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title: "Layout Tracking"
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updated: 2024-11-05T00:54:34Z
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# Layout Tracking

The Layout Tracking feature enables you to auto detect the changes made to CAD Layouts. Changes such as adding, deleting, renaming, or changing a layout within CAD are detected when the layout file is checked-in to 12d Synergy.

### 1.1. How to Enable Layout Tracking using the ****12d Synergy Administration**** Application

1. In the **12d Synergy Administration** application, click the **System Settings****> General** tab.
2. In the **Filter** box, enter the search word **CAD**.  
All the settings related to CAD are displayed.  
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3. For the **CAD Layout Tracking Mode** setting, select one of the following value options:
  - **Do not track** - Ignores all the changes made to the layout in the CAD application
  - **Prompt to add or remove layouts** – Displays a prompt when adding or removing a layout
  - **Automatically add or remove layouts** - Automatically updates the changes made to the layout without displaying any prompts

### 1.2. Layout Tracking in Use

1. When you close the drawing with the updated layout file in the CAD application, a prompt to check the file into 12d Synergy is displayed.
2. Click the **Yes** button.  
The **Layout Changes** window is displayed. You can view all the layouts that are either not in 12d Synergy or have been removed from the drawing.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/v5v5layouttrackinglayouttracking.doc-image-1bwi26u8.jpg)
3. Click the **Action** column against each of the layout displayed in this window and select one of the following actions for the selected layout:
  - **Add layout to 12d Synergy**
  - **Ignore**  
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4. Click the **OK** button.  
The newly added/removed layouts will get uploaded into 12d Synergy and the changes are displayed under the **Layouts** tab.  
![](https://cdn.document360.io/36833d89-59e3-46a5-b491-e9aa1b524a85/Images/Documentation/z.jpg)