Open Collaboration Services Added to the Suite’s Subscription Services.
If real-time open collaboration (regardless of CAD tool), large scale 3D visualisation, clash detection analysis and project management ticks boxes as benefits in your design workflows, then take a look at Mockup 360.
Product Design Suite Services are cloud based services such as Autodesk 360 (Document Hosting, Sharing, Editing & Collaboration), Optimisation Studies for Inventor & Cloud-Based Rendering. The 2015 edition comes with Mockup 360 & Remote Access.
Mockup 360
To summarise; it’s Autodesk Navisworks in the cloud and you also get an add-in for Inventor to upload your work to Mockup 360. The video below is a first time run to see how it handles.
Moving parts around is pretty easy, constraining/mating parts is pretty simple in the way you can only snap parts together. There aren’t any moving component constraint tools. The clash detection seemed to work ok too.
I invited myself to collaborate when I added annotations but couldn’t figure it out. I tried to login and access it on my phone using my other Autodesk 360 account to no avail. Whether it was because I tried to do it all on one machine and it got confused, I don’t know, but it wasn’t simple enough for me.
The add-in for Inventor worked nicely but the files formats Mockup 360 supports is limited to Navisworks, DWF, JT, Sat, Step and STL. If you upload files to your Autodesk 360 account, you’ll be able to open a wide variety of formats from Autodesk and other CAD vendors.
I downloaded various formats and they were able to be opened and inserted:
Here’s the video reviewing Mockup 360
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kuSk3XH0Q&w=640&h=390]
If you want to learn more on how you can not only transform your engineering but the way you do business using Autodesk Inventor, feel free to email me at djovica@redstack.com.au, call me +61 3 9210 4428 or Skype damien.jovica
Hi Damien,
Thanks for the review and highlighting the addition of Mockup 360 to Product Design Suite subscription this year. Just one comment on the file type support – we actually do support a wider array of file types in Mockup though you need to pull them from your A360 drive rather than directly uploading them from the desktop. You can see the full list of file type support here: http://help.autodesk.com/view/M360/ENU/?guid=GUID-6DF88C22-1B9C-4A94-B864-86B290E7C0C6
There are a bunch of changes coming to Mockup 360 on April 16th too, so I encourage you to log back in and give it a try then.
-Peter
Thanks Peter. I’ll take another look and amend the article accordingly