multiple users, best practice
multiple users, best practice
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I have been the sole user of SW in my company for many years now, this now is not the case as due to work load etc.. I have hired more staff to meet the demand. Basically when the first new guy came along with SW exp all was well as he worked on a separate project, now however I need the third guy to work on the same project. How is best to do this as the issue I have is two people need to be able to work on parts of the same assembly.
IF anyone has any tips it would be great!
James
SW2008 sp3.1
I have been the sole user of SW in my company for many years now, this now is not the case as due to work load etc.. I have hired more staff to meet the demand. Basically when the first new guy came along with SW exp all was well as he worked on a separate project, now however I need the third guy to work on the same project. How is best to do this as the issue I have is two people need to be able to work on parts of the same assembly.
IF anyone has any tips it would be great!
James
SW2008 sp3.1






RE: multiple users, best practice
Some members here use this in an of office of at least a dozen users. Others will tell you that PDM is a must. Both methods have their problems.
I would suggest trying the "multi-user" option first, because it is the simplest to implement and use.
RE: multiple users, best practice
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP, Certified DriveWorks AE
http://designsmarter.typepad.com/jeffs_blog
Dell M90, Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 3500M
RE: multiple users, best practice
With references opened as read-only, write-access is not tied up simply because a component file is open by another user who does not need write access. One gains write access to a component by either opening the file singly or by reloading.
RE: multiple users, best practice
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
RE: multiple users, best practice
Works best. If you guys don't have it, ask your management to upgrade to Professional. It comes with it.
Arun
Mechanical Engineer.
Solidworks 2008,Inventor-2009,
Cosmosworks,CosmosMotion,CosmosFloworks.