As in DropBox or other cloud storage services you get a fixed amount of total storage for a fixed monthly fee. Is all the storage used you cant upload anymore drawings. Now you have the choice to delete or archive old projects or switch to a subscription with more storage.

All uploaded drawings and each of their versions count to your storage limit. However all the photos and attachements uploaded inside of the discussions do not count to the storage limit and are free.

No worries your cost wont increase. If the storage is full you wont be able to upload additional drawings. However you can still continue to discuss on the already uploaded drawings. To be able to upload further drawings you have following options:

1. Make space by deleting or archiving old projects
2. Switch to a subscription with more storage.

Sure! GroupDraw accounts are all free. Just click here to SIGN-UP for FREE.

With a new company you will even get 20 free plan-months to start with. This should help you to get started. For detailed pricing information after that click here.

No. You can use all features of GroupDraw for free for an unlimited time. Just click here SIGN-UP for FREE. Only the company that owns a project needs to pay. For detailed pricing information click here.

The tool is in English, the tutorials in English and German. French and Italian are planned for a later time.

Our pricing works like a prepaid phone contract. You buy plan-months upfront and for each uploaded drawing you pay 1 plan-month a month. For more detailed pricing information click here

GroupDraw is discussion based. This means that you can start a new discussion on any drawing where you can write to each other and add pictures. You are also able to mention people using the @ to assign them to the discussion. This way you can actively notify somebody and he will from now on be involved in the decision process. Last but not least a discussion also features a status (OPEN, CLOSING, CLOSED, IMPLEMENTED or ARCHIVED).

This strongly depends on your project; however, it is easy to calculate. For each month and each drawing you need one plan-month. This means for a project that runs over 10 months, and for which you expect to have a total of 300 drawings, we recommend you order 3000 plan-months. For more detailed pricing information click here.

There is no limit. You pay depending on the amount of active drawings per month, no matter how many users from your own company and guests from other companies have access to your project.

There is no installation needed. You only need a modern browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc…) to log in.

Your files are protected by an SSL layer and hosted on GERMAN or SWISS data centers.

Sharing rights are managed on a project or category level.
Note: If you upload drawings into your project you can manage those with whom you are sharing a drawing. If you upload drawings to a project of somebody else, they can manage the sharing rights. In this case you have provided them with the rights to share your drawing.

An Admin of a company can archive and delete a drawing or project in that order. A deleted drawing or project is indefinitely deleted and can’t be retrieved.

Yes. We mark each entry of a discussion with the user and a timestamp. In this way, you can see later on who said what at which point in time. Furthermore, we lock all discussions 30 minutes after their creation, so that they can be altered or deleted.

GroupDraw provides a search as well as categories within the projects. This, in combination with the optional drawing number, allows a very efficient way to structure even highly complex projects.

Note: Drawings can be assigned to multiple categories at the same time without duplicating them.

Currently we support the following formats:

Drawings: PDF, JPG, PNG, GIF (The support of DWG is planned for a later time)
Pictures (within discussions): JPG, PNG and GIF

Note: We support multi-page PDF. However, 3D and multi-layer PDFs are not supported at this time.

Tablets: Works properly with any common tablet browser.
Phones: Works with any common phone browser; however, it is not optimized for small screens and thus the user experience might be limited.

No, GroupDraw is a collaboration tool and not a drawing tool. To edit a drawing, please use your preferred CAD tool.

We strongly believe, that efficient communication can only happen if it is all in one place. Therefore we prohibit the export of the discussions to avoid having several outdated versions floating around.

There is no installation needed. You only need a modern browser (e.g. Internet Explorer, Safari, Chrome, Firefox etc…) and go to www.groupdraw.com to log in.

Yes! Versioning of your drawings is an essential part of GroupDraw. You can upload as many versions of a drawing as you like and assign them one of these statuses: PRELIMINARY, FINAL, INVALID to keep track of them. Further versions in which a discussion was started and implemented are tracked.

No. GroupDraw does require the internet to work. However GroupDraw is optimized to work with minimal data use.

Yes! Images can be added to each discussion on every place of your drawing.

Yes, we have implemented a measurement tool. However, there is no area measurement tool at this moment. This is planned for the future, though.

Yes, if the project owner wants you to. However he has the option to deactivate the download so don’t wonder if the download icon is crossed out.