How to Share Your Files Using Share Design View, and the Autodesk Cloud Sites

BUD SCHROEDER: My name's Bud Shroeder. I'm a senior customer success engineer for Autodesk. We're going to talk about how to share your files using Share Design View and the Autodesk Cloud Sites. And the idea is to show you how to simply share files. But we're also going to go a little bit over more complex things you might want to use later if you're doing more of a collaboration. But it's more of a focus on quickly sharing with someone because you just want to get some feedback, or maybe they don't have AutoCAD and you just want to give them a file they can view online in the cloud. How many people in here are using the cloud? How about A360 Drive? Do you know what A360 Drive is? Raise your hand. This will be a great class for you guys.

And it's ES124040. And Lee, you're right, this is getting longer. It's longer every year. And so if you're in the right class, great. If not, stick around. We'll have some fun anyway. We'll leave that up for a minute. There's lots of chairs up over here and stuff, too. Got one opening up front.

I always bring this up. And the reason I bring this up is a friend of mine in this next slide, he's a product manager. He was the senior product manager on the AutoCAD team years ago when I first started teaching at AU as an Autodesk employee. He would call me during my class to see how it was going. That was awesome, because you're really nervous, right? I was like, no, no. Hold on, hold on. So I got him. What I did one time was I answered his call and I put him on speaker. And it was an AutoCAD class I was teaching. I said, how many guys want to give some input for the next AutoCAD? He hung up. I know what the deal was. And after that, he stopped calling me. It's my good friend Shawn Gilmore.

A little bit about me. My name's Bud Schroeder. And I first started using AutoCAD in version 2.6. How many people are using AutoCAD in here of any version? Perfect. How many people started with AutoCAD 2.6? Wow. Last year I had a third of the class. And some guys had used it longer than me. I was really surprised. It's different every year. You just don't know. How about release 10? 2018? 2017? So the first thing we're going to go over when we do the design share was introduced in AutoCAD 2017. So if you're using an older version, the second part of that presentation will help, because you don't need AutoCAD to do any of this. You can do it all outside of AutoCAD, as well.

And I spent 12 and 1/2 years as a CAD manager, IT Manager slash graphic artist. I was actually a graphic major in school, and got married, had a little baby boy on the way, and realized I needed benefits. So I went to work for a power utility. And then they said, oh, you can draft? The next thing I know, I'm on this computer and getting yelled at all the time saying, watch your command line. Because I couldn't type very well, so I'm watching my fingers. And then 15 years on the AutoCAD team as a Senior Test Engineer. So I worked on a lot of different features over the years. I first went to work on the AutoCAD team testing install, licensing, network license manager, that kind of stuff.

And then later on, I worked on things like the Migration Wizard, CUI, customization. And then the last thing I worked on on the AutoCAD team was the A360 Desktop Sync Component, which is a little bit of what we're going to talk about up here. And then I moved over to the A360 Team, which is the cloud platforms. And that was five years ago. And then Autodesk likes to do these reorganizations occasionally. And now I'm in the Fusion group. And so the last year, I've been working in the Fusion group.

And when I came over to this group, one of the things they wanted was in all my years at Autodesk, and even before Autodesk, I spent a lot of time in the newsgroups and place work, talking to people like you. And because I use the product so long, I could understand what you were saying. And then I was the translator back to the programmers that were creating this, and the product designers, and stuff like that, so that they had a better understanding. And the senior director that brought me from the AutoCAD team, he wanted someone that could go out and help out in the forums, get the feedback, get the team focused a little bit, and help them share that feedback. And I'm still doing that today.

I've been at Autodesk for 20 years. On the 20th of October, I celebrated my 20th year at Autodesk. One thing I didn't notice or think about when I switched jobs from the utility, it was a semi-public utility, I could have retired at 55 with benefits. But I like my job too much. And then I've been attending AU. We talked about this a little earlier. So this is a repeat. So since 1991. And this mug right here is from that conference in 1991. I was really smart. I turned it around. You can't see I broke the handle. And then some of the other [? Oggy ?] mugs.

And then I was also an archive member. So Autodesk was always trying to get people to share stuff with them. So I gave them a bunch of drawings I had worked on. And so they gave me this really cool archive mug. And then we got the dog mugs and all that fun stuff over the years. I just come back from AU. How many people have picked up swag in the conference hall? You get all kinds of fun stuff that you put above your desk and never touch again. Dust collectors, my wife calls them.

And then these are some of the badges from days gone by. I hang them on the wall. I work from home, so I have a home office. And I hang them on the wall in there. Different years. You can see it goes back quite a ways. And then this was I think, I'm trying to guess, Lee had a good idea so I can figure out the logo. But I think 1996 was probably the last conference I attended as a non-Autodesker.

And then I want to talk just to touch on Beta Programs, because that's one of the other things I do. Since 1997, I've worked on the AutoCAD Beta Programs. And then in the cloud platforms, I did our A360 mobile app. How many people have use the A360 mobile app? So I did the betas for that. And then I also did the Connected Desktop. They changed the name not too long ago. And that's a new component that allows you to drop files in there, and it syncs it up to our team components.

And so what's nice about the Beta Programs is you can get in there early and share feedback with Autodesk. When you sign up, it'll prompt you for different products. So click the ones that you use and you want to share that feedback with. And it's a two-way street. So we get a lot of great feedback from you guys, and you get to see things early before it goes out there. You're under non-disclosures, so we can be very honest with each other about stuff. You can say, hey, I just hate this. I just hate this. And nobody's going to get mad at you. And you said, well, this is what we're doing. And you might go, this is kind of cool, actually. Or you say, yeah, but now I'm going to have these problems. And that helps us and it helps you.

And so if you've never been to the Beta Program-- so this says beta.autodesk.com. And then sign up. Any Beta testers in here? A couple. Then the class summary. What we're going to look at the different the sharing options. I talked a little bit about that in the beginning. So I've broken it into four sections. So we've got Share Design View, and that's going to be from inside of AutoCAD. I should check myself. I tend to get excited and go to fast.

And then Autodesk View, and that's a free online viewer. How many people know what Autodesk View is? It's a very well-kept secret at Autodesk. And I don't know why. It's a very cool program. And A360 Drive we're going to talk about. And Team. And on the drive stuff, that's one of our older technologies for cloud sharing. And we're working away from that. So I'm going to talk about it, but I'm not going to talk about it a lot. I'm going to encourage you to look at the other stuff we're working on. And then just a summary of what I just said.

And then as we go through the learning objectives, how to best use it in simple sharing. So the idea is you'll have a better understanding of how you can share stuff and use it, anywhere from just a simple share from somebody that works in a remote office that you just need them to look at the drawing, give you some feedback, to maybe you're working on a team with a bunch of big projects, and what you would want to use there for collaboration. And then we'll take a look at the free online well-kept secret. And then A360 Drive, and then the Team products.

And then the other thing I'm going to do is as I go through each of these sections, I'll do a quick demo. Everything was working before class, but no promises. Four years ago or five years ago, I was doing a cloud session, all cloud stuff. And this was my rookie mistake that year, expecting internet to be working. And nothing worked. Five minutes before my class, there was a big AU outage. It wasn't an auto Autodesk issue. It was AU. Everything had crashed because there were so many people on there. And that made doing that class very interesting. Because I'm not a big PowerPoint fan. But PowerPoint's better than nothing.

And so Share and Design View. Anybody know what Share and Design View is in here? Raise your hand if you've seen it already. It's very simple. It doesn't take long to talk about it. It's inside of AutoCAD. It's really designed for a quick, simple way for you to share your files with other people.

How to access it. There's two ways to access Shared Design View from inside of AutoCAD. So the first way is the Ribbon. Do we have Ribbon fans in here? I've been using AutoCAD a long time. I wasn't even a Ribbon fan. So the easiest way is the Ribbon. So the nice thing about the Ribbon that I like to share with people-- because I don't like it either. But I worked for a power utility, so it was a lot of mapping stuff. Where I struggled with was dimensioning and things like that. So something like the Ribbon for commands I don't use very often, it really helps. And then after you get to use it or know how it works, you can move away from it.

For Design Share, there's an A360 tab. And then up in the left corner, there is Share Design View. The other thing that's nice about this is when you run your mouse over it, it gives you a little description. It also shows you the other way that you can get to this command. You guys can type that. Is that an awesome command? I've asked this a million times on the AutoCAD team. Why do we put this long command here? I think it's so we can teach people to use the PGP file and create their own aliases so you can type it faster. Anybody in here ever done any customization on their PGP file? This is the perfect example of why you want to do that.

So when you get into AutoCAD, you open your drawing and bring it up. Obviously whatever you're going to share, you want to make sure it's saved. And if it's something you've already been working on, it's already saved, obviously. So you just open it. And then you just go up here. You click on this. This is the other part I was talking about. And when you click on that share, it's going to give you two options. The first one is to publish a drawing right now to your default browser. The second one is we're going to send you an email when it's done. Now, we know who to send the email to because you should be signed in up here. That's your Autodesk account. And your Autodesk account works for a lot of things. So if you post questions in the forums or anywhere else, it's the same thing. When you sign into your A360 Drive account or Team account, it's all the same stuff.

My drawing is very simple, so it will publish really fast, even with slow internet. But maybe you've got a map or something that's bigger, it's going to take more time, and you've got to go do some other work. Or maybe you're just going to do some other work and you're not worried about it. You're going to send that share later. We're going to send you an email with a link to that. And you can even use that to forward on, or you can do a public share. We'll talk about that in a minute.

And so once you've picked your choice, in this case I picked the publish now, it'll do what I call translation. And translation is what we do to make the file visible up in the cloud and on your mobile device. And we're converting that file and leaving your DWG alone. And then that's what you're going to share with people. But to them and to you, it just looks like a DWG file.

The other thing I was going to point out is this is the Autodesk viewer. This is the free online one. This looks a little bit different than what you see in Drive and what you see in Team. And that's OK. We'll go over more of that. But with the Autodesk viewer, it's a free online tool. So what we do is we try stuff out, almost like a beta, because it's free and we put stuff in there. So sometimes you'll find there's things in there that aren't in the ones you're paying money for. And we get an idea through instrumentation whether you're liking this or not liking this.

Then the translation's done, and now we can see it. And so we've got this information up here. You can see it in the browser. And everything's good. And then a little bit about the browser. So it's whatever your default browser is. In most cases, if you haven't changed it, it's probably going to be Internet Explorer. If you're using Windows 7, it's going to be Internet Explorer 11. If you're using Windows 10, it's going to be Edge. My recommendation is Chrome. Chrome does a much better job with all this stuff online. It views the drawings better. But in some cases, you may not have a choice. Your ID department might lock you down on your browser. So IE 11 with all the latest updates will also work.

And then this is the email you get once your file's ready. So it's got a little thumbnail, the name of the file, and then you click on that to view the file. And with that, I'll do a quick demo. And this will be fun because my resolution here has switched. I got to click on the right button, too. I found my other drawing [INAUDIBLE]. So like I said, you're in AutoCAD. You see this is the A360 tab I was talking about. This is the express tool. Some other things in here. And you see you have share design view. And here's the tool tip I was talking about. Also up one for help. And then share document. And then there's open. That's for the sync stuff for A360 Drive. We'll talk about that in the next segment. And then open, and then sync settings for customization. And then choose which settings you sync.

And with that, I'm going to just click on this. I'm going to pick publish. Now I'm going to try to switch to it. There it goes. I don't have to. Nothing up my sleeves. And this is the translation I was just talking about. And it should be pretty fast because this is a tiny drawing. And it does give you feedback. But this is also why you might want to use the second option, because then the file's done.

So now you have other options up there. So we're going to talk about those just for a second. So you see the viewer. You see the drawing. You got a basic toolbar down here. And then feedback to Autodesk. And then more tools up here. Help. And then the apps. And then you can toggle the view. In here, it doesn't make sense. But you can go between a list and a thumbnail view, and other options in there. And then your profile information. So this shows I'm signed in. And that's how easy that is.

So now you're out of AutoCAD. There we go. You to practice, practice, practice, and then you come in the classroom and it looks different. It throws you off a little. So now we're going to move over to Autodesk View. And that's what we were just in. And like I said, that's the free online viewer. Awesome, well-kept secret. And you sign in and you get a little more options in there. So you can do it anonymously. So part of why we created this tool was they wanted to try some new things with online viewing and free online viewing. So they made this site. And then they started doing some analytics. And they realized that a lot of people were coming to this site from Google.

Maybe somebody sent them a DWG, a DXF, a DWF file, something like that. And they have no idea what to do with it. They don't use Autodesk products. It doesn't mean anything to them. And so they found this site. And so we tried to make it really easy for them to drop their files in there and then view them. And so that's where most of the traffic comes from.

You can also extend the file. Because it's temporary storage, we give you 30 days when you're signed in. Now, you might get 15 days into it and realize the person you sent it to is out on vacation. Probably not going to see it past that time. So you can go in there and you can extend that time to another 30 days. And the way that works is it automatically, it's never more than 30 days. It's always 30 days max. And this is the link to that if you're looking for it. And I put this in the paper, as well. It's viewer.autodesk.com. That's what we call a marketing URL.

And the first time you go there, this is what it looks like. And you can see I'm not signed in. And then you can get started. Just some quick tips. So this is really more for people that are coming outside that you might share stuff with. Maybe they've got drawings they want to look at. And then when you sign in, you can see all the files you've uploaded. And as you can see, I uploaded this file a lot. And you can see down here this one has 27 days, 27 days, 16 days, 14 days. And they're different versions of the drawing while I was testing it out. And you can do the same thing until you're ready to share it. And then maybe you're going to use the last one up there, and you're going to send that to people.

And then once you're in the viewer-- I'm going to turn this off for a second, I don't want to cough in here, guys. So once you're in the viewer itself, this is where you get more into the controls. So up here you can have views if you create views in your drawings. They can actually look at these views and toggle them. You can see the file name. And then down here, you have a toolbar. So home, you can pan, zoom in and out, measure, real basic measurement tool. And then there's layers, properties. And then you can go in and change some basic settings.

Now, because I'm signed in, I also see markup. So if you're not signed in, you won't see markup and you won't be able to extend the files. But maybe you don't care. Maybe it's just really quick and dirty for somebody. And then up here in the right corner we have comments, printing, a snapshot. And then this is the main thing you're going to probably want to be using when you leave AutoCAD, and that's the public share. And what's nice about this is you send this link to anyone. They click on that link, and it's going to open up just like this on their browser on their computer.

And with, that I'm going to do a demo. Nope, not AutoCAD. So this is the viewer when you are not signed in. I'll let you see. And we're just going to sign in real fast. I forget to mention this. If you don't have an account, or you've given it to someone and they want an account because they need it for 30 days or more, they can come over here and click this sign up for free. And what that's really doing is creating an Autodesk account, which doesn't cost anything. And then they can come in here and use that account to sign up, and then we know who they are so that the files can be extended. And we can send them emails as well if they want an email on a-- you might put a larger file up here, and that file's is going to take a while to translate so it can be viewed. And you don't want to sit around and wait for it. So we'll send an email saying, hey, your file's ready.

There we go, signed in. And this is the Design View, which shows all the different things. It's a little different than the screenshot. I put some other stuff up there. And then so I can upload a new file by clicking on this. You can see we have other options in here, as well. So if you're a person that uses Box or Dropbox, Google Drive, you can use that or OneDrive. You might have drawings in there that you can't view, and you want to be able to view them. And then you can select that source, and then bring it over here. And it'll translate it for viewing, which is also handy. Maybe you're not at work and you're at someplace working on a file out in the field, and you just need to take a quick look at something, or a quick measurement. This is a great way to bring it up and take a look.

There's a different program for mobile. And it's very similar to this. I don't have a lot of mobile stuff in here, but I'll take that in the questions section a little bit. But yes, it does work on mobile. And the difference is if I emailed the file to you, you would click on the file from your email, and you would select the mobile device. And then it's a little more convoluted than this, because you have to pick the project. But once you pick the project, it uploads the file. It does what we call translation. And then you can view it. And you can also share it from mobile, as well.

And this is the feedback I was talking about. So from here, you can give a rating and send a comment to Autodesk. That doesn't want to go back today. There we go.

And so once you're in the Design View, I'm going to scroll down to one of the older files. And here's one of the extensions I was talking about. So I can click on this. It's going to open it up. I can view it. And there's also tool tips on each of these icons in the toolbar. So fit to view, pan, zoom, the camera view. Here is the basic measure, your layers, and the properties. There's no properties in this drawing. But if you had properties, you could see those. And then the setting. So you can do some performance settings and things like that, and change backgrounds a little bit.

And then a real basic markup tool. So here you can add an arrow with some text. And if you decide you don't want to keep the markup, you can cancel it. But you're most likely going to keep it. And then over here, here's where you do your comment. And you can also take a screenshot to add to that comment. So if you're sharing this with someone, they'll see your comment. And then you can print it. Now the printing is like a screenshot to your system printer. So it's not like sending it to a large format plotter down the hall or something like that. It's just going to put it in the system printer. But some people like to have a piece of paper to walk around with and put some notes on. So this is actually a very cool tool for doing that.

Cancel. We don't need to print. The other thing, too. One of the questions I see in the forums that I work in a lot are can you make a PDF for me? And the answer is no. But when you're in the print set up, Windows 10, for example. And this also works on the Mac, by the way. You can print the PDF because it's built into the operating system. So you can create a PDF. It's a nice way to get something and quickly share that way as well.

And then my favorite part. So this is the public link. And this is what you would collect to share with someone that you wanted to collaborate with, or just look at the drawing, whatever they're up to. And so this gets you a quick link. You can copy that to your clipboard, or you can even just put your mouse in there and drag it around, grab that thing, paste it in your email, and send it off.

And then one thing that's kind of cool about this is there are some stuff in here that's not in our for money products. So I'm going to expand the share options here. And you can actually turn some stuff off and on. So one of the things I see a lot is people create DWF files. And when you publish a DWF file, you can disable certain things. You might want to turn off download, or something like that, which we can do with our Team products. But in this one, you can turn on or off the section view, the exploded view, the model browser enabled, and measure enabled. So if you just want them to have very limited or more access, you can choose that when you create this public share, which is pretty cool for a free product if you ask me.

And if you uncheck some of these-- right now, you can see I've got the measure tool here. So I'm just going to turn measure off. And I'm going to say preview this. I notice there's no measure toolbar here now. So that's what's cool about the options when you're sharing the file. And this is what they'll see when you send it. So you can do a quick check to make sure of what you've got.

If you've got dimensioning, and the [INAUDIBLE] question was if you shut off the measure, will they still see some basic stuff in there? So that what they won't see is the measure toolbar here. So if I had dimensionings in this drawing, the dimensions would all still be there and they could see that. They just can't go measure it themselves. So you're out in the field. That's most of the time where I see this. You're out in the field, and you just want to check something really quick between, and then you're going to go there with your tape and go, oh, this is wrong. We've got to fix this in the drawing. And the mobile app's very similar for that type of workflow.

And so if I go back over here-- so you can see the measure tool works like this, versus a dimension. Show all. I see what I did. Let's go back to the Design View for a minute. So I'm going to open up a 3D file. So it doesn't matter if it's 2D or it's 3D, so you have a lot of options here. So this is actually a DWF file that comes from I believe it's an Inventor Assembly. And so I can open this up.

This is my Surface Book, which is actually pretty powerful. But I have some low-end Dell desktops that I use at home in my home office, and it works as well there as it does here. Which you can see that's pretty smooth moving. How many people work in 3D? So this is a great tool. And what's nice is if you're trying to get some feedback on what you've done in 3D with someone, maybe you're working with a client.

One of my examples is there's a restaurant where I live, and they built this new patio. And they wanted to know how will the tables fit out there. So I could put a drawing up there with the table layouts. And I could put those in different layers or something like that. And then they could open that up either on their phone, or they could open it up from their browser, and get an idea of what I'm talking about. They have no idea what CAD is. They don't care. They don't ever want to know. But now they can see the 2D or a 3D drawing and get feedback right away. And they actually really like that.

Actually, a real true story about where I did that with them is they were doing this car show on Thursday night. So I had this limited edition Mustang BULLITT lowered with ghost flames and all that kind of fun stuff. And they were having trouble with the fire marshal on how the cars were lining up. And so what I did is I just went in and got an aerial view of it, and then started overlaying my drawing on top of that the best way to line up the cars, and show them how many cars we can efficiently get in there. And again, they don't care about AutoCAD. They don't care about any of that other stuff. But they were able to see that on their screen and go, oh, this is perfect. Thanks. We'll have the young guys out at the car show when people drive up start lining people up like this. It worked really well.

There's other options in here. So you can have an exploded view. This always impresses people. And then you can also section if I click on it, which is kind of cool. And so the people you're sharing with can do a lot of stuff with the drawing. So that's a nice drawing. And with the Quick Print screen, you can do that as well if they just want to have a print or a PDF to get a rough idea. Go out of there. Go back.

Next up, we're going to talk about Autodesk Drive. Any guys in here using Autodesk Drive in the sync component in AutoCAD? Not a lot. That's good. We like that, huh Brandon? I'll introduce one of my coworkers in the back, Brandon. He's one of the Product Managers at Autodesk. He was the guy that worked on the Free Viewer there. That's some cool stuff. I really like that preview. He also works on some of the stuff here in Drive.

So Drive. The difference between Drive and the Free Viewer-- and the reason I'm talking about Drive now is I want to show as you get more into collaboration, maybe you're not collaborating on a lot of big projects and stuff. But you need a little more control over how you're sharing your files with people. So with Drive, it's a personal hub. It's file and folder based, which means if I share a folder with Lee, and Lee shares his folder with me, it's his folder showing up in my Drive. And it's my folder showing up in his Drive. It's not one spot.

And then you get 5 gigs of space with the free account, and 25 gigs if you're a subscription customer. And it's non-upgradeable. You can't add more space. But the one caveat, I believe we give Recap customers 500 gigabytes of space because they have these huge images. And then a360.autodesk.com is the direct link to get to that.

And part of what makes Drive cool is you can share a folder out with people. So I can right click on that folder and select the share button-- and when I do the live demo, I'll get a little bit more into that-- and send them that link, and they'll have access to it. And you can decide whether they're a viewer or whether they're just looking at the folder as an editor like you. And then they can actually delete the files, which be careful. There's no trash bin. Actually we have a trash bin in this one. I take it back. We didn't have one for a little while.

And then when you open it up, this is what it looks like before you sign in. Once you sign in, so it's a little different looking than the Free Viewer. You'll notice this is one of the tips I like to share with customers all the time. So it says A360 Drive. So you know you're in Drive. And that's also what we call the Drive Switcher. So if you have a Team account as well or a personal MyHub, you can hit that drop down. And as long as it's enabled, you can switch between the two. There's no direct link with your files, but you can switch back and forth without having to go type in the other URL.

And the other thing we have of here. So these are filters. So files, recent activity, and there's a trash bin that I forgot about. And then this is a drop down with more filters. And like I said, it's file and folder based. So you can see the folder name, the owner, and the type, and roughly when it was uploaded. So you got some nice information there. And then you can see I'm an Autodesk employee, so I get a little bit more space. And then again, feedback to send in through the user voice.

And now we'll do a demo. I'm going to keep the Drive stuff short. Because while Drive is really cool, it's also one of our older technologies. And we really want to start moving you guys to some newer stuff that's better. One of the examples I will give is especially in the educational system, these teachers use this all the time to share with students. And it'll just randomly drop shares. And so then we got to go sort it out. So we want to get you over to some new stuff. It's getting a little long in the tooth. But for simple stuff, it still works really well. Question?

AUDIENCE: The amounts that you talked about of data storage, is that per license? Per user? How does that work?

BUD SCHROEDER: It's per user, which would be your license. So if you have subscription for AutoCAD, it's 25 gigabytes. Brandon, can you still go up there and even create a free account? Or did we turn that off?

AUDIENCE: If someone shared a document with you [INAUDIBLE].

BUD SCHROEDER: OK. So if someone shared a document through Drive, or you shared a document to Lee and Lee didn't have an account, then he could create one. But it's 25 gigs, and it's based on if you have subscription. And I believe it's based on the serial number for AutoCAD. It's a little different than the Team stuff that we'll go over, as well. Let's do the demo.

So here we have A360 Drive. And these are the filters I was talking about. So I can click on this and it shows recent activity. So these are the files that you're-- this is stuff that's kind of nice. It's like the next level above what we were doing in free with the simple share from AutoCAD. So you're taking sharing to the next level naturally.

And then trash. If you deleted something, you really didn't mean to delete it, you can come in here and get it back. And then back to files. The dropdown. So these are just more filters. These are pre-made filters. So owned by me, shared with me, and files I've made public. So it's a way you can tell what you shared. Also you can sort these on any of these. This is an AU folder I created. And when I click on this DWF, nothing up my sleeves. File's opening up. You've got the dots to let you know that it's doing something, so you know it's not hanging up. And it looks pretty much the same as what you saw in the Free Viewer. And that's because it's using the same underlying technology for the viewing portion here.

And you'll see you've got a lot of the similar things. You've got measure, you've got section view. If it were a house or something like that, you could do a first-person walk through. And then you can also do full-screen, which is nice if you're in a conference room trying to do a presentation. This is also a great way to present stuff, by the way, as a side note.

AUDIENCE: Can you upload folders?

BUD SCHROEDER: As long as the folders are full. You can't have an empty folder. If you have sub-folders underneath and you drag and drop that up there. Actually, that's Team. I don't know. Brandon, can you upload a folder in Drive? Am I confusing myself here? Good question. After we're done, I'll try and let you know. I seem to think you can do a folder, but you can't do sub-folders. There was a little caveat in there.

AUDIENCE: Is there a space limit [INAUDIBLE]?

BUD SCHROEDER: Well, the free one you can't upload folders. That's per file. And after 30 days, that's just gone.

AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE]

BUD SCHROEDER: Sorry?

AUDIENCE: Is there space limit on the free one?

BUD SCHROEDER: On the free one? I don't think so. But it's one file at a time.

AUDIENCE: Does the file disappear [INAUDIBLE]?

BUD SCHROEDER: Yeah. After 30 days, the file's gone. You can extend it, but if you don't extend it, it just goes away. Which actually is something I should have said when I was presenting. A lot of people like that because you can put it up there and not worry about your property, because you know it's going to go away in 30 days. And you can also delete it if you don't want to wait for 30 days.

A lot of the options I have here were the same as the Free Viewer because we're using the same viewing technology. I want to show you a little bit about the sharing. Let's go back here. Files. Now, one of the other things I would point out, too, is as you mouseover, you see there's more options in here when we went to this. It's a really clean interface. But a lot of people didn't realize you could mouseover for these options. So you've got the share, the download, and the actions. So move, rename, and delete.

In this case I want to share. So this brings up the share dialog box. And this is where you have more control than you had in the Free Viewer. This is me. I'm the owner. And then I've invited Gerald, and he's a viewer. So that means he can only view the file. He can't do anything else with the file. And then I can change that when I'm creating the invite by clicking this dropdown. So I can say view and download. I can also click on notify. So if I want to get notifications when Gerald has downloaded the file or uploaded another version, I'll get an email notification because I clicked on that.

And then the other thing that's kind of nice is when I invite someone, so I put their email address in here. And I can also use a comma to separate them. But I can also add a note so they have an idea of why I'm sending them this link for the share. We get a lot of email. I lose track of this stuff. And it's nice to go back to the email and say, oh, this was that project we're working on. And close.

So upload a new folder. So you can create a new folder and give it a name. And it also has the data over here. So you can sort on any of these along the top. And then this just basically goes in and shows your Autodesk profile, and then how much space you have again. With that, I'm going to go back to the PowerPoint.

AUDIENCE: In the download [INAUDIBLE]

BUD SCHROEDER: Sorry, one more time.

AUDIENCE: The download function. [INAUDIBLE] It won't let you download?

BUD SCHROEDER: It'll download. So in that case, it was a DWF file. So it'll download The DWF. I think we zip it up if you have a bunch of files in the folder. Drive. It didn't go where I wanted it to. I'll get it caught up. The last section we're going to talk about is Team. Now the biggest difference between Team and Drive is the cost, which most people are interested in. And then Team is project-based, where it's not personal sharing. It's a single location. So when you upload a link to your Team account, that's where it gets uploaded to. It's not my folder showing up in yours and yours showing up in mine.

And one of the reasons that you would pick Team over Drive or free is if you're collaborating a lot more. So you're working on a lot of projects. Those other options are really cool, and they have a lot of great features. But as long as you're only using them for those things, they're great tools. But when you start collaborating with a lot of people and you need project base-- because with the files and folders, what I should've shown you was I have all these files and folders in there. And it's really difficult to find stuff. Where Team, it's much easier for me to go in and find the current projects I'm working on.

And then there's two offerings. We have BIM 360 Team and Fusion Team. That was what used to be A360, and we split the two apart. Right now they're identical. There's no difference. But at some point, the BIM side will get more BIM tools, and the Fusion side will get more stuff around manufacturing and mechanical-type work.

And like I said, it's project-based in one location. You get 500 gigs per person, and that's pooled space. So what that means is if Lee and I both have an account up there, and Lee uploads 800 gigabytes of data, I got 200 gigs left. Well, the good news is we're not counting it, so you're OK. We don't want you to go crazy over it. But you can go over. But the point is with the pooled space, it's not 500 for you and 500 for me and 500 for you, and then we shut you out. With Drive, when you hit that 25 gigabyte limit, it gives you an error message and tells you you can't upload anymore until so you delete some stuff off the Drive.