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Getting started with Notch

Create a workspace, upload a drawing set, and find your way around the editor.

Notch runs entirely in the browser — there's nothing to install. This guide takes you from a fresh account to your first marked-up sheet.

Create your workspace#

Sign up at notch.build with your email or a Google account. Your workspace is where your team and drawings live — you can invite teammates to it later from workspace settings.

Upload a drawing set#

From the workspace home, drag a PDF anywhere onto the page (or use the upload button). Multi-sheet sets stay together as one document, and you can organize documents into projects — drag a file onto a project to file it.

Find your way around the editor#

Open a document and you land in the editor:

  • Tool rail (left) — navigation tools on top (pages, select, hand, zoom, search, screenshot), then the tool families (pen, shapes, text, measure), then the discipline libraries (drafting, design, systems, civil, construction) of ready-styled preset tools. Click a family to open its flyout.
  • Sheet navigator (left panel) — thumbnails of every page. Insert, duplicate, reorder, rename, and rotate sheets from here; your markups follow the page.
  • Right sidebar — Layers, Measurements, Bookmarks, Overlays, Properties, Discussion, Assistant, and History panels. Properties opens automatically when you select something on the canvas.
  • Status strip (bottom) — zoom, page scale, and the drawing dim control, which fades the sheet toward white so your markups stand out.

Make your first markup#

Pick a shape from the Shapes flyout, drag on the sheet, and it's saved — every edit persists as you make it. Select the markup to restyle it in the Properties panel, or press Delete to remove it.

Ctrl+Z undoes anything.

Next steps#