New in Bimsync Arena is our comprehensive annotation feature. The feature brings the power of our issue management system to Documents, so that Bimsync users can enjoy precise commenting, showing where documents and drawings need change and additional information, just like you do using models and viewpoints today.
Annotation tools have been added to our document viewer:
You can draw freehand, add shapes, text and call-outs, highlight text and measurements.
Your annotations can be saved to an issue using our issue management. Either save to an existing issue or create a new issue. The issue can then be assigned to a team or person to change the document or provide an answer to the annotations.
Projects can set up RFI (Request for Information) and similar workflows using issuetypes and issueboards.
The annotations are attached to the document revision they were drawn on, so new revisions will be pristine, while annotations made on older revisions will be accessible by cycling back through revisions or by going to the document's related issues.
To add annotations to an issue,
Open a single document in the viewer and start using the annotation tools.
Save your annotations using the Annotations panel on the right. Select an existing issue or create a new one and submit your annotations to the issue.
Your annotations are saved grouped as one comment per page of the document.
To use measurements and areas, first calibrate the drawing scale.
Issues containing annotations are added to the document's list of releated issues. You'll find these under the File info tab in the right sidepanel.
You can now annotate all document formats that our viewer handles (pdf, doc, docx, xlsx, pptx, dwg and dgn).
We've also improved the full screen mode so that annotations can be added while viewing documents in full screen.