Version control & secure sharing for CAD teams

Work with your documents, your way.
Kenesto keeps your files locked, versioned, and securely shared in the cloud without slowing your team down.

A Conversation with Ian Randall, Founder & CEO of Maglev Aero
We caught up with Ian Randall, Founder & CEO of Maglev Aero, at 3DEXPERIENCE World in Houston. He shares how his team improved collaboration, eliminated version confusion, and gained full control over their design files using Kenesto, strengthening the way their engineering team works day to day.

Version Control

Track and manage file versions

Secure Sharing & Permissions

Decide who can view, download, or edit

Smart File Locking

Automatic locking and permissions ensure everyone works on the right version

Trusted by engineering teams worldwide

Kenesto is a certified SolidWorks Solution Partner 

DraftSight Partner

Kenesto utilizes AES-256 encryption, backups and disaster recovery protocols to secure your data,

Autodesk solution Partner

Kenesto is Built on AWS infrastructure utilizing S3 and EC2 cloud computing

We’re live at NXT BLD 2026!

If you’re attending the show today, come meet the Kenesto team at Booth 14. We’re here showcasing how engineering and construction teams can simplify collaboration, manage documents more efficiently, and keep projects moving without version confusion or workflow delays. Stop by for a quick chat and live demo — we’d love to meet you. 📍 Booth 14 📅 May 13–14 | Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London    

One more sleep until NXT BLD begins and we’re ready.

The team at Kenesto has been working on PDFBilt for new ways to help engineering and construction teams simplify collaboration, reduce friction in critical workflows, and move projects forward faster. Visit us at booth 14 to learn about our new AI-assisted search capabilities -- it's blazingly fast. 📅 May 13–14 Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London See you at the show! #NXTBLD #AEC #ConstructionInnovation #EngineeringTechnology #BuiltEnvironment #WorkflowAutomation #DigitalEngineering...

Back at NXT BLD!

We’re excited to share that Kenesto will once again be presenting at NXT BLD, one of the leading events shaping the future of the built environment. At Kenesto, we’re focused on delivering smarter, more efficient solutions, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on. If you’re attending NXTBLD, let’s connect. We’d love to meet, share insights, and explore opportunities to collaborate. 📍 Boothe 14 📅 May 13–14 | Queen Elizabeth II Centre and we'd love to see you...

From Student Innovation to Real-World Impact ,This Is What Collaboration Looks Like

Building a racecar isn’t just about engineering skill ,it’s about managing complexity. With over 500 CAD parts in a single assembly, seamless collaboration and version control aren’t optional… they’re critical. That’s where Kenesto comes in. Instead of struggling with disconnected tools and outdated files, Terps Racing Baja now works in a centralized, real-time environment ,making it easier to design, iterate, and innovate without friction. So what does that look like in practice? Here’s what...

Faster Iterations, No Version Conflicts: RoboJackets with Kenesto

RoboJackets, Georgia Tech’s student-led rover team, competes in the University Rover Challenge designing and operating complex rover and drone systems under real-world, Mars-like conditions. As their assemblies grew more advanced, managing SolidWorks files through GrabCAD created friction: duplicate parts, uncertainty around the latest version, and slower iterations.   Since adopting Kenesto in 2023, the team’s day-to-day work has become much easier and more organized. As Arunn Sankar,...

Kenesto SolidWorks Add-in

If you work with SolidWorks, you know how quickly file management can get complicated. The Kenesto Add-in simplifies everything giving you full control over files, versions, and collaboration, directly inside your workflow. Less confusion. More efficiency.

live from DEVELOP3D LIVE

We're live at DEVELOP3D LIVE and it's buzzing! Great conversations, great people, and a lot of real engineering challenges being shared. If you're here and dealing with things like version confusion, overwritten files, or messy document sharing, you're definitely not the only one. We're at Stand A32, showing how teams can take control of their design data in a simple and effective way. If you're around, come say hi Would love to meet you and show you what we're working on.

⏳ 24 hours to go- Develop3D LIVE

Tomorrow, we’re heading to Develop3D LIVE 2026 and we’re ready to show how engineering teams can finally take control of their design data. If you’ve ever dealt with: ▪️ Version confusion ▪️ Accidental overwrites ▪️ document sharing You’re not alone and you don’t have to keep working that way. At Kenesto, we help design and engineering teams simplify collaboration, protect their work, and stay in control of every document. 📍 Find us at Stand...

Kenesto to Exhibit at DEVELOP3D LIVE – March 25, 2026

Kenesto will exhibit at DEVELOP3D LIVE on March 25- discover how design teams eliminate version chaos, protect files from accidental overwrites, and control exactly who can view or edit every document. Meet the team and see a live demo. 📍 Stand A32 – Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK 📅 March 25, 2026  

How UCalgary Racing Took Control of Their CAD Workflow

One outdated CAD file can derail an entire race car build. Now imagine coordinating 85 engineers, hundreds of parts, multiple subsystems all evolving at once. That’s the reality for UCalgary Racing. keeping track of versions, controlling access, and avoiding accidental overwrites became harder as the team scaled. To solve it, they centralized everything with Kenesto. Now every CAD file lives in one place, version control is clear and traceable, access is managed and the master assembly always...

What is Kenesto?

Kenesto is a robust cloud-based document management system.

Kenesto is a cloud-based document management system that is designed by engineers for engineers and designers, delivering a robust alternative to traditional PDM solutions. With the Kenesto Drive service on a PC, CAD and other applications work directly with cloud documents just like a local drive, always ensuring access to the most current document. Kenesto provides the tools needed to share, view, collaborate with external users, manage permissions, create versions, and lock documents for day-to-day work. Kenesto provides engineers and designers functionality, simplicity, and flexibility not found in consumer cloud storage solutions such as Dropbox.

“Kenesto stands out as a leader in forward-thinking online engineering data management. We now have a secure, cloud-based solution for document management, collaboration and version control, accessible from wherever we are in the world. On top of that, the Kenesto Drive feature allows our team to interact with our data as though it were a mapped server drive.”

Josh Adams, PE, Founding Principal, Apollo Engineering Design Group

“Kenesto is more than a collaboration tool – it’s fully-customizable to work with your processes and designs, and it provides a virtual workspace to store, view, and manage your data.”

–Elise Moss, Senior Mechanical/Thermal Engineer

“Kenesto has helped us structure our communication flow so that all involved can see the status of every campaign at a glance.”

–Erin Howell, Digital Campaign Manager, MEDIATA

We've switched to Kenesto this year and it has been great. Enjoying no longer chasing around loose ends caused by mismatched master assembly versions.

kenesto customer on reddit.

I've been using Kenesto Drive with Solidworks for a while now. I like that its Cloud-based, secure access and automatic file locking prevent version control headaches.

kenesto customer on reddit.

We started using Kenesto Drive a few months ago and it's been really nice so far. Kenesto was really easy to set up and the web portal is really handy as well. For a team like ours with nearly 60 people working on different parts of the car, the benefits over Solidworks PDM are pretty clear.

Kenesto customer on Reddit.