Also - scaling is an issue as all dimensions come in paper space. The Autodesk Online Viewer: displays the items, but the dimensioning abilities are lacking (not able to do apparent intersections or other more complicated dimension styles).

Previously Attempted Solutions: These haven't worked out for one reason or another. Autodesk - are you listening: you could make additional $$$ from this. I would happily pay $100/year/user for this ability.

In a perfect world, if the object enabler were added to AutoCAD mobile it would be great to have Advance Steel dimension capabilities - basically the dimensions need to recognize what scale the Advance Steel objects were detailed at and scale accordingly. Unfortunately, it appears to lack the object enabler for Advance Steel (currently trying to view shop drawings generated from Advance Steel in AutoCAD Mobile just shows a blank sheet). Potential Solution: It would seem that the web version of AutoCAD Mobile would be perfect for this. Unfortunately, in order to have our shop foreman access the drawings and pull dimensions we have broken down and gotten him a full AS license - $2K seems like a lot of money to just pull some dimensions. Our shop foreman and site crews would like to be able to pull reliable dimensions. Ideally, this viewer would be able to be accessed from a tablet or other site/shop device. We are in need of a desktop/mobile viewer that can markup and pull actual dimensions (and include things like apparent intersections) for Advance Steel generated shop drawings. Idea: This has been brought up before and there are some half-baked options out there (Autodesk Viewer, TrueView, AutoCAD Object Enabler).

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