Is IV7 a "collaborative" design app?

[Anonymous]

Can someone tell me if its possible in IV7 to have two
people working on the same assembly part the same time
from two diff computers hooked up to a LAN?

In other words...is Inventor a "collaborative" design
app?

[Anonymous]

My draftsman is mapped to my HD and does and saves all his work there while
I am working there and we have had no problems (until I crash that is). I
guess this is kind of like your situation.

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> Can someone tell me if its possible in IV7 to have two
> people working on the same assembly part the same time
> from two diff computers hooked up to a LAN?
>
> In other words...is Inventor a "collaborative" design
> app?

[Anonymous]

Yes it is collaborative. Now you can't have more than one person with write access to a particular file at the same time (don't think you can do that with any program) but you can have several people with the same assy open and working on different parts within that assy. As the group members save their part changes the assy will update on everyone else's system. Only one person has full write access to that assy though.



You can even look at other group member's IV screens and have access to their IV to show or discuss issues.



MechMan

[Anonymous]

Actually, I witnessed this two days ago (major stupid move, but I
actually saw a group do this). The project team was migrating from R5.3
to R6. All files on the network. One engineer working on the top level
assembly drawings is in R5.3 shooting for a 3:00pm deadline, a second
engineer is working on a subassembly containing complex machined parts,
also in R5.3 and the lead engineer is running Migration assistant on all
the files on the network (which the others are working on in R5.3).

Inventor was quite happy to let them do this and I have no idea if it
broke anything but it was kind of funny. They are all on R6 now. As a
rule, most of our engineers will work on shared files on network drives.
The more active new stuff tends be kept local until the design gets
firmed up. The biggest complaint seems to be network performance
related. I can't remember the last time I heard about anyone
overwriting someone else's files but I know it does happen.

MechMan wrote:

> Yes it is collaborative. Now you can't have more than one person with
> write access to a particular file at the same time (don't think you
> can do that with any program) but you can have several people with the
> same assy open and working on different parts within that assy. As the
> group members save their part changes the assy will update on everyone
> else's system. Only one person has full write access to that assy though.
>
> You can even look at other group member's IV screens and have access
> to their IV to show or discuss issues.
>
> MechMan
>

[Anonymous]

>Yes it is collaborative. Now you can't have more than one person with write access to a particular file at the same time (don't think you can do that with any program) but you can have several people with the same assy open and working on different parts within that assy. As the group members save their part changes the assy will update on everyone else's system. Only one person has full write access to that assy though.

You can even look at other group member's IV screens and have access to their IV to show or discuss issues.

MechMan

OK.... good

How many "seats" of Inventor do we need to do the
above.... "collaboration" that is?

I mean ....Im assuming we need a seat/license for
EVERYONE involved in working on that example assembly
above, right?

Do they make a special "network" version of IV7 just
for this purpose..... or can a stand alone version do
it also but just need more licenses??

[Anonymous]

>Inventor was quite happy to let them do this and I have no idea if it
>broke anything but it was kind of funny.

How was it "funny"

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

You need a license for every user At any one time, meaning this. You can have
standalone licenses, which you buy individually, or network license. Network
will allow you to have less licenses than users as long as only a certain number
of users are using it at one time (In other words, IV "checks-out" licenses to
users when they open IV. When they close it, someone else is able to use that
same license). So it really depends on how many users us IV and how many at the
same time. Ask your VAR for more details.

--
Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

To view and take control of another user's IV session you don't even have to have IV installed on your system, just NetMeeting (on both systems).

MechMan

[Anonymous]

Works over both a local network and the internet.

MechMan