Anuncios

The Autodesk Community Forums has a new look. Read more about what's changed on the Community Announcements board.

Looking for DWG Management similar to GitHub for team collaboration

michael.pham.9
Contributor

Looking for DWG Management similar to GitHub for team collaboration

michael.pham.9
Contributor
Contributor

I've been searching for a "GitHub-like" solution for awhile for my team and can't seem to come up with any solid leads. We already have Vault, but we only use it mostly for version/file management. We are hoping we can find some kind of drawing review solution/process that allows us to fork a version of a .DWG, have an engineer make changes, send the modified DWG to a reviewer, and then on approval have the DWG be merged into the original DWG, without touching anything that wasn't changed in case another engineer is already working on their own separate fork. I was looking into Vault Change Orders, but I don't think those have the same functionality of merging the DWG without modifying any changes in the time between the initial fork and the modified DWG.

 

Unfortunately our requirement is that we must be able to run this solution on our local server.

0 Me gusta
Responder
445 Vistas
5 Respuestas
Respuestas (5)

JTBWorld
Advisor
Advisor

I have never seen anything like what you look for. Unless your drawings are very simple I doubt a solution can be created. 


Jimmy Bergmark
JTB World - Software development and consulting for CAD and license usage reports
https://jtbworld.com

0 Me gusta

michael.pham.9
Contributor
Contributor

I don't think it would be extremely difficult to implement, and I have a hunch it may be coming. To implement it, I'd imagine Autodesk could just piggyback off of the DWG Compare functionality. If a drawing branches off in two different directions, the original version number of the file could be kept on record, and when it would be time to merge any changes from the files, AutoCAD would just DWG Compare each branch only to the original version, and then add/remove any changes performed. 

 

For example, in an original drawing there would be a line and a triangle. Two engineers would then branch out from that original drawing. One engineer would add a square and remove the triangle. The other engineer could add a circle. When it is time to merge all the changes, DWG Compare would see the first engineer's changes, and our output would only be a line and a square. Then the next DWG Compare would see that (compared to the original) only a circle would be added, so our final output would be a DWG with a line, square, and circle.

0 Me gusta

pendean
Community Legend
Community Legend
@michael.pham.9 you are talking to one of the few people in the AutoCAD universe that could develop such a tool, and they ort of shot it down it appears: consider contracting with them to explore it in more detail if this is a dire business need.

In the meantime.... you can make suggestions to Autodesk direct yourself here https://www.autodesk.com/company/contact-us/product-feedback
0 Me gusta

michael.pham.9
Contributor
Contributor

Ah, I don't browse this forum often, so I didn't know that. That seems unfortunate though that such a feature wouldn't be implemented. How do architects/engineers in the civil field manage an AutoCAD drawing for a building? I wouldn't imagine that only a single person works on one sheet at a time.

 

This isn't a hard requirement for my organization, but it would be a very nice feature to have to boost productivity and avoid any drawing conflicts.

0 Me gusta

JTBWorld
Advisor
Advisor

If it's just simple geometries it can be done, but depending on how you use AutoCAD there can be a lot of intelligent objects, 3D, etc. that are connected to each other. 


Jimmy Bergmark
JTB World - Software development and consulting for CAD and license usage reports
https://jtbworld.com

0 Me gusta