Likelihood to Recommend AutoCAD 360 has multiple functionalities that adapt to circumstantial conditions. It has a focus on available tools at all times and deserves to be updated to be at the forefront of technological platforms. It is very useful in some aspects of functionality to have access to less dense and capable tools to develop environments and improve visualization.
Read full review ProjectWise is good for really large projects with many team members. I would not recommend it for small projects or those with a small team of people working on them. It is best for technical people and those who plan to use it daily. There are better FTP options out there if you just want to use them for file sharing.
Read full review Pros Allows our entire design team to share and review information graphically in one location (cloud-based). Has the capability to fluidly interact with many other Autodesk software products. Being able to use AutoCAD 360 on the iPad is a great feature without having to install the software. Read full review It works for collaboration The backend is customisable to do work that other document management systems just cannot do. Read full review Cons It'd be nice to be able to use AutoCAD 360 to leave comments on peoples files, such as being able to annotate a certain part of it and mark it for review, so then its author can look at the note and make necessary changes. Read full review many users cannot be in the same file at the same time files are not automatically freed upon closure copying files to another ProjectWise folder is complicated. There is an option to copy, another to copy to, etc. Read full review Likelihood to Renew This is so useful so we would like to keep renewing as Autocad 360 does. In fact we are very optimistic about the tools that come in every renewal because we will then have even more features available.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Although there are lots of alternatives to AutoCAD mobile on the Google play store and the app store, many of these alternatives are not professionally developed and are associated with shady developers. So there might be a privacy or security risk with the usage these alternatives. However,
DWG FastView is a worthy competing alternative.
Read full review Bentley ProjectWise from a user perspective just does not stack up to even something as simple as
Dropbox . ProjectWise is powerful, it is capable, it has a ton of features. The best implementation I have seen from Projectwise is where the admins unlocked everything and let the users do as they please defeating everything it stood for and using it as a big
Dropbox account, though even then the user interface couldn't be improved still causing significant workflow delays. I would reluctantly leave a good company if they implement ProjectWise, I respect that it's powerful for system admins but it sucks for users. This means 2-10% of what it is used for is well designed while the other 98-90% of its functions are just bogged down by a lack of development in its user interface and I say this as someone who has periodically used it over the last 10 years and seen no effective improvement in usability. Bentley ProjectWise was one of the first I believe to do this type of system, but as is common with being the first is you don't keep up with the times and bring a lot of baggage with you.
Read full review Return on Investment ROI is a bit low, because a lot of people are moving to Revit and BIM 360. Not all consultants use CAD so it makes it hard for compatibility. Read full review It has saved us time in archiving and versioning documents It has saved us effort in backing up files and restoring them when mistakes are made It has had an overall positive impact on our bottom line by helping with file sharing and collaboration Read full review ScreenShots