I hope that someone has experienced this previously.
We have 8 detailers and 6 internal designers with one off site designer. All have standalone installations of AutoCAD on their local machines. We are all connected to the company network and have access to common drives. We have some standard blocks that we use and we are planning to store these and access them from the Design Centre. My question is:
Is it possible to have one copy of the information source (the drawing in the design centre) that all standalone machines can access so that if any changes occur to the blocks, they can be done to one drawing without the necessity to then copy the drawing onto each workstation.
We are all on the same version of ACAD LT (2017).
Thanks in anticipation.
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Stop laughing - I can hear you from here!!!!
I am saying that we are networked but we all have standalone installations and yes - it could be that we have more than one copy of a file!
We used Radan and that has its own server and stores files in personal directories on that server.
The new AutoCAD installations have no strategy laid down and so therefore each person, in theory, is allowed to store information locally. Dumb or what???
Unfortunately I am not responsible for the implementation of IT strategy otherwise this loophole would quickly be closed.
Thanks for your help Dean.
We do have a central network drive but we have Acad installed locally on each machine. We can share files but we are just having the rollout for the company. What I want to do is to be able to allow people to use standard blocks via the design centre but then, if any of the blocks are revised or updated, not to have to install the standard drawing on every machine.
Does that make sense?