dammerel said:
Having software running on the cloud does worry me
I would download all my files as step (cad neutral) as a safety backup
I'm interested if on shape can produce DWG drawings
Andrew
I have to laugh - nothing personal. I just go back a long way in computers. We had the central mainframe, with central management of hardware including disks and their backups. The along came the new better PC, and the mainframes got pushed out of existence (mostly). And slowly, step by step, the concept of central has become the smarter choice again, and everything is moving into the cloud. One by one I have seen the new better technology adopt practices and functionality of the old dinosaurs. I'm guessing 20 years from now, we will see new-fangled personal computers, they will be all the rage
I think for you to make your own backups, vs the cloud making theirs, would not add much protection, if any from hardware failure. However, vendor lock-in is a different story, and for that I would expect a service to become available that would make vendor neutral local copies for you. But then again, everyone already has this huge and potentially fatal problem in something probably even more critical, mail. More important because that is probably where your design specs came from; you can recreate a design from the specs, you cannot re-create all your mail from a CAD design. If anyone has ever experienced a local mail file failure (.PST) they probably are not too worried about it, as it is magnitudes more miserable than anything else that could happen.
I trust these guys, they really seem to know what they are doing. Sure everyone makes mistakes, but I bet they make less of them than I do.
OS supports DWG now, and as mentioned many times before will be adding production drawing editing soon.