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Autodesk Effects CAD on Web Future with Project ‘Butterfly’

19 Jan, 2010 by Josh Mings in NEWS
3D Human CAD Models

I almost feel dirty just talking about 2D. Dirty, dirty, dirty. However, there’s another dimension to this multi-colored mix of Autodesk aggregation. It’s online. As in completely web-based, but it goes beyond that, which is where it gets really interesting.

The interwebular AutoCAD environment is wrapped in a social sauce giving you abilities to share, review and co-edit your .dwg’s with all of your 2-dimensional friends. It’s Autodesk’s Project Butterfly and it’s a step toward 3D on the web, in which Autodesk also has a Twitch for.

Here are some details on Butterfly and what it’s got going for it.

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