Upload drawings, organise them into categories, read the badges on each drawing, and open, rotate, reorder, download, delete or reset them.
11 articles
The Project View
An overview of the project view in ZeroCount: the breadcrumb, the categories panel, grid and list layouts, the bulk action bar, and the Submit button that opens a drawing.
Updated 4 September 2026
Uploading Drawings
How to add PDF drawings to a project by drag and drop, the file picker or a whole folder, and what ZeroCount does with each file as it uploads.
Supported File Types
What ZeroCount accepts for upload, the difference between vector and image PDFs, how multi-page sets are split, and how sideways drawings are turned upright.
Organising with Categories
How to create, rename, reorder and delete categories in a project, put a drawing in more than one category, and move drawings between categories.
Drawing Cards and Badges
An anatomy of a drawing card in grid view and a drawing row in list view: the thumbnail, revision badge, vector or image badge, status badge, category count, presence avatars and the actions menu.
Drawing Status
How the Uploaded, In Progress and Completed statuses on a drawing change automatically, how to mark a drawing complete, and what being Completed changes.
Rotating Drawings
How to rotate one drawing, every drawing in a category, a selection, or the drawing you have open, and what rotation does to existing markers and the vector takeoff tools.
Reordering Drawings
How to change the order of drawings inside a category by drag and drop, and where that order is used: the file tabs, the Select Drawing panel and the Excel export.
Downloading and Deleting Drawings
How to download the original PDF of a drawing and how to delete drawings from the card, the bulk action bar, the Select Drawing panel or a file tab, including which routes ask for confirmation.
Opening Drawings and Switching Between Them
How to open a drawing in the takeoff workspace with Submit, which drawing opens first, and how to switch to another drawing from the breadcrumb, Change Drawing or the file tabs without returning to the project page.
Resetting a Drawing
How to use Reset Drawing to clear every marker, service, zone, AoI, legend and ignored colour from a drawing while keeping the PDF, its rotation, revision and scale.
