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How Microsoft’s Live Mesh Will Affect 3D CAD

Started by Josh M · 10 months ago

Last night at 11 PM CST Microsoft let loose the fetters of Live Mesh, a new platform technology to synchronize and interact with data across any device and access it from anywhere from any computer or browser.
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  • Pete Yodis

    1 year ago

    Hi Josh,

    Nice post. I think this or things like it will be huge in the near future. As I have mentioned before I am using Foldershare to sync files between my home PC and a company across the country. It has worked great so far and has really opened a door to an opportunity much easier and more efficiently than it could have been before this (gather up files and FTP, email, certain enterprise PDM packages, etc...). Foldershare looks like it will be included as maybe one cog in the wheel of Live Mesh. Very exciting. In your ultimate PDM asassin post I mentioned that the web and OS's are doing more of the daily PDM stuff and although its not really CAD centric yet - it definitely is heading in that direction. Live Mesh looks like it will open the doors further for 3rd party vendors (SolidWorks) to use the hooks to make Live Mesh function more "CAD central". We are living in interesting times...
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  • Pete Yodis

    1 year ago

    I should mention that with Foldershare I have synced close to 9,000 files - which translates into GigaBytes of data. It quickly keeps up with changes as well.
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Hey, Pete, thanks, I'm glad you commented. What you're doing is a perfect example of how this could change and help how you work. If the CAD vendors/developers latch onto this i have no doubt it will help people with what they design.
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  • Daniel Cazzulino

    1 year ago

    More info about the technical aspects and possibilities of Live Mesh, and why it's not that new for some :)

    http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/kzu/arch...
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Hey Daniel, looks like you guys are doing some really great stuff.

    "it can be applied to really free the data once and for all, regardless of platform, application, format, language, etc."

    That's going to be huge for sure. Open-source is even better and I'm looking forward to what handlers and add-ins you all cooks up. Thanks for the comment!
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  • ralphg

    1 year ago

    >Run CAD and related programs on any device.

    I think not. I can't see how an iPhone will ever run SolidWorks -- with or without becoming en-Mesh'ed with Microsoft.
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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Hey Ralph, I agree, but a CAD program on a portable device (iPhone, EeePC, Nokia810) is definitely feasible at some point. High-end photo editors are transitioning to web-based formats, and video production is making headway with HD coming online (latest at Smugmug.com) - so I have no doubt that 3D visual and quick geometry creation will begin to show up online, in fact I know of one in the works that looks promising.
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