Zoom and pan with your keyboard and mouse to easily navigate large drawings.Editing and drawings tools are available in the app with an AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT subscription. Upload and open 2D DWG drawings directly from your Google Drive cloud storage and view all aspects of your DWG file, including external references, blocks, and layers. The AutoCAD web app offers an abundance of features and capabilities. The AutoCAD web app runs in the web browser on virtually any computer, so you don’t need AutoCAD installed on your machine to be able to open, review, create and edit your DWG files.While Using Google - Use the “Open With” menu option and choose “AutoCAD web app” to open and edit DWG files in the AutoCAD web app in a new tab in your browser.The new integration between Google and Autodesk allows for quick, anytime access to view and edit DWG files in AutoCAD. Even without this Google Maps calibration, these new features would have the correct geographic coordinates and placement if I export the drawing file back to my computer.It’s now easier than ever to work with computer-aided design (CAD) drawings and DWG files with Google. Any new features I now add will be positioned correctly in the Google Maps view. Pressing Apply locks the scale and orientation of the drawing data to the Google Maps view. Using the Search Box, I can bring up the Google Maps view of Eureka, CA, then use the Place/Scale/2 Points/Rotate functions to align the outline with the actual island: The feature fills the screen, and obviously isn’t calibrated to the correct location. Here’s a rough DXF outline of Indian Island in Eureka, CA, traced from a UTM topo map, and uploaded to AutoCad WS:įrom View, I turn on a Google Maps background this also brings up a control for aligning the drawing with the background: If your file is in some form of Mercator coordinates, like UTM, you can calibrate/reference fairly accurately it against a Google Maps view in the app. If you load in a file with geospatial information, add/edit features, then save it, it will maintain the geospatial referencing. This is by no means a substitute for the full version, but it does contain a fair subset of the basic functionality, with drawing/editing/annotation tools, and layer support:Įven though one of the sample drawings included is labeled “Geospatial Sample”, there’s no native support for georeferencing or geospatial coordinates. You currently can’t create a new file in the editor, but you can either create a DWG/DXF file using a free editor like DraftSight and upload it, or take a currently existing file, edit it to remove all features, then save it as a different name. AutoCad WS is a free cloud-based service from AutoDesk (registration required) that lets you upload, view, share, edit and download AutoCad files (DXF and DWG) online there are also apps for remote viewing and editing on Android and iPhone smartphones.
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