Getting started

Circulate is two things that work together: a review service in your web browser, where a firm and the city review the same drawing set, and an editor for Windows, for marking up PDFs on your own computer. Pick the guide that fits what you do.

Which guide is yours?

• You set Circulate up for your firm, or you run reviews: read Set up your firm.
• A colleague invited you to review drawings: read Reviewing at a firm.
• A firm sent you a link because you review for a city, or you are the applicant: read For city reviewers and applicants. It is free and there is nothing to install.
• You want to edit PDFs on your own computer, with or without reviews: read Circulate for Windows.

If you already use Bluebeam Revu or Acrobat, most of Circulate will feel familiar: the tools have the same names, and the tool keys follow Bluebeam's (keyboard shortcuts).

A firm's first review, in five steps

These are the five steps a new organisation goes through. Each one is explained in Set up your firm.

1. Create your organisation.
2. Create your first project.
3. Upload your first drawing set. Each upload is a revision of the project.
4. Invite someone: a colleague, or a city reviewer or applicant as a guest.
5. Open your first review stage on the drawing set, with a due date.

No drawings to try it with? Download our sample drawing set (PDF, four sheets of a fictional street project).