From the course: AutoCAD Mobile App

Open from Web & Mobile

From the course: AutoCAD Mobile App

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Open from Web & Mobile

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- [Shaun] We're staying in AutoCAD 2019, the AutoCAD desktop app, and I've left the drawing as it was at the end of the last video after we saved up to the cloud, saved to web and mobile to our Country Cabin_002 drawing. Now what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to close that drawing, and we'll click on the cross in the file tab and that'll take me back obviously to the Start tab in AutoCAD. I'm now going to go up to open here from web and mobile. Now I can open the drawing from web and mobile at any time because I'm logged in using my Autodesk account there. But what I'm going to do first is go to open locally, and you'll see there, look, Country Cabin_001. I'm going to open that up and that'll open up quite happily and that's a local file. So I've got a local file open that I've saved to my hard drive on my PC. If I now go up to the quick access toolbar and go Open From Web & Mobile, what'll happen now is it takes me back to this dialogue box again. So I'll just scroll down the list, there's my NEW COUNTRY HOUSE-Project, double-click on it and there's my County Cabin_002 that I saved previously in the previous video. If I open that up, what you'll see now is I've got two drawings open and you'll notice they look exactly the same. I haven't made any changes, but it's seamless. That's the benefit in the AutoCAD desktop app, in AutoCAD 2019. It's seamless, I can open up a cloud-based file, I can open up a local file very quickly and very easily. But the major benefit is, is that you've got your Autodesk account, you can save these files up to the web and into the cloud for use with the AutoCAD web app and more importantly in this case, the AutoCAD mobile app.

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