Mobile apps for Architects and Interior Designers
Architects and Interior Designers spend most of their time with their devices to formulate and edit drawings. Sitting in front of desktops for long hours can be tedious and tiring. With the rapid growth in technology, from 3D printers to touch-screen draft boards, innovative hardware and software are grabbing the limelight in recent years.
Smartphones are one such invention that has been making our work easier for a long time, and the advent of architectural apps has changed the outlook of professional work in the studio and on-site. These apps will not only make our work smarter but also make it more convenient and accessible anytime anywhere.
Here is a list featuring the most useful apps to increase efficiency, creativity, and fun!
AutoCAD: The mobile app is accurate, fast, and offers a lot of features. It uploads and opens 2D DWG drawings and views all aspects of your DWG file. You can even work offline, taking your CAD drawings with you in the field and beyond.
BIMx: The app is a presentation and coordination app with 3D modeling and 2D documentation at the tips of your hand. The mobile-friendly interface allows access to architecture files and also makes measurement adjustments on site.
MagicPlan: The app uses the mobile camera to measure distance and create almost accurate floor plans by scanning the room. The plans can be exported as PDF, DXF, or JPG.
RoomScan Pro: An iOS app similar to MagicPlan, it allows you to generate floor plans in three different techniques to get accurate plans. It can scan building exteriors, yards, and gardens too. The app enables exporting, saving, and printing the plans.
Morpholio Trace: The app allows you to sketch images and organize them in layers. It allows you to scribble, express and draw your first thoughts to be presented to the clients. It combines the speed of sketching with the precision of CAD.
Concepts: It is a flexible space to think, plan and create sketch plans and whiteboards on the infinite canvas, write notes, doodles and mindmaps, draw storyboards, product sketches, and design plans, then share with friends, clients, and other apps.
SunSeeker: It is a sun tracker and compass app that lets you track sunrise and sunset timings. You can find the sun, and check the sun's position and solar path. It has a wide range of users.
CadTouch: The app reinvents on-site drawing, giving professionals in various core fields like architecture, engineering, real estate, home design, and more, the power to measure, draw and view their work on-site.
Moasure: This iOS app is a motion-based measuring technology that can measure the length, width, and height of objects, as well as internal room dimensions and even inter-room dimensions with the phone’s accelerometers and gyroscopes.
Houzz: It is a design ideation app for architects, interior designers, and decorators. A database of home interiors and exteriors inspires the designers and aids them with design solutions.
These apps are practically essential for architects and interior designers, and you should certainly have at least one of these installed on your device. You’ll be able to draft, edit and measure on the go, discuss with clients anytime anywhere and have a handy option for site visits!
Hopefully you download and fiddle with them a little to decide which of them deserve a place on your device screen. Embrace the technology and experience phenomenal results.
Ar. Shriya