AutoCAD 4+

Frustratingly Basic

At first glance this seemed liked a simple answer to a few of my problems, specifically digitising site plans drawn on permatrace (Old school, I know). As I rarely need anything more complicated than polylines and basic XREF tools to do this, this app seemed like a perfect fit. However, the XREF tools aren't quite up to snuff - the lack of an Align tool is particularly annoying, and the simple addition of a transparency option would be particularly helpful. Drawings beyond the most basic of shapes are often slightly more trouble than they are worth, but I'm sure with practice this would improve. As has been noted in another review, changing line types appears to be impossible, which severely restricts the usefulness of this app for my applications.
As a method of viewing .dwg files, and performing some (Very) basic markup this is a perfectly functional app. As an even vaguely serious drawing tool, it's miles off the mark.

Great but not quite there

As productive as this is with pencil integration, Leica Bluetooth connectivity and a suite of tools to aid basic cad creation on the move, it’s missing some pretty basic features of 2D cad drawing packages. 3D might as well not exist in my opinion other than for viewing only.

One of my major complaints is that the pencil support is a little bit laggy, particularly when using the marker to take notes and basic tools such as wall placement are missing. Leica measurements enter fairly easily but the scale doesn’t map out to mm from meters so you end up zooming pretty far in. I’d like to see a few more items fixed in order to keep my payments coming. It’s close but remains a little overpriced just now for a paid subscription.

What has happened? Very disappointed

I used to find this app great. I have used it for factory layouts and have not had any issues. For the last few months I had been editing and improving the factory layout in .dxf format. After not using it for a few weeks opened it up and all of a sudden could not access my dxf documents. Had to get them put into dwg format and finally got it up and running again,
Then to my horror, nothing works as it did. The simplest of tasks are now more complicated and can even find the tools I used to use the most. Trim, extend, line colours, etc etc all gone!!!!
Why has this been changed? What if anything is better? When will we get the old functionalities back?
I am really disappointed with the latest changes, if only I could step back to the old level I could at least work it.
Why delete the functionality and release before making it fully functional I don’t know.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your feedback.

We are constantly reviewing our product in order to determine whether we are doing everything we can to achieve great result. Recently we have launched a new enhanced version of AutoCAD mobile app. We are aiming to provide a more robust experience with improved graphics and functionality that more closely resembles the desktop version of AutoCAD. In order to do so, we have temporarily limited functionality of the latest release.

All of our efforts are aimed at improving the new version, so we are constantly adding new features and are open to your feedback. We believe that we can do better if we had more insight in what you do and what your needs are. Tell us more about your work processes and place of AutoCAD mobile in it at feedback@autocadmobile.com