What Is Scopture?
Understand the project context Scopture preserves and its role in physical-engineering work.
Scopture connects engineering outputs on an infinite canvas, makes them reviewable in two and three dimensions, and records what was requested, questioned, decided, and changed.
What Scopture Keeps Together
| Project context | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Artifacts | Drawings, interactive models, PDFs, documents, images, references, and reusable blocks |
| Intent | The project charter, including objectives, requirements, constraints, stakeholders, and phase |
| Review | Issues anchored to a canvas location, an element, or an exact point in a 3D model |
| Decisions | Outcomes and rationale linked back to the issues that informed them |
| History | Checkpoints, incremental changes, external-file revisions, previews, and restoration |
| Collaboration | Live presence, comments, assignments, controlled sharing, and review permissions |
The result is a navigable record of the project state and the reasoning around it, rather than a folder of disconnected deliverables.
Local and Remote Drawings
Use a remote drawing when the work must be shared, reviewed in a browser, or edited with live collaborators. Cloud editing and compute require authentication, an entitled paid organization, and the relevant drawing permissions. Free browser access supports read-only public and community drawings.
Use a local drawing in the desktop app for solo offline editing. Scopture saves a real .duc file on disk, supports linked local assets, and runs Python locally. Mobile opens local folders and .duc files read-only, without local Python or AI. A local drawing can be moved to the cloud when its assets are available for upload.
See Drawings, Sharing, and Export for storage, recovery, and access details. The desktop app also includes a command-line interface.
Product Boundary
Scopture does not replace the specialist tools used to author engineering geometry, run discipline-specific analysis, or manage construction and production. It is the decision-traceability layer between design creation and execution: the place where heterogeneous evidence can be assembled, examined, discussed, and approved without losing its relationships.
Continue with Run a Design Review to see how that context is used in practice.
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