Project Butterfly is an Autodesk Technology Preview that allows AutoCAD users to edit AutoCAD drawings over the web just using a Web browser. With Project Butterfly, AutoCAD users can share and work on DWG files with colleagues and clients from any computer with an Internet connection.
Project Butterfly also allows you to create designs using your browser. You can save your design as a local drawing file, or as long as you have created it via the cloud, you can leave it in the cloud, which means that you can share DWG files with others in distant locations without the need to transmit files.
Anyone can access Project Butterfly. You don't need to have AutoCAD installed, and you don’t even need to have a Project Butterfly account.
I tried out the Geospatial demo offered on their site. As a non CAD user, I'm amazed at what appears to be the solid amount of features.
Do you know if butterfly uses the Flex framework?
Posted by: Matt | January 21, 2010 at 12:38 PM
From Scott Sheppard,
Project Butterfly Technology Preview’s Web client application is based upon Adobe Flash and Flex technology. Autodesk is hosting Project Butterfly Technology Preview’s Web servers on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. The Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) stores application and user data. Project Butterfly Technology Preview also uses AutoCAD RealDWG technology to read and write DWG files.
Geoff
Posted by: Geoff | January 22, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Project butterfly is an awesome program
Posted by: autocad drawings | February 10, 2010 at 06:46 PM