samifox Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 hi is it possible to place 2 drawing side by side and have them synced? meaning when over I zoom or drag one drawing the other drawing will respond the same, Thanks Shay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted October 31, 2018 Share Posted October 31, 2018 Are you talking about 2 different drawings? You can have multiple instances of Autocad open, and position them side by side, (Refer to this Article), but you can only work in one drawing at a time, so even if you if you did have the two drawings open, you can't pan and zoom in one and have the other one actively panning and zooming at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzframpton Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Bluebeam has this feature and it works fantastic. -TZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 Our civil software allows for up to 3 views so a change in the vertical design is reflected in the cross sections and a 3d view all in real time. n Not quite what your after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven-g Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 To compare drawings I bring them both into an empty dwg placed on top of each other, and change every layer of each xref to a single (but different contrasting color in the layer manager) then you can easily see the differences and change the draw order to see which if any has the most differences. So every layer in xref1 is red and every layer in xref2 is yellow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombu Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 If you upgrade to AutoCAD 2019 it will compare two drawings and display differences between them. https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-2D69E78D-5C82-464F-B864-CD29D5720EB9-htm.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 7 hours ago, tombu said: If you upgrade to AutoCAD 2019 it will compare two drawings and display differences between them. BricsCAD can do this also, in v18. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammobake Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 If I remember correctly, some newer Autodesk software is including this capability to compare drawings and highlight the differences right away. But there may have been a LISP routine for it in the past. Civil3d will include this feature too I think (which is where I read it a couple days ago). Bluebeam is also a pretty versatile program that can do it (I think someone mentioned that). There can be differences in tolerances between the two files too (but usually not an issue for most projects). -ChriS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkmcswain Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 13 hours ago, ammobake said: If I remember correctly, some newer Autodesk software is including this capability to compare drawings and highlight the differences right away. But there may have been a LISP routine for it in the past. Civil3d will include this feature too I think (which is where I read it a couple days ago). As mentioned about 4 posts up, both BricsCAD v18 and later, and AutoCAD 2019 and later include this capability. It's not just limited to C3D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombu Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 There have been Enhancements added to the 2020 version of Drawing Compare that include allowing you to compare your current drawing with others and make updates as needed including attributes: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2020/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-2D69E78D-5C82-464F-B864-CD29D5720EB9-htm.html Updates described at: http://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-7D9278AC-5197-4FA8-8EBF-A50E1279559C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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