Draftsman in Altium 365 Web Viewer

The addition of Draftsman to Altium 365 Web Viewer introduces the capability of the design review concept by expanding it to real-time collaboration. This is probably the most critical file you will control and submit to your assembler. Now, you can share and view in a web browser and add comments to Draftsman. Please see Design Documentation with Draftsman to learn how to generate a draftsman document in Altium Designer.

Open a project, and click Draftsman on the top bar menu. If you have multiple draftsman documents in your project, you can open them through the design tree.

Fig. 1 - Accessing Draftsman in Altium 365 — **Fig. 1** - Accessing Draftsman in Altium 365

You can also open the other pages through the page thumbnails if you have a multi-page draftsman document.

Fig. 2 - Accessing multiple draftsman documents — **Fig. 2** - Accessing multiple draftsman documents

You can scroll up or down with your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

Fig. 3 - Zoom in and out — **Fig. 3** - Zoom in and out

You can drag around and move the screen by left-clicking and holding the mouse button.

Fig. 4 - Drag and move actions — **Fig. 4** - Drag and move actions

You can collaborate in real-time in Draftsman for Altium 365 by placing comments and creating tasks.

Fig.1 - Create Tag — Fig. 5 - Design Review in Draftsman

You can access Draftsman through Release > Design Snapshot, including the described functionalities.

Fig. 6 - Draftsman in Design Snapshot — **Fig. 6** - Draftsman in Design Snapshot

You can access Draftsman through the Manufacturing view, including the described functionalities.

Fig. 7 - Draftsman in Manufacturing view — **Fig. 7** - Draftsman in Manufacturing view

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