Ideas for transferring drawings over the internet

[spaulus]

I am about to start working on a project where I will have maybe 2 or 3 people doing simple drawings for me and was trying to think of a good way to send the drawings back and forth.

Has anyone else come up with a good plan on how to do it?

I was thinking about opening a dropbox account and sharing it with my co-workers.

Thanks,

Steve

[paullimapa]

Dropbox is probably the easiest since it automatically synchronizes and it's free.  Just make sure only one person is working on the files at a time then you won't run into problems.  Once synchronized, that person will have to stop working on it, until the next person is done and the files are synchronized again.

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[leeminardi · Accepted solution]

Dropbox is good and reliable.  You do have to be careful not to delete the "cloud" copy when you delete a copy from your hard drive.  File syncing is fairly fast.  It is not free. A 3 person business license is $12- $15 per month.

If you are just going to send a few files back and forth you might consider Google Drive which  is free.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

DropBox
Google Drive
Microsoft's OneDrive
Box
and a few hundred others out there
To name a few that can be free or not depending on the volume you need.

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

Hi @spaulus

You might consider trying A360.  I like to load files to my A360 drive and then  share with others. They can view the files, add comments, download them and even use versioning.

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[john.vellek]

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[spaulus]

after i create a block library, can i send the block library to a friend and will they be able to create a tool palette and use the blocks off the block library or do i need to send all the block also?

Thanks,

Steve

[john.vellek]

Hi @spaulus,

You can certainly send them the block library instead of the separate block drawings. You should also write up a description for them that describes how they might extract the blocks or create a Tool Palette using Design Center.