Drawboard Projects is the collaborative and real-time markup and issue management platform that enables teams to work together to complete design, drawing and document review activities.

Projects enables architecture, design, engineering, construction and manufacturing teams to save valuable project time and significantly reduce their paper and digital waste, with features such as:

• Fast and accurate markup that syncs within seconds
• Best-in-class ink on Windows Surface and iOS devices
• App integrations to connect and improve your existing design workflow
• Threaded conversations that can be pinned on-drawing to discuss specific content
• Issues that can be pinned to locations on drawings to track completion

Use Drawboard Projects to complete internal or external design reviews, shop drawing reviews, document package reviews, approval processes or any other markup-based review.

Web, iOS and Windows Apps

Your Drawboard Projects account can be accessed using our web, iOS and Windows apps, with all data synchronized and available between apps. The native Windows and iOS apps can be downloaded at no charge from their respective stores and use all the power of native inking on the device to deliver a smooth, fast and great feeling inking experience. The web app provides wide accessibility of core features, full markup capabilities and administration tools.

Some of the ways our customers use Projects

Internal Drawing Reviews

The digital equivalent of a paper drawing review. Enable teams in the same sites or teams spread across multiple sites to co-ordinate reviews much more easily.

Staff can start marking up before a meeting and discuss all changes together on the same drawing - no multiple copies and trying to synchronize markups. Don’t just mark up a screen together, mark up the drawings together
 

External Drawing Reviews

Trying to co-ordinate and run drawing reviews with subcontractors or hosting reviews with clients?

Whether folks are in the same room or in remote rooms, they can participate equally in the review, seeing markup appear in real-time and making their own annotations at the same time.

As a Projects subscriber, you can even invite folks without a Projects account to participate on specific reviews at no cost and without using up valuable user seats by using time-bound guest invites. 
 

There are lots of other things our customers use Projects for, including: running approval processes, cross-referencing new drawing packages for errors, shop drawing reviews, reviewing document packages as teams, working offline while onsite, and comparing two drawings

Feature Overview

Powerful canvas

The canvas is the core of many design reviews (and the core of Projects), it is where you can review drawings, plans and documents, and mark up needed changes.

A great selection of tools including pen, line and arrow, shapes, text, callouts, stamps, images, linear & area measurements, eraser, make it easy to mark up drawings however you want. All tools can easily be accessed and your most-used saved into a favorites bar for even quicker access. You can also capture and log everything that is done in the activity feed.

Start your markup on a private layer so you can scribble and think before publishing markup you really want to share onto a shared public layer, and easily compare and verify changes by filtering specific people’s markup on the canvas and overlaying different drawings and revisions.

Keep things connected 

Keep related conversations  and discussions linked to drawings and issues right on the drawing so that everyone can see the context behind the decisions that were made. You can also @mentioning people to notify them, and never have to go looking for anything again - now and in the future.

Project and document management 

Store whole projects as projects, with all drawings, documents, issues and discussions contained in one place. Both drawings and documents can be version controlled.

Integrations

Drawboard Projects connects to your existing platforms to improve your design workflow.

Using our Aconex, Procore, OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox integrations, you can quickly load sheets into Projects and make them available for collaborative review or approval. You can also sync marked up drawings back into Aconex or Procore after reviews are complete.

Our Microsoft Teams integration lets you add a Drawboard Projects tab into relevant Microsoft Teams channels, to enable drawing reviews to happen right within the Teams UI.

And with our Revit add-in, there’s no longer a need to print sheets, upload PDFs onto shared drives, worry about version control, send out file attachments, or wonder how you’ll track and collate all the feedback you receive.

Get a detailed break down of each individual tool and feature on the Projects Product Tour page.

If you’re ready to get started using Projects, we have a guide to get you up and running quickly, Getting started with Drawboard Projects.
 

Get some quick Tips and Tricks to improve your productivity in Projects.
 

Learn more about our available plans by selecting Drawboard Projects on our pricing page, or get started now with a free 30 day trial to see how Projects fits into your workflows.