PowerCAD Brings 3D CAD to the Pocket PC

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mar03/e_powercad.asp">http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mar03/e_powercad.asp</a><br /><br />David Shier has written up a nice review of PowerCAD Pro for the Pocket PC at Pocket PC Magazine. I don't understand half of what is in that article, but if you use CAD programs on your desktop and/or Pocket PC, you should check it out.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcmag.com/mar03/images/Mar03_p63_2.gif" />

[Martin I Pettinger]

Hi

I do a lot of 3D design and I'm intrigued by this product. The ability to present 3D views of your design to the Client is great...if you can display 3D wireframes with lines hidden. Can this product do hidden views - all the stuff in the article and the demo on the web site does 3D wireframe.

Martin

[feo]

I am a 3d artist. I have been hoping for a while that somebody will come out with a 3d modeler for the PPC since I have windows of time throut my day that could be better spent. This producy looks really good, but does anybody know of an aplication taht is more 'art' oriented than this one?
I just need basic 3d functionality, not many beels and whistles.

[Dave Beauvais]

(Somewhat off-topic...)

I wish their "Viewer" version was a little cheaper. I don't do any CAD work myself, but I have basic floorplans in AutoCAD format of some old buildings on the site of the former Southeast Ohio Mental Health Center (formerly known as the Athens Asylum for the Insane, among other names -- its name was changed no fewer than eight times since opening in the late 1860s). The property is now owned by Ohio University and is known as "The Ridges." Since the university is gradually renovating many of buildings for use as offices, I am doing some research into the place just for my own information and interest while the original buildings are still intact.

If anyone saw the cheesy horror movie "House on Haunted Hill," many of the oldest parts of some of the buildings look as though they could have been used as locations for that film. It's a very creepy place!

Anyway, right now, I view the floorplans on my laptop using the free VoloView Express (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/section/0,,837637-123112,00.html) from Autodesk, but being able to view them on my PPC would be great!

--Dave