DWG-capable 2D CAD on the web

Some time ago I looked into Project Draw, our first foray into diagramming on the web. Today we released – again on Autodesk Labs – our next-generation, web-based CAD tool…

You may have heard of Dragonfly, and possibly even Firefly, well now it's time to meet Butterfly. [This makes me think of "When I see an elephant fly", the song from Dumbo, which happens to have been the first movie I ever saw at the cinema (not that I remember the event itself).]

Butterfly

For more information on Project Butterfly, check out the announcement on Scott's blog. Of particular interest is this technology's ability both to import DWG from and export it to your desktop (assuming you don't want to just leave the data in the cloud).

I'll be looking into Project Butterfly with great interest over the coming months – especially understanding its potential from an extensibility perspective – and recommend you take a few minutes to take a look and tell us what you think (and want!).

Update

I've just found out about the Project Butterfly YouTube channel, in case anyone's interested in watching some video content on this technology.

5 responses to “DWG-capable 2D CAD on the web”

  1. Butterfly is cool, but how do I get added to Firefly testing?

  2. Good question - I don't yet see the project live on Labs, though (which is why I linked to the article from my post).

    You may want to ping Scott Sheppard by email, Twitter or Facebook (his contact info should be somewhere on his blog).

    Kean

  3. As the Inventor Publisher technology preview on Autodesk Labs creates content for Firefly, it seems only natural that we would make that available; however, at this time, our plans are not yet concrete. I will post a blog article when I know for sure.

  4. Excuse me,I want to know how could I print a dwf or a dwg file to a web page,then I can
    choose any object on the page and get the entity's property ? Sorry that my English is bad,and the sentences maybe look strange . Thank you .

  5. Kean Walmsley Avatar

    I don't know of an application that generates web content from a DWG/DWF with this capability.

    You might embed Design Review in a web-page, which will give you per-object properties.

    Kean

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