I'm sure this has already been discussed before, but I wanted to share my take on it anyway. With Dropbox, I already have a great cloud solution to store, collaborate, and organize my entire personal and professional digital life -- I don't need another. That solution is what I use to manage all my Solidworks CAD files, and it's the same cloud solution that I use to manage my documents, .PDFs, contracts, renderings, etc. With Drobox, any file I ever need is accessable offline on all my computers, as well as in the cloud and through my phone and ipad. I don't need Autodesk to try and reinvent a new cloud storage experience, I already have that -- I simply need them to make an incredible, intuitive, superior, and powerful CAD program. It's very frustrating that each company wants to try and re-invent a new, proprietery cloud system. I have to have "Adobe Creative Cloud" to store my Photoshop and Illustrator files. Apple wants me to use "iCloud" to store my Pages and Numbers documents. And Autodesk wants me to keep all my CAD files with them in "A360". And rarely am I ever pleased with the performance of any of them. In an ideal world, all these companies would just focus on what they were good at (Adobe focuses on Photoshop, Apple focuses on great hardware and software, Autodesk focuses on great CAD), and then each would integrate with a company that has already proven to be an expert at cloud storage (Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc). All my files would be accessable in one place. And even more importantly, they would be available OFFLINE indefinitely. (Dropbox does a great job of this --- simply save a file, and immedietely every computer with that dropbox folder has an updated copy saved locally). The added benefit is that I can quickly and completely organize, move, transfer, search for, preview, and delete files from my desktop (which will always be far superior to using a browser to access an online folder structure to make changes). I understand that Autodesk wants to focus on Social Collaboration. I agree this is important (although something that I would not use as often). My hope would be that they find a way to work collaborately with a company like Dropbox or Box to be able to do this. Anyway, again, this is just my personal feedback. I really love what I've been able to do with Fusion so far, and I look forward to the day when I can drop Solidworks for good!
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