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814 | Chapter 29 Insert and View Markups
Overview of the Electronic Markup Feature
If you are working with a design team on a drawing, you might want team
members to make comments or corrections. Instead of using ink on paper,
they can create markups on the screen using viewing and markup tools. Sav-
ing markups in redline markup language (RML) files allows team members to
view the markups electronically by inserting the RML files into drawings.
Sending drawing files for review, and then receiving corrections and com-
ments electronically, streamlines communication, shortens review cycles,
and results in a more efficient design process.
Insert Markup Data
Team members and others collaborating on a project can create RML files
using markup tools (such as Volo
®
View). RML files contain comments,
corrections, or other markups corresponding to a drawing. When you receive
an RML file, you open the corresponding drawing, and then insert the
markup data from the RML file into your drawing.
When you insert an RML file into a drawing to view markups, you are asked
to confirm the layouts in which to insert the markups. Markups are then
inserted into the drawing using the world coordinate system.
Markup objects from RML files are not the same as AutoCAD drawing objects.
When inserted, markup objects are converted to the most appropriate
AutoCAD drawing objects.
You can edit inserted markup objects in the same way you would any other
object in the drawing file.