Touchscreen Tablet
Wish to use the Turbofloorpans & lanscape Pro V16 on windows 8 tablet. Does window 8 touch screen platform allow drawing input by touching the screen rather than using the mouse?
I am still using Windows 7 but you may find this post interesting: http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,2559.msg12628.html#msg12628 (http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,2559.msg12628.html#msg12628). In a later post Jack refers briefly to using a tablet with Windows 8, so I gather it did work.
Maybe he will see this post and be able to answer your question specifically.
Allan
Allan :
A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron. It's an all-in-one system, with a touch screen. I think that, if the software was written with the code for touch screens, it could be possible to draw on the screen without a mouse.
garystan
I use a high end Lenovo with a touch screen but I mostly have it it a docking station when using TFP. The larger displays on the docking station are easier for design so I've never tried to use the laptop's screen and the pen for TFP. However I just tried it and found it works fine. I'm not sure I place points as accurately with the pen as I can with the mouse, but that may just be a comment on how much I use the cursor. I also tried the the tool that allows handwriting to fill in a dimension. It also worked but again I think it took longer than just typing the numbers.
Tom
Tom B. / Allan :
Sounds like using a mouse would be good for starting the design. Setting up the walls, windows, and what-not. But, I imagine, using a pen would probably make it easier to position objects. Dragging, with the pen, to the proper position. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not an expert. I just used a pen to sign the tablet for United Parcel Service (the ones who deliver packages).
garystan
Hi Gary and Tom,
I use a pen (stylus) on a tablet and on my phone too (both in the Samsung Note series) and the system works very well for drawing and even 'painting' (if you can call it that). Working on an old sailing ship at present and the pen flexibility is amazing. Even more amazing is how the Note 3 phone is able it decipher my handwriting. Does not seem to matter how bad the handwriting is it gets it right every time!
However TFP does not work on Android (yet!), but I think your comment Tom about precision may be valid, although zooming in close may help.
Allan
Thanks TomB for that information. I myself am mouse and keyboard guy but am trying to work out a way to do a house survey on the tablet. When mobile it is difficult to use the mouse.
I have not used Windows 8 or its touch capabilities and am in the process of investing in new mobile machine. I will not use the same machine back in the office due it its limited processor speed. As the survey will be done on a simple floor plan, I just want to be sure that TFP16 will respond to posiibly touching and dragging walls, editing dimensions etc.
Hi Alan.
Would TFP be released on android in the near future?
TFP V16 will not be released on Android as it has been replaced with a different product based on Punch. Whether they have plans to do that or not I don't know. TFP V16 functionality is available as Personal Architect (being the same as TFP V18 would have been if it had not been switched to Punch). However, whether Cadsoft who used to make TFP and now make Personal Architect, plan to release an aAndroid version I don't know.
If you have a look in Google Play Store, you will find House Plan Creator. This quite cleaverly creates a plan, using a stylus or your finger and it can be exported as a DXF file. There is also one around, can't recall the name at present, that also allows you to use the tablet's camera to walk around the house and literally draw the rooms from the actual walls as seen by the camera. Would be ideal as a 'survey' tool and quicker than measuring it up and drawing from scratch.
Samsung is soon to release an even larger 'draw-on' tablet that is over 12 inches (and even bigger I think, in the pipeline) so no doubt these type of applications will continue to develop and become more viable as the screens get larger.
Allan
Maybe there is something in the TurboApps series (http://www.turboapps.com/) by IMSI/Design that would work here.
Eventually maybe but at the moment it is essentially a viewer but certainly heading in the right direction.
Given the size of the files it amazes me how smoothly it works.
Allan