Documents & cloud
Your plans are rarely where an app would like them. Cloya therefore treats every storage the same, whether iCloud, an office server or the BIMcloud.
Opening documents
The first format is PDF. Alongside it, Cloya opens DWG and DXF directly: CAD plans are rasterised natively and behave, when marking up and measuring, like any PDF, without you converting anything first. On the iPad you reach local files and iCloud through the familiar Files dialog; connected cloud storage appears in Cloya's own browser.
Cloud storage
Every source is an equal provider in Cloya. Once connected, it behaves like a local folder:
| Category | Providers |
|---|---|
| BIM & construction | BIMcloud (BIM manager projects as full storage), Autodesk Construction Cloud / BIM 360, Procore, Trimble Connect, Catenda, Fieldwire, Revizto |
| Office clouds | OneDrive / SharePoint, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, pCloud, Koofr, Yandex Disk |
| Your own servers | WebDAV (Nextcloud, ownCloud …), SFTP, SMB shares, S3 / Azure Blob / Google Cloud Storage |
| Local | iCloud Drive, local folders |
On the iPad, iCloud and the system's file providers are the familiar standard route; further connections keep being added.
A PDF like any other, with a backpack
Cloya saves your markups twice in the same file: once flattened into the page content (exactly as you see them in Cloya) and once as a data backpack inside the PDF. Every common PDF viewer therefore shows the plan identically; Cloya reads the backpack from the same document and keeps every cloud, every measurement and every stroke fully editable, as if you had never left.
There is no special format and no special file extension: the file is called name.pdf and stays an ordinary PDF. If you want to hand on a version that cannot be edited further, choose “Remove backpack” in the file browser. Cloya places a flat copy without an editable source next to it; the original is left untouched.
Saving
You don't have to. Cloya saves as it goes and, with cloud storage, writes into the local cache first and then to the cloud. A dead spot on site therefore costs you no markup. Whether a file is current, Cloya works out by itself.