360 vs Dropbox

[Anonymous]

My company has recently switched over from a server to Dropbox.  Dropbox does not work well for AutoCAD when multiple people try to open the same drawing.  The file gets opened in two places rather than one being read only.  Will 360 not allow this?  What about, word, excel, etc, files?  Can they be placed on 360 or only AuotCAD files?  Will we need Dropbox and 360? 

Thank you,

Marty

[Bud_Schroeder_ADESK]

Hi Marty,

Thanks for sending in your question to the A360 Team and welcome to the forums. The AutoCAD Team has looked at what is going on with Dropbox and DWG files, so you may want to check on that in the AutoCAD forum.

For A360, you don't actually open your file up, you have to download it to your local system, then open it in say AutoCAD. You may be asking about A360 Drive and that uses the A360 Desktop Sync component, and so a file is first saved to A360 Drive, and then it gets synced from that point on. But again the files are worked on local, not directly in A360 Drive on the cloud.

Can you share with us what you are looking to do with Dropbox and your data? For example, are you sharing it between teams, or with customers for viewing and design collaboration, but no editing? That can make a difference here.

Let us know more details here and we can go from there. And hope this helps answer your question about A360 VS Dropbox with AutoCAD.

Again, welcome to the forums and thanks for posting your question.

[Daniel.Sotelo.EDP]

Is it possible to have autocad treat a file saved on dropbox as it would treat a file saved on a server. I would like autocad to say a file is locked if another user is using the file, is this possible?