Wednesday, November 18, 2020
New Integrations Improve AutoCAD and AEC Workflows
AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: We are excited to share that within Autodesk, we are improving the AutoCAD and AEC workflows. Available now, in the Autodesk App Store, the Autodesk Docs Extension for AutoCAD plugin allows you to push your CAD drawing sheets as PDFs directly from AutoCAD to Autodesk Docs (available in early 2021) or BIM 360 Docs.
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Cloud integration for CAD is certainly the way of the future, and hopefully we can implement this technology soon. I know I've written this before, though, that we are so limited by our reliance on the drama2 server that we can't take advantage of these resources! We all know and love our unlimited google drive space on our personal accounts, but since there isn't a centralized version of this for Carnegie Scenic the integration is functionally useless to us. The more we have heard from guest speakers about CAD the more I wish we would standardize our operation to incorporate these tools. Being able to XREF other people's drawing files into a composite could solve so many integration issues we have had in the past. If we were able to commit not only to AutoCAD, but also manage to swing some Google drive storage space, I feel like it would smooth over so much of our operation. Maybe in a few years this will be easier, or maybe one CAD program will emerge victorious in the world of scenery, but that is pretty wishful thinking.
I agree wholeheartedly with Elliot- the cloud is the future for just about every digital platform, and CAD is no exception. Every professional shop I've been through or heard about has a central storage location, whether local or cloud-based, that they store everything on. The difference between their servers and Drama2 is that Drama2 is not as easily accessible for remote work, as the university VPN can be finicky and the server doesn't always play nice. Using a built-in cloud solution fro Autodesk would be great, but one must recognize that there are a few detailers every year who prefer vectorworks, and so I'm not convinced that the 1st party solution here is the best for our use case. That said, formalizing our drawings in terms of conventions, styles, and formats would allow us to better integrate more advanced techniques like XREFs into our workflow (as Elliot mentioned). I definitely look forward to playing around and experimenting with this new extension!
I totally agree with Al and Elliot on this cloud integration has been the way of the future for a long time now and it's only a matter of time before it makes its way to Autocad's functionality. Since I’ve been apart of Carnegie scenic and really dove into the world of servers and sharing documentation within auto cad I’ve been clamoring for a better solution. The current server system just doesn’t work well for everyone especially as a Mac user the file management system can be cumbersome and easy to mess up. I think this pandemic has turn this light on for many companies as well as their workers work more and more from home companies are running into the issues of remote referencing. I imagine that soon if the work flow changes as more and more people will continue to work from home indefinitely AutoCad will have to think about how they can better accommodate that.
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