Docs-like collaboration in 3D Warehouse

Gaieus

Yes, it's a pretty cool feature!

plot-paris

sounds really nice. but it also means that everyone in the world can follow the work progress, right? secret project are therefore not a good idea

remus

I only read over the google blog about it quickly, but from the sounds of it you can choose who has access to the model as well, so you dont have to worry about your little secrets being released to the world.

Gaieus

OK, just to show off how quickly I have learnt the new features

The model history is only shown to those who are collaborators (or when it is set publicly editable)
you can share the model with certain people (you can even directly add emails from your gmail acount)
the share option has several features/stages:
Everyone can download and edit then upload (back).
only collaborator can do this while others can download (like it was before)
people (non collaborators) can see the model but cannot download
no-one can see the model except collaborators.
owners have some special rights - like they cannot be removed from the collaborators' list
owners can define certain degrees of rights of collaborators (all must be the same though)* owners can define wether a chnge has to be agreed by them or not

plot-paris

thanks Gaieus for the detailed information. that sounds phantastic.

and Google is providing this service for free!

Gaieus

Anyone interested, I'd suggest you to make a small team (like 3-4 members) and start playing with it.

dylan

That sounds a really nice feature and I'm sure will prove useful to many in the future.

alexschreyer

This really sounds great. Porting ideas from software development like versioning and collaborative editing to CAD only makes sense. I just wish they implemented branching. It would be so useful to create design alternatives, settle on one and then take it from there.

This looks like a major new feature. Has anyone heard if this is part of the SU7 concept - if SU7 ever comes out...

Gaieus

@alexschreyer said:

This looks like a major new feature. Has anyone heard if this is part of the SU7 concept - if SU7 ever comes out...

I guess it's a totally independent feature from SU7 since it works independently from any SU version.

thomthom

This is a very interesting feature. Will have to have a look at that.

Gaieus

Seems that the WH is growing up with newer an newer features!

BTW Happy Birthday, Tom!

thomthom

If Google only had proper for the area I live in this would have been so great when we have to collaborate with other offices where sites are located next to each other.

Gaieus

Guys the feature is there - you can/have to find ways to fill it in with content!

Gaieus

OK, we added a temporary forum to discuss this. Anyone feel free to chime in, upload models, share them with the others and test out the different features and posibilities.

Mike Lucey

Csaba, I've read this and think it has good possibilities
for the future. Yes indeed maybe 3DWH is GROWING UP

Mike

dylan

What would be nice is if I could upload a model and give the address to a handful of people and they could view it (zoom,pan etc) in 3dwh without downloading SU.

thomthom

@gaieus said:

OK, we added a temporary forum to discuss this. Anyone feel free to chime in, upload models, share them with the others and test out the different features and posibilities.

Maybe a small SCF collaboration test project?

Jim

Is anyone else surprised at the apparent complete lack of coverage? These are great, even important (to many) features that have been missed or ignored by all of my regular information sources (except Alex.)

Mike Lucey

Jim, could you explain a bit more about what you say?

Mike

Jim

@mike lucey said:

Jim, could you explain a bit more about what you say?

Mike

Sure. This was announced back on Monday afternoon on the official Google SketchUp Blog. The only other mention of it has been on Alex Schreyer's blog; [as]. I've just not seen any other mention of this anywhere online.

These sharing features - the ability to keep models private, share them with selected people, and being able to share a model for editing - give some powerful tools to SketchUp users. One comment about SketchUp that I hear is "I can't believe Google just gives it away", and the same could be said of the model sharing features on the 3D Warehouse.