Editing in a LAN
Editing in a LAN
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Is there any way of edit a part or an assembly in two diferent computers at the same time over an intranet or network (LAN)?
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RE: Editing in a LAN
It requires that you open the parts that you are not responsible for in Read-only mode. That way you can open then, reference them if you need to and work on your parts as well.
Tell me a little about what you do, and how you are approaching it currently. I help people do this sort of thing all the time.
Regards,
Jon
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RE: Editing in a LAN
It is very common for my company to have multiple users, fingers, in the same pie at one time. If you give us a step by step description of what you are trying to accomplish I am sure that you will receive a number of different techniques from this forum.
BBJT CSWP
RE: Editing in a LAN
- We have a machine (Assembly A) that is composed for “n” Subassemblies (A.1, A.2, A.3….)
- Let’s pretend there are 3 people working in the Assembly A.
- The first person opens the whole Assembly to make a modification. When he does that, SW automatically sets the other A.1, A.2…. as ready only for the other users in the network.
- When the second person needs to open A.2, the 1st person have to close the whole Assembly A to be possible to edit A.2, then, when A2 is opened in the other machine, the first person have open the whole machine again and continue his work.
- If the 3rd person needs to open A.3, the 1st person must close the Assembly A again, and then, when A.3 is opened, open the machine again.
We will appreciate any tips that you can give us to better work in cases like that…
RE: Editing in a LAN
BBJT CSWP
RE: Editing in a LAN
The other user can't have the same part open, and the assembly has to be loaded as Light Weight.
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RE: Editing in a LAN
What about simply editing the individual sub-assemblies instead of someone opening the master assembly and locking everyone else out from the changes?
A third party SolidWorks Partner has concurent engineering software which will keep the master assembly updated in real time if your worried about conflicting changes in the sub-assemblies.
RE: Editing in a LAN
They were at SolidWorks World in Vegas.
It is a fairly inexpensive document management package that will handle this for you - you check out the parts of the assembly you are responsible for editing, it makes reference (read only) copies of the parts necessary to build the assembly to your machine, and lets other engineers know which parts you are working on by flagging them as OUT. The other engineers can check out the parts they need to work on, the system will give them reference copies (read only) of the stuff you are working on so they can build their assembly and edit their parts.