How to View CAD Files on Mobile

With the evolution of Android and other smartphones, nowadays most programs or functions that run on a PC can be accessed via mobiles, and Computer-Aided Design is nothing different.

Leading companies in this sector have made it their priority to create apps that allow you to view, edit and create CAD files on your mobile.

The five apps listed below include the most basic of CAD apps:

1. CAD Pockets

Freely available for Android and iOS

CAD Pockets supports a range of CAD file formats, which includes DWG, DXF, and DWF, regardless of size. Users can view, revise and markup these CAD files. They can then be imported or shared via email or cloud storage services like Google Drive and Dropbox. Users can then export them to PDF or DWF.

It allows a set of basic drawing functions alongside editing functions like copy and rotates.

The app’s offline function is useful for users on the move.

2. DWG Fastview

Freely available for Android and iOS

DWG Fastview opens 2D/3D DWG files, alongside other CAD formats enable the ease of importing or sharing via email, Dropbox or WebDAV. You don’t need any registrations or logins.

Its attributes include the single and multi-touch interface allowing users to pan, zoom and rotate. Users can make annotations and edits using the basic drawing tools provided. It allows for multiple layers, layouts and perspectives.

The app enables users to open CAD files in either ‘view mode’, or ‘edit mode’ where they can then make use of the drawing abilities.

3. DWG Fastview

Freely available for Android and iOS

DWG Fastview opens 2D/3D DWG files, alongside other CAD formats enabling the ease of importing or sharing via email, Dropbox or WebDAV. No registrations or logins are necessary.

The attributes include the single and multi-touch interface allowing users to multi-edit. Users can make annotations and edits using the basic drawing tools provided. It allows for multiple layers, layouts and perspectives.

4. Onshape

Freely available for Android and iOS

Regular readers may be familiar with Onshape. Onshape is the first fully cloud-based 3D CAD application. Designs are stored on the Cloud. Users can look at their creations via phone, tablet or web browser.

Onshape allows you to create new sketches and edits imported files. The app can use real-time constraints so the user can test mechanism layouts.

Once users complete their designs, they can create ‘read-only’ versions to prevent any further edits. Or they can utilize ‘follow mode’ to look at the edits other people are making in real time.

5. eDrawings Pro

With a charge of £7.99, available for Android and iOS

With this handy app, users can view 3D and 2D CAD files, with the ease of importing and sharing via email, iTunes Sharing and Cloud storage services.

It allows for multi-touch gestures which allow users for multi-edit. Augmented Reality (AR) is also included in this package, allowing users to visualize their 3D models in the real context, in a 1:1 scale.

The app includes markups through freehand notations and text notes.

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