Compare Revisions and Add Revision Clouds

To compare different revisions of a drawing sheet, or to compare a revision with the drawing sheet as it is now, the user must first select the two revisions to be compared, or a revision and the current drawing state.

To select the revision to compare from, on the Manage tab, in the Revision group, click From, select a revision state from the drop-down list.

To select the revision to compare to, on the Manage tab, in the Revision group, click To, select a revision state from the drop-down list.

To compare the currently selected revisions, on the Manage tab, in the Revision group, click Compare.

The comparison then takes place. Objects that have been added since the From revision display in green. Objects that have been deleted display in red. In the case of objects that have been changed, the object as it was in the From revision display in red, and the object as it is in the To revision, or as it is now, displays in green.

In the example, the triangle is in the From revision, but is not in the current drawing (or in the To revision). The red rectangle indicates the display of the rectangle in the From revision, and the green rectangle indicates the display of the rectangle in the current drawing (or in the To revision). The green circle indicates that it has been added since the From revision and is in the current drawing (or in the To revision).

The user is prompted to Generate revision clouds or <Generate>

Input G at the prompt and press Enter.

By default, revision clouds display around the changed objects.

The user is then prompted to Click inside the revision cloud to accept/reject it or <Finish>

All revision clouds are accepted by default. The clouds are indicated by their green colour. To reject a revision cloud, click within it. The cloud colour changes to red.

Click the revision cloud again to re-accept it (the colour reverts back to green).

The prompt is repeated until the command is ended. The user can continue to accept and reject clouds.

Alternatively, when all the clouds are accepted or rejected, the user can press Enter to end the command. The accepted clouds are added to the drawing.

Throughout the compare revision process the user can press ESC to cancel the command. Additional functionality is also available.



Accept all	Press the down arrow key and select Accept all to apply all revision clouds.
Finish	Press the down arrow key and select Finish to end the command
Generate	Press the down arrow key and select Generate to generate revision clouds.
Reject all	Press the down arrow key and select Reject all to reject all revision clouds.