Nowadays product design today is more of a digital effort. Paperless design has been in practice for about years, but the reality is that though designs can be tested, verified and proved digitally, physical parts and prototypes remain a reality for most manufacturers. Hence capturing data from physical objects and putting them back into the digital model is a crucial part of the design cycle.

1. Can CAD move onto the cloud? Yesssss!

2. ..But there are some downsides too.
Mike Payne, chief executive officer told that
Kenesto is looking to act as the Google Drive,
Box, and Dropbox of the CAD world. Though
cloud-storage solutions like Dropbox are
seeing gaining in popularity’ but the typical
cloud storage solutions aren’t ideal for CAD
file management.
Those who use CAD require a solution
customized to handle continually updated

3. Kenesto updated its drive to include features
found on a company’s shared local area
network (LAN) drive. The included capabilities
are like work-safety features, such as a
feature that bolts an in-use document so
another same-time user can’t change it.
Engineering and design companies find
several favorables when it comes to housing
CAD files online, though the method also has
its drawback. Chief among the advantages is
storage. Like popular offerings such as

4. But cloud storage does carry some downside.
Engineers could lose access to their own stat,
should engineering companies choose not to
renew or the giver go out of business. Should
that happen, the engineering company could
lose access to very important legacy
information and even to data currently in the
works.
Of course with online storage comes online
security concerns, though companies that

5. The Kenesto update makes cloud storage
ever-more desirable to engineering firms that
wish to have collaborative CAD files available
but that want to ensure only the latest version
is in use and that changes can’t be made to
by unauthorized users.
The overall look for in-the-cloud CAD and
CAD storage options to become more
available in the same way services like Flickr
and Google Drive have become widely

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