Having trouble running AutoCAD on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or SharePoint?
Do you overwrite each other’s changes when you modify CAD drawings on SharePoint?
Do the file’s external references break from time to time?
Have you restructured your project structure to make room in SharePoint or OneDrive?
There is a better way to solve these problems!
AutoCAD Cloud aDrive
A Mapped Drive to Swiss Cloud Storage that works with AutoCAD and file locking.
Are you having trouble running AutoCAD on Dropbox, Google Drive, or SharePoint?
Are you having problems with file locking, file corruption and external references (XREFs)?
Unfortunately, AutoCAD wasn’t designed to work with these kinds of cloud services. Their recommended solution is to configure file locking for cloud storage or create a manual checkout process.
Easy
ON-DEMAND SYNC
The cloud drive brings in files from the cloud repository only when necessary and only when permission allows.
simple
FILE LOCKING
Provide centralized distributed file locking for concurrent file-level access inside the cloud drive
Professional
CENTRAL CONTROL
Centralized group policy that can manage the cloud drive settings
Easy Cloud
Cloud Drive Mapping Highlights
You won’t have to worry about file locking or corruption when accessing AutoCAD files through the aDrive mapped drives!
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Windows & Mac
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On-Demand Synchronization
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Endpoint Protection
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Offline Access
Single Sign-On and Two-Factor Authentication
A story - an engineering firm tries out SharePoint/OneDrive
An engineering firm has been using SharePoint for over three years. The SharePoint service was part of their Office 365 subscription and was initially used primarily for Microsoft Teams and Office documents. Recently, they started moving some CAD files to SharePoint and encountered two issues.
- The File Lock Issue – it’s not specifically about the need to change the file sequentially, but rather that the sync and lock file corrupts the files. You can think of the drawing CAD as a bunch of files grouped together with a lock file. So without file locking, it is not an atomic update.
- External Reference (XREF) – Since they use the files from Windows machines, there is a OneDrive folder. But with the OneDrive folder, anyone updating the file changes the external reference to « C:\users\joe-or-john\OneDrive » so the path is not the same on all machines.
