The easiest way to track design changes, manage versions, and release revisions with Bild’s cloud PDM system
Connect every team and every decision to a single source of truth
You want to start making edits to an assembly or part, you check out the design to get edit access.
Make your design changes in your CAD system. Bild keeps track of which designs have changed and are ready to be pushed.
Check in your changes so other team members can review the latest updates. With every check in, add optional commit messages to provide context on the design change.
Bild automatically creates a new auto-incremented version with every check in. Everyone will automatically get notified that a new version is available.
Don't like your changes? Easily recover a previous version without losing any historic data. Love your updates? Keep building with confidence.
Empowering teams to build smarter, faster, and together.
All revision and version history for each file lives in the Activity tab of the File Info panel. Users can open any previous version directly in Bild’s built-in web viewer or download them in both native CAD and universal (STEP/STL) formats.
You can revert a design back to a previous version in the Activity tab of the File Info panel. When you revert back to a previous version, Bild creates a copy of that version and moves it to the top of your active revision block. We never delete any of the version history, ensuring you have full visibility into the history of the design.
Yes, Bild supports simultaneous read-only access for collaborative workflows. If a team member opens a file checked out by someone else, it will open in read-only format in its native CAD software. To save changes, the file must be checked out. If you make changes before checking a file out, you can retroactively check it out to sync your work without losing progress.
CAD versioning tracks every "Save" during the design phase, while revision control marks major, approved milestones. In Bild, versions are the high-frequency snapshots used for daily engineering work. Revisions are formal, locked states (like "Rev A") that have been reviewed and approved for production. Bild links these two, so you can see every version that led up to a specific revision.
Unlike legacy PDM, which requires the use of slow VPNs, Bild's cloud-native PDM uses background syncing to manage file states. Legacy systems often "lock" files in a way that prevents others from even seeing the latest data. Bild’s cloud-native architecture allows for instant, read-only "Gets" from anywhere, eliminating the "wait time" associated with traditional check-in/check-out cycles over a remote server.
