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Taking advantage of unlimited space
john_59
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Is anyone taking advantage of the unlimited space in Onshape to manage other engineering documentation and assets in a somewhat official capacity.
I'm looking for cloud-based PDM solutions and using Onshape as a storage and management platform is an appealing notion. My concern is the workflow for handling files that are not Onshape documents. Is there a streamlined way to upload and synchronize files between onshape and your desktop (excluding Onshape documents, of course)? Are you able to apply any kind of approval process to the files before sharing them out? Is there a high-level API where you could create these features if you wanted?
I'm looking for cloud-based PDM solutions and using Onshape as a storage and management platform is an appealing notion. My concern is the workflow for handling files that are not Onshape documents. Is there a streamlined way to upload and synchronize files between onshape and your desktop (excluding Onshape documents, of course)? Are you able to apply any kind of approval process to the files before sharing them out? Is there a high-level API where you could create these features if you wanted?
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Data Sync:
As far as being able to access files in a document and synchronize them to your local machine, there is not an application that exists today like Dropbox or Google Drive's desktop sync but it is something that you could do with our API. There would be some interesting implementations to sync all the workspace data with changes and maybe do something else with versions that have been snapped as an archiving tool. I have prototyped something similar to this just calling our document API to see what it would take to cycle through documents and export them to a local sync.
CM (Control management):
The short answer is not today. The longer answer is it would definitely be feasible to build a workflow and control layer on top of our existing version management with the API. Endpoints to read metadata, permissions and other aspects that would be necessary are all there. It is an ongoing effort to ensure that the Onshape API has the capacity to integrate with as many existing tools and services that manage the process around your data.
The API has been feature 0 for us and will continue to be as we move forward. Let me know if you have further questions. ~Lou