Inventor 2019 using Microsoft Teams Cloud for Project storage platform

[harrykling]

Does Autodesk Inventor 2019 support the usage of using Microsoft Teams Cloud as storage for the using Inventor Projects as its storage location? 

[DarrenP]

i would say no since Autodesk has their own “team” cloud platform that is designed to work with their software or you can look at their vault products

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Harry,

Any storage system should work. But, Inventor, as a file based CAD system, cannot interact with a URL-like file path. It has to be a relative or absolute file path. There are two primary ways of leveraging cloud drive: 1) Use it just like another logical drive. 2) Zip up local files and store it in the cloud as a backup.

For Fusion Team, you need to install Desktop Connector and then you can directly write to or save to Fusion Team hub.

Many thanks!

[llorden4]

I am experimenting with this now and am not having any success. We are using a cloud service (Citrix) and have installed their app to install their cloud service as a mapped drive so that we can share files with our various branches across the globe. Using the following iLogic code to search directories for a file...

Files = System.IO.Directory.GetFiles(oProjPath & "Common Parts\Nuts\", NutFilename, System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories)
If Files.Count > 0 Then									'if count > 0 then at least one file was found in directory search
	Filename = Files(0)								'use first found file with matching part number
Else 
	DetFail = True
	Exit Sub
End If

This routine works well when the drive is connected to a physical network location but the mapped cloud drive constantly fails to return any results.  Is there another approach/method that could work here?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Leo,

I think you will want to map the cloud drive as a logical drive. Inventor cannot handle cloud path at the moment. You may want to take a look at this prior thread.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-forum/workgroup-search-paths-and-onedrive/td-p/9880944

Many thanks!

[llorden4]

Sharing some updated test results.  The mapped drive feature with our cloud service does work, there appears to be a timeout issue either with Windows as the service or Inventor not handling asynchronous activity well, but appears slower internet speeds have issues with waiting for results and simply return a "File Not Found" result.

I took this test home with me and used my personal high speed internet and had no issues at all with finding files.

In short, cloud services appear to be hit or miss and will greatly depend on your internet speeds.