ArchiCAD Monkey
13/05/10 20:43 Filed in: Press
Coverage
‘SitePAD: the
first true CAD app for iPhone + iPad’ – ArchiCAD
Monkey
In a couple of
past
articles I’ve talked about the
different options offered for CAD on iPhone and iPad, and how
nothing has really impressed anyone yet - bringing great
frustration to many design professionals. We’ve transitioned from
desktop to laptop quite quickly in the past few years, and now
we’ve been aching for someone to create a useful app on the go. The
existing apps are either too simplistic or just vector-based
drawing systems - which give the impression of an architectural
drawing - without any practical use other than creating an image of
say a floorplan, which later must be traced over - most times
inaccurately - in a proper CAD application to become useful.
So the other day I was very pleased to come by a website which lead me to a very promising iPhone app, called SitePAD. I was even more surprised to find out that one of the creators of the app - Timothy Barnard - was actually a coursemate of mine from Manchester School of Architecture. I had a chance to chat with him over a drink, and it seems Tim and his brother Paul have formed “Fresh Design Base Ltd” and together set out to create the first truly workable app for drawing and viewing CAD files on the iPhone, thus the appropriately named : Pocket Aided Design (PAD). Read More...
So the other day I was very pleased to come by a website which lead me to a very promising iPhone app, called SitePAD. I was even more surprised to find out that one of the creators of the app - Timothy Barnard - was actually a coursemate of mine from Manchester School of Architecture. I had a chance to chat with him over a drink, and it seems Tim and his brother Paul have formed “Fresh Design Base Ltd” and together set out to create the first truly workable app for drawing and viewing CAD files on the iPhone, thus the appropriately named : Pocket Aided Design (PAD). Read More...