PDF & Drawing Review

Review Drawings and PDFs Together

Drop in a floor plan, drawing set or storyboard and mark it up with your team in real time — nothing to install.

Most drawing reviews still happen over email: a PDF goes out, scribbled notes come back, and someone has to reconcile them all. In Shale, everyone you invite opens the PDF in their browser, drops a note exactly where it applies, assigns it to a teammate and replies in a threaded conversation. It all happens live, so ten people can review the same sheet at once and see each other's notes appear as they're written.

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Notes Exactly Where They Belong

Click anywhere on a drawing to leave a note, assign it to a teammate and keep the conversation threaded beside the page. Every comment stays pinned to the spot it's about.

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Draw, Cloud and Mark Up

Freehand drawing, annotation clouds and colour controls give you the markup tools you'd expect. Shale runs in any browser, supports multi-touch, and is pressure-sensitive with a stylus.

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Navigate Big Drawing Sets

Flip through a multi-page set page by page, lay it out as a strip, or rifle through it like a filing cabinet to jump straight to the sheet you need. Upload new versions and compare them side by side.

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