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Facecast: Go Mobile with AutoCAD WS

May 25

Join Tal Weiss, head of our AutoCAD WS team and co-creator of AutoCAD WS, and Camille Caron, product marketing manager to learn more about this FREE web and mobile application. This is a live event, beginning Thursday, May 26th, at 9AM Pacific time, so we’ll trust you to figure out what time it will play in your area (it will be at 5pm in London, 7pm in Istanbul, midnight in Singapore).

Win a T-shirt!

Tal will be covering a variety of topics and this is your chance to ask him a question directly. And to make it even sweeter, every person whose question is read out during the Facecast will win a T-shirt.

It’s that simple. Ask a question about AutoCAD WS and you could win an AutoCAD WS T-shirt.

We’re particularly looking for questions in the following areas:

Future directions of AutoCAD WS
Other Autodesk Verticals
Security

But if you have any other questions, feel free to post them here or on our Facebook page.

If you can’t make it for the live event, you’ll be able to watch the whole thing afterwards as a recording. So bookmark this page and come back to watch the Facecast!

Adding Background Settings – What’s Your Favorite Color? – Poll

May 19

If you’ve been using AutoCAD for a while, you probably have your own set of preferences when it comes to your drawing’s background.

We have received some feedback suggesting that some users want to see the background color they are used to and that their designs were created on.

Not everyone loves the current background limitations of AutoCAD WS where, like the Model T Ford, you can have any color as long as it’s black.

We’re planning to support background color customization with the next release. Once you select a background color in the web app, you will see it also in your mobile app for the editor, layouts and the block editor.

So let us know in the poll below which colors you’d like to choose from for your background.

5 Tips for the AutoCAD WS Mobile App

May 16

We hope you enjoy these five tips for getting the most out of the AutoCAD WS mobile app. If you have a tip you would like to share with other users let us know and we’ll include it in a future blog post.

1. Share as Read Only

When you share a file, you can set the permissions so that the file can’t be edited or downloaded. This read-only version of the file is a working alternative to saving your work as a PDF and sending it as an attachment in an email.

2. Sync Changes to AutoCAD

After you have been working on a drawing in the field you can sync it back to your desktop by downloading it through the web app or the online tab in AutoCAD. You can even share the file from your mobile app and then download the DWG from the email you receive.

3. Offline indication

Every file in your online account that has been saved locally on your mobile device carries a time stamp indicating the last time it was synced. This time stamp will let you know that your file is available offline.

4. Introduce a Friend to AutoCAD WS

If you want your friends and colleagues to enjoy the benefits of the AutoCAD WS mobile app, simply share a file with them. They will receive an email notification that the file is shared with them and an invitation to download the mobile app. Once they download and install the app the shared file will already be in their online account.

5. Editing Text

To edit text in your drawing, simply select an object and select the Edit Text icon from the toolbar. You may need to scroll the toolbar to find the icon.

Please note that only text objects are currently supported, not Mtext objects.