EmbadonMeasure PDF plans to scale
Mark one length you know and type it the way you write it. Then measure distances, angles and areas anywhere on the sheet.
900millimetres
1,5 myour decimal comma
5' 3 1/2"feet, inches, fractions
For fabrication & machine shops
Measure any plan. Check the cut file before you cut.
Embadon measures PDF plans and DXF drawings to scale and checks DXF cut files for the mistakes that waste material. On your Android phone or iPhone, on the shop floor, offline, in seconds.
- Works offline
- No account
- No tracking, no ads
- Pay once, no subscription
Coming soonGoogle Play & the App Store (iPhone)
Tap two points: they snap to centres, corners and edges
Pick a pointTry the two top holes.
7 cut paths · cut length 1,194.701 mm
A live, in-browser demo of the real sample file: same geometry, same findings as the app.
0 bytes
of your drawings ever leave the phone
PDF + DXF
measuring and the cut-file check in one app
1 tap
from a finding to the exact spot on the drawing
Offline
no account, works in airplane mode
How it works
From inbox to answer in three steps
- Open the drawingFrom your files, email or messages: PDF plans and DXF drawings, opened on the phone, never uploaded. Two sample files are built in.
- Set the scale, or don'tDXF files that state their units are ready to measure. For a PDF, mark one length you know and type it the way you write it.
- Measure, check, shareGet the dimension, run the cut-file check, tap a finding to jump to it, mark up the PDF and send a flattened copy or the findings as text.
Screens from the Android app, using the built-in sample files, which you can also download below.
What it does
One app for the drawings
One app for the drawings
that land in your inbox
Customers send PDFs and DXFs. Embadon lets you size up the job, check the file and answer questions without walking back to the CAD workstation.
Check DXF cut files
The check runs in a second. Tap any finding and Embadon zooms straight to it. It also tells you what it could not look at.
Open contoursSmall gapsT-junctionsCrossingsDuplicates & overlapsTiny & zero-lengthBranch pointsUnits & size
Snaps to geometry
End points, midpoints, centres and quadrants in DXF drawings, and the lines of a PDF. The real number, not a thumb-guess.
Files that open
Lines, arcs, circles, polylines, text, blocks, ellipses and splines, with layers and true colour. ASCII DXF R12 to R2018.
Mark up & export
Lines, boxes and notes on a PDF, exported as a flattened copy. Your original is never changed.
Layers that count
Shown as in your CAD program. The check looks at visible layers only, so hide what will not be cut.
Share findings
One tap sends the file name, summary and every finding as plain text through your phone's share sheet.
Units sanity check
Shows the overall size of the part and warns when it looks like the wrong units, such as an inch part saved as millimetres.
English plus 12 more languages
German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) and Korean. These translations are machine-made and still in review.
Every feature and exactly what the cut-file check looks for →
The real app
What you will see on the phone
Screens from the Android app, in light and dark mode. The iPhone app has the same layout.
Who it's for
Built for the people between
Built for the people between
the drawing and the machine
Quote from the email, not the workstation
A customer sends a PDF at 7 pm. You want a number on it before they call someone else.
- Calibrate a PDF on any known length and pull areas and distances for the quote.
- Check a DXF before you promise a price on it.
- Send back a marked-up PDF with your questions.
Catch the bad file before you load the sheet
An open contour or a doubled line costs a sheet, or a stopped machine.
- Cut-file checks with one tap to the problem.
- Total cut length and the number of cut paths for a quick time estimate.
- Hide layers to see exactly what will be cut.
The dimension the drawing doesn't show
Half the questions are "how far is that hole from the edge?"
- Snap to centres, ends and edges for exact hole positions.
- Feet, inches and fractions, or millimetres: your choice.
- Angles and areas for bends and material.
Measure where the work happens
No signal on site, and the laptop is back in the van.
- Everything runs offline, in airplane mode.
- Opens the plan straight from email or your files.
- Notes on the plan, exported as a PDF for the office.
How it compares
Where Embadon fits, and where it doesn't (yet)
There are good DWG viewers, takeoff apps and browser-based cut-file checkers. We compared them with facts from their own pages.
What is unusual here
PDF plan measuring and a DXF cut-file check in one app that works offline with no account, on Android and on iPhone, and a one-time unlock instead of a subscription.
What we don't do
No DWG (save as DXF), no iPad app yet, and Embadon finds problems but does not fix your file. Some other tools do those things.
See the table
Named apps, browser tools, prices and sources, as of November 2026. Read the comparison →
Pricing
Free to download. Pay once to unlock.
No subscription, no ads and no account. You buy through Google Play or the App Store, and the price is shown there in your currency.
Free
Free download
- Open PDF plans and DXF drawings
- Zoom, pan, show and hide layers
- Measuring and the check on the two built-in samples
One-time
Unlock
One purchase, no subscription
- Measuring on your own files
- DXF cut-file check, tap to zoom
- Markup and flattened PDF export
Privacy
Your customers' drawings
Your customers' drawings
stay on your phone
Drawings are confidential. Embadon was built so it never has to be trusted with them.
No servers
Embadon opens no network connections of its own and contains no code that could. Automated build checks keep networking code out.
No account
No sign-up, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting. The store listings will declare "No data collected" because nothing is.
Encrypted
Markup is stored encrypted in the app's private storage, never inside your file and never in cloud backup. On Android it asks for no storage, location, camera or microphone permission.
This website has no cookies, no analytics and no trackers either. Read the privacy policy →
Compatibility
What it opens
PDFPlans of any size, including rotated, cropped and password-protected files.
DXFASCII DXF R12 to R2018: lines, arcs, circles, polylines, text, ellipses, splines, blocks (INSERT and MINSERT), layers and true colour, in any units.
Not yetDWG (save a copy as DXF in your CAD program), binary DXF, and hatches are not drawn. Anything Embadon cannot draw is reported, never silently dropped.
DevicesAndroid 8 or later. iPhone with iOS 17 or later (no iPad app yet).
Sample files
Try it on these
Two small drawings made for Embadon, free to use. The app has them built in too.
FAQ
Questions
How accurate is measuring a PDF?
As accurate as the drawing and your calibration. Embadon works in the PDF's own coordinates, not screen pixels, so zooming never changes the result. Calibrate on the longest length you know and snap to the geometry wherever you can. Embadon does not detect the scale for you.
Does a DXF need calibration?
No, if the file says what units it uses. Embadon reads them and tells you so. If a file has no units, the cut-file check flags it and you set the scale yourself.
Will it read DWG files?
Not yet. Most CAD programs can save a copy as DXF (look for Save As or Export), which is what laser, plasma and router software usually takes anyway.
Does it fix the problems it finds?
No. Embadon shows you each problem and where it is, and shares the list as text. It never changes your file. Fix it in your CAD or CAM program and check again.
Does a clean check mean the machine will accept the file?
A clean result means Embadon found nothing wrong in what it can read. It checks visible layers only and does not know your machine, material or kerf, and shapes it cannot draw are reported but not checked. What the check cannot see.
Do my drawings go to a server?
No. Embadon has no servers and contains no code that opens a network connection. Nothing leaves your phone unless you share a file or the findings yourself, or Google Play or the App Store handles the purchase.
What does it cost?
It is free to download, and viewing and the two built-in samples are free. A one-time purchase unlocks measuring, the check, markup and export for your own files. See pricing.
In final testing
Coming soon to Google Play
Coming soon to Google Play
and the App Store
Free to download, with a one-time unlock. Until then, the demo above runs the real sample file.