AutoCAD WS – Around The World
We love seeing the reaction from around the world to AutoCAD WS and to the iPhone and iPad apps. We may not understand every word in every language, but we try our best to read every article and blog post. Here’s a round up of articles from around the world each adding something original to the release of AutoCAD WS.
Europe
France: You can read all about the launch in French here.
Germany: There have been a couple of write ups at Blogausraz both here and here. It looks like the author is paying attention and following the development of the product closely.
Netherlands: AutoCADExchange.com is the largest Dutch-speaking AutoCAD community. They produced a lengthy review of the AutoCAD WS Mobile app here.
Spain: The K-Tuin blog goes one step further than most reviews by posting a video review detailing some of the most important features of the app. You can read the blog here or watch the video in Spanish below.
For a text only review in Spanish, you won’t do much better than this blog from Ingeniería en la Red which provide in-depth analysis of the AutoCAD WS app for iPhone.
Italy: This personal blog of Giovanni Perego offers a great first look at AutoCAD WS in Italian.
Asia
Russia: There is a really neat summary of AutoCAD WS functionality in Russian here.
Japan: I’m not sure I understood every word of this article in Japanese, but it was great fun trying to work it out.
Republic of China (Taiwan): This review relies more on screenshots than text, but it does an effective job of describing the application.
Australasia
New Zealand: I found this great post about AutoCAD WS from Robin in Auckland.
South America
Chile: Back to Spanish for this article from Plataforma Arquitectura which covers the core functionality of AutoCAD WS.
Brazil: We seem to have a healthy cumber of users from Brazil as reflected by the mentions of the launch here, and here.
We try to keep track of everyone who’s is writing about AutoCAD WS as this is one of the best ways for us to be sure we are providing the widest possible community with the best possible product. so if you know of a review or a blog post from a country or in a language that we haven’t covered, let us know about it and we’ll feature it here at the AutoCAD WS blog.
At the far left you have the Upload button. When you’re ready to make your work accessible on the web, just click upload. If you haven’t already created your AutoCAD WS account, this is the perfect time to do so. As you finish opening the account, your drawing will have finished uploading. Once you upload a file to the web it gets automatically updated with any changes you make to the original file on your computer. This Auto-Sync feature is triggered as soon as you upload a file, but it can be easily disabled by unclicking the Upload button whenever you have the drawing open.
Manage Uploads will let you look at all the files you have uploaded and check their status, while Upload More Files is the simplest way to bulk upload the files you want to make available. There is no limit to the amount of files you can upload in this way and we guarantee that any files you upload will be accessible for free in perpetuity.
Once your drawings have been uploaded, you can choose exactly with whom you want to share them. The Share Drawing button lets you identify friends and colleagues by their email address and give them the chance to collaborate with you on the same file. You can establish different permissions per user from read-only to download to full editing capability. Every time you are working on the file after that, you will be able to see clearly which of your collaborators is online and working on the same file.
Finally, the Get Link button gives you the ability to make any of your files available publicly . You can generate a link which can be published to sent to any number of recipients. Anyone clicking on the link will be able to interact with the file based on the permissions you selected. This is a perfect way to share your designs with the world and watch as they take on a life of their own in the hands of others.
We have been overwhelmed by the response to last week's launch of the AutoCAD WS mobile app for the iPhone and the iPad. You can get the app now by going to the 
First up, the Product Manager of AutoCAD WS, Iris Shoor. Iris was the originator of Project Butterfly which evolved into AutoCAD WS. She was the first with the vision to take a great product like AutoCAD and make it work on the web and on mobile devices. Iris is the key decision maker when it comes to determining which features will make it into the next version AutoCAD WS. So, Android-lovers, if you're serious about bringing AutoCAD WS to your platform, Iris is the one you need to be nice to! You can appeal to her directly here: 
Niv Steingarten has been working on AutoCAD WS longer than any other developer. Niv is a veteran of late nights and early starts and he understands as much as anybody the huge effort that has gone into getting this release ready. As the project evolved and it became clear that the initial target for release was to be the iPhone and iPad, Niv was the one responsible for porting the project onto Apple's iOS. If you have any questions about the development of AutoCAD WS, why not write to Niv directly at 
Shani is our queen of QA. While we're sure that AutoCAD WS had no more than its fair share of development hiccups, it was Shani that made sure that we identified as many issues as possible and eliminated each one prior to launch. As we strive to improve the product with each future release, Shani's experience will continue to be extremely valuable to the project. You can write to Shani here: 
