Hey HN,

A friend at a hardware startup mentioned how their engineering team struggles with CAD file conflicts as PDM solutions are not affordable. Multiple engineers opening the same SolidWorks part = corrupted files and lost work.

I was motivated and started building Nova. Nova is a open source file locking system, designed to support multiple CAD softwares with real time locking and live dashboard to keep design engineers in sync.

Nova is built with python and Next.js.

Get started with -

  git clone https://github.com/agg111/nova
  cd nova
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  nova start
  nova --help (for more commands)

Open http://localhost:3000 in browser

I am looking for early users to get some feedback and learn about more features or bottlenecks that mechanical design teams currently face.