Mark up editing, visibility and control update in BIM 360 Docs

By Henry Coombs

In response to feedback, Autodesk has updated the mark-up tools, including the ability to edit existing mark-ups and control mark-up visibility.

Edit Mark-ups:  Now you can edit existing mark-ups (that you created).  To edit a mark-up, select the mark-up from the mark-up panel and choose edit from the menu.  Use the mark-up tools to change the size, shape, colour, to add additional details and select done.  Your changes will be immediately saved and the changes are tracked in the Activity Log.

Visibility Control:  Until now, all users with view permission could create mark-ups that were viewed by all users.  To provide you with more control over who can publish mark-ups to the entire team (whilst maintaining the ability for all users to create mark-ups for their own use), Autodesk has updated the mark-up feature to support the creation of both private (can only be seen by the individual user) and published (can be seen by all users) mark-ups.  All users with view permission (or higher) can create private mark-ups, while users with edit permission (and above) can publish mark-ups to be seen by everyone.

By default, mark-ups are private but can be changed to published (if the user has edit or above permission) in the mark-up toolbar (while creating the mark-up) or in the mark-up panel (after the mark-up is created).

A list of mark-ups.

Updated terminology:  In response to user feedback and to accommodate the new editing and publishing control settings, Autodesk has updated the terminology for managing mark-ups. 

Before this release, mark-ups had a status (open or closed) and open mark-ups would automatically carry over to the next version (automatic slip-sheeting). Closed mark-ups would continue to display on the closed version and would not display on subsequent versions.

In this release, Autodesk has maintained the critical automatic slip sheeting and carry over unresolved mark-ups from one version to the next, but they have made some important usability changes.  You can now archive (instead of close) published mark-ups and delete private mark-ups.  In addition, if you archive a published mark-up, it will no longer display by default on that version (but you can choose to view it by selecting show archive in the mark-up panel).

New tool, new toolbar: Autodesk has added a highlighter tool with colour and thickness options.  They have also updated the toolbar to include undo and redo controls for mark-up creation and editing.

The highlight tool options.

The undo, redo and visibility control options.