The new Design Review mobile is now live on the Apple app store, and free! View your 2D or 3D DWF files from anywhere on your iPad or iPhone. This is a mobile version of the very popular and also free Autodesk Design Review desktop application.
You get 1Gb of file storage on this free viewer and upload them to your Autodesk Cloud or Autodesk Labs Project Nitrous account.
The description from the App Store:
Expedite the design review process by viewing and redlining design files in the field. Autodesk® Design Review mobile app enables you to review Autodesk 2D and 3D design files directly on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. View, mark-up, and annotate drawings on the spot, reduce the need to carry around over-sized paper drawings, and enjoy an all-digital design review workflow.
View
• Open and view 2D and 3D DWF files from your Autodesk Cloud account
• Use multi-touch to zoom, pan, and rotate drawings
• View meta data and other details about elements within your drawings
Markup & Annotate
• Use simple and intuitive redline and markup tools to communicate changes
• Add text or comments using familiar callouts and drawing tools
App Store – Design Review Mobile
Need another way to review DWF files on the cloud from your desktop? Check out Project Nitrous http://nitrous.labs.autodesk.com/
Other Autodesk design related mobile Apps.
AutoCAD WS
Extend AutoCAD to your mobile devices. Work with AutoCAD drawings. View, edit, and share DWG files. Available on the App Store | Android Market
Autodesk Buzzsaw Mobile
This app provides users of Autodesk Buzzsaw collaboration software with more secure, remote access, and exchange of building project information. View DWF files, standard office documents, and images, as well as upload project photos to a Buzzsaw project site. Available on the App Store
Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile Viewer
Interactively view animated 3D assembly instructions created with Autodesk Inventor Publisher technical documentation software.
Autodesk SketchBook Mobile
Professional-grade painting and drawing app with a full set of sketching tools. Available on the App Store | Android Market
Autodesk Bluestreak Mobile
Architecture, engineering, and construction project teams can track activities (including Autodesk Revit worksharing and Autodesk Buzzsaw automated notifications) on their iPhone or iPad. The Bluestreak Mobile app lets users of Project Bluestreak easily collaborate anywhere—on the job site or at a client meeting. Available on the App Store
OH YEAH! Good work, now please make the measuring tool in Design Review actually useful…..
Now if only AutoCADWS could tap into this CLOUD you’d have a decent setup finally that does not require 3rd party clouds.
I believe the Cloud can use AutoCAD WS. I am disappointed to see its not available on Android yet!
I think the Tablet’s larger form factor is a much better design file viewing experience and in that respect the Apple iOS platform reigns currently. Both platforms are not usually developed at the same time so it is aim for the sweet spot then work on the second.
The install base of Android is far greater than iOS at this point. The iPad is outdated with new Android tablets being released all the time. Considering Revit won’t even work with Apple hardware without a work around I think Autodesk should be concentrating their efforts on Android Apps.
I agree Android has a larger install base due to many developers of multiple devices where Apple develops their own and does not license it out and has limited models in the market but custom tailer their iOS for these Apple developed and built hardware devices. Still the majority of that Android base are small devices and not the Tablets which I believe are still the best form factor for viewers, video,Sketchbook etc.
Why the teams pick the Apple iOS for the first mobile platform over Android is up to each team to make. But as I have stated personally the Tablet is the sweet spot for mobile. It could also be dealing with one platform and version of a mobile OS than multiple forked OS and vendor customized versions and several more devices to test.
The bottom line is both Apple and Android mobile devices are amazing and have been a real game changing event to the desktop platforms.
One step at a time. 🙂
this is all fine and dandy, but when will i be able to open my dwf files from the vault browser in safari into design review mobil????
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Just picked up the new ipad and an super excited to have my revit generated dwf files onsite- BUT there does not appear to be a way to freehand markup drawings! am i missing something?
Nadia,
You are correct as the freehand markup of a DWF you see in the desktop version is not currently in the Design Review mobile. If you also have access to the DWG for markup and review, checkout AutoCAD WS.
Regards,
Shaan
Shaan:
Recently created my Autodesk Cloud account and uploaded a few DWF files for testing. I am currently using the Ipad 1st Generation. The DWF files were exported from an existing NWD file. The NWF files range in size between 2.5MB and 10MB. We have tried to open them on the Ipad and get an error stating the file is unable to open. I’ve started to trouble shoot this back to the original NWD file and the settings within the file as well as the export to DWF settings from the NWD. If you can shed some light on what a possible solution may be, that would really improve our ability to share the project data in the field.
steve
Steve,
It might be the specific DWF and how NWD created it. You could post details in the Design Review forum as someone may have some insight on the particular issue you are seeing as well the mobile support site.
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Design-Review/bd-p/140
http://feedback.autodesk.com/cloudservices
Regards,
Shaan