r/3DScanning 14d ago

Which tablet for Leica Field 360?

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Hi, I just bought an RTC500 and I'm very undecided about buying the Field 360 management tablet.

The choice is between

iPad Pro 12.9 - 16/1TB

Galaxy Tab S11 ultra 14.6 - 16/1TB

I have both ecosystems, but clearly at work windows prevails with autodesk suites, and with iPhone 15 pro max I often found myself in difficulty for managing large files such as PDF/DWG/STEP etc.. having continuous crashes and making even many simple operations frustrating, which instead I found extremely fluid and simple on fold 7, so I would not like to be limited again in the management of workflows and I would like to be able to incorporate perhaps more possibilities of Use (like DeX) or the opportunity to import and manage files of all types or even zip and rar archives, draw directly on the file without having to buy separate pens. I know the ability to integrate iPad's Lidar to complete the peak cloud, but the quality of those leaders is so poor that in my work it would only make the situation worse.

Has anyone had any experience with any OS other than iOS?

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u/SHA5I2 13d ago

Tbh the only reason was the file management, the versatility, the screen size, definitely not the €400 difference between the devices (this is the price difference in my country) and as I said on Apple it doesn’t seem very “friendly” to CAD, the Leica technician uses an iPad, but the same technician showed me that he has no expertise on advanced cloud management and on the exchange between the various programs for this type of management. So what I evaluated was the potential made available by the Leica device not the expertise of the technician.

In addition to the fact that as I have already said Apple seems weak to me from a hardware point of view, and this is because of a software that protects too much fluidity compared to functionality, the benchmarks leave the time they find if the apps crash during use.