Today’s engineers and designers carry their lives – their contacts, calendars, texts and emails – in their pockets and now they’ll be able to bring their CAD system wherever they go, too.
on shape for Android.is the first professional 3D CAD system to run on Android phones and tablets.
新的移动版本仅在onShape Beta推出后五个月，这是一个唯一的全云3D CAD系统，让设计团队上的每个人都同时使用任何Web浏览器，电话或平板电脑在同一模型上一起工作。
“我们创立了一个愿景，让CAD在任何地方都可以在任何地方访问，”洛杉矶董事会主席和董事长Jon Hirschtick说。“我们很自豪能成为行业中的第一个在Android上运行。并且'跑步''我的意思是真的跑了。您不只是查看模型。您可以绘制，挤出，圆角，外壳，创建3D模型，编辑它们的形状和尺寸，并将它们放入组件中。无论你走到哪里，onshape就在那里。“
Tens of thousands of CAD enthusiasts are now using Onshape Beta to design products, with full mobile access being one of their most requested enhancements. Onshape for Android isavailable nowfor free in the Google Play store.
For the first time, professional 3D CAD users are no longer restricted to one primary workstation, as their data is now readily available on any device. In addition to Android, Onshape also runs oniPhone和iPads.– and in a web browser on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Onshape开发团队创建了一个precise touch-screen interface that replaces the traditional keyboard and mouse interactions. Every CAD command and action is controlled with a swipe of your finger.
“When we first started, a lot of people were skeptical that CAD could be done on such a small device,” explains Ravi Reddy, team lead for Onshape Mobile. “We solved the precision selection problem and made sketching easy with touch-based finger offset tools. We added intuitive lock and unlock modes to help with pan, zoom, and rotate operations for sketching and assemblies.”
“我们拒绝了在移动或选择特征子集上提供仅限视图版本的CAD的标准概念，”他补充道。“我们决心建立一个可以在任何地方和任何设备中使用的全CAD产品。”
The mobile app is not intended to replace Onshape’s use on desktops and laptops – it is meant to greatly expand a CAD user’s access to their work outside the home or office. Early testers of Onshape for Android say they now appreciate the flexibility to CAD where they never imagined:
- Silas Hughes，研发工程师休息设备，MIMO智能婴儿监视器的创造者：“oneShape的Android应用程序是Snappy和Shaind。它已经成为我在制造时使用和信任的工具。“
- 本纳莱尔，电脑工程师MIT Lincoln Laboratory: “It’s surprisingly solid! I don’t have to carry my laptop with me when I go to the machine shop. It’s nice not to have a big computer or a bunch of printouts when I’m just looking up some dimensions.”
- William Rae, instrumentation specialist,RPS组：“现在可以在远离工作站时查看共享模型的能力很精彩。我们是海洋咨询公司，我的团队主要是测量波浪和电流的仪器平台。由于壁形的移动功能，即使我在船上使用卫星互联网连接30英里30英里的船舶，我也能查看文档。“
CAD users interested in learning more about how to design on their phone or tablet can visit Onshape.com/learn. To create a free account, visitOnshape.com/signup.
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