Plans that have been shared to a forum topic may be downloaded as shapefiles. Any user with access to the forum may do so. Simply enter the forum topic, click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the forum, and choose "download shapefile of plans." If multiple sketch classes are present, a separate shapefile will be generated for each sketch class. Multiple sketches of the same sketch class will be saved to a single shapefile with multiple features (one for each sketch). 

All shapefiles are delivered in a single, compressed (zipped) file. 

Note that at this time there is no means to generate all of the plans for an entire forum. Above, we are downloading plans for the "New Shipping Lane" topic in the "Public Forum". There are multiple topics within the Public Forum, but no means to download all of these plans except to enter each of the topics and perform the above download procedure for each topic. If it is important to you that you have the ability to download all of the plans in a topic, please let us know by submitting a comment, requesting this feature.