Knowledge base

Markup tools & the Tool Chest

Everything you need to redline a sheet — and a Tool Chest that remembers what you use so the second placement is one keystroke.

The Markup ribbon

Switch to the Markup tab and the ribbon lays out the review toolkit: Color, general Markup shapes, Highlighter, Note, Redact, Revision Delta, Cloud+, Stamp, Signature, plus the Tool Chest, Revisions, and Legend panels.

Markup ribbon with Color, Markup, Highlighter, Note, Redact, Revision Delta, Cloud+, Stamp, Signature, Tool Chest, Revisions, and Legend

A quick tour of the ones you'll reach for most:

Markups live alongside your takeoffs — clouding a room doesn't touch its measured quantities, and both show up together in the markups list.

Recent tools: zero-setup reuse

Open the Tool Chest panel and the top section, Recent Tools, fills itself. Every tool you place this session — a count subject like "Workstations," an armed flooring assembly, a wall run — is captured as a chip, styling and all. Click a chip to arm that exact tool again. No hunting back through the library for the thing you used two minutes ago.

Tool Chest panel with Recent Tools chips, numbered My Tools, Favorites, and tool sets

My Tools: your 1–9 hotkeys

Recent Tools resets with the session; My Tools is permanent. Promote a tool into My Tools and it picks up a numbered badge — the first nine slots map straight to the 1–9 keys. Press the digit, the tool arms, and you're drawing. Reorder the list with the ▲▼ controls; the hotkey follows the position, so slot 1 is always whatever you've put first.

  1. Place a tool once, or find it in Recent Tools.
  2. Promote it to My Tools.
  3. Order the list so your everyday tools sit in slots 1–3.
  4. Work the sheet with one hand on the keyboard: 1, draw, 2, draw.
Add from the canvas. Right-click any measurement or markup and choose Add to Tool Chest — no need to rebuild its styling from scratch.

Favorites and tool sets

Below My Tools, the chest keeps Favorites (staples like Revision Cloud and Door Count) and grouped sets such as Revision & Redline and Sheet References — ready-made collections for common review workflows.

Still stuck?

A human answers support tickets — usually the same day.