Markups and the Comment Review Sheet

Use markups to mark up a drawing during review. Every markup is a dashed red shape (or a note on its own) plus a short comment written on the sheet. Revision clouds and bare reference numbers are not used.

Place a markup

After the shape, a Markup comment box asks for the text. A comment is required: if you leave it empty, nothing is added. Each markup is one undo step. On your first markup you are asked for your name or initials; change it later with Author….

The Markups panel

The panel (In the app: Help ▸ Show me) lists every markup with its number, comment, author and date. Click a row to zoom to it.

• The filter (All / Open / In progress / Closed) shows markups by status.
• Status per row: Open, In progress or Closed. Closing a markup that has no code sets Code A.
• Code per row: A, B or C.
• × deletes a markup.
• Author… sets the reviewer name.
• CSV exports the list (No, Comment, Author, Date, Status).
• Start no.… sets the number of the next new markup (used once; later ones continue from the highest).
• Renumber… renumbers all markups in their present order from a number you choose (one undo step).

Export to CRS

Export to CRS (xlsx)… (In the app: Help ▸ Show me) saves <drawing>-CRS.xlsx beside the drawing. It has one row per markup, for model space and every layout, with the Comment Review Sheet columns No., Sheet / Layout, Comment, Reviewer, Date, Status and Code. The Status cell is coloured by the code (A green, B orange, C red), and Status and Code have drop-down lists.

Show or hide markups

Choose View ▸ Show markups to toggle the markups, for example before plotting a clean copy. See also Layers and Compare two drawings.