[DBMJ99]

We used a google docs account last year to have a common set of files. That worked pretty well. This year we are using grabcad and I am really happy with it. It does all the revision tracking that Svn does but it also has really good features on the website. Members of our team who do not use cad (like the build group) can acces the robot model without having to install or learn solidworks. It also does a nice job with providing a forum to have discussions about design issues and allows annotations on drawings.

It is still easy to break assemblies etc. which I think is more a function of solidworks. We lock all the files in our common parts library to make sure they don't get changed. We use the "pack and go" function in solidworks to make complete copies of our robot to work on potential designs in parallel with the main design and then fold the results into the main robot when we are happy with them.