Autodesk Fills out 360 Cloud Portfolio

摘要

At first, it seemed like Autodesk was just talking up the cloud. Then the maker of professional design software embraced the cloud as a springboard for a whole new family of consumer-oriented design capabilities. Now, Autodesk is back in the cloud spotlight with a pretty robust lineup of services intended to bring flexibility, compute scalability, and more collaborative interaction to professional design engineers. On the heels of the official debut of Autodesk Fusion 360 in June, Autodesk unveiled a trio of offerings: Autodesk Mockup 360, a cloud-based, real-time collaboration and digital mockup tool; Autodesk Configurator 360, a cloud-based configuration service; and Autodesk Sim 360, a cloud-based, lightweight application for mechanical simulation and finite element modeling. These latest additions are based on the Autodesk 360 cloud-based design platform, which launched in September 2011 and which Autodesk claims has already been accessed by 15 million users.