I just used Autodesk Cloud Documents for the first time, and was asked to confirm my acceptance of the Terms of Service. Fair enough. But just what is in those terms, and what do they mean to you if you are dubious about using the Cloud? Will you be reassured by what you find [...]
 14 October 2011, 9:57 pm |  21 comments | Tags: Cloud, Terms and Conditions | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Legal, Other Autodesk Products Autodesk recently made a big announcement about its Cloud initiatives, and reactions have been all over the place. Some people can barely contain their breathless excitement while others are outraged to the point of passing out the pitchforks. Why? It’s pretty much business as usual. It’s nothing like Dassault’s disastrous we’re-moving-you-to-the-Cloud FUD campaign against [...] 30 September 2011, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | Tags: AutoCAD for Mac, AutoCAD WS, Autodesk, Cloud, Hype, Labs | Category: AutoCAD, Autodesk, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Spin, Subscription, Thoughts, Web Stuff When is AutoCAD nor AutoCAD? When it’s AutoCAD WS. But it’s not quite that simple. I’ve been correcting people for months when they say things like “Project Butterfly is AutoCAD on the Cloud.” No, it’s not. It’s a DWG editor of sorts, but anybody who has used both will know that it’s not AutoCAD [...] 1 September 2010, 5:04 pm | 5 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD WS, Cloud, Confusion, Inventor, Marketing, Project Butterfly, Revit, Verticals | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD LT, Autodesk, Civil 3D, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Raster Design, TrueView For the past couple of months, I have been running a poll about the command line. I ran it using wording copied directly from a Project Butterfly poll, to get some kind of comparison between the poll respondents on this blog and those on the Project Butterfly blog. It’s fair to say that I [...] 18 May 2010, 8:35 am | 7 comments | Tags: Cloud, Polls, Project Butterfly, User Interface | Category: Announcement, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Polls, Spin As announced by Shaan Hurley, Autodesk has made some changes to the AutoCAD 2011 online Help system. Please check it out and see what you think. After a short time with it, here are my experiences using IE6 (yes, I know). As this is a dynamic system and dependent on browser characteristics, Internet connectivity [...] 12 May 2010, 1:29 pm | 12 comments | Tags: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Fail, Help, Search | Category: AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2011, Cloud, Fail, Other Blogs, Performance, Web Stuff Autodesk’s Project Butterfly is its latest offering in the Cloud (Software as a Service, SaaS, web-based software, whatever) area. This is a Labs technology preview (i.e. it ain’t cooked yet) of browser-based drawing system based on Autodesk’s purchase of Visual Tao. The idea is that no software other than a browser is required to [...] 21 January 2010, 10:52 am | 6 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Cloud, Labs, Project Butterfly, SaaS, Scott Sheppard, Video, Web Stuff | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Review, Video, Web Stuff |
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How do you feel about CAD in the Cloud?
Early last year, I ran a poll to gauge your feelings about CAD in the Cloud. Here are the results of that poll:
As you can see, the poll response bell curve was clearly biased toward the frightened end of the spectrum, and there was little in the way of excitement at the [...]