The measuring tool needs a lot of work – eDrawings Pro Review

I bought the standard eDrawings app and realized I couldn’t measure distances in a model or assembly, so I had to go back and buy this version of the app. Sadly, the measuring tool is really cumbersome and difficult to use. You have to hover the cursor icon over a surface, vertex, or line until that component turns red. Then to measure it, you have to tap the cursor. Sadly, half of the time when you do this, you end up tapping the wrong component. Then you can’t deselect the component. You just have to turn off the measuring tool, turn it back on, then try again. Why can’t the software engineers have a simple method for selecting and deselecting a component? Maybe two taps selects it and three taps deselects it? Then maybe four taps could deselect everything (like in the case where you are measuring the normal distance between two surfaces). In this scenario, I could double tap one surface, then go to another surface and double tap it. And if I accidentally double tap the wrong second surface, I could triple tap and deselect it. Then I could try again and double tap the second surface and get it right. Boom, I now have the normal distance. And then to deselect those two surfaces, I quadruple tap and everything is deselected so I can measure something else. Another issue I have is the precision of the measurements. I will have drawn something that’s exactly 3 inches long, but when I measure it in edrawings, edrawings tells me it’s 2.999 inches. Sorry edrawings, I know it’s actually 3 inches. And why can’t I set the dimensions to be displayed in fractions instead of decimals? It would be really nice if edrawings could display 2.4999 inches as 2 1/2 inches. Also, they need to work on the software that controls the model rotation and zooming in and out. When I get really close to a small component in a large assembly, the slightest finger movement on the screen will move the giant assembly way too much, and now I’ve lost the tiny component I needed to see. And finally, it’s really audacious to charge $9.99 for an app that doesn’t work very well. How about you release it for free until you work out all these issues, then you can start charging for it.
Review by Jaybird099 on eDrawings Pro.