Received a PM and thought I'd share:
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Does A360 have features like check-in/check-out?
Can it be accessed directly from Inventor?
How do you use it on your team?
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There doesn't appear to be any concept of Check In/Out in A360, but it does keep track of changes to every file so you can roll back changes. It also shows who made what changes too, if you make everyone log in with their own account. A360 acts very similar to a dropbox, or shared network drive in most regards.
Yes, you can access it directly from Inventor, as well as any other application as far as I can tell.
My team uses it like a regular shared directory. Everyone kinda just works on their subsystem assembly and when it comes time to join their subsystem to the full robot's assembly, we work together on one computer to do the final constraints and bolt holes.
I'm pretty sure as long as you have an .edu email it's free for 3 years with 25GB of storage per user. I used my account to make a folder and then 'shared' it with each of my team members (who also made A360 accounts). Then the shared folder showed up in everyone's 360 accounts. I recommend you just sign up and give it a shot, 360 is installed automatically on recent versions of Inventor, so you should just have to sign in and it should just work, you'll have to log in to the 360 website to share a folder and such.
http://www.autodesk.com/education/fr.../autodesk-a360
Benefits over dropbox are: 25GB for free, and online 3D preview for all parts and assemblies.