Autodesk Reinvents Teamwork in the Cloud
December 02 2014 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
As Yesterday’s Tools Fail Today’s Engineers, Company Ushers in
New Era of Making Things
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) cloud-based tools like A360 and
Fusion 360 empower designers and engineers to work in whole new
ways and are reinventing the modern design and collaboration
experience. At Autodesk University, the company announced that A360
Team will be available globally later this month.
Yesterday’s means of collaboration are failing designers and
engineers who require an entirely different scale of working
together and sharing information. Enormous 3D model file sizes,
data with a very high level of fidelity and precision and 3D
visualization are just a few of Autodesk customers’ requirements.
Reliance on email and traditional project management tools results
in clunky workarounds and lost productivity.
Understanding the unique needs of designers and engineers,
Autodesk pioneered A360—the first cloud collaboration tool geared
for design and engineering projects. A360 Team is a modern tool for
working together that breaks down silos, brings teams together
across time and space, and enables data management to recede into
the background and essentially be invisible to the people using
it.
“The reality is that all projects — no matter what you are
designing and making — are done in teams,” said Amar Hanspal,
senior vice president of Information Modeling and Platform Products
at Autodesk. “Nobody works on design projects in isolation. A360
easily connects project team members working together so naturally
they don’t even have to think about it—it just happens.”
Connecting Projects, People, and Data
The future of working together with A360 is based on three
guiding principles:
- Simplicity: A360 removes the
complexity of setting up teams, managing and working together on
design and engineering projects. Team members can concentrate on
core activities and not get caught up trying to understand
different file formats, versions, and locations. Teams also have
the confidence of having access to the right information, in the
right format, at the right time.
- Invisibility: When teams are
working together on projects, they need to focus on the task at
hand. A360 removes distractions by ensuring tedious tasks like
version control “just happen.” It eliminates the constant
frustration of moving between different tools, newsfeeds,
platforms, screens, etc. — the collaboration experience becomes
invisible within the tools you use day-to-day.
- Integrated Platform: A360 also
serves as an extensible collaboration platform for third parties to
build integrated applications on top of as Autodesk has done with
Fusion 360. Its APIs allow developers to seamlessly integrate a
user’s context and role into a project. A360 puts the project,
whether it’s one component of a large assembly or a sleek consumer
product, at the center of it all to keep team members, clients and
other stakeholders informed and involved throughout the entire
design and fabrication process.
Form, Function, Fabricate: The Project is at the
Center
Fusion 360–a cloud-based 3D CAD/CAM tool for product
development--was the first Autodesk product to incorporate A360.
Since its inception, Fusion 360 has included modern A360
collaboration capabilities that serve as a single space for people
to work together.
In this modern way of working, traditional data management is no
longer required. With Fusion 360, teams know they have the latest
designs and the ability to roll back as needed, and sharing designs
with key stakeholders is simple and intuitive. A breakthrough with
this approach is that designers now have the ability to branch
iterations of their work and merge it back in later if needed. This
gives designers the ultimate flexibility, and was never possible
with historical approaches to data management.
Reinventing Teamwork in the Cloud
A360 Team, which became commercially available in North America
in September, already counts more than 60,000 users among the
manufacturing and engineering industries.
“A360 has been a really accessible tool for us. Team members
that were previously not involved in design are now coming on board
and beginning to contribute to existing projects, taking on new
initiatives and expanding our entire team’s skill set,” said Calvin
Domenico III, president of DGF Technologies, a Massachusetts based
consulting company who provides engineering services in a diverse
range of specialties. “In addition, having an integrated CAD/CAM
package with Fusion 360 that actually works well allows us to
operate on a single platform and move quickly. And that's exactly
what we need to be doing.”
A360 Team offers viewing for more than 100 2D and 3D design file
formats within a Web browser without downloads or plug-ins. Its
advanced search goes far beyond text search and lets users easily
locate components embedded within models, assemblies and
designs.
Meanwhile, the A360 mobile app enables users to view large 3D
and 2D models, easily track what's happening on their project, and
collaborate with other members of their team—virtually any data,
anytime, anywhere, from any device.
Pricing and Availability
A360 Team will be available on the Autodesk store worldwide on
December 7, 2014. Pricing may vary by country. For more information
on A360 and how it’s shaping the future of making things, visit the
A360 home page.
About Autodesk
Autodesk helps people imagine, design and create a better world.
Everyone--from design professionals, engineers and architects to
digital artists, students and hobbyists—uses Autodesk software
to unlock their creativity and solve important challenges. For more
information visit autodesk.com or follow @autodesk.
Autodesk is a registered trademark of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its
subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.
All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their
respective holders. Autodesk reserves the right to alter product
and services offerings, and specifications and pricing at any time
without notice, and is not responsible for typographical or
graphical errors that may appear in this document.
© 2014 Autodesk, Inc. All rights reserved.
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