Sharing Forge parts and drawings

Share links

Any part can get a share link — a capability URL that shows a read-only 3D viewer to anyone who has it, no account needed. Links show a view count and can be labelled ("for the machine shop").

Two properties worth knowing:

• The link is the access: anyone holding the URL can view. Share accordingly.
• Revoking a link kills it immediately; making a new one issues a fresh token, so you can rotate access without touching the part.

Share links are read-only, always: viewers never see your revision history, project, or workspace, and they can never edit or save. They can, however, scrub the part's parameters locally and export geometry from the viewer — so treat a share link as handing over the shape, not just a picture of it.

Drawings and DXF

2D drawings live alongside parts in a project, with the same append-only revision history. Drawings export as DXF (AC1015, also labelled R2000), which imports cleanly into laser-cutter and CAM toolchains. Drawings also export as SVG, PNG, and JSON, and the studio can import DXF back in.

One thing to know before you hand a file to a machine shop: dimensions are exported exploded — each dimension becomes plain lines, arrowhead strokes, and a text label rather than an associative DXF DIMENSION entity. They look right and measure right, but they will not update if someone edits the geometry downstream, and they cannot be re-styled as dimensions in the receiving tool. Geometry itself exports as real lines, arcs, and circles.

What can't be shared (yet)

Whole projects and live-editing links aren't a thing today — sharing is per-part, view-only. For collaboration, add people to your Space with the operator role instead: same parts, real edit history, per-person attribution on every revision.