Looking for API developer to help with Solidworks compatibility

Hi Joe,

Turns out your reply back in 2022 went to an unmonitored inbox. Oops.

We're still battling this issue with Dropbox and Solidworks. The problem is that Dropbox does not know when a solidworks file is open by another user when files are accessed on local dropbox folders. It's very common for us to have multiple users accessing the same fileset. Two people working on seperate parts, but both have the assembly open for reference/checking clearances etc. When users are both working off our server locally, solidworks handles this really well - only allows read-only opening. Alerting when changes have been made by other users. When we have two users remotely working on locally synced dropbox folders, the result is lots of duplicate files unless there is lots of communication between users (which is not always easy across time zones). Our dream would be that locally stored and synced dropbox files would work the same way as when working locally together.

My (vague) understanding is that Solidworks handles these functions with the hidden system files (the ones with a ~ in front of them). However, Dropbox does not sync those files. I had hoped that forcing dropbox to sync hidden system files would make it all work. Might be wishful thinking.

We have tried Solidexperience cloud storage as a way to manage this, but it failed miserably and couldn't reliably sync between different local drives. Dropbox is just so beautifully simple. 

Do you think it would be possible to do this?