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Re: CAD Revision Control

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Originally Posted by NXTGeek View Post
Yes, DON'T USE DROPBOX FOR CAD.
I had to redo our drive base 3 times, the ball lifter 2 times and the main assembly even more times. This was when I used Inventor with just two users.
Vault seems good for Inventor.
What's the simplest and best syncing tool for Solidworks?
Interesting, we synced dropbox between 6 computers/users this year. We never had an issue with syncing. How we handled it was:

-We split up the robot for people to work on.
-If they were gonna work on a portion or save over everything we made sure all revisions were closed by sending out a text or tweet.
-We updated a google doc as a fake "checkout"
-Also tried decently hard to work on it only in the shop so that did make life easy.

We honestly never had a problem, our robot did have a lot of parts this year

-RC
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