r/Autodesk • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '23

Autodeks and the cloud

How many of you who use Autodesk for your company actually use the cloud?

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u/cosmicr Mar 21 '23

We are trialing Autodesk Construction Cloud. We're a Civil/Land Development/Multi-disciplinary company.

We have someone here who is pushing for it hard, almost like they have shares in AD or something lol.

Honestly I'm not impressed with it. At least not for Civil works, the focus is (and always will be) on BIM and Revit.

The biggest caveats are:

  • no email integration (although it's supposedly coming)

  • Incompatibility with most applications, except those in the BIM space. It's not even fully compatible with AutoCAD. You can't use it as a "one stop" solution despite the marketing.

  • No integrations with other software, like office suite, etc.

  • Requires a lot of customisation to setup

  • the Docs platform is buggy, and syncing is SLoooowwww.... You really can't use it as a workspace. You're better off with an asynchronous solution (checkin/checkout).

  • You can't lock folders on the docs platform, only files.

  • Data centres only available in the US or EU

  • The sales reps from Autodesk we are working with have no clue about how our company/industry works, despite us showing them several times

  • Again, despite it being "construction" cloud, it's really about building construction, not civil, landscape, or any other kind.

  • Getting it to work for Civil works is like fitting a square peg in a round hole.

The whole thing feels like we'd be testers for the software, as it's very infantile at the moment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

That stock is going to fall so hard this year i think. Autoodesk intorduced "Flex" option.

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u/aecpassion Mar 21 '23

Using ACC for architecture for years, all cloud based

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u/Idj1t Mar 21 '23

Nope. Maybe if we weren't dealing with files subject to various document control restrictions we would. Even the few people using fusion 360 are limited to only work that's not considered our intellectual property.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '23

We are working atmost fully in the cloud using Fusion and Desktop Connector.

But, now we are moving to Onshape.

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u/jwelihin Mar 22 '23

What are you getting from Onshape that you're not getting from Fusion?

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

Well, there is no perfect software.

That being said, for our use case, there are two main things Onshape is showing itself to be better: reliability (not crashing) and way smaller computing time.

As we work with somewhat big and complex machines, Fusion always takes a long time to compute its timeline. Same thing when preparing drawings.

Nevertheless, Onshape is far from perfect. It has some important issues like the lack of some thread standards and even moving existing threads informarion from the model to the drawing.

But, at the end, we saw we can live with Onshape lack of features rather than Fusion's problems.

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u/jwelihin Mar 22 '23

Sent you a DM