The biggest limitation right now I see is no general save and check in of exports. As a single user, I was saving projects on a cloud drive share. This syncs between my desktop and laptop. It also holds my license key to release and reregister when I switch computers up to 3 times a day. Running the PDM locally on the desktop is generally good. However, there is no way to save associated files such as exports and drawings. So I still need directories in the cloud drives for projects and it gets confusing if I don't name then the same. So I'm working on a 3D printable design. I use my python script to export STEP files for all the parts of my assembly to drive somewhere. The script includes a spot to have suffix so I can label v1, v2, etc. It would be amazing if we could have an Exports folder in a project on PDM and have PDM as a target for export. Including checking with versioning. However, this needs a folder proxy location for using it as a slicer can't read out of PDM. This lends me to go back to using Github for file versions over PDM as the Alibre files are only part of a full project solution. A windows filesystem driver layer for the PDM would allow access out of it for read only. This would mount as a drive on the PC and point to your PDM server. Then readong project associated drawing as PDF, pulling STEP or STL files for slicing, etc. would be possible. Hmmm...
The biggest limitation right now I see is no general save and check in of exports. As a single user, I was saving projects on a cloud drive share.
This syncs between my desktop and laptop. It also holds my license key to release and reregister when I switch computers up to 3 times a day. Running the PDM locally on the desktop is generally good. However, there is no way to save associated files such as exports and drawings. So I still need directories in the cloud drives for projects and it gets confusing if I don't name then the same.
So I'm working on a 3D printable design. I use my python script to export STEP files for all the parts of my assembly to drive somewhere. The script includes a spot to have suffix so I can label v1, v2, etc. It would be amazing if we could have an Exports folder in a project on PDM and have PDM as a target for export. Including checking with versioning. However, this needs a folder proxy location for using it as a slicer can't read out of PDM. This lends me to go back to using Github for file versions over PDM as the Alibre files are only part of a full project solution.
A windows filesystem driver layer for the PDM would allow access out of it for read only. This would mount as a drive on the PC and point to your PDM server. Then readong project associated drawing as PDF, pulling STEP or STL files for slicing, etc. would be possible. Hmmm...
Is there any release map for PDM ?
But can PDM tell me why I buy way too much filament? I think not.
I'll add this to our list of feature requests!