Collaboration
Real-Time Collaboration
When more than one person has a shared workspace open, it becomes a live session. Avatars in the title bar show who is in the workspace right now, named cursors show where each person is pointing on the drawing, and markups made by one person appear for everyone else within seconds — no refreshing, no file syncing, no session setup.
Updated 2026-07-06 · 4 min read
Presence avatars and named cursors show who is working where on the drawing.
What you see in a live session
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Presence avatars
The workspace title bar shows an avatar for every person currently in the workspace, updating live as people join and leave.
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Live cursors
Each collaborator's pointer appears on the drawing as a colored cursor with their name, so you can talk through a detail while both looking at the same spot.
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Edits within seconds
Markups, measurements, and counts drawn by one person appear for everyone else within a few seconds of being made.
What collaborators can do
Everyone in a shared workspace is a full editor: markups, calibrated measurement, counts, and the Bill of Quantities all work the same for collaborators as for the owner. Access rides on the owner's plan — a collaborator whose own trial has ended can still open and edit workspaces shared with them while the owner's plan is active. AI assistant credits stay personal to each account, and only the owner can delete the workspace or manage sharing.
Working on different sheets
Cursors and edits are scoped per drawing, so two people can work different sheets of the same set without getting in each other's way — the avatar stack still shows everyone in the workspace, whichever drawing they have open.
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