Autodesk,
Please make Design Review for Ipad and Droid! Increasingly, we have clients who are realizing the potential of having 2D design idw files in combination with 3D models. These are very usefull for both the factory floor and onsite installations. Design Review is a great tool for anyone who works at a desktop or laptop. However, an app for handheld devices would be tremendously usefull for anyone who is in the field or does not work at a desk who needs to measure parts, assemble parts, or simply visuallize a project. People are becoming increasingly reliant on their handheld devices. This is clearly part of the future of manufacturing in the world. Its becoming embarrassing that we cannot provide our clients with something that is perceived as the obvious "next big thing" in manufacturing. There are other strings where you can find the same discussion.
Obviously, this must happen sooner or later. We'd like to see it sooner rather than later.
FYI: Nice Design Review Mobile demo video available on the blog...items of interest to both iOSers and Androiders. http://dwf.blogs.com/beyond_the_paper/2011/10/design-review-mobile-app-video-demo-available.html
Design Review on my PC has an option in 3d view to rotate as turntable. It's kind of difficult to rotate the model with the regular 3d rotate especially when viewing buildings. With turntable the building stays upright. Is that something that will be updated soon hopefully?
Hi,
Good question. I've forwarded your question to the appropriate team.
To ensure that the proper folks see your future requests, please enter your specific feedback for either Design Review Mobile or the Autodesk Cloud here: http://feedback.autodesk.com/cloudservices.
Thank you!
I am a piping designer for a large HVAC contractor in Atlanta. With all the work currently out of town and having to travel 200 miles to solve problems on site. It would be nice to have the ability to review 3D drawings on site without the need for a cumbersome laptop. I currently use an ASUS tablet operating with the latest Droid OS. I find it ironic that for so many years we could not have autodesk software on apple products. Now we can't have probably the most usable app for our industry on a non-apple product. The pricing of apple products does not make them very appealing to many companies. The competitive pricing of Droid products combined with the more versatile hardware makes much more sense to buy. I think software developers need to quit drinking the apple coolaid and start looking at the value of other products that offer much more in the way of hardware.
I would love to try out Design Review for the IPAD but I have an android functioning tablet as what the AEC firms around here settledd on.
Any chance we will see the android version soon?
Thank you very much for interest with Autodesk Design Review mobile! We are having Android Beta program available.
http://download.autodesk.com/us/designreview/designreviewmobileandroid/signup.html
Looking forward you trying that out, let us know your valueable feedback via email Feedback–Design Review mobile.
Thanks,
-Leon
Autodesk Design Review Mobile Team
Leon Thank you. I just signed up to be a beta tester. I used my gmail account for the testind as my tablet can access it.
Duane
Apparently if you saw the Apple iPad 3 that was on display, you would simply walk straight pass it because it resembles the iPad 2. The back of the upcoming tablet looks the same, Jeremy Horwitz who is the iLounge Editor-in-Chief reports that the iPad 3 casing (Body) is 1mm thicker than the iPad 2, the rear camera is slightly larger. If this is all true it looks like we need to step back to the iPhone 4S design change, hold on minute sorry there wasn’t one, the camera was changed like the suggested iPad 3, oh Apple if this is true you really need to go back to the drawing table.
I was walking through the house with the iPad in my left hand. I had pulled up a website and was heading to sit down, get comfy, and do some online shopping. I was shopping for a new TV stand by the way, which was on sale and in about the same price range as a replacement Apple iPad (which I did not know I might need at the time, of course).
I had the usual 5-finger grip on my beautiful iPad, but when I rounded the corner it slid right off my hand like I was holding a wet eel with baby oil on my palm. It did a flip mid-air, landed on it’s glass face, and shattered – with tiny shards of glass flying everywhere.
I was walking through the house with the iPad in my left hand. I had pulled up a website and was heading to sit down, get comfy, and do some online shopping. I was shopping for a new TV stand by the way, which was on sale and in about the same price range as a replacement Apple iPad (which I did not know I might need at the time, of course).
I had the usual 5-finger grip on my beautiful iPad, but when I rounded the corner it slid right off my hand like I was holding a wet eel with baby oil on my palm. It did a flip mid-air, landed on it’s glass face, and shattered – with tiny shards of glass flying everywhere.
What I'm looking for is a mobile app for Android that can open DWF and DWG files - support mark up on DWFs (and Gs if possible)
NO uploads to server - these need to be local if possible, this is information that cannot be shared outside of my organization.
The files are system maps denoting cable and fiberlayouts for large communications networks.
We are evaluating WS on the Samsung 10.1 Tablet now.
After years of trying to get my users to buy-in on the whole DWF and D/R thing it is finally taking hold. The mark-up and tracking of corrections tools for D/R make it a shame to think WS might be Autodesk's answer for tablets. We need these tools and the portability of tablets changes the face of the game.
WebGL is going to change the face of everything about drafting on-line too, but since the system is in place in CAD now for DWFs, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater
It's amusing that each time I've quizzed Autodesk about the release of Design Review for Android, I've been told "it'll happen when it happens" then within a day or two something significant happens. Coincidence? I doubt it.
It's available on the market now, btw.
I'm not seeing this app in the app store. This would be a VERY useful thing to develop. Our shop inspectors and field commisioners could benefit tremendously from the ability to view a 3D dwf of our models on site.
My company is using iPhones/Androids and we need the ability to view DWF files on our internal web site using Design Review.