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Re: CAD Revision Control

I recommend PTC's Windchill. It is 'web-based'/'cloud based'/easy to set up and great technical support over the past year.

I am not sure how I set the account up now, but can tell you the link:
FIRST Robotics Windchill
EDIT: The person to contact at PTC about setting up a Windchill account for your FIRST Robotics Team is Cosmin Pana - cpana@ptc.com

The best part is that it can be used by any of the most popular modeling software plateforms (Inventor, SolidWorks, Pro/E - Creo, Catia, MathCAD, etc) with free plugins directly from PTC.

Also, this can be used for more than just CAD revision control. PTC also has direct plug-ins for windows and windows office suite. Now you can upload and control documents without ever leaving Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. There is also a plug-in for MS Project, but I haven't used that too much; I am sure it is great though.

Part of The RoboBees have been using Windchill for a year as a test bed, but I plan to launch it team wide in a few weeks. I have been using the direct plug-in for SolidWorks for sometime now, and have had zero issues.

Feel free to contact me through a PM, or on this thread so others can learn as well.
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Last edited by tim-tim : 12-06-2012 at 14:38. Reason: typo in link/how to setup account info
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