Introducing the Engineering Workplace
Introducing the Engineering Workplace
Standards aren't meant to be read once and forgotten. Today we're rolling out the Engineering Workplace — a built-in markup layer on top of every standard your subscription gives you access to. Highlight requirements, sketch redlines, drop notes on a clause, and share the result with your colleagues. The original document is never modified; your work lives in a separate layer that's restored every time you reopen the document.
What you can do
- Highlight text and attach a comment to any highlight.
- Draw freehand redlines, circles, and arrows.
- Add text notes anywhere on a page.
- Share with your team — publish an annotation to your organization in one click and every colleague on the same subscription sees it on their next refresh.
- Navigate from the side panel — every annotation is listed grouped by page; click any row to jump to that annotation in the viewer.
- Hide annotations on demand — toggle "Show annotations" off when you want a clean read of the underlying standard, on when you're back to reviewing.
- Collapse the panel to the side — a vertical "Engineering Workplace" tab brings it back when you need it. On phones, the panel starts collapsed by default.
Every edit is autosaved within a second; there's no Save button. Reopen the standard tomorrow and your work is right where you left it.
How sharing works
- Personal subscriptions — every annotation is private to you.
- Business subscriptions — annotations are private by default. Click the lock icon next to any of your annotations to publish it to your team. Click the people icon to take it back to private.
Only the original author of an annotation can publish, unpublish, or delete it. Other colleagues see shared annotations as read-only.
What's intentionally out
- No print or download of standards — this protects your subscription's licensing and never has to be re-explained to your auditors.
- No real-time collaborative drawing — the workplace polls for changes every ~15 seconds. It's designed for review and async collaboration, not live co-drawing.
- No image stamps or signatures — coming in a future iteration.
Where to find it
The Workplace appears automatically inside the subscription reader in your E-Library. Open any standard your subscription grants you access to and the side panel and toolbar are right there.
For the full reference, see the Engineering Workplace user guide.
Try it now — open any standard from your subscriptions and start annotating.