New at Autodesk Labs(a kind of skunk-works for new software ideas), is Project Butterfly, a technology preview of cloud computing that enables AutoCAD users to edit and collaborate on AutoCAD drawings through a Web browser. Something along these lines would definitely speed up the collaborative process on projects with widely dispersed team members.
When I was the Senior Architectural Modeler/Applications Engineer at a large yacht maker, a typical design cycle would have us collaborating with designers and engineers in the Netherlands, Germany, England, Australia, New Zealand, and Italy as well as vendors scattered across North America. Having something like this back then would have helped greatly with AutoCAD files.
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