9 Cloud Tools To Improve CAD

Collaboration

Most of you are using the cloud daily in your personal

and professional lives. But it’s not only for personal

files, and it’s not just a feature baked into the latest

version of your CAD suite.

There are many other useful cloud-based tools (some

CAD and some non-CAD) that you can use to yield

better work, irrespective of your industry type.

How many people are in your design team?

Are they all in the same office or are they spread

across the country or even across the world?

As the first and only full-cloud CAD system, Onshape

can help your design team amazingly improve

This article will help you find out why it is important

to keep your head in the cloud:

Onshape

The new partner of 3Dconnexion is the only full-cloud

3D CAD system. The entire team can access designs

on any device say it be desktop or mobile and

simultaneously make edits that everyone is aware to in

real time.

You can also be able to quickly share designs with

teammates and vendors, even those without CAD

software, as well as get a feedback, answer queries and

approve faster changes.

Wikispaces

A collaboration tool with no required training. Share

documents and easily track and give feedback and

reviews. You decide with whom to share your files with

by modifying permissions. And there are multi

packages for teams of various sizes.

Hackpad

With Hackpad, you can create an online “pad” and

invite users to share the data and files, allowing you to

take notes, edit documents and comment in real-time.

Hackpad records each note by author and labels them

by color. It’s been called the “best wiki ever” and a

Additional File Sharing Tools

Perfect for sharing files (e.g. documents, photos,

spreadsheets but not big CAD files) with global teams,

these services keep your documents and files in the

cloud. You can collaborate using any device with these

tools:

Google Drive safely stores and share files that you can

access on any device.

Dropbox helps you access your files from anywhere

and sync them with all your devices.

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