With Autodesk Seek,
you can share, search, and reuse digital design content.
With
Autodesk® Seek you can find and share product design information with
the online design community to enhance designs and to meet specific customer
needs. It allows designers to search for, download, and integrate generic
or manufacturer-specific building products or components and associated
design information.
When you are working
in a design program, you may want to include products that, for
example, meet design standards for Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED) or the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Autodesk
Seek can help you locate such information and products, and get them
into your design.
- For more information about LEED green
building certification, visit the U.S. Green Building Council website: http://www.usgbc.org.
- For more information about ADA standards
for accessible design, visit U.S. Department of Justice website: http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/.
You can access Autodesk
Seek in the following ways:
- From the Autodesk Seek home page http://seek.autodesk.com
- On the ribbon Insert tab (to search)
or the Output tab (to share)
- Click Application
menu
Publish Share with Autodesk Seek
- Click Share with Autodesk Seek from a
selected block shortcut menu
- From the menu bar, click File Share with Autodesk
Seek
- From the menu bar, click Tools menu Toolbars Autodesk Seek
- From the Autodesk Seek toolbar, click
Autodesk Seek
- Click Autodesk Seek Design Content from
DesignCenter (ADCENTER)
- At the Command prompt, enter SHAREWITHSEEK to share and SEEK to search
With Autodesk Seek, you
can upload AutoCAD drawing files and blocks under the categories
Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Structural Engineering. This
facilitates searching that results in significant time savings during
production.
Blocks and drawings are
uploaded with their attribute values to the Autodesk Seek website.
The host drawing file
uploaded to the Autodesk Seek website does not include any external
images, external references (xref), or underlay file references.
NoteAutodesk Seek is
currently available in US English only.
To upload a block or drawing
to Autodesk Seek
- Click Output tabAutodesk
Seek panelShare
with Autodesk Seek.
- In the Share with Autodesk Seek dialog
box, select a block from the list of blocks, or select the current
drawing.
- Click OK.
The block or drawing
is saved as a temporary file, which is packaged with additional
information such as a thumbnail image, and sent to the Autodesk
Seek website.
If the drawing is new
or contains unsaved changes, you are prompted to save the file.
- If prompted, enter a new file name and
save the file.
A progress bar is displayed
while the file is prepared and uploaded.
- Your web browser displays the Autodesk
Seek website, after the file is uploaded.
Follow the prompts on
the web page and enter all required, and any optional information,
to complete the Share with Autodesk Seek process.
To search for blocks and
drawings in Autodesk Seek
CommandsSEEK
Opens a web browser
and displays the Autodesk Seek home page.
SHAREWITHSEEK
Uploads blocks or drawings
to the Autodesk Seek website.
