I deployed PDM at my company. It works fine, and even for people who don’t really know what version control is.
Multiple downsides though… cost, only really wants Solidworks files (although does handle everything as binaries), but the worst and most unforgivable issue…
They keep full versions of every file, at every check in… forever.
If you have a 500MB file, change the color, and check it it, you now have 1GB of file space taken up, with no clear way to cut that down! Coupled with the fact that deleted files don’t delete until someone manually does a destroy operation, it’s a storage space murderer.
There was something that was a super pain in the ass about their cold storage solution, but I haven’t ever seen a vault compression. I wonder if it’s new or I just missed it.
Multiple downsides though… cost, only really wants Solidworks files (although does handle everything as binaries), but the worst and most unforgivable issue…
They keep full versions of every file, at every check in… forever.
If you have a 500MB file, change the color, and check it it, you now have 1GB of file space taken up, with no clear way to cut that down! Coupled with the fact that deleted files don’t delete until someone manually does a destroy operation, it’s a storage space murderer.