Create revision clouds in an AutoCAD drawing

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Revision clouds have a very distinct purpose in AUTOCAD.

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They are literally clouds shaped objects that

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are drawn around areas on design plans

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to communicate changes that have been made.

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Their intent is to make those changed areas stand

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out so that reviewers can easily see the changes.

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Revision clouds received a major overhaul in 2021

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with a lot more control and options.

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I will create revision clouds in an example

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and highlight the options and commands for revision clouds

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to start the revision cloud command. You can either type rev

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cloud or

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you can go to the ribbon where there are two

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different places on the ribbon to access the command,

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you can go to the home tab,

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click on the draw drop down

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and the rev cloud drop down has three different choices to select.

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You can also go to the annotate tab on the

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markup panel and click the revision cloud button as well.

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Both buttons have the same drop-down choices

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of rectangular polygonal or freehand revision clouds.

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Each option presents you with command line options to choose from.

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Let's quickly take a look at some of these options

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after starting any revision cloud command.

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Options on the command line that appear include

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arc length,

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which allows you to set default arc length for the revision clouds

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object,

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which allows you to select a previously created object such as a polyline

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and turn it into a revision cloud

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style so that you can select from creating a normal style revision cloud

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or calligraphy. So that you can select a style that looks to be more hand drawn

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and modify so that you can modify a previously drawn revision cloud.

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Let's create a few revision clouds and then go through some of the commands for them.

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First,

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remember to set the layer that you want the revision

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clouds to be created on as the current layer.

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If you don't have a layer, then go ahead and create one.

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For this example,

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I will use

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the

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A

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Anno

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rev's layer.

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This layer is NCS compliant with the A being the discipline for architecture

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A

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O being the major category of annotation

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and revs being the subcategory for revisions.

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Now that the correct layer is current

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will create a rectangular revision cloud in the

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upper left hand corner of the drawing.

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Click the first point

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and drag your cursor in the direction

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for where you want to create the revision cloud.

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Next. In another part of the drawing,

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we'll try a polygonal revision cloud

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click

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to place it

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and when done

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right click and choose enter

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lastly in a different part of the drawing,

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we'll try the freehand revision cloud option.

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Simply click

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and move your cursor

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in the shape of where you want the revision cloud to be drawn.

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This command rocks because you're basically moving your cursor in the shape

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you want the cloud to be without making any clicks at all.