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Version control for drawings/schematics?

Version control for drawings/schematics?

Version control for drawings/schematics?

(OP)
Hello all,

What do you guys use for version/revision control for your schematics/drawings, etc?

Currently the division of my company has a relatively small electrical group compared to the mechanical and optical guys and we don't have a proper version control system in place. Our system is basically using a hierarchy of directories and account permissions on a server to control revisions. This is cumbersome, error prone, and not great for government and ISO audits. We use Cadence OrCAD for schematics, PCBs, etc.

The mechanical and optical guys use Autodesk Inventor primarily and use Autodesk's Vault for version control. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to make OrCAD play with Vault.

I'd much appreciate any input or suggestions.

RE: Version control for drawings/schematics?

This subject has been discussed before in the forums here.  You may want to search for it to get more insight.

The short answer was that a lot of us use Subversion.  It:
1 - Is free
2 - works reliably
3 - is feature rich
4 - has recoverable databases in the event of a crash
5 - will store any time of file, software, binary, drawing, etc.


 

RE: Version control for drawings/schematics?

DDurusky:

Search the forums first, it's been hammered in the "Drafting, Standards, GD&T $ Tolerance Analysis" forum -- so if you don't find the answer with search, I'd suggest posting there.  Someone will have that discussion bookmarked I bet.

Good on ya,

Goober Dave

RE: Version control for drawings/schematics?

(OP)
great, thanks. I searched, but apparently used the wrong keywords.

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