Hello, my library is on the server, I want to make it read-only to solid, stop sestatically saving the components "even if no modification on the library parts" but and this is where I get stuck, I update this library quite often, adding confique in the components or adding new components.
Is it feasible to have both states?
If you are the admin you just have to change the read/write setting of this said library
but for a certain effectiveness
This library must be read-only for users
otherwise it will become a real souk if everyone does the same
a question of common sense it seems to me ;-)
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Reading alone and editable, it's antinomic by nature.
The only way is to play with the users:
- an admin who has the right to edit
- Ordinary users who can only read.
If it's just to avoid recalculation, just turn on the block bar.
Do the components have configs?
Hello
By putting a password on the modification, it meets your needs.
After that, I don't know how the software will react when it wants to write in it.
S.B
Hello
Just ask your server admin to give access to your bib folder in read-only mode for everyone except you.
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You need to create a SolidWorks macro that allows you to quickly change the state of your file.
Maybe if you managed two sessions, one configured like all the other users: no write access to the library folder. And another "Librarian" session that would allow you to manage access to this library for yourself alone.
After that, you just have to switch between the different sessions!
I wanted to test this solution being in your case but my computer scientist didn't understand the usefulness and therefore didn't do it!
A simple thing to set up,
is to check the windows "read only" box
So basically all your bib files will be like this.
And when you intervene for modification, you uncheck the file, and you take it as a write.
On the other hand, it doesn't prevent anyone from still doing the manipulation, and therefore modding the files.
So if there are several backups of the server, we can recover if necessary.
(and also for your information, it is possible to work with several people on big projects, without being obliged to have ePDM, because there are functions and good settings to do for this in Solidworks)