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CEO Wilfried Gräbert Reveals His Secret By Pascal de Lacaze-Duthiers, Online Community Manager at Graebert GmbH. Full CAD for mobile didn’t exist. Still: The moment Microsoft launched its mobile OS in the year 2000, Graebert was the first company to have a mobile CAD solution for Windows CE®. And last year Graebert announced ARES Touch, the most advanced CAD software for Android® “A curious young business student once asked me how I manage to compete against the big CAD companies and survive”, remembers CEO Wilfried Graebert the time when mobile CAD was still in its infancy (or should we say embryonic period). “I told him my secret: I first study the development of a technology and then foresee its possible evolution in the coming years. Based on these assumptions I develop product ideas for the future – and start developing them in the present. Once the technology is there, we have the
Ralph Grabowski speaks about ARES Touch in upFront.eZine “Graebert with ARES Touch- endeavors to pack in a complete set of drawing and editing functions (Android only)” Read the full article on upFront.eZine
Create & modify drawings with high accuracy 1 00:00:02,580 –> 00:00:09,230 ARES Touch offers you all the professional tools to create or modify drawings with high accuracy. 2 00:00:09,500 –> 00:00:13,260 Hold your finger on the screen when a drawing command is in use, 3 00:00:13,560 –> 00:00:17,540 and the Loupe will pop up to help you SNAP to points. 4 00:00:18,140 –> 00:00:21,851 The SNAP is like a magnet to select points with precision. 5 00:00:22,280 –> 00:00:26,740 Entity snap types can be defined from the Application Menu. 6 00:00:26,980 –> 00:00:32,540 If you don’t need accuracy you can also simply tap the screen to pick points. 7 00:00:32,860 –> 00:00:36,960 The options bar displays similar options as on the desktop. 8 00:00:37,220 –> 00:00:39,760 You can for example CLOSE the polyline. 9 00:00:40,20 –> 00:00:44,660 In the Action bar on the top, you will find the shortcut to
Capturing entities 1 00:00:03,300 –> 00:00:06,589 To select entities, you may simply tap on them. 2 00:00:08,000 –> 00:00:11,820 To unselect all, you can tap on FINISH. 3 00:00:15,100 –> 00:00:17,990 Now let’s see how to use selection windows. 4 00:00:18,300 –> 00:00:20,660 Hold your finger on screen without moving. 5 00:00:20,860 –> 00:00:27,259 If no command is launched, it will start the selection window. Then move your finger to the opposite corner. 6 00:00:27,420 –> 00:00:31,580 If you go from the right to the left, the window is green. 7 00:00:32,540 –> 00:00:37,860 This window will capture the entities inside AND partially inside. 8 00:00:38,900 –> 00:00:42,260 If you go from the left to the right, the window is blue. 9 00:00:42,560 –> 00:00:46,460 And only the entities completely inside will be selected. 10 00:00:46,680 –> 00:00:52,480 By default the selection is in the ADD mode to add entities
Amit Kumar from CADblogbyAMit speaks about ARES Touch “Mobile is eating the world, so they say. So why is there no full-featured CAD on a mobile device? Vendors have been offering a lot of reasons that sound like whining. Finally Graebert GmbH — decided enough is enough and went to work on a stand-alone mobile CAD app.” Read the full article on CADBlogbyAmit here.
Mobile CAD: Graphic Speak’s trending prediction “Graebert Mobile CAD ‘What’s with them?’ 2015 trending prediction: Up. 2D CAD on a mobile device just makes too much sense, and right now Graebert is in the catbird seat“, says Randall Newton for Graphic Speak. Read full article on gfxspeak.com
Introducing the Cross-Device CAD Experience and Free Android Tablet Holiday Offer Graebert™ GmbH the pioneer in developing high-performance CAD solutions across desktop and mobile devices – today announced the immediate availability of its acclaimed ARES™ Commander 2015 2D/3D CAD package on all three desktop operating systems: Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® Mac® OS X™ and Linux®. The company has also released ARES Touch 2015 Beta, the world’s first DWG-based CAD solution for Google® Android®. Each user of ARES Commander 2015 will also receive ARES Touch for one year, renewable for successive one-year terms with the Graebert subscription. ARES Commander 2015 and ARES Touch enable Graebert’s unique “Cross-device CAD experience”, first introduced at the Graebert 2014 annual meeting. Graebert now allows users to work from multiple computers or mobile devices.
Desktop Engineering about the Evolution of Mobile CAD “The most promising use of mobile apps at the present appears to be for work crews in remote locations. (…) ‘To measure buildings, we need to be extremely mobile — enough to be able to climb ladders, jump and down, and keep both hands free’, Graebert’s Prinzen points out. ‘You can’t do that with a laptop.’ (…) In environments where a laptop is a burden and a desktop is nearly impossible to operate — such as on construction projects, survey sites or plant floors — mobile apps and mobile devices are breaking new ground“, says Kenneth Wong for Desktop Engineering. Read the full article on deskeng.com
Anthony Frausto-Robledo from Architosh talks about ARES Touch “ARES Touch is a significant moment in CAD history with it being the first full-featured native DWG-file compatible tablet solution for Google’s Android platform and joins ARES Commander’s support of Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows platforms.” Read the full article on Architosh here.
Graebert Announces ARES Commander 2015 for Windows, Mac, and Linux Berlin – Graebert™ GmbH – the pioneer in developing high-performance CAD solutions across desktop and mobile devices – today announced the November availability of its acclaimed ARES™ Commander 2015 2D/3D CAD package on all three desktop operating systems: Microsoft® Windows®, Apple® Mac® OS X™ and Linux®. Read the Press Release
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