Welcome to Canvas Envision Help Guide

Canvas Envision is an end-to-end visual communication and collaboration solution, developed to allow teams across organizations and ecosystems to create, share, and collaborate on every type of visual document and business graphic.

As well as being a feature-rich business graphics application, Envision gives any user the ability to easily embed interactive 3D CAD models into their documents – whether they’re creating manufacturing work instructions, sales presentations, marketing brochures, or maintenance guides.

And it allows downstream colleagues, service providers, prospects, and customers to view these documents through their browser, interact directly with the 3D CAD data, and take advantage of collaborative chat and mark-up functions so they understand precisely what they need to.

Envision replaces flat documents like Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files with a new, interactive file type called the .evdoc. Typically, evdocs are stored in a dedicated Envision cloud environment through which you can manage access and collaboration.


Canvas Envision empowers everyone in your ecosystem by providing:

  • A single, built-for-purpose graphics application for the creation of all visual documentation

  • A simple and intuitive interface designed to be used by every employee, including non-technical users

  • A rich graphical toolset geared to effective communication of key product data. Simple annotations, blow-ups, call-outs, and more

  • The ability to import and manipulate 3D CAD models and data to allow precise visualizations

  • A collaborative cloud environment for the storage and sharing of Envision documents

  • The ability for downstream users to access and interact with Envision documents through any browser

  • A powerful suite of collaborative functions enabling creators and their audiences to interact, communicate, and ensure absolute clarity

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