FingerCAD app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 7872 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Gianluca Natalini
2.99 USD
Current version: 4.0, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 07 Apr 2010
App size: 4.47 Mb

"FingerCAD" is the first CAD application for technical drawing with fingers assisted by computer for portable devices. With "FingerCAD" you can draw houses, bridges, planimetry of apartments, mechanical components, geometrical figures, everything that can be designed with a common PC CAD. Useful for the engineers on construction site, for architects, surveyors, designers, students etc.. The design possibilities with "FingerCAD" are endless and all this using only your portable device, during a travel or comfortably seated or standing at work. The ease of use makes it very useful and versatile. The final design can be saved using standard formats (ex. DXF) and can be sent via e-mail or printed. The zoom and pan, the customization of the drawing, the common cad tools, autosaving and the ability to continue operations even in subsequent sessions of use (at boot "FingerCAD" will load automatically the design saved in the previous session of use), possibility to add measurements and free text makes it truly unique. Each CAD object is treated as a separate object; You can then go back in time by removing the objects from last to first (also in next sessions of work), select and remove the undesired parts / incorrect objects. The "automatic acquisition of nearest vertices" facilitates the drawing of adjacent graphics objects and the function "2x" allows you to draw walls (double line) automatically (you can specify the thickness of the wall as desired). The three RGB components, alpha transparency, the freehand drawing, the ability to fill an object with colors, the color palette, the color picker, in addition to the common functions of a CAD give you the ability to add manual graphical effects at the overall design (also using freehand drawing).

MODIFY, COPY AND MOVE for CAD objects (also from one layer to another one).

AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF THE MEASUREMENT OF THE AREA OF A GENERIC POLYGONAL 3D SURFACE.

Virtual Reality Exploration: you can walk in the 3D model and observe it using first person view (Finger3D + FingerCAD).

HIGH PRECISION OF DRAWING: using the “under finger dynamic drawing preview “ you can see exactly where for example the initial / final point of a line will be placed (observing the preview window that shows the area of drawing not visible under the finger).

AUTO-PAN for work area: if you reach the border of the screen, FingerCAD shifts automatically the work area so you can continue to draw longest lines - you have not to use the "zoom out" to draw long lines.

.OBJ 2D and 3D export routine: export the CAD design for 3D modeling softwares such as Finger3D, Blender, Maya 3D, etc... or print it using 3D printers

DXF export/import for AutoCad, qCad, SolidWorks, LibreCAD, ...

PDF export.

File formats conversions:
- from DXF to OBJ
- from DXF to PDF
- from DXF to IMAGE (JPG,PNG)

3D models can be displayed directly using the "FingerCAD 3D VIEWER".

DROPBOX / iCloud Drive file sharing (IN and OUT)

Ability to import DXF files from a WEB LINK and/or from an EMAIL ATTACHMENT.

Ability to PRINT the design (using AirPrint).

Other features:
- CAD (computer assisted design)
- Walls with adjustable thickness
- Snap to control points
- Free text
- UNDO/REDO for the graphics objects, from last to first
- Selection and ability to transform/move/delete selected objects
- Autosave
- Grid
- Snap to grid
- Adjustable grid
- Labels indicating the finger position on the cad area
- Many selectable unit of measurement
- Design multi-layer and multi-floor
- The selected objects can be moved or copied from one layer to another layer or from a floor to another floor
- Preview of other layers in the current layer
- Scale and rotate
- Extend
- Trim
- Mirror
- Send with an email the generated .dxf, .obj, .pdf files
- Ability to share .dxf, .obj, .pdf with other installed apps
- DXF part library (architecture, communication, electrical, electronics, mechanical, misc, processing, templates, zipf_libs)

Pros and cons of FingerCAD app for iPhone and iPad

FingerCAD app good for

I do like this app it is easy to use. It has a reasonable amount of flexibility. It Will be a five star if they make a few upgrades. Some people will give it five as it is because it is good real good. It Only one star from great. I would like to see 2 improvments. I would like to be able to make measurements in metric and most importent imperial. Also the ability to import images and scale them. I am sure there will be many sujestions. But as long as you give me mine Ill give you .all other updates will be a steps farther into greatness. Well worth the money if you have a need this type of drawing program or like a neater look doodle. Very easy to use. Enjoy. After playing longer I gave you five stars as it is only because it is the best drawing program out there. Please dont forget my wishes. One more wish and it is total success with your app for giving so much and charging a reasonable price.
All I can say is Wow! This is the best cad app out there. Now with the 3d view, it just blows me away. My only wish is for a larger fonts, its hard to see the numbers when magnified out. Keep up the great work.
Its great but if they made it so you could make a 3D part and put it in to solid works premium then it would be perfect

Some bad moments

Purchased this app and when it updated to 1.54 requiring op sys 4 it removed my copy of FingerCAD after a sync. Since im not updating for a while please restore my old version on correct the current one to allow op sys 3.1.3
Cant see what youre doing because your finger is always in the way. Constantly erasing or deleting whatever just got screwed up. And EVERYTHING gets screwed up. Refund?
You cant even specify line length or change unit type. Save your money.
So close to being a handy field CAD tool. Needs 1-imperial units (feet & inches) 2-data input (length,and coordinate) 3-color pallette would be more practical 4-snap to And thats what I noticed after a total of 5 minutes.
No practicality whatsoever. Things needed- Feet&inches Trim Snap on all objects Some sort of comand line with a coordinate system Make it when your dwg your finger dosent get in the way Copy would be handy Those are just the things that would make it more fun to toy around with, as for using it as a practical app, your better off breaking out a pencil and paper and snaping a pic when your done. No matter how many upgrades they come up with this one will never be anything more than a "play with when your out of your mind bored" app. SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!
Do yourself a favor and dont buy this app. There are no instructions and the support links do not work. It takes you to an add site. I want my $3 back. What a waste.