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:

This addresses common pain points: Benefits for the team:

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 solves What Sibe does differently Efficiency + additional benefits

Sibe 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 solves How the 3 states work (what they mean day to day) Additional benefits Why this improves engineering speed

With only three states, teams adopt it quickly. Engineers don’t have to memorize a process map — they just move work forward when it’s ready, and downstream teams get a clear “use this” signal.

When 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 solves What the auto-lock actually prevents Additional benefits Practical workflow note

If a change is needed after release, you don’t edit the released file silently. You unlock it (web workflow), make the change through the normal process, and re-release—so the team always knows which version is approved and why.

Released 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 prevents Why the unlock step matters

Unlocking is a deliberate action that:

Additional benefits Practical example

If manufacturing finds an issue after release, you unlock the file, update the model/drawing, run it through review, and release the corrected version—so production always has a clear “approved” target instead of guessing which file is safe.

Markups 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 solves How it works Additional benefits

Sibe 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 or spending days cleaning up file chaos.

How import works (in practical terms): This solves the usual getting-started pain: Benefits you get during and after import:

Whichever import approach fits your situation, you achieve the same outcome: a working vault with traceable history, intact project structure, faster collaboration (no email zips), and a migration path that doesn’t disrupt engineering work.

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 How Sibe makes it efficient Cost-efficiency benefits

Engineering CAD data is often your most valuable IP—it’s what competitors want, what suppliers need, and what creates real business risk if leaked or corrupted. A security incident here isn’t “just IT”: it can mean lost competitive advantage, contract issues, rework, downtime, and reputational damage.

For many small-to-mid sized engineering teams, a cloud PDM like Sibe is often safer in practice than a local office server—not because on-prem can’t be secured, but because maintaining an enterprise-level security standard in-house is expensive and operationally heavy.

Why local servers become risky What Sibe + cloud hosting can improve

Sibe is hosted on enterprise cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud), which typically provides strong baseline controls (data center security, redundancy, monitoring) that would be costly to replicate on a local server.

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On top of that, a cloud PDM usually helps by design:

If your security statement is accurate for your current offering, you can also mention: SOC 2 Type II, encryption (e.g., AES-256), and automated backups—but phrase it as “Sibe provides…” and be ready to link the security page / report on request.

Efficiency + cost-efficiency (why this matters)

Achieving and sustaining strong security on-prem usually means ongoing spend:

For a mid-sized team, cloud PDM can be a more cost-efficient path to a high security bar, because much of the infrastructure burden is handled by the hosting environment and standard operating practices.