ODA starts running CAD in the cloud

Oct 10, 2014

ODA starts running CAD in the cloud

In St Petersburg, actually

President of the Open Design Alliance Neil Peterson shows his organization's first stab at creating a cloud-based CAD program. He emphasized several times that it is not the ODA's role to develop a full CAD system. Rather, their job is to put together the infrastructure for their 1,200 members, and develop a rudimentary DWG file viewer as a proof of context.

This cloudCAD program is not for sale

It is a WebGL-based DWG viewer running in Web browser with no client-side software at this point. It offers:

Zoom, pan, layers, shading
Layouts, selection, load files
Open multiple drawings in tabs

Currently running off a server in St Petersburg, but ODA members can change to Amazon or Google cloud. Because performance suffers with large files over the Internet, ODA is considering a client-side app to help out.

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