Working from home

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, not sure if I am posting to the correct group but I am wondering if anyone else is using Inventor at home (working from home)? If so, how do you manage the large files over VPN? What would be the best way to work from home and still be able to send files to the workplace? Would it be better to have an external hard drive and then just physically take the files to work on the hard drive? 

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, not sure if I am posting to the correct group but I am wondering if anyone else is using Inventor at home (working from home)? If so, how do you manage the large files over VPN? What would be the best way to work from home and still be able to send files to the workplace? Would it be better to have an external hard drive and then just physically take the files to work on the hard drive? 

[neljoshua]

@Anonymous,

I am working from how right now as well. Our setup is as follows.

When in the office, we all connect to our Vault server through a wireless network. When out of the office we connect to Vault through a VPN. My setup is a little wonky right now because I am using a Mac and running Inventor through a Parallels Virtual Machine. In any event, those of us who have Macs use Tunnelblick to make the VPN connection. When working remotely we route all of our traffic through the VPN; this is the only way this setup works.

My home network is fast enough and/or my file sizes are small enough that I have not had any issues with this setup. Our assemblies are typically in the "hundreds of parts" range. There have been times where I had just let it sit for awhile to check something in (overnight once!), but the files did eventually check in properly. One note: when working from home I never delete my working copies when checking stuff in; this ensures that I also have a local copy in case something goes poorly with the check-in process.

Solely saving the files on a physical drive would be a solution if my connection was dodgy, but this makes me nervous; if the drive were to get lost/broken all of the work would be lost as well.

[neljoshua]

@Anonymous,

I am working from how right now as well. Our setup is as follows.

When in the office, we all connect to our Vault server through a wireless network. When out of the office we connect to Vault through a VPN. My setup is a little wonky right now because I am using a Mac and running Inventor through a Parallels Virtual Machine. In any event, those of us who have Macs use Tunnelblick to make the VPN connection. When working remotely we route all of our traffic through the VPN; this is the only way this setup works.

My home network is fast enough and/or my file sizes are small enough that I have not had any issues with this setup. Our assemblies are typically in the "hundreds of parts" range. There have been times where I had just let it sit for awhile to check something in (overnight once!), but the files did eventually check in properly. One note: when working from home I never delete my working copies when checking stuff in; this ensures that I also have a local copy in case something goes poorly with the check-in process.

Solely saving the files on a physical drive would be a solution if my connection was dodgy, but this makes me nervous; if the drive were to get lost/broken all of the work would be lost as well.

[Cadmanto]

I work from home all the time.  I tried VPN in the past and it hung up unmercifully.  So, from that point forward (and that was about 6 years ago) I either copy the files or do a pack and go (using a single path) to a thumb drive and copy them on to my local at home.  Works great and is a heck of a lot faster.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[Cadmanto]

I work from home all the time.  I tried VPN in the past and it hung up unmercifully.  So, from that point forward (and that was about 6 years ago) I either copy the files or do a pack and go (using a single path) to a thumb drive and copy them on to my local at home.  Works great and is a heck of a lot faster.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[Anonymous]

To 1 single path... That does mean all your files are in the main folder? No structure or whatsoever?

[Anonymous]

To 1 single path... That does mean all your files are in the main folder? No structure or whatsoever?

[Cadmanto]

What ever folder you select in the process within the working folder.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[Cadmanto]

What ever folder you select in the process within the working folder.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[dgorsman]

What are you doing for licensing - Desktop/individual, or network? 

[dgorsman]

What are you doing for licensing - Desktop/individual, or network? 

[Anonymous]

Stand-alone

[Anonymous]

Stand-alone

[blandb · Accepted solution]

If someone wants to see an assembly of mine, I will do a pack and go, single path > skip all libraries, work groups etc. This will give the end user just a folder with all the files at one level. Don't have to sift through 10 folders that all house 1 file a piece in them.

[blandb · Accepted solution]

If someone wants to see an assembly of mine, I will do a pack and go, single path > skip all libraries, work groups etc. This will give the end user just a folder with all the files at one level. Don't have to sift through 10 folders that all house 1 file a piece in them.