Get started with Multi Drawing View

Multi Drawing View is available now for all Drawboard Projects users.

Open any project, click "Multi Drawing View" in the drawing list (or open your preferred drawings with multi-select checkboxes or manually by double-clicking each), and choose your view mode from the quick toolbar on the canvas. If your work changes, customize the view mode to fit your device and workflows.

Need help getting started? Check the Support Centre for more information, or contact our team if you need a hand.