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Current Filter: CAD>>>>>Technology Focus> I wandered lonely as a Cloud Editorial Type: Technology Focus Date: 11-2015 Views: 3670 Key Topics: CAD Cloud-based Services AEC Collaboration Cloud Key Companies: Vectorworks Nemetschek Key Products: Cloud Services Vectorworks Service Select Key Industries: Government | |||
| With apologies to Wordsworth and thanks to the use of Nomad as a mobile tool for Vectorworks Cloud Services, Vectorworks Service Select (VSS) customers can enhance their design processes by handling complex processes and collaborating with project partners in the Cloud. I have been using Gmail for some time now - I can access it from anywhere, any machine, anytime, and I don't bother clearing out old emails - apart from the rubbish which Google keeps to a minimum anyway - and I have a huge chunk of additional memory available, which costs me $5 a year! To date, I have in excess of 35,000 emails still accessible, and if I want to find any contact or information from the distant past - it is still there. Indeed, if I have anything I want to keep for a long time, I email it to one of my other accounts that I have linked into Gmail - knowing that when I need it, I can download it into my application - even if the local storage technology has been superceded. That, in a nutshell, is the essence of a Cloud-based service. A record of my documents, contacts, transactions and other vital information available at any time, and from anywhere. I don't have to worry about upgrading the application when some new features come along, and if I want to share any of it, I can do so with ease, as a comprehensive list of anyone whom I have ever contacted comes with it. And, although Gmail accounts are designed to be used by single users, you can set up user-managed groups to create shared mailboxes using the group's email address rather than their own or set up a CRM solution from the Enterprise Solutions Gallery.
VECTORWORKS CLOUD SERVICES This includes the most compute- intensive processes, such as the creation of client presentations with detailed rendering - instead of leaving the desktop CPU to coordinate, monitor and wait for calculations to finish while its resources are being consumed. As you would expect, changes made to a model using Vectorworks Cloud Services are automatically synchronised to private cloud storage.
VECTORWORKS NOMAD Nomad users may find it difficult to use Snapping on the device. Snap point data is actually generated in the Vectorworks Cloud Services server, but the tool is only available for measurement tools in Nomad, and for Top/Plan views for 2D and 3D objects. When you do access them, you will find that red snap points show all points within the magnifying glass area, with the closest snap point to the centre of the magnifying glass highlighted in blue. Measurements are calculated on the blue snapping point. Snapping is not, of course, available in all PDF files, as these could have been created with software tools that don't include snap point information. PDF files created by Vectorworks Cloud Services will, however, include snap points.
VECTORWORKS CLOUD SERVICES WEBSITE The Cloud Menu in Vectorworks software provides simple access to the cloud - files are simply dragged to the appropriate project folder in Cloud Services processing folder and all links are created automatically. Documents can also be published to your Cloud Services storage or linked via Dropbox in common formats, such as PDF, DWG/DXF, DWF and popular imaging formats. Once in the Cloud, PDF and VWX documents can be viewed from any locations using Nomad. Vectorworks Cloud Services are available exclusively to Vectorworks Service Select members as a member benefit, and are accessed through the Vectorworks Cloud Services portal, or through the Vectorworks Services Select portal. You can find out what else is available through Vectorworks Services Select by visiting http://www.vectorworks.net/service-select/
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