Autodesk FormIt

It was great to incorporate the tool in our pipeline. Thanks a lot!

This app is cool to play around with. As a student of architectural technology it is nice for me to be able to take my tablet into the field, import a satellite map, model up a neighbourhood and do on-the-fly shading analyses. I find the interface a little clumsy at times. But mostly very intuitive, which is obviously the idea of the app. Marking an object and resizing it via pinching causes problems sometimes. Instead of resizing the object I zoom the view in and out, which, again, leads to a change of grid measurements, causing me to lose track of what I'm resizing to. This is part of a bigger problem, though: not being able to input a value for lengths, heights, diameters, etc. on the objects you create (just as you would in Revit on the desktop). I am quite sure that the Autodesk team left this out intentionally, to keep the intuitive "artisty" feel, however, this feature wouldn't actually take anything away from the app, in my humble opinion. On the contrary, I'm sure the pure design architect would appreciate being able to easily model a Ø500 mm column by inputting a value instead of the pinch/zoom/resize nonsense you have to go through right now. That said, interesting app and I hope to see further development and features soon. Disclaimer: It may of course just be me not being able to figure out the interface :-)

Couldn’t figure out how to draw

Waiting booleans operations, support .dwg files please. Function Orbit is very slow fixed and much more, team FormIt. Section plane please, export scenes

Great capability for a mobile application, but any sufficiently detailed structure causes the app to crash during use, resulting in the loss of all progress. Even more infuriatingly, the app will crash anytime you attempt to save your progress if you’ve done more than 3-4 minutes of work. If I want to add to a rendering, I have to save every time I make a change to avoid overwhelming the app and causing it to crash. Even then, it often crashes upon opening for no apparent reason. It creates a “restored” version of any file that crashes, but these restored copies wont open or load and are therefore useless. I use a brand new iPad Pro with the highest capabilities so this shouldn’t be an issue. This app is fantastic for viewing renderings on the go, but not making them.

FormIt is just an amazing program that allows the user that spends a few hours fiddling with it to discover a new, fast way to create structures that look beautiful. I use FormIt in many ways but primarily to create perspective accurate shapes that are ultimately used in drawing/paint programs, like Procreate. I strongly encourage everybody to try this great piece of software to explore its vast capabilities.

To get anything more than making blocks on Google Maps. I need something more robust that doesn't crash. That let's me draw lines every once in a while. Thanks. But, no thanks.

With Any good 3d drawing program on the iPad with pencil, the very first thing I should be able to do is draw. With this, I can’t

This ones nice

This app is really great to have on a tablet, to do 3D projects. But what I can’t understand is why projects can’t be imported/exported between this and the (also Autodesk) AutoCAD tablet app. Shouldn’t this be a given?