SolidWorks Introduces Mobile Design App
July 3, 2012
Although engineers and designers alike have been begging for mobile design apps they are the most reluctant to accept the apps released onto the market. Security is a major concern as is a mobile device’s ability to provide enough juice to handle a 3D CAD/CAM app. The latest app to hit iPads everywhere is SolidWorks’ eDrawings as described in the Design News article, “eDrawings App Launches on the iPad”.
As the article explains of the new app:
“eDrawings lets anyone involved in product development (not just CAD users) load and send 2D and 3D designs via email. The viewing tool essentially creates a lightweight representation of 3D models or 2D drawings created by SolidWorks and other widely used CAD systems, opening the door for anyone with a PC to examine and provide input on design data. With the iPad version, anyone with that device can view, interpret, and peruse the design data, making it a viable option at client sites, in the field at a sales meeting, or at home.”
While critics of mobile design apps have been burned a time or two and have solid reasons for doubting the ability of a new app to turn the design industry on its ear, we believe hope springs eternal. Product data management and product lifecycle management providers like SolidWorks and Inforbix, both leaders in the industry with reputations for innovation, are working fervently to make PLM more adaptable for users as well as relevant. All the kinks may not be worked out of mobile design apps but we believe with a little time mobile apps will be just another aspect of PLM.
Catherine Lamsfuss, July 3, 2012
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