The new Markup Sessions Activity Center in Fifth Edition allows each Project Center user to easily browse, preview, add comments or PDF publish any Newforma markup session created on the project.
Here is how it works:
1) Start by marking up a CAD file, PDF or BIM model as part of a design or CA review workflow. In this example, I will mark up a Revit model by opening it in Revit, using Revit to find a view I want to mark up, and selecting the Newforma Snapshot tool in the Windows task bar:

2) This will prompt me to select two points to define the view of the Revit model I want to mark up:

3) After selecting the two points, the view is displayed in the Newforma Viewer and I can mark it up. After I mark it up, I go back to reviewing the Revit model. When I want to comment on another view, I select the Snapshot tool again and mark up the view. I repeat until my Revit review and markup session is complete. I will end up with a whole bunch of marked up views within the Markup Panel on the right hand side, as shown below:

3) Next, and importantly if I want it to appear in the Markup Sessions Activity Center, I will save my Markup Session. Notice I can name it, keyword tag it, add a description and also “relate” the session to another item, such as an Action item, as shown below:

4) As soon as a Markup Session is saved, it will appear in the Markup Sessions Activity Center within Project Center. Note: unlike Fourth Edition and before, you no longer need to designate a location for the markup session NMU file – Newforma stores all markup sessions centrally within the project, similarly to how it stores transmittals or action items. All internal team members can view and add comments to any project markup session, as shown below:

5) You can then publish any selection of markup sessions to PDF or create a report to communicate any comments or design decisions with the extended project team. In the example below, I am publishing the open and closed markup sessions associated with two source files:

6) The Publish dialog provides an option to combine the markup sessions into a single PDF as well as shuffle the display order:

7) The final, published PDF contains bookmarks and sub-bookmarks for each markup session and marked up view so you can send the extended team members an organized, professional-looking red line set and they don’t need Newforma Project Center to view it! Here is an example of what it looks like in Adobe Reader:

8) One last tip: The Markup Sessions Activity Center is great for reviewing drawing sets and communicating corrections and revisions to CAD/BIM designers. Designers can view markups and comments associated with any drawings they are responsible for:

9) When they want to incorporate markups as corrections in the underlying source drawing, they simply highlight the markup session, select the Related Items tab and open the source drawing in its native application, as shown below:

10) After changing the underlying source drawing, they can add some final comments and close the markup session, leaving behind a permanent audit trail of these design decisions: