Sibe PDM gives engineering teams revision control, release handoffs, and secure sharing without server maintenance or VPN lag.
Whether you're starting fresh or migrating a legacy vault, we handle your exact SOLIDWORKS workflow.
Access your design vault without SQL servers or VPNs. Sibe is built for native cloud performance—up and running in 30 minutes without hardware bottlenecks.
Check-in and check-out assemblies directly inside SOLIDWORKS. Our native add-in never closes your files, ensuring your creative flow remains uninterrupted.
Every save is recorded. Stop asking "which file is the latest?" Traceable history allows your team to roll back to any previous design stage with 100% confidence.
Feedback lives with the model. Annotate and markup 3D versions in-vault to keep project context centralized and avoid fragmented communication channels.
Involve stakeholders via secure web links. Rotate, measure, and comment on 3D models in any browser—no SOLIDWORKS license required for viewers.
Separate work-in progress from approved CAD data. Once a design is released, Sibe PDM automatically locks the file, ensuring manufacturing always receives the correct finalized version.
Compare Sibe vs. other PDM solutions by operational burden and design safety.
Sibe restores your natural engineering flow with cloud power. Let’s map your workflow.
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No servers to maintain. No VPNs. No admin or migration hassles.
We’ll help you map workflows, import CAD data safely, and get engineers productive fast. No IT tickets, no downtime.
Professional support to ensure a flawless transition while importing your existing CAD designs.
Customized permissions, folder rules, and workflow states tailored to your engineering team's hierarchy.
Free onboarding for your engineering team to ensure rapid adoption and zero file conflict from day one.
Sibe is a cloud PDM for SOLIDWORKS teams designed to eliminate the problems that make shared drives and “manual PDM” painful: wrong revisions, overwrites, scattered feedback, and slow handoffs to manufacturing and suppliers.
It’s also a practical alternative to complex and expensive on-prem PDM systems, where the main barrier for many engineering teams is not “features,” but the operational burden: infrastructure planning, server/SQL ownership, rollout projects, and ongoing admin overhead that slows engineers down.
Sibe is built around two surfaces:You invite people by email and keep permissions simple with two roles: Owner (can approve releases) Member (standard contributor)
This keeps the setup straightforward and easy to maintain as the team grows—no complex role matrices or long permission tuning cycles. Owners can handle approvals, while day-to-day contributors stay productive.
It also keeps collaboration clean: engineers work through the SOLIDWORKS add-in, while the web workspace supports comments, markups, and review feedback tied to the right file/version, so decisions stay attached to the design instead of getting scattered across email and chat.
No. Stakeholders can review models and 3D CAD in a browser (rotate, measure, markup) via secure visitor links, so you don’t pay for CAD licenses just to collect feedback.
Visitor links (and QR codes) are static while enabled and do not expire unless you turn them off. If you switch access back to “workspace members only,” the visitor link is cleared; re-enabling generates a new one.
Teams use this stability to print QR labels on bins or embed links into other systems.
Sibe uses check-out / check-in to reserve edit rights — because most “PDM disasters” start when two people unknowingly edit the same file.
When you check out a file, others can still open/view it, but they can’t check changes back in until you check it in. This prevents overwrites, duplicate-file naming hacks, and manufacturing from the wrong revision.
Yes. Sibe keeps a local working copy of your SOLIDWORKS files on your computer so SOLIDWORKS can open and rebuild assemblies at full speed. In the add-in settings, you choose the local vault folder—and you can place it on any drive (for example, a larger SSD or a dedicated data drive).
This solves a few common pain points:Best practice: keep the vault path short (e.g., D:\Sibe\Vault) to avoid Windows path-length limits that can break deep folder structures and long SOLIDWORKS filenames.
Yes. Sibe supports a practical “offline-first” habit for engineers:
Sibe is built around a file-centric, SOLIDWORKS-native workflow, so assemblies behave like engineers expect: parts, subassemblies, and drawings stay connected as you work. The SOLIDWORKS add-in also provides reference visibility so you can see dependencies before you make changes—reducing the “everything rebuilt wrong” surprises.
The pain this solvesSibe supports a simple, practical 3-state release flow: In Progress → Under Review → Released
It’s intentionally minimal because most engineering teams don’t need a “process platform” — they need a clear way to separate work-in-progress from approved-for-downstream without adding bureaucracy.
The pain points this solvesWhen an Owner approves a release, the files move to Released and are auto-locked. That means the released version becomes a controlled baseline: people can still view it, share it, and reference it—but it can’t be quietly edited and overwritten.
The pain points this solvesReleased files are intentionally protected so teams don’t accidentally change approved data. If you need to make a change, you unlock the file in the web app, then proceed through the normal workflow: update the design, send it for review, and release the new version.
The pain points this preventsMarkups keep review comments, redlines, and decisions attached to the exact file and version being reviewed—so feedback doesn’t drift or get lost across email threads and chat messages.
The pain points this solvesSibe is designed to get you productive fast without a long “vault prep” project. You can bring in a full project folder quickly, set a clear baseline, and then keep adding updates as the project evolves—without breaking references.
How import works:For most teams, it’s much lighter than a traditional “PDM migration project.” You can typically get a working workspace and your first project imported in a short session, then migrate the rest in phases as you go.
The pain points this avoids:Engineering CAD data is often your most valuable IP. For many teams, a cloud PDM like Sibe is safer than a local server because maintaining enterprise security standards in-house is expensive and operationally heavy.
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