Windows Phone Thoughts: CAD on the Hoof? PowerCAD CE Frees Me From My Drafting Table

Starting from Scratch
It is possible to create a drawing from scratch with the software. There are several wizards which will let you set up a new drawing. It reminds me alot of the ubiquitous AutoCAD.


Figure 7: The new drawing wizard


Figure 8: Setting the angles of measurement


Figure 9: Setting Dimensions


Figure 10: Setting up sheet size


Figure 11: You can even set up a titleblock

As you can see from the screenshots of the wizards above, there are a couple of settings for paperspace.

This was one of by biggest surprises. Paperspace and modelspace on a Pocket PC. While it is a bit hard to see, this means that I won't have to radically change formats to get the drawings into the Pocket PC.

For those who don't use alot of CAD, paperspace and modelspace are different ways of viewing the CAD information, usually taking a CAD model which is drawn at real world sized and drawn scaled down to fit on a plotted drawing.

I was, unfortunately, able to bomb my system. I am using an HP iPAQ 6315 (I know, feel my pain) and when I try to load any files in the 2 megabyte or higher range, my iPAQ basically crashed. This is probably basically just a function of the PDA, but it was rather annoying nonetheless.