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Comment by fsloth 3 days ago

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Version control?

Quite a few with their domain specific naming conditions, constraints and workflows.

For example Fusion 360 https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/fusion-360...

Then there's stuff like "Tekla model sharing" https://www.tekla.com/products/tekla-model-sharing

Onshape https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/versionmanager.htm

Etc

The requirement to a) collaborate b) version the work is quite old and well supported industrially. Depending on the application it may not "look or feel" that nice of course.

I guess the key thing is these are not "code first" offerings.

WillAdams 3 days ago

I was more thinking opensource options now that Ondsel has folded, but appreciate the information.

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  • fsloth 3 days ago

    Their blog post about this subject is really good https://www.ondsel.com/blog/goodbye/

    They chose maybe one of the toughest imaginable combinations for a business model. Viable open source businesses are hard (since you don’t own your ip in closed form, hard to explain to investors what the actual value is). 3D businesses are hard.

    So it’s hard x hard.

    Clearly their _tech_ worked. I guess there is a lesson here - better mousetrap is almost never enough for a viable business.

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