SolidWorks:HEARD! - Episode 439 - Sunglass Revision Management
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Sunglass Revision Management:
This podcast is a first look at the new revision management feature set that was added to the popular 3D browser-based collaboration service Sunglass.io. Revision tracking is a key feature to using today's CAD platforms however they are typically format specific or can be challenging to get outside parties (vendors/contractors) into the collaboration environment. Topics covered:
- An overview of the updated UI of Sunglass.io
- Understanding the SoilidWorks plugin and workflow
- Web viewer experience for collaborators
- Projects and Spaces in the Sunglass Dashboard
- Viewing / Comparing / Restoring Revisions
- User experience and workflow
- Overall impressions
Sunglass.io, a San Francisco 3D web-based collaboration start-up, has been very busy iterating over the past year and much of what was in the V1 service during the initial release has been refined. This past week Sunglass announced a revision management layer to their 3D web viewer, co-viewing and other collaboration tools to help keep track of the various changes that occur during the design process.
PDM, product data management, tools are typically expensive, require hardware/infrastructure and implementation. Although the end result can be very powerful however for small. remote groups this can be too expensive and overkill. Sunglass is attempting to address this common need by taking the hosting and setup out of the equation by introducing simple "push/pull" plugins for SolidWorks, Inventor, SketchUp and Rhino. Pushing a revision up to Sunglass is easy, prompting for comments and syncing the changes up to the collaboration service with the push of a button.
This "Github for CAD" is starting to focus on some of the big challenges when it comes to 3D design. I have been testing Sunglass since their launch and although many services support version tracking (uploading a file of the same name), their approach is more streamlined to how CAD users work. ~Lou
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