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Lock parts/products/drawings from editting.

Lock parts/products/drawings from editting.

Lock parts/products/drawings from editting.

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Is there a way to lock a part or make it "read-only" to force a "save as" from within Catia?  I've noticed in the Save Management window it shows attributes for parts (ie. read,write) but I haven't been able to figure out how to change them.

Any ideas would be excellent!

--Jared

RE: Lock parts/products/drawings from editting.

Catia picks up the Windows property "Read Only" when it loads files. So for example, you could have a network folder set to Read Only, and users would then have to Save As somewhere else to keep any modifications. As far as I can tell, Catia only checks this property when it first loads the file. If you change the Windows read only status later, Catia doesn't know about it.

Cheers,
Mark

RE: Lock parts/products/drawings from editting.

Otherwise, you need a PDM system such as VPLM or SmarTeam.  

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