Renderjam for collaborative work?
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This popped up in my SketchUp gadget, may be of interest. I love that they call SU the "heir apparent."
"As the next step in our Aftercad 3D Live market rollout, we have embraced Google SketchUp users as the heir apparent in 3D CAD work on the web. Google has done a terrific job with SketchUp and its rapid adoption across all areas of CAD and Design has made it a perfect tool to work with to introduce true 3D collaboration on the Web." said Chris Boothroyd, CEO of Aftercad. "Our goal to make 3D assets easily accessible for collaboration is now a powerful tool in any designer's tool belt. Now all projects that include SketchUp 3D assets can offer stakeholders equal access and the opportunity to participate."
SketchUp users can signup on Renderjam.com for free, create a workspace and start collaborating on 3D assets within minutes. The Renderjam service tracks all workspace activity and can issue a daily audit trail report of all changes made by participants. Most importantly, all project stakeholders including those who don't have SketchUp can easily see, manipulate and annotate the 3D project assets in the web browser and directly contribute to the project instead of having to wait for emails, look at still images or couriered paper rolls."
Press release
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sounds interesting..
so what's the catch? it can't be free can it?i can't get the video to load either so i'm not quit sure it does what i think it does.. sure sounds nice though because i'm often in the email back-and-forth deal and am always thinking it'd be sweet if my mouse would just work on your computer instead
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Neat idea....better wait til they have it figured out completely because the model on the home page gives an error message
Jeff, basically the video shows you can upload your model, send invitations or make the model public, and then other users can annotate your model. It shows up in your browser in 3D so you can rotate, zoom, etc, just like embedding a 3D Warehouse model on a web page. It just looks like annotation is all other users can do.
Have you seen Adobe ConnectNow, Jeff? It lets users share screens and even control another person's computer.
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@d12dozr said:
Neat idea....better wait til they have it figured out completely because the model on the home page gives an error message
Jeff, basically the video shows you can upload your model, send invitations or make the model public, and then other users can annotate your model. It shows up in your browser in 3D so you can rotate, zoom, etc, just like embedding a 3D Warehouse model on a web page. It just looks like annotation is all other users can do.
meh...
i thought it was going to be a centralized sketchup app where more than one person can draw..
there would be a session manager(?) who would select which user has control of the model while everyone else can watch/chat..@unknownuser said:
Have you seen Adobe ConnectNow, Jeff? It lets users share screens and even control another person's computer.
haven't seen that but i do this with people using macs (well, 1 person).. haven't tried cross platform before.
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This sounds so good, but it is so frustrating that they write so much but don't actually explain what the capabilities are.
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Although with a bit limited features, but the 3D Warehouse > Share function works similarly. Has anyone tried it?
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