Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-07 Thread Gary Stites
ProCore works very well for this. It is cloud based software that displays PDF's and has very good mark-up features. Works well with a phone, tablet, iPad, surface... On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:38 AM, Fpdcdesign wrote: > Nice set up, Ben! I wasn't going to try mobile CAD. I haven't seen the > hard

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-07 Thread Fpdcdesign
Nice set up, Ben! I wasn't going to try mobile CAD. I haven't seen the hardware or software there yet. (Prove me wrong). My thought was more of using it to survey and mark up PDFs and make sketches. Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-07 Thread Ben Young
We ended up getting a Leica BLK360 laser scanner with an iPad pro last week. Its still being set up by IT, but I'm looking forward to using the iPad pro to try out mobile CAD again. The last time I used it was years ago, and it was great for slowly looking at drawings, but terrible for annotation

RE: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Nicky Marshall
I use a Surface pro 3, not a high end one. And I do markups on Bluebeam. Love it. My only complaint is since they updated the battery saver feature, I sometimes run out of battery. I have to make sure I only run necessary apps, flight mode on and run with screen brightness at 25% to get it to la

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Timothy Goins
Surface Pro for an Ipad Pro with pen last year. The Ipad takes >>>> very nice pictures too. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Sprinklerforum >>>> [mailto:sprinklerforum-boun...@lists.firesprinkler.org] On Behalf Of >>>&g

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Fire Protection Services
sprinklerforum-bounces >> @lists.firesprinkler.org] *On Behalf Of *Fpdcdesign >> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:04 PM >> *To:* Sprinklerforum >> *Subject:* Re: Tablets for survey? >> >> >> >> I wasn't thinking inspections, I was thinking

RE: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Steve Leyton
I think computer geeks might argue that it’s not a tablet because it runs Win 10, but the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is available with an i5 or i7 processor. With the latter, you can get several different spec’ sheets and trim one as far out as 1TB hard drive, 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a proprietary in

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Fpdcdesign
gt; > > > From: Sprinklerforum > > [mailto:sprinklerforum-boun...@lists.firesprinkler.org] On Behalf Of > > Fpdcdesign > > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:04 PM > > To: Sprinklerforum > (mailto:sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org)> >

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Fire Protection Services
very nice pictures too. > > > > *From:* Sprinklerforum [mailto:sprinklerforum-bounces@lists.firesprinkler. > org] *On Behalf Of *Fpdcdesign > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 06, 2017 6:04 PM > *To:* Sprinklerforum > *Subject:* Re: Tablets for survey? > > > > I wasn't

RE: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Tom Duross
, December 06, 2017 6:04 PM To: Sprinklerforum Subject: Re: Tablets for survey? I wasn't thinking inspections, I was thinking marking plans. Probably some kind of PDF editor and some kind of sketch app. Looking for thoughts and ideas Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consu

RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Kyle . Montgomery
: Sprinklerforum Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tablets for survey? I wasn't thinking inspections, I was thinking marking plans. Probably some kind of PDF editor and some kind of sketch app. Looking for thoughts and ideas Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860-535

Re: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Fpdcdesign
I wasn't thinking inspections, I was thinking marking plans. Probably some kind of PDF editor and some kind of sketch app. Looking for thoughts and ideas Todd G Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, CT 860-535-2080 (tel:860-535-2080) (ofc) 860-553-3553 (te

RE: Tablets for survey?

2017-12-06 Thread Michael Goodis
What kind of inspection program would you be using? Such as, Fire lab inc? Firelabinc.com They make inspections a lot easier if you can customize the forms, that seems to be the problem though, not being bale to customize the forms. Michael Goodis Salesman, Project Manager IL#