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That is a very strange comment from someone that has zero connection it seems to GC?

I have been using the software for about 2 years. Look me up on LinkedIn if you have trust issues.

I put significant time in on Pro/E user group sites back in the day - circa 1996. Not a lot of time or patience for it now after many years of work.

You are right, not a lot of activity on the GrabCAD site. Due mostly to Stratasys not supporting the software in any meaningful way.

This doesn't answer your technical questions but:

It doesn't seem that GrabCAD has ever been ITAR compliant. Nor would it appear they need to be. At the same time if your company was required to be ITAR compliant, then you were probably non-compliant the moment you placed restricted information on GrabCADs servers and systems. Using their software, even if it points to your local server, would likely be a violation since you don't know with absolute certainty that you have end-to-end encrypted control of the data.

Sounds like you need to retrieve your data and delete it from their servers ASAP. It will be difficult to defend your case in federal court since you know they are not compliant but you're delaying until you can get your own PDM system up and running.

Exactly, Bob is dead on the mark.

More point if your company is ITAR registered why would you ever connect to GC or upload/download to them.

Really weird thread?

Business acquisitions take place everyday. IT departments set deadlines for a reason. Please step out of the box and let me know if there is a true technical glitch with what I am proposing.

I don't see why it wouldn't work for a stop gap measure. Our current best alternative is to use SVN & I don't want to waste time or energy on that if we can get by with a LAN version of our current "PDM" solution.

Thank you both for you responses.

I think that between Wireshark and anti-virus software, we could show that we are compliant.

> You are right, not a lot of activity on the GrabCAD site. Due mostly to Stratasys not supporting the software in any meaningful way.

Could you please tell us more about this? (or if you wish, feel free to send a direct message to me)

We at GrabCAD are still actively working on both product development and support. For product updates, you can follow our release notes (see below for some*). For help and support, you can use various methods (including https://help.grabcad.com/contact) to contact us

*Latest release notes:

• GrabCAD Community changelog for 2022 Q1: https://grabcad.com/groups/grabcad-community-user-group/discussions/grabcad-community-release-notes-for-q1-2022
• GrabCAD Print release notes: https://help.grabcad.com/article/213-grabcad-print-release-notes?locale=en

Yasin - my comment was geared towards Workbench. Particularly from a Solidworks user perspective. Examples: 3D viewer on the website, SW add-in support, etc.

I fully understand Stratasys concentrating on the printing market. At the same time, it is disappointing they chose to ignore Workbench.

I e-mailed you this morning.

Hi. Thank you for your feedback. I replied to your message.

As for the 3D viewer, soon we'll be releasing a new update, which introduces support for newer and some other formats.

I got a reply from the GC team today...

"Thanks for reaching out. Its possible this might work although in order to log into Workbench we need to have the Desktop App contact our servers and in the login process we initialize the projects. I am not an expert in networking though so I am not sure if this is plausible or not.

Since the beginning of Workbench it has been requested by many other users to allow for self hosting servers but the way we set up our infrastructure and the lack of developers on Workbench has not allowed us to implement such a feature.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I hope this small amount of information has been helpful."