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Re: CAD Revision Control

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Originally Posted by baronep View Post
Last season, we cad-ed our robot for the first time and used dropbox to manage collaboration between cadders (we had 7). To be blunt, it sucked (but to be fair it wasn't designed for it). Everything worked fine until we combined subsystems and then everything fell apart. Because of the intertwined dependencies, only one person could work on the robot at a time from that point on. I vividly remember doing lightening patterns at 2am.
Agreed, the dropbox solution is not ideal for sharing CAD files.

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If not, how does your team deal with this problem?
In a work setting , I have been able to use SVN to keep track of CAD revisions.

However, most teams don't have the online size for large SVN hosting.
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