Revit in the cloud?īefore we dive into the latest news and scuttlebutt on Revit and the cloud, I need to first highlight what is happening in the manufacturing division of Autodesk - as developments there will likely eventually impact the word of Revit and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Convergence of even one product line is not so simple and will take many more years of development. There is also a Mac version of AutoCAD that has a slightly different feature set again, mainly due to the OS differences. The cloud version of AutoCAD is a ground-up redevelopment and does not really compare in feature set to the desktop version, which is what Autodesk eventually intends for all its products. For instance AutoCAD has a cloud-based version called AutoCAD 360. The rapid proliferation of Autodesk point solutions and services is going through a messy patch, with the mitosis of desktop products with cloud equivalents. It is a big and compelling vision for anyone with an imagination.īut what we have now is quite far from that. Our tools, capable of deriving complex geometry, will be able to directly drive fabrication ‘machines’, which will recreate these forms quickly with high precision. People will be able to collaborate with many others in real time through a managed environment and utilise the power of large servers to optimise, enhance, compute and suggest design solutions that we could never envisage.

In the future it believes that applications will be available on any device, anywhere, irrespective of operating system.

Could this be the template for Autodesk’s next generation BIM tool?Īutodesk has a vision. Autodesk Fusion360, Autodesk’s manufaturing group’s next generation cloud-based CAD tool.

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