Who's using Buzzsaw?

[acad]

When Buzzsaw was first being introduced and tested, I was one of the premier members. In those days membership was free. When they later started to charge for the service, I was able to maintain my free membership for several years since I was classified as premier or whatever they labeled us at the time for being "the special first".

I've always stayed loyal to this product and watched how its continued to mature.

I know most everyone sees ads everywhere to try Buzzsaw. Have you tried it? Are you using it? What do you think?

What methods are you using for drawing collaboration? After all, email isn't a viable option anymore. Step right up and tell us your story.

[tc3dcad]

When I upgraded to 2002 and Inventor 5 i had the option to load the Buzzsaw links on the cpu. I did that but when i tried seeing what it would do one day it told me i needed to register and pay.

Therefore, I have never used it, probably never will, & personally thought i had heard that it was dead in the water on CNBC. I still e-mail stuff around. I love the dwf & viewer and so do my clients.

[acad]

For one or two drawings here and there, email still works fine. For bigger projects that are too big to email, that's more the Buzzsaw focus.

[viosif]

We started back in 2000 when you could get 25MB for free. We tested it for about one year and then purchased space and implemented Buzzsaw. Everybody is happy as long as people follow the usage procedures.

[yoshi.honda]

we have been on a big project for the last 6 months, the site has worked great for us, consultants post their dwg, dwf, pdf, and plt files. it has made plotting the set easy and on time. i really enjoy the "stats", i can see when and who logged in and what they did, it has really help us with consultants accountability.
we signed a year subscription last month, because of the success we experienced.
our employees can login at home or on the road and do work - that is good for everyone.
it is a little $$$ (pricey) but worth it, when all is said and done.

[acad]

I like the accountability feature too.

[thomas.stright]

I work for a Mechanical Contractor and wished the A/E's that we dealt with would use Buzzsaw or something along those lines..

I have a Company FTP site up for sending files to everyone that we coordinated with but without the architect and engineer on board it's hard to keep everything up to date.

[arcadia_x27]

What is the approximate cost of Buzzsaw? I'm trying to see about trying it out at my company but I'd like to know a cost before I try pitching it to management.

[yoshi.honda]

What is the approximate cost of Buzzsaw? I'm trying to see about trying it out at my company but I'd like to know a cost before I try pitching it to management.

i would hate to give a price structure, you might have a different sales rep in your area.
but willing to tell you what we have...my salesman tells me this is standard pricing.
12 month contract
500 mb of space
$ 6000 a year. basically $ 500 a month for 500 mb space.
i think the more space you buy the cheaper it gets.
good luck.

[rtorres]

My company "flip-flops" between FTP & Buzzsaw.
Depends whether or not the client will pay the costs.

To be quite honest "Buzzsaw" is really just a FTP site with HUGE controling features of who gets to see which file & which folder.

But if that's case then why pay for it when you can just setup multiples FTP sites for little cost. Each site can have it's own password and user name for EACH project.
I mean if you're all on the same project then why hide specific files & folders.
There is the honor systems. :?:

Anyway .. that's my 2 cents.
:rolleyes:

[Wanderer]

When Buzzsaw was first being introduced and tested, I was one of the premier members. In those days membership was free. When they later started to charge for the service, I was able to maintain my free membership for several years since I was classified as premier or whatever they labeled us at the time for being "the special first".

I've always stayed loyal to this product and watched how its continued to mature.

I know most everyone sees ads everywhere to try Buzzsaw. Have you tried it? Are you using it? What do you think?

What methods are you using for drawing collaboration? After all, email isn't a viable option anymore. Step right up and tell us your story.
our construction department has been using it for... I want to say about 2 years. not sure. I was happy with it for my part, but, for whatever reason, they decided to switch to something else (although we're still keeping the buzzsaw site until the last couple projects on it get closed out).

[yoshi.honda]

My company "flip-flops" between FTP & Buzzsaw.
Depends whether or not the client will pay the costs.

To be quite honest "Buzzsaw" is really just a FTP site with HUGE controling features of who gets to see which file & which folder.

But if that's case then why pay for it when you can just setup multiples FTP sites for little cost. Each site can have it's own password and user name for EACH project.
I mean if you're all on the same project then why hide specific files & folders.
There is the honor systems. :?:

Anyway .. that's my 2 cents.
:rolleyes:

i agree, it is a ftp site on steroids, it has features that are not easily done with a regular low cost ftp site.
it would be nice to have an "honor system", not always the case with consultants...when we are dealing with huge $$$ projects, finger pointing happens to often, buzzsaw has been worth the cost, not have a finger pointed at you (again placing accountability back on each party involved).
both methods are appropriate for different situation and companies.
this is great that we have a forum on this subject, it is good to have multiple points of views and methods of handling projects on line. it makes us all smarter and more informed.
that's what the augi forms are here for. thanks all.

[Andre Baros]

Question, if you're using Buzzsaw, who pays for it? Does everyone have to be a subscriber? Does the contractor pay? Do you bill the client? Are all you sub-contractors and consultants on board?

[BIM BAM BOOM]

Buzzsaw hosted by ur firm since January 2004:
Only my firm is paying for it. Anyother accounts are free.
Buzzsaw goes by increment of 50 users at a time and storage.
We have 100 accounts max and 20GB storage (I cannot share with you the amount we pay - you need to negotiate with BCS teamit it's a SaaS product dierectly from Autodesk (Your reseller has nothing to do with it) .
Long time ago our CFO wanted to bill back to our clients, and when we break down the price by ratio of storage taken by projects the largest project on buzzsaw would be a back fee of $2,500 to this client and that was ridiculous to ask at this time (2005) a back fee; considering the large amount we already get (in fees).
We have an average og 100-150 projects on Buzzsaw, these days with a slower market we have 80 firms connected (included us) with 75 projects for 50% occupancy in storage (10 GB)- We found Buzzsaw very good to collaborate worldwide with anybody especially being able to markup our DWFs without the need to download them.
Majority of our clients love being on Buzzsaw with us, paperless projects, time saver, tracking, groups, roles, dashboards etc... all these features are $$$ worth the investment.

We have several projects with over 45 firms at a time onboard (from Owner to GC, consultants and Subs) Owner uses our Buzzsaw also for bidding purposes so we invite certain subs or several GCs or Contractors on a specific time line justto be able to download our Sheets (DWF exclusively) then we remove them.

On hot market the maximum we got was:
97 users/100 and 18 GB/20

Now out there you have tools that look alike as Buzzsaw and are 3 to 4 times less expensive...

Hope this helps,



Question, if you're using Buzzsaw, who pays for it? Does everyone have to be a subscriber? Does the contractor pay? Do you bill the client? Are all you sub-contractors and consultants on board?