Who is using Autodesk 360?

[tzframpton]

Inspired by a recent thread, I logged in using my old AutoCAD WS login and everything seems to be working properly. I'm scared to sync everything since I have different settings at home vs. work but just wanted to see if anybody else is using it and their experience with it so far.

 

It seems that my account is showing active in Revit but I don't see where I can connect to the Cloud Storage. Might check Revit 2014 at home to see if it's available in the latest and greatest... our 2014 deployments are a few weeks out from being launch at work.

 

Thanks in advance. -Tannar

[Organic]

We are not as we have no need for it.

 

It also poses a serious question as to just who has or may get access to data we were to store in the cloud, some of which is sensitive infrastructure design.

[tzframpton]

I don't have a need either but definitely want to see if I could have a need for it. Seems that Revit isn't tied to it at all.

 

And good point regarding the sensitive design files. I'm positive that cloud services have affected the security in industries, but haven't heard anything directly.

[rkmcswain]

I use it for testing and for storing personal drawings, that's it.

[ReMark]

Store sensitive data in the Cloud? No way. All it takes is one Edward Snowden-type person to make your life and that of your company a complete disaster.

[f700es]

I have upload a few drawing to show people on my Galaxy Note but other than that it is a novelty at best.

[ReMark]

Remember last year when the IRS caught some of their employees looking at the income tax returns of some famous people? And we are trusting whom with our drawing files? Oh, right....humans. Need I say more?

[f700es]

Remember last year when the IRS caught some of their employees looking at the income tax returns of some famous people? And we are trusting whom with our drawing files? Oh, right....humans. Need I say more?

 

Well let's not be naive and think that this hasn't happened before or happens all the time. Since people have kept records there has been an ability to see other people's information.

[ReMark]

According to the IRS, none of the employees caught would normally see these particular tax returns. They specifically went looking for them.

[Tuns]

If security when storing files is an issue, you can buy a 3 terabyte memory for around $150.

[tzframpton]

I use it for testing and for storing personal drawings, that's it.

Have you tested the syncing of your settings at all? I'm scared to attempt this because I run AutoCAD 2013 at work and AutoCAD 2014 at home.

[f700es]

According to the IRS, none of the employees caught would normally see these particular tax returns. They specifically went looking for them.

 

Yeah, I have a hard time believing this. What about when we had paper IRS returns? This is what I am talking about. Nothing new here just a different way to do it honestly

[ReMark]

Computers have made the process so much easier though. That's the problem. Easier to look and easier to steal. Can you imagine Snowden walking out of his office with thousands of pages of documents under his arm? Bet he needed nothing bigger than a flash drive.

 

All of our company's critical process and instrumentation drawings, process flow drawings, operating procedures and batch sheets could be loaded onto a flash drive with a capacity no greater than 32GB.

[jbgraphic]

I am a student and use it, it is great as I switch between different computers all the time and seems to work fine.

As far as setting not sure how that works, I have it set to sync settings but to be honest I have not noticed a negative and I switch between PC 2013 version and a mac with 2014 on it.

[f700es]

Computers have made the process so much easier though. That's the problem. Easier to look and easier to steal. Can you imagine Snowden walking out of his office with thousands of pages of documents under his arm? Bet he needed nothing bigger than a flash drive.

 

All of our company's critical process and instrumentation drawings, process flow drawings, operating procedures and batch sheets could be loaded onto a flash drive with a capacity no greater than 32GB.

 

You are talking about 2 different situations. Snowden exposing the reality of things like the Patriot Act and someone looking at a person's tax return to me are two different situations. Then you throw in you company's unique drawing library. I think security has to been looked at for each unique situation. Both examples above are of insider activity. The failure of Snowden was in a background check and even then someone with a clean record can go rogue. Anyway all I am saying is that as long as there has been security there have been and will be breaches. When people let their guard down is when the poo hit the fan

[rkmcswain]

Have you tested the syncing of your settings at all? I'm scared to attempt this because I run AutoCAD 2013 at work and AutoCAD 2014 at home.

 

Yes, when 360 first came out (April 2012) and it failed miserably. Let me rephrase, I think it was working as designed, but the design was a FAIL.

 

Here was my test:

* Log into 360 at least once and sync your settings.

* Log out of 360

* Close AutoCAD, then Relaunch it

* Change some settings (like background color, command line fonts, IOW some obvious things)

* Now log into 360

* As soon as the login happens, the settings stored in the cloud are pushed to your AutoCAD session without any prompt.

 

My problem with that is.... say that you logged in and synced settings on Jan 1 (as sort of a backup), then sometime in March or April you need to access 360 again. As soon as you login all the changes you may have made to your "settings" since Jan will be wiped out W/O a prompt.

 

I have to add that when you shut down AutoCAD, it will ask you if you want to keep the "downloaded" settings or not. BUT, if syncing 360 messes up your settings, the first thing a lot of people will do is (besides cursing) is to manually start fixing what 360 overwrote. At that point, the offer to "restore" what you had before the sync is worthless.

 

What I expected "Settings Sync" to offer me as a user was the ability to manually PUSH or PULL settings from the cloud. 360 tries to make it too automatic and in the process, you stand a chance to lose data (settings).

 

All of this is my personal opinion and valid as of May of 2012

I have not used this feature (as a test or for real) since.

[tzframpton]

Thanks rk... that's the response I was going for. I'll stay clear of Autodesk 360 having anything to do with my settings for now.

[Murph_map]

Store sensitive data in the Cloud? No way. All it takes is one Edward Snowden-type person to make your life and that of your company a complete disaster.

 

Snowden Snowden.......Nothing directed at you Remark, but what makes him so special? He didn't graduate from HS only got an GED to enter the military, then was discharged from the military with in 90 days. He was hired at NSA as a contractor security guard then moved into a desk job. Anyone that works for a Fed Gov't knows how easy that is to do once you get the contractors job. How much does he really know that anyone else can't put together that don't read SciFi books all day long? Look at when Buck Rogers came out how many said "Right, man going to be flying around in a space ship", but we had people up at the ISS for decades now, Or what about Dick Tracy and his watch phone? Have you seen the commercials for Samsung yet?

So why is the Gov't not denying any of it? Well cause we been doing it for years and years. Look back to the Hoover days when there where files on everyone in Hollywood and in D.C., or the McCarthy era. Even before that the US and others have been watching. Maybe George Orwell's book "1984" wasn't too far off.

Again nothing directed towards any one here just on my soap box for a few minutes.

[PotGuy]

In theory, 360 is not a bad idea. As stated though, it is far too automatic and the User loses ultimately control over which settings they want to use .

 

Also, enjoyed reading your post Murphy.

[Murph_map]

Also, enjoyed reading your post Murphy.

 

Thanks, I was becoming to think I locked this thread after my reply with no replies after a few days.