You’ll be pleasantly surprised at its functionality and ease of use. If you haven’t used it yet, you really should. Changes can be saved, but just make sure you DO save before hitting that Back button on your browser! All changes go back to the file saved in your AutoCAD Drive, which can then be accessed on your AutoCAD desktop app upon your return to your office, by opening from web and mobile in AutoCAD 2019.Īutodesk have really thought about the AutoCAD web app and it provides a highly useful, browser-based addition to the One AutoCAD subscription package. Hey presto, you go to, log in with your Autodesk Account and you are drafting straightaway. Some minor drawing edits need to be done. You can’t take your desktop with you, or perhaps it is on a laptop that you really don’t want to drag out of your backpack, but you have web access on a hot desk in an office somewhere.
You can then work seamlessly on your drawings in the AutoCAD web app by opening up the same files. If you save files from the AutoCAD desktop app to web and mobile, this is where they go. It is quick and responsive, and you can save all your files to the new subscription-based Autodesk Drive, which replaces the older A360 Drive. I have used the AutoCAD web app extensively whilst creating a LinkedIn Learning course for the web app, and I can safely say it is a superb browser-based application. Similar icons, similar interface, similar drawing area. If you look at both screenshots, you can see the similarities between both apps web and desktop. They wanted you to have a user experience very much like the one you have in your AutoCAD desktop app. This is because Autodesk wanted it that way for you, the user. It looks like AutoCAD and behaves like AutoCAD. You still have a right click shortcut menu, you still have object snaps, you still have Dynamic Input. A while back we had AutoCAD 360, which sort of did the job, but now you have an app that not only looks and feels like AutoCAD, but even has the same workflows as AutoCAD. In a browser.Īutodesk have worked long and hard to generate a suitable AutoCAD web app. When you signed up for your One AutoCAD subscription, did you notice that you also had the AutoCAD web app as part of that subscription? And if you did, have you used it yet? If you haven’t, you are in for a treat. Life and work often require that extra twenty fifth hour in the day, right? Apologies for the big space between the blogs this time.