Share a panel book by link

Send your whole panel book as a single URL — no upload, no account required to open it.

cv-web can turn the project you have open into a share link: one URL that carries the entire panel book inside it. Paste it into an email, a text, or a chat, and the recipient’s browser opens the identical book — they do not need a ConstructiVision account, and nothing is uploaded to a server. Sharing is always free; see Membership & Tokens for the short list of things that do cost tokens.

Copy a share link

1. Open the project you want to share (from your cloud library or a local project).

2. In the editor’s menu bar, choose File → Share by Link.

3. cv-web copies the link to your clipboard and confirms with “Share link copied to clipboard.”

4. Paste the link anywhere you’d paste text.

The link is long — the whole book is encoded, compressed, inside it — so send it through a channel that keeps URLs intact (email and most chat apps are fine).

What the recipient sees

Opening the link lands on a brief “Opening shared panel book…” screen, then the normal cv-web editor with your book loaded — the same panels, sites, and settings you shared. From there:

• No account is needed to open and browse the book. As everywhere in cv-web, viewing is free and read-only; full editing unlocks with a membership.

• The book arrives as a new local project in the recipient’s browser, exactly as if they had imported a .cvp file. If they are signed in, they can save it into their own team’s cloud library like any other project.

• Their copy is independent of yours: the link captures the book as it was the moment you copied it. Edits you make afterward do not travel through the link — copy a fresh link to share the newer version.

If the link was truncated in transit, the page says so — “Share link is corrupt or incomplete.” — and the sender should copy and send it again in one piece.

How the link works — and how long it lasts

The share link stores the book in the URL itself (the part after #), not on a ConstructiVision server. That has two practical consequences:

• It never expires. There is no server-side record to lapse; the link opens for as long as someone keeps it.

• Anyone with the link can open the book. The link is the data — treat it with the same care as attaching the project file itself, and share it only with people who should see the book.

When a book is too large to share by link

Very large books can exceed what a URL can practically carry. In that case Share by Link tells you: “This book is too large to share by link — use Export Project (.cvp) instead.” Use File → Export Project (.cvp) and send the file; the recipient drags it into cv-web (see Work with cloud projects) and gets the same result.

Link vs. file at a glance

	Share by Link	Export Project (.cvp)
What you send	One URL	A file attachment
Recipient needs an account	No — opens read-only in the browser	No — but needs cv-web (or the CAD plugin) to open it
Expires	Never	Never
Size limit	Very large books fall back to file export	None
Cost	Free	Free