New: GIT like workflows & collaboration (for 30+ file Types) for CAD designers.

SOLIDWORKS SW General
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Hey all! Since GrabCad Workbench is shutting down soon, we want to introduce our new tools: Sync & Workspace! 3D design tools, with GIT real-time collaboration!

We’ve been working on a 3D design tool, with GIT real-time collaboration.

Our thought - What if 3D designers could collaborate in real-time, together? What if 3D designers had the same tools (like GIT) as software engineers? Those are the questions we aimed to solve for our designers.

In addition to the GIT real-time collaboration, Thangs offers secure, 3D-native revision control in the cloud with Thangs Sync + Workspace. Creators can sync 3D files to the cloud, capture every new version without leaving the design client, and securely collaborate with others in real-time.

The Thangs Cloud was built, bottom-up, for 3D objects and works for more than 30 3D file formats. We currently grandfather every Sync user into free and unlimited 3D-native storage.

If you have feedback for us, we’d love the opportunity to make a better tool - for you.

Feedback is a gift and we truly listen (proof we listen and develop). We ship updates weekly based on user feedback and we hope to introduce your great ideas to these tools!

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… If the something is free then you are the product …

How is this funded?

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How secure is your secure?
US Defend secure?

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You use the word GIT 8 times without defining it. Is it even a real word? It sounds like British insult to me. What is it and what would I do it it?

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Lots o’ marketing speak here.

How is it, that it got stickied?

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If you don’t know GIT, you don’t know GIT ;;
GitHub.com

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GIT source control only works on text files AFAIK; now that I said that someone’s going to correct me by siting a case where it doesn’t. The point is source control and GIT type “collaboration” only works with text based files. CAD files on the other hand are not text based so there is no merge capability which is required for collaboration. Which sucks because at the end of the day CAD is really just a very high-level programming language and the file is essentially a mix of meta-data and instructions. Unless you’re operating on a completely new model kernel in which point our existing CAD package is of little use as bi-direction translations only work in demos.

Anyway, since the OP asked for feedback:

  • The first link that I clicked in your post took me to a page that had about 70% advertisements and maybe 30% content that had not finished loading before I closed the tab.
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Any link that is hidden behind a URL shortener is a big flashy warning to me.

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“Git like workflows”
So “Git” for CAD. Good idea. Again, how many company could and will put their CAD on cloud?
https://thangs.com/sync
Too bad OP need to hide it’s website in those links.
There is Google Doc and Reddit link in the post.

https://blog.thangs.com/what-file-types-are-supported-on-thangs-com-96f256238a1f

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Agreed, if it were possible.