PadCAD Lite User Reviews

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Quick Room Drawings

If you’re trying to layout drawings for basic walls, windows, and doors with measurements it’s great. If you need actual architectural software with a library of textures for commercial documentation this is not the program. I can quickly draw up areas that I markup in photos. It’s awesome for quickly drawing your house in a 2d drawing for projects that you can then publish as a pdf.
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Free version doesn’t save

The app looks great, but note that the free version does not allow you to save anything, so don’t put too much effort into it.

Bonne application

Bonne application mes une mise a jour serait la bienvenue avec plus de fonctionnalités

Simple house cad

If you want a very easy to learn & fast scale drawing this is a great start. By no means can you produce construction drawings but for making reasonably accurate prototyping this software can’t be beat. It definitely is a learn as you go, but the commands are so simple that within a very short time you will learn it easily. The $15 upgrade to save & print your drawing is an essential upgrade. Considering the price it’s a steal. It works well on my iPad, not sure about other platforms & IOS?
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Cad for iPad

It’s only ok at best. Cannot see the instructions cause it’s at an un secure website, So it’s a one star at best. Wish I had not paid for it. I do not recommend. If they made the instructions available I might give one or two more stars.
ZTB

Instructions

Cannot access the website for instructions

Works for me

this app didExactly what I needed it to do it gave me the options that I wanted at first it was a little confusing until you get used to what all the symbols mean at this time I have nothing negative to say about this app

Needs Help!!

NO CUSTOMER/TECH SUPPORT
Controls are very small. Does not alphabetize saved work. Must select a tool for each & every task, the program does not remember the last task or tool used. Sporadically saves files with missing data. Cannot export files to email, THE FREE VERSION ALLOWS YOU TO DO THIS!!!!
Have lost several projects which took hours to draft.
NO CUSTOMER /TECH SUPPORT
Did I say NO TECH SUPPORT??
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Buggy as crap

Works great for a few hours and then locks up and you can do nothing. Can’t save anything unless you “upgrade"

Rubbish

Cannot export drawings and no support. Complete con

Meh

What are the yellow lines that pop up and don’t go away?!?!?
How do I make them go away? What is happening there? I’d rather draw by hand rather than risk restarting an entire drawing because of two yellow lines that mess up the whole thing. Please fix this.

Not worth the time

Multiple issues with this:
- snapping incorrectly to various items and not able to undue.
- unable to select items after placing in drawing
- coordinate of object is the center of the object and therefore you have to calculate the endpoints to line items up.
- undo and redo works very inconsistently
- zooming is only around center of the drawing so if you are closer to the edge of the drawing you have to zoom and then move to get back where you were in the drawing.
- inconsistently opening of the detailed window to precisely set orientation and location
- and many other items - stay away. Not worth the time.
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Did not even work.

This launched to a miss scaled screen that filled about half of my iPad screen, and presented barely legible text and icons stating that I should press a non existent icon to start.
Then it crashed.
I deleted after the third try.

Frustrating but eventually works sometimes

The app overall is decent, but the touching and adjusting a lot of things is ridiculous as it won’t allow you to. It does something else, moves walls all over the place, then the undo button doesn’t undo that action it made up in the first place. Unimpressed especially for 15 bucks.

Almost great

This is the only CAD app I found that would let me create a room with walls at odd angles, to match my household .

The reason I wanted the app was to see if a double bed would fit in a room that currently only contains a single. Sadly, this proves to be impossible. The app does include a range of furniture, including a selection of beds, but when placed they appear far too small. There’s no way of resizing them or of seeing the size they currently are.

I tried creating a new Symbol at the size I wanted, but then for no apparent reason the control that allow you to scale and rotate objects disappear when placing this symbol.

Very frustrating!
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Upgrade did not work!

I downloaded PadCad Lite and decided to upgrade. The upgrade does not save and export as promised. I can’t download PadCad as then I have to pay again! I contacted support and I hope they resolve this! I will update on their response!

Good but one thing

This is great but when you have a wall and you click on it it has a length on the top left but when you double click on it it shows a different measurement that is off a little. I found out the that one when you double click is correct.

Just started playing learning right now.

Seems ok

Not free

Why the developer is not listing this as $15 I don't know.
You work on a project for 3 hours and need to save your work and it says you need to pay $15 to save it.
Used it one time and deleted it. All my work lost.

Really helpful

Really great for my tree surveys!