Tips and tricks for working remotely

[kate.merriman]

Hello Autodesk community!  Do you have tips and tricks about how to survive and thrive while working remotely?  Share them here to help those who may be struggling with working from home for the first time or for much longer periods than normal (now that companies are helping slow the spread of COVID-19 by requesting or requiring employees to work from home).

What keeps you motivated, connected and feeling well?

What technologies are you using to stay productive?

Share your thoughts, both silly and serious and let's get each other through it!

[pendean]

Remoting-in means your 3DMouse is not connected to your office PC.


The topic of this post is "autodesk" asking us users to share your experiences and ideas to help others. It was not intended as a venue for Autodesk to set you up at home in any way. I think you read more into it than intended (or that any of us read into it), that page is more about promoting Autodesk's BIM/Vault/Web offerings (most are not free BTW), aka a marketing pitch.

See the follow up reply from that Autodesk staffer about joining in the Inventor/Vault communities if you use one or more of those Autodesk offerings.

[andrewdroth]

YES. 

This is just fluff, no substance at all.

https://blogs.autodesk.com/vault/2020/09/ways-to-make-remote-work-easier/

And this video dances around the problem perfectly. Specifically avoids naming any products or procedures.

https://youtu.be/8FWdZUQEso4

"...talk to your manager..."

Anything out there for the manager?

[andrewdroth]

@pendean 

Just to be clear, you are saying this is a marketing tool?
https://www.autodesk.ca/en/covid-19/resource-center

Because I agree, I'm just surprised you are saying it also.

[pendean]

That's how I read it, and I believe, how it was intended to be received.

Don't get me wrong, those are all amazing tools for the features they offer, just not a free replacement for what your IT folks should have mastered and implemented for you to do your work for your clients' projects before you headed home to work.

HTH

[Mistress0fTheDorkness]

It's occasionally been a challenge to support some of my users while they work from home.

They think my software is the issue when it's normally bandwidth, their processes, sheer number of files in a directory, dropping their laptops (causing overheating which caused them to literally place their laptops in the freezer... I'm no hardware expert but I'm going to assume that's not the best idea), messing with the power settings and putting them to the exact opposite of how they would ideally be (I'm addressing this with another team, to make power settings enterprise-managed to at least prevent that part), or my personal favorites, the custom add-on they're using to transfer pieces of data between files on our cloud storage platform... which can't possibly sync to their desktop all at once, so must be calling them individually at each trigger and they can't tell me who wrote the program. Wheeeeeee.

[andrewdroth]

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@pendean wrote:
That's how I read it, and I believe, how it was intended to be received.

Don't get me wrong, those are all amazing tools for the features they offer, just not a free replacement for what your IT folks should have mastered and implemented for you to do your work for your clients' projects before you headed home to work.

HTH

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That's interesting. I though it was more meant to be "We have your back during these trying times". But either way the real motive remains clear.

The trouble with my IT team is I am the IT team.

But I can also envision a brighter future. One were Autodesk releases a magical product called "The Safe" where you can store not only your design files, but all the associated files that your employees need to be productive! Syncing all of the chosen software configurations, templates, procedures design files etc. etc. You could log into your Autodesk Desktop app on a brand new computer and within a hour be up and running as if you swapped the harddrive. One safe space to rule them all!

[pendean]

for a lot of $$$$ that already exists: explore those offerings mentioned on that page, work with a reseller in your region for the finer details. Here is how to find one if you don't have a reseller https://www.autodesk.com/partners/locate-a-reseller

You folks can also hire a more experienced "IT" someone (or IT team) to help you all with remote working at the IT level instead: still going to cost you some $ but you'll be able to use it forever for free afterwards.

Again, you issue is IT related, Autodesk does not do IT-Services. Sorry.

Good luck.

[DRW_CAD]

many of your ideas are out there, just not under the Autodesk umbrella and while Autodesk has attempted to get into some of those markets, I for one wouldn't want to put all my eggs in the Autodesk basket. They have their areas of expertise but there are other vendors out there who've focused on the gaps you mention. Azure cloud storage... Workspot VDI, MS Teams collaboration... I think you can get what you're looking for. 

[lisacoy455]

i have not had too much of a trouble bt also appreciate the resources

[alice.t13]

Do some trainings because your muscles can become weak very soon

[Guidici_E]

We had this implemented and it is so great !

[Guidici_E]

For people working remote but not from home.
I'll say having consistency in you schedule is key because everything is always moving around you ( especially if you are constantly changing state or country etc..) so dedicate some time of your day for a quick prestart to build consistency and habits despite this constant changes is utterly inportant.