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opening file over a network

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Anonymous
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opening file over a network

I have a quick question regarding opening drawing file over a network...it is safe?does it make sense? We have 20 designers and drafters in our office and they are all on standalone licenses of Civil Series, Arch. Desktop, and AutoCAD and Raster Design on quality PC's. at the it manager don?t understand why they would want to work over the network...with their AutoCAD drawings seeing how 95% of the files contain some sort of aerial photo averaging around 200mb...some say they like it because they might pass the work off to some other person and then they don?t have to re-associate they images and x-refs to the drawing...I think that the load is to great over the network and that productivity is less because they are waiting longer for things to load...is there a right way? Thanks in advance Matt
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Anonymous
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I don't even know where to start.
Are your project files kept locally?
How do you back them up?
How fast is the Network?
100Gbit full duplex Network will open and close files at roughly the same speed as if they are stored locally.
If you have the backbone and server capacity, I would surely recommend that you work one the Network.
If you don't have the backbone or server capacity, it's time to upgrade.

John Postlewait
IS Department
George Butler Associates, Inc.
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Anonymous
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100Mbit cat5e network with 3com switches...projects are kept locally for the most part. files are kept on a NAS device post completeion and to move files from Desk to Desk...local files get backed up nightly. One need to remember though the DWG's are not that large it is the images and x-refs that are associated with those files that will eat the bandwith.
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cmjordan
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We store all working and released files on the fileserver. The fileserver
is raid5 with nightly backups, plus Server2003 allows for easy restore if a
user deletes a file. We have about 90 users in 3 locations, one is a
international location. Open and Save time is a little slower than if files
were local, much slower for international location. We made this decision 4
years after a spate of 5 local harddrive failures in the same week, where
100's of active working drawings were lost, a couple of man-months of work
gone.
A classic case for a PDM, which we now have - but we still use network
storage for working files.
Mitch


wrote in message news:4813471@discussion.autodesk.com...
>I have a quick question regarding opening drawing file over a network...it
>is safe?does it make sense? We have 20 designers and drafters in our office
>and they are all on standalone licenses of Civil Series, Arch. Desktop, and
>AutoCAD and Raster Design on quality PC's. at the it manager don?t
>understand why they would want to work over the network...with their
>AutoCAD drawings seeing how 95% of the files contain some sort of aerial
>photo averaging around 200mb...some say they like it because they might pa
> ss the work off to some other person and then they don?t have to
> re-associate they images and x-refs to the drawing...I think that the load
> is to great over the network and that productivity is less because they
> are waiting longer for things to load...is there a right way? Thanks in
> advance Matt

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