Plott
Drawing approval software

Get drawings reviewed and approved without a single “which version?”

Share a drawing set as one private link. Clients read it page by page in the browser, pin comments to the exact spot on the sheet, and always open the current revision — while you see who has opened what.

Free for 30 days · No card · Nothing to upload · Setup in minutes

A-101 · REV C · 1:100KITCHENLIVINGHALLBEDROOM 01BATH1
ASAnita Shah · “Can the kitchen wall move 300 mm north?”Open · Rev C
Sound familiar?

Approvals get stuck in the gaps between messages.

Approval by thumbs-up emoji

A 👍 in a group chat is the only record that a client agreed to a layout — and nobody can find it later.

Comments on the wrong revision

Markups arrive on Rev A after Rev C has already fixed the problem, and someone reconciles them by hand.

“The wall” — which wall?

Written feedback describes a location instead of pointing at it, and every ambiguity costs a round trip.

Did they even open it?

You wait days for an answer without knowing whether the client has looked at the drawing at all.

How Plott fits

What good drawing approval software should do.

Comments on the sheet

Feedback pinned to the exact spot on the drawing.

Clients click the part of the sheet they mean and type their comment. It stays attached to that spot, that page and that revision, and you mark it resolved when the change is made.

  • Notes pinned to a place on a specific page of a set
  • Open and resolved notes, so both sides see what is still outstanding
  • Replies in the same thread, not in a separate chat
A-101 · REV C · 1:100KITCHENLIVINGHALLBEDROOM 01BATH1
ASAnita Shah · “Can the kitchen wall move 300 mm north?”Open · Rev C
Revision control

Everyone reviews the current revision.

Plott reads revisions from your file names. Save the new revision in the same Google Drive folder and every client link moves to it, with earlier revisions kept as history.

  • Revisions like _rev-C, -RevC and _v3 read automatically
  • Names it can't read are flagged, never guessed
  • Comments stay on the revision they were left on
SheetA-201
TitleNorth elevation
VersionRev C

Shows as the current version. Earlier ones stay in history, and every comment stays pinned to the version it was left on.

Visibility

Know who has opened each drawing.

See which clients have opened their link and how many times each file was viewed, so you can follow up with the right person instead of waiting.

  • Opened or not opened, for every person you invite
  • View counts per file
  • Email notifications when a client leaves a note
A-101_ground-floor-plan_rev-C.pdfWho has seen it
ASAnita Shah · ClientOpened · 3 views
RKRakesh Kumar · ContractorOpened · 1 view
MIMeera Iyer · ClientNot opened yet
Questions

Questions about approving drawings in Plott.

Does Plott record a formal sign-off?

Not as a separate signature step today. Plott records every comment and reply with who wrote it and on which revision, whether each note is open or resolved, and when each person opened their link — which together give you a clear written trail of what was reviewed and discussed.

Can clients review drawings without an account?

Yes. Each client opens their own private link on a phone or computer. There is nothing to install and no account to create.

Do clients have to download large PDF drawing sets?

No. Multi-page PDFs are read in the browser as a grid of pages or one sheet at a time, so nobody downloads a 60 MB set to check a single plan.

Can a client and a contractor review the same drawing separately?

Yes. Switch off shared client notes in Settings and every person you invite gets a private line — they see only their own notes, and your studio sees all of them.

Send your next drawing set for review as one link.

Connect a Google Drive folder, invite your client, and see their comments land on the sheet.

No card · No migration · Setup in minutes