Kenesto's Capabilities
Now, collaborate more effectively with Kenesto Drive.
The perfect alternative to a shared network drive.
Currently Using Dropbox to Store & Share Your Engineering Files?
Why not use a program that was built specifically for engineers? Sign up for Kenesto Free, install Kenesto Drive, and then store, share and collaborate on your CAD and other engineering documents – all in the cloud.
Always work with the current version of a document no matter where you access it from
Desktop to Cloud File Synchronization
Kenesto Drive’s unparalleled file synchronization allows you to keep documents synchronized between Kenesto Drive on your local desktop and the Kenesto Cloud. This capability offers enhanced performance. Kenesto Drive also enables you to work offline e.g. while on a flight keeping everything in sync when you reconnect. Kenesto Drive does all of this while maintaining complete file security, automated file version management, vaulting and locking. When a file that you have shared with others is opened by one of the people that you have shared it with, the others will be able to open it in a “read-only” status. Sharing has never been easier – you will never write over your colleagues work.
Kenesto supports many design formats such as common CAD solutions: SolidWorks, SolidEdge, SpaceClaim, CATIA and over 250 file formats
Document Management
Upload, manage, modify, version, share, and host discussions on CAD models, Microsoft Office documents, marketing collateral and more. Attach documents and discussions to tasks, workflow processes, and all of your customizable forms and data types.
Additional features:
Freeze a document: Finalize a document upon project completion. It will protect the document from any further updates. Your production file is secure.
Vault: A vault folder behaves like a library and allows check-in and check-out of documents. The status of the document is visible at all times for users that the document has been shared with.
Kenesto manages file versions so that you and your CAD systems always access the latest version without changing filenames
Document Versions
Kenesto makes sure you are always working with the current document version. With check-in and check-out and the auto-locking features of the Kenesto Drive, overwrites and missing edits are a thing of the past. Kenesto versioning does not require all of the file names to be the same.
View more than 250 format file types including CAD files right from the browser
Share a folder and all its sub folders and documents directly or simply share a single file
Workspaces let you easily handle project management with documents, folders, discussions, tasks, workflow and reports
Flexible Workflow
Kenesto’s innovative workflow engine allows you to work in a static or flexible ad-hoc workflow environment for capturing and managing your business processes for working both inside and outside of your organization.
Set permissions directly to documents
Kenesto Drive synchronizes desktop to Kenesto cloud and behaves like a LAN drive for all users regardless of their various locations
Kenesto Drive
Kenesto Drive is a virtual LAN drive. It behaves like a physical LAN drive on your network however the users can be anywhere in the world. Any changes made by any of the users are immediately transmitted to the others sharing folders or documents as they would be on a physical LAN Drive. Users that documents have been shared with are automatically notified and tool tips will tell you who is currently editing it and more.
Features such as automatically synchronizing shared documents, sharing directly from the drive, setting folders to perform vault functions such as check-in and check-out from the drive and version management from the drive are not found in other providers. Even if Kenesto Drive was designed with engineering teams in mind, anybody can use Kenesto Drive just easily as any shared network drive.