Considering the effort we put in to managing, maintaining and deploying Free Viewers. A360 has the potential to remove the very need of these products providing they can encompass the main tools that we all need access to e.g. DWG True Convert, Markup, Plot and Publish etc. the only issue I see is that we would no longer have the ability to do this for free despite the cost of the overhead. Do you see people still wanting to carry on trying to use these well known free tools to aid collaboration purposes where clients struggle to even get an install on their workstation/laptop or will we eventually reach a day where the easiest thing actually is to collaborate in an online space, after all everybody has access to a web browser (I know about IE 3D model issues). Ideally I want to be in a position where I can totally remove the need to deploy the three above products as core build so my question is, can this be achieved? If it can't then would it be possible to do an open in Trueview but Trueview online or maybe i do an open in AutoCAD 360 online. I'm Interested on other people's perspective, please comment as ideally I'd like to see Trueview, Design Review, Navisworks Freedom and even Revit Viewer disappear in the near future but unfortunately we do need good enough online replacements.
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