Will AutoCad work on tablet with windows 8.1?

[spoki7]

I am going to buy a tablet with windows 8.1 will AutoCad works on it and which version will work if any? Many thanks.

[pendean]

AutoCAD is not a touchscreen app, so you will pretty much always need a mouse at minimum and a keyboard for any seriously editing.
Other than that, if the tablet has full Windows OS you are good to go.

[spoki7]

I will buy mouse and keyboard and the tablet will be with original windows 8.1 so it will work is that right?

[pendean]

Which tablet? Is this meant to be a casual use unit or a fulltime production unit?
AutoCAD in fulltime production recommended requirements are i5 or better processor clocked at 3ghz and 8Gig of ram and a dedicated video card that does not steal from system RAM. Anything else will be ok for a while but you'll eventually find it irritating and annoying.

[DarrenP]

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@spoki7 wrote:

I will buy mouse and keyboard and the tablet will be with original windows 8.1 so it will work is that right?

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already thread on this: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-architecture-general/can-the-surface-pro-3-run-architecture-so...

they are using a surface pro 3 sucessfully

[pendean]

That's a good tablet with a tiny screen: in about a year come back here and give us a full review. I've had a Windows 7 tablet with a good i5 processor for many years now so I'm speaking from experience as well 🙂