Autodesk Project Butterfly Cloud Computing Update

This morning I checked out the Butterfly Project, and I must say it appears as though something along these lines may be very useful to current AutoCAD users or those of us who have to deal with legacy files. The right click context menu was annoying in that it did not behave as expected for AutoCAD (Flash related stuff only), but it is still a technology preview where things such as this are discovered and fixed. Also……I sent two invitation emails to one of my other email addresses which never came, so I never got to try out that functionality, and the multi selection (window select) is limited to 30 objects at this time, but again, it’s a preview.

One thing that definitely needs to be changed is the size being fixed at what looks to be an optimized size for a 1200 x 1600 resolution monitor. Engineers and Designers who are the target audience of this product (service?) are likely to have larger, wide screen monitors, so there is a lot of wasted space as you can see in the image above. If the interface re-sized to fill the usable screen, it would help. Especially when working in garish AutoCAD files

Conclusion. The underlieing technologies show a lot of promise to aleviate some of the nasty colaboration and interoperability problems inherent today. I cant wait to see the Inventor and Revit versions.