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Autodesk A360 mobile app - view any CAD file in the cloud
With the recently released (or rather "re-released", see below) mobile application Autodesk 360 you can interactively view and discuss virtually any 2D and 3D CAD format file on the screen of your iPad or iPhone. The "Autodesk 360" cloud service offers many useful CAD functio…

New mobile application Autodesk Instant
Autodesk has released a new mobile application that seemingly targets outside of the conventional fields dominated by Autodesk. The application Autodesk Instant for Android and iOS is an "instant messaging" tool designed for team communication, with similar features as the popular appli…

Autodesk FormIt - conceptual BIM editor now also for Android
Free mobile application Autodesk FormIt helps to capture building design concepts and ideas - anytime, anywhere. FormIt is now available not only for Apple iPad but also for Android tablets. You can build your conceptual 3D models on top of real-world site information. Establish a continuous Bu…

Autodesk 360 Publisher - clear technical documentation
The newest member of the quickly spreading Autodesk 360 cloud family is the "Autodesk 360 Publisher Technology Preview". This cloud version of the well known desktop application Inventor Publisher can easily create visual instructions for assembling, installation, maintenance and repair …

New mobile AutoCAD WS 1.5 with Design Feed
The popular mobile and web version of AutoCAD - AutoCAD WS - offers in its recent version 1.5 a new function - "Design Feed". With Design Feed you can attach comments and discussion posts directly to individual elements of your drawing and share them with other users. This simplifies com…

Autodesk ForceEffect Motion - simulation of kinematic mechanisms on iPad
Autodesk ForceEffect Motion is an interesting extension of the functionality introduced in the recently released mobile application Autodesk ForceEffect . The "Motion" version of Autodesk ForceEffect allows to analyze and simulate moving kinematic mechanisms and mechanical systems. So…

Localized versions of the free mobile CAD viewer - Autodesk Design Review
Autodesk has released a new version of its free mobile viewer for 2D and 3D CAD data - Autodesk Design Review Mobile 2.0 . The new version of this fast and easy-to-use viewer is available in multiple languages, including Czech. The language selection is automatic. Autodesk Design Review allows f…

Autodesk ForceEffect 2.0 and other mobile applications
Autodesk is not only a leading developer of CAD, GIS a multimedia desktop software, they develop also many interesting mobile applications for the growing market of Android smartphones, tablets, and Apple iPads and iPhones. There already 14 of these apps. The newest kid in this block is the mobi…

Autodesk mobile GIS on Apple iPad
Autodesk Infrastructure Map Server (the software formerly known as Topobase web ) is not limited to access only from "thick" clients (AutoCAD Map Enterprise) and web browsers on desktop computers. Most of its key GIS functions can be provided also online, for terrain workers, through the…

AutoCAD WS Mobile for Android - finally an AutoCAD for Linux
Autodesk has released a free mobile version of AutoCAD - AutoCAD WS Mobile for Android . All users with mobile phones and tablets equipped with the Google Android operating system can now view and edit DWG files on their "pocket" devices, smartphones and tablets. AutoCAD WS for Androi…