Visio® 2007 For Dummies®

Chapter 13. Marking Up Drawings for Review

In This Chapter

• Finding out about markup

• Adding comments to your drawing

• Discovering how markup tracking works

• Adding, viewing, incorporating, and deleting markup

• Marking a drawing with digital ink

• Changing digital ink to text or a shape

You'll find many good reasons to mark up your drawings. Reading an article, talking with a friend, or spending time at a seminar might provide ideas that you simply have to include in your drawing. After thinking about the drawing for a while, you might see areas for improvement or might want to include additional details. As with many documents, drawings experience constant change as our view of the real‐world object the drawing represents changes. Eventually, the object becomes outdated and the drawing becomes final, but all of the changes in between the beginning and the end of the drawing cycle show a progression of thoughts and ideas.

Getting other people involved with your drawing is an essential part of working with a group. You might pass out rough drafts to several colleagues and ask them to mark up your drawing, and then incorporate those changes into the final version. In some cases, you might simply want peer review and use the markup from several people as ideas for your own changes. A drawing might also require regulatory review, such as a house addition or an engineering design review. Many drawings receive input from others — sometimes as a group and sometimes individually.

Using markup is a traditional ...