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AutoCAD WS has 2M Registered Users (1M+ Android Downloads)

We are thrilled to announce that we have passed two huge milestones in the past week.

First of all there are now over two million registered users of AutoCAD WS. And our users are not just sitting around doing nothing. Since September 2010, you have uploaded over three and a half million drawings to AutoCAD WS.

The second milestone is that we have now seen over one million downloads of the AutoCAD WS mobile app for Android since we launch around three months ago. We always knew that there was huge demand for an Android version of the app, but we never predicted it would be adopted so fast.

But don’t worry, we’re not stopping now. Expect an announcement about the next release of AutoCAD WS in the coming weeks. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter to make sure you hear about it first.

Congratulations to the entire AutoCAD WS team who helped achieve these fantastic numbers. Thanks to all of you for being part of this amazing community.

How to Get the Best out of Plotting – Poll

More and more people are starting to use AutoCAD WS to plot their drawings and we thought it would be a good idea to look at some of the best ways to make the most of this feature. Also, we are running a poll to see what you think is still missing.

Three ways for you to use Plot with AutoCAD WS

  1. As long as you’re working on a project, you may want an up-to-date hard copy of your drawing available for anyone to stop by and have a look. Using AutoCAD WS, you can share your drawing with a colleague and have them use Plot to output to a PDF for daily printing to a regular printer or plotter.
  2. Whenever you’re out of the office whether you’re working from home or on a business trip, you can use Plot to create a PDF of your designs to print locally.
  3. When you’re visiting a site and making changes to a drawing using the AutoCAD WS mobile app for Android or iOS, you can plot the latest version including all your changes and review them as a PDF or hard copy print out.

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Who Answers Your Feedback?

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We welcome feedback at AutoCAD WS and we have several channels for receiving and dealing with it.

You can contact us by:

  • Leaving a comment on this blog
  • Writing on our Facebook wall
  • Raising an issue on our support page
  • Emailing us directly at feedback@autocadws.com

Our aim is to give you as many avenues as possible to reach us.

But what happens when you send us feedback? Well you might be interested to know that we do not have a dedicated team of people sitting somewhere offsite going through your comments. Everything you send to us is seen by one of the core team that works on AutoCAD WS.

It’s a key part of the strategy to incorporate as many of your suggestions and comments into future versions of the product. When your comments reach the people that develop and work with AutoCAD WS, they really have an impact.

The first person who checks the feedback will filter it so that it goes to the right address and then you may get a response from someone in product management, QA or even from the marketing depending on what you were asking about. In other words, every question, complaint and compliment goes directly to one of the people who built AutoCAD WS and who is helping define the product’s direction in the immediate future.

We all sit in the same office and we regularly consult with each other and this means your comments are noted and acted upon. We pride ourselves in developing the functionality that our users demand and every new release so far has added features which originated in user feedback.

So keep talking to us and we’ll keep listening.

Pictured (from top to bottom): Adi, QA Engineer; Ilai, Development Team Leader; Iris, AutoCAD WS Product Manager; Benny, Development Team Leader

Accessing AutoCAD WS From Your Desktop

We’re constantly thinking of new ways of making AutoCAD WS more accessible and easy to use. One of the good things about FTP or DropBox is that it allows you to access the contents of your account as a simple folder on your desktop. Today we’ve released a feature that allows you to do just that with AutoCAD WS.

With this new feature you can create an AutoCAD WS folder on your PC or Mac that you can use to upload files by simply placing them in that folder. These files will be immediately available to you from your Web browser, iOS or Android device. Downloading a file from your account is equally easy -- just copy/paste or drag & drop the file(s) from the folder to anywhere on your computer.

Sounds interesting? -- here’s how to learn more. We’ve added a new tutorial with step-by-step instructions on how to create an AutoCAD WS folder on Win XP, Windows 7 and OSX.

We’ve also made this short video showing you how to set this up and show how easy it is to upload and download files to an AutoCAD WS folder.

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