SolidWorks:HEARD! - Episode 433 - MyCadbox
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MyCadBox:
This podcast covers a new product from the folks over at CadFaster called MyCadbox. This is a new online CAD collaboration service that is works across the desktop and the iPad. Topics covered:
- What is MyCadbox really?
- Details on the "Freemium" model
- Collaboration tool on the desktop and iPad
- Co-Viewing Experience
- Overall impressions
- Enhancement ideas
Two years ago I ttalked to Tuomas Holma, the VP of Marketing at CadFaster and we discussed a product that had come our right before SolidWorks World that year called CadFaster Collaborate for SolidWorks. Since then the company has focused more on BIM (Building Information Modeling) and was not as focused on the MCAD industry.
A few weeks ago, MyCadbox launched a a pseudo the Dropbox for CAD, which I first read on Deelip's blog, and since I have spend a fair amount of time in the Dropbox API and a long time user of the service, I was intrigued. I have spend a few hours of testing with the service and now believe is it nothing like Dropbox (Deelip's words) but that there is more focus on sharing the experience than the files themselves.
With services like GoToMeeting, Join.Me, Google Hangouts and Skype, collaboration services coming into this space need to focus on the vertical markets like CAD and have to add tool-sets that break the collaboration habits we currently rely on in our design lives. I am unsure at this point if MyCadbox will dislodge my collaboration habits yet. ~Lou
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