Realtime Collaborative 3D Tools?

There are some useful realtime collaborative content creation tools online which are really nifty to use, but has anyone come across any for 3D modeling or CAD?

Here's an example of something for 3D modeling:

[studio.verold.com]

And for CAD there is AutoCAD WS, which even allows you to chat while editing the same CAD model:

[www.autocadws.com]


Collaborating together online in realtime can be a very interesting and efficient way to work, especially if one person is more skilled in some ways and another collaborator is more skilled in others. It also allows other people more direct input during the creation process, to help shape the outcome to their liking.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2013 02:29AM by sanman.

AFAIK Caligari's Truespace had some great collaboration tools - the only remaining seems to be Turbosqid Tentacles: [www.turbosquid.com]

Bit it's actually more aimed for sharing/selling comercial content than OS-collaboration

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Well, I recently went to one of these free realtime collaborative document-editing websites to do some group project work, and I was really impressed by the efficient interaction it afforded us. We were each logged on to the site from home, and were all jointly editing a single word-processing document together, which was changing in front of our eyes as we all simultaneously added to it. The document filled most of the browser window, and there was a sidebar on the right-hand side which was a text-chat window, allowing us to chat with each other in realtime as we edited the document. So I found this "social collaboration" to be very effective and even enjoyable.

It would be nice to have a similar setup using an online 3D modeling editor or CAD editor. It could be a very empowering way to work, especially when you have different people trying to collaborate across different parts of the world. People who have never even met face-to-face could in fact be very productive together. It's a shame that most of these realtime collaborative editing sites only relate to editing text documents rather than 3D models or CAD drawings, because the basic principles would be the same.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/19/2013 11:28AM by sanman.