Mobile Architect

Mobile Architect
Mobile Architect

Video: Mobile Architect

Video: Mobile Architect
Video: Architecture of Web and Mobile Applications 2024, March
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The computer for architects has become a convenient working tool, quickly replacing the stretcher, track, tracing paper. Volumetric modeling made it possible to see future objects from different angles, to build them into the existing landscape. The laptop made it possible to do work on the go, often on the go or on site. The next step was the tablet and smartphone. No need to carry a laptop that seems to be bulky. You can go light. However, so far the glory of entertainment has remained behind these devices: videos, photos, Facebook and others … In order to check how a tablet and a smartphone can help an architect, I installed and tested several android programs.

AutoCAD WS:

mobile version of the popular drawing program

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To begin with, I looked at the files built into the program for an example. Drawings opened quickly, magnification made it possible to see fragments large enough, and a simplified interface with convenient and understandable prompts made it possible to perform simple editing operations the first time. I was especially pleased with the "cloud" button. I sent several small drawings to my email address and received them as links in the letter. Everything loaded, opened, approached. When closing, the drawings with the changes remained somewhere in the bowels of the phone - you no longer need to download them from the mail.

Of course, the program is not designed to draw on the phone. The program did not find the ability to create a file from scratch, and it probably is not necessary. But - here practicing architects will understand me - it is sometimes extremely important to have the necessary files at hand. To look at it in time, to clarify something, to show it to someone, without saving the original file in other formats. If you notice a mistake on the spot, you can immediately correct it.

But the main advantage of the program, recognized by many users, is the so-called cloud of drawings, with which several people can work at the same time. One corrected, all the others have updated the drawing and see the changes almost on-line.

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But mobile ArchiCAD does not exist yet, which you can regret. AutoCAD WS has an interesting demo file of a volumetric model, but, judging by the prompts, it cannot be edited in 3D. We need to move on to a two-dimensional image. For those who are used to working in AutoCAD WS, this is probably familiar. I, an architect-“volumetric”, like working with models in ArchiCAD, which makes it possible, firstly, to immediately set a lot of parameters for parts of the future model, and secondly, it allows you to edit the three-dimensional model itself.

Smart Tools: a set of measuring tools

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A set of diverse tools that can be downloaded both together and separately. Together, the set is sometimes offered for a small fee. It includes not only a ruler, tape measure and compass, but even a protractor and a level. There was a need to measure the distance to the object - there is such a possibility. There is a metal detector, vibration and sound meter. The indicators may have some error, after all, it is a tablet or a smartphone. The result of the work of full-fledged measuring instruments will, of course, be significantly more accurate, but nevertheless the error of these programs is less than that of a banal measurement "by eye".

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Skitch: Photo Editor

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A somewhat comic, at first glance, program. It is assumed that you can decorate the photo with arrows, captions, frames indicating what, where, when and what name. At the same time, it can be used in work as well. Arrows and captions on the photograph can indicate the name of the building material, phone numbers of manufacturers, the address of the object captured in the photograph with comments. The frame will help to highlight the right place, to show the node. A photograph with coordinates can serve as a business card. Compact placement of a large amount of information is very convenient. Thanks to the symbols offered in the program, the available ability to change the color and thickness of the lines, everything turns out clearly and beautifully. If you, of course, have time to do this and enough memory on the card to store it there.

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Paper Camera: Fast Filters

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Those who are familiar with Photoshop filters and use them will appreciate this application. Your next photo or frame from your gallery can, if you wish, look like a pencil sketch, like a watercolor, like a neon sign, like a work of pop art. There are brightness and contrast adjustments. Now you won't surprise anyone with photography, but after editing the photograph turns into an author's work. Unfortunately there are only twelve filters.

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Convert Pad: Universal Converter

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I was struck by the number of convertible indicators. Valid for all occasions. From physical quantities to shoe size.

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Smart Magnifier: magnifying glass

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An electronic magnifier in your phone will help you see details of a drawing, photographs or read small text. Increases greatly, even specks of dust are visible; A flashlight built into the smartphone illuminates the enlarged fragment. Indeed, there is a lot to consider.

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Clinometer: Slope Meter

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A funny toy, the task of which, apparently, is not to let the owner of the smartphone disappear on the way to the object, especially in the countryside. An audible signal informs that the car has tilted more than necessary. But the phone must first be installed on the dashboard in the correct position - otherwise it will beep all the time.

By the way, now there are several services similar to google play (aka android market). In particular, all described programs can be downloaded for free at

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