PlanGrid

Is the software that allows you to upload your PDF files and access them online on your iPad. I first saw the software on the konstrukshon website.
The software is much more than just provide your drawings on your iPad. One of the things I like about this software is that it takes a set of drawings in a single PDF file and packages them so that you can see each drawing individually on thumbnails. The other thing I like about the software is that you can measure on the PDF drawings.

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There are three pricing levels for Plangrid:
1. Free (up tot 50 sheets)
2. $19.99/month (up to 550 sheets)
3. $49.99/month (up to 5000 sheets).
You can find Plangrid on their website (http://www.plangrid.com/). You have to register, but you can always choose the free plan and store up to 50 sheets.

Once you have registered, you have to create a project. The concept is that drawings are stored in project folders. I could not see a limit to the number of projects to create, provided that you do not go beyond your total number of sheets (50).
After registering you are taken to your dashboard. The dashboard is where you create and manage projects.
Clicking on the new project button opens this page when you name your project and upload your drawings.

After you have named your project you can then upload your drawings to the staging area. You can upload the drawings as a single PDF, or as multiple PDF files.

After the drawings are uploaded they then go through the staging process. The staging process divides your drawing up into individual PDF files, with one file for each sheet.
Plangrid does tell you how it is getting on and how many drawings are processed.

In the staging area, you can renumber all of your drawings to suit the drawing number on the title block.

When you have finished, you can publish your project to the cloud.

The other part of Plangrid is an iPad application for downloading, synchronizing, viewing, and annotating the drawings.
When you go to your iPad and start Plangrid, you can access your drawings.

This is a picture of my iPad dashboard before I update.

After updating my dashboard I can see my new project.
To move your projects from the cloud to your device, you just tap on them once. This moves your project from the cloud to your iPad, for you to open it. You can see in this image the progress of the drawings being loaded onto the device.

When you open your project, you can see a thumbnail for each drawing.
To open the drawing, tap on it once.

Zoom into the drawing by using pinch.
You will see a series of tools on the right-hand side of the iPad screen.

One of the tools is for measuring. Before you can measure though, you have to give Plangrid a known dimension.

In this example, I know the floor to floor height of the project. So I have drawn the measuring line from the floor of the basement to the top of the first floor. You have to be extremely accurate at this point, because Plangrid will use your dimension as the basis for all the other dimensions that you put, on this drawing.
Then into the correct dimension and click OK.

You can now dimension any part of the drawing that you want.
You can even put notes and corrections on the drawing.

When you are finished annotating the drawing, you can then share the sheet with other people.

 
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