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Reuse sketches across projects

Your standard details, references, and markups don't belong to a single project. Upload them to your sketch library once and drop them into any sheet or project.

Before you start: any project open. Your sketch library is shared across all of your projects, so anything you add is available everywhere.

Upload a sketch

  1. Open the sketch menu's Upload row

    Click the picture button on the dock rail, then the + Upload row — the upload dialog opens.

  2. Choose a PDF or image

    Pick the file. It's added to your library and ready to use anywhere.

Screenshot coming The Upload Sketch dialog
Upload a PDF or image straight into your library.

Browse the library

  1. Open Sketch Library from the strip

    The number beside it is how many sketches you have.

  2. Browse and manage

    Rename, review, and manage uploaded sketches. PDFs render a preview so you can tell them apart at a glance.

The Sketch Library dialog listing three sketches — Stair detail, South elevation, and Floor plan sketch — each with a thumbnail, version, and row actions
The Sketch Library — each sketch shows its version and where it's attached, with rename, new-version, history, attach, and delete actions.

Attach a sketch to a view

  1. Open the sketch menu

    Click the picture button on the dock rail — your library flies out as a menu of draggable rows.

  2. Drag a sketch onto a view

    Drop it on the view — the view now shows that artwork. The same sketch can back views in any number of sheets and projects.

Versions

Upload a new version of a sketch and SketchWeave keeps the history: views referencing it move to the latest version, and you can review earlier ones from the library. One update refreshes every place the sketch is used.

Tip Because the library spans projects, a detail you standardize once is one drag away in every future set.

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Place views on a sheet and attach a PDF or sketch so each view shows the real artwork.

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Create note combinations once and apply them across sheets so updates propagate project-wide.

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Connect SketchWeave to Autodesk Forma

Authorize the APS connection and pull your sheet PDFs in so your canvas always references the latest version.

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Build your standards once

Fill your library with the details you reach for again and again — then reuse them across every project.

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