Autocad Iphone

[Shinyoung Gedris]

Basicallylooking for a free way to get photos taken in the field using an Iphone or Android to display themselves in a autocad drawing via sometype of icon at the location they was captured at. Then be able to click on the icon and the image appear.

I use a piece of software named "global mapper" a GIS program, and all I have to do in it is drag the images into the program and the program locates the images correctly. I am looking for something similar to this in autocad.

I am going to accept "Murph's" as the best answer, because it is close enough due to the fact it gets the images in the drawings for free but due to the limitations of autocad it does not place the images automatically in the location captured.

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Good afternoon, I'm in a similar situation. I have a Iphone 11 and have been texted 3 .dwg files, with autocad mobile downloaded. I try to save the files by holding down on the message and clicking save, then go to files on my phone and it is not there. I have also tried to email the .dwg file to myself with no luck. Any advice? I also have taken a picture of the file it is just an image with polar coordinates. If I can not open the .dwg file is there a way to import a .jpeg and have it keep it respective coordinates and info then resave it as a .dwg file? Appreciate any help

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There has been a fair bit of open discussion from Autodesk lately on the subject of a possible future OS X AutoCAD version. The more I think about this, the more I am inclined to believe that this would be a bad idea. A very bad idea.

Ever since the last multi-platform AutoCAD (Release 13), Autodesk has dedicated its primary product solely to Windows. Since then, the code base has been spreading its mass of roots deeper and deeper into the Windows soil. Any Windows-specific advantage the developers can take has been taken. Reversing or working around that process is a very substantial undertaking. If it were done, I think it would have the following outcomes:

The performance is likely to be poor, because all the Windows-specific stuff will have to be redirected, recreated or emulated. The stability is likely to be awful, because this will be new ground for almost all of the developers involved. Developers with AutoCAD experience are going to have little or no Mac experience and vice-versa. They would be trying to make significant changes to the code base at the same time that that code base is being modified for the next release. The bug level is likely to be abysmal, both for the above reasons and also because the number of pre-release testers available to Autodesk on this platform is likely to be relatively tiny. The user interface is likely to be an uncomfortable square-peg-in-round-hole effort, which will work badly and be derided by OS X users.

The very substantial effort required to produce any kind of AutoCAD for Mac at all would be a major drain on very limited (and shrinking) development resources. That means Windows users of AutoCAD would look forward to a release (or more likely several releases) with fewer new features, less completion of existing undercooked features, and longer waits until bugs and other problems get fixed. This, in exchange for no benefit whatsoever to those users. In fact, the decoupling of Windows-specific calls and the likely introduction of extra bugs would probably make AutoCAD for Windows work less well than it otherwise would.

Autodesk is currently trying to save money by closing down offices, dropping products, cutting down on expenses and sacking employees (some of whom were long-termers; irreplaceable sources of information about use of the product and why certain things were done the way they were). In such an environment, does it make sense to start up a new project with high resource requirements and limited potential benefits? Especially when it is just a repetition of a previous project that was a complete failure?

Amen!

AutoCAD on Linux is the only thing holding me back from switching. But I would rather be stuck with Windows and its poor handling of system resources, than to have AutoCAD suffer because resources are being used to port it to other systems.

Yes, I know there will be CAD drafting in AEC for a while longer, just like there are still hand-drafters but those niches and people are (mostly?) going to retire soon and in a generation or two most AEC people will only know of ACAD as a historical figure.

-J

Returning to platform independence will require Autodesk to develop their own libraries rather than using Microsoft libraries that are not specific to their needs. This could translate into better code and innovation across all of their products. Have you considered that they could use code from platform independent products they already have like Maya, that runs on Windows, OS X and Linux?

What appears to be happing, judging by the questions and news I have seen, Autodesk appears to be creating AutoCAD for OS X as a different product all together. This is not a good idea at all. They will be left with two sets of code to deal with. They should move to platform independence.

Steve, I think your perspective is clouded by your assumption that the motivation for a Mac port is driven by the needs of end users. A garbage Mac version of AutoCAD might be perfectly suitable for fulfilling a business need (from a marketing perspective) to stave off potential losses to native Mac versions of AutoCAD clones.

I think creating a mac version is a good thing. I doubt that there will that much performance boost. It is all intel hardware. Mental Ray (rendering engine) is already cross platform. I am not aware that there is that much difference between the maya versions.

Note: I really do not want to sound like I am Mac only. I actually consider myself platform agnostic. We will use whatever gives our customers the best product and experience. Whether it be Windows, Mac, Linux, AutoCAD, Vectorworks, Revit or Microstation we use what our client uses. We originally purchased a Mac due to a client that used Vectorworks. We slowly started using the Mac more and more for production. For all the reasons you heard (that shall be left unnamed here) we found OS X a better platform. For the purpose of this post, OS X is built on BSD UNIX.

Apple is starting to sell an uncomfortable number of computers (primarily laptops) in the US. This trend will likely continue for at least the next five years. There is also the possibility that Apple could sell an OEM or RETAIL Mac OS X product for the PC!

Other companies are already targeting the growing Mac user base with design software. If one of these companies were to establish a beachhead, coupled with a desktop operating system upheaval, then Autodesk would find itself in a losing situation.

As a 20 year MiniCAD/Vectorworks user and trainer, AutoCAD translations have improved tremendously over the years, especially since Nemetschek acquired Diehl Graphsoft (the original MiniCAD/Vectorworks developer), but more could be done.

If I were a developer, I would leave out the esoteric features used by only a narrow slice of users and focus on the majority, particularly if they aimed the first release at a market segment. That allows them to deliver a product with high satisfaction and success and then add other features that matter to other markets.

Also be on the lookout for AutoDesk AutoCAD apps for the iPhone and iPAd which allow users to read .DXF/ .DWG drawings on their phone and iPads, this is great for the Project Managers that are tired of carrying full sets of drawings!

It is traditional for Autodesk Service Packs/Updates to fix only bugs and occasionally fix performance problems. Providing missing features is not usually on the agenda; R13c4 was the last update to provide new features.

Following all the comments has been interesting (if somewhat confusing), thank you all.

As a non-technical person, I now need to invest in a computer drafting programme.

I am a very happy Mac user and am trying desperately not to re-visit Windows (a giant leap backwards for man-kind I believe).

A friend is a Mac user and Cad instructor and said I should go parallels (or boot camp) for Windows Cad (very displeasing!).

Is this still the case? Or have we moved along and Cad Mac is now stable? Or is there a Mac alternative to Cad which works similar and does it interface well?

OMG i am planning to buy an mac for my office but after reading your post i think i would not buy it as i have too many work to do on autocad. Thanks to cadnauseam..You just saved me from big trouble.

I have run into one or two situations with sold-modeling where missing features were a problem, and necessitated a workaround. I have let Autodesk know that those features would be welcome on the Mac.

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