Tekla Structures 2019 Share models and files March 2019 ©2019 Trimble Solutions Corporation Contents 1 Working collaboratively within a Tekla Structures model....... 9 1.1 What is Tekla Model Sharing..........................................................................10 Prerequisites for Tekla Model Sharing................................................................................ 11 Tekla Model Sharing licenses............................................................................................... 12 How Tekla Model Sharing uses the sharing service.......................................................... 12 Get to know Tekla Model Sharing basic working methods...............................................13 1.2 Work with Tekla Model Sharing ....................................................................16 Share a model in Tekla Model Sharing................................................................................17 Start sharing a model.......................................................................................................17 User roles in Tekla Model Sharing..................................................................................18 Information on users and sharing actions in Tekla Model Sharing............................20 Join a shared model in Tekla Model Sharing...................................................................... 21 Join a shared model......................................................................................................... 21 Information on shared models in Tekla Model Sharing.............................................. 22 Share your model changes in Tekla Model Sharing.......................................................... 23 Write out............................................................................................................................24 Read in............................................................................................................................... 24 Reserve the next write out.............................................................................................. 25 Share your model changes automatically..................................................................... 26 Detect sharing changes and view sharing history in Tekla Model Sharing.....................27 Sharing change detection................................................................................................27 Sharing history..................................................................................................................30 Object locks, drawing locks, and privileges in Tekla Model Sharing...............................31 Object locks.......................................................................................................................31 Drawing locks....................................................................................................................33 Privileges........................................................................................................................... 33 Create a baseline for a model in Tekla Model Sharing......................................................34 Tekla Model Sharing settings................................................................................................35 Exclude a model from the sharing service in Tekla Model Sharing................................. 38 Convert a shared model to a multi-user model in Tekla Model Sharing........................ 39 1.3 What is shared in Tekla Model Sharing.........................................................40 How data is shared................................................................................................................ 41 Exclude files and folders from Tekla Model Sharing......................................................... 45 How to share catalog updates............................................................................................. 46 How to share Organizer data............................................................................................... 47 How different object types work in shared models.......................................................... 47 1.4 Best practices in Tekla Model Sharing.......................................................... 50 Collect model history in Tekla Model Sharing.................................................................... 50 How object IDs work in shared models.............................................................................. 51 Backing up shared models................................................................................................... 52 Restoring shared models......................................................................................................52 Cache service for Tekla Model Sharing............................................................................... 53 Rejoin the model if the model is not saved after write out..............................................56 How to get support for sharing issues...............................................................................57 1.5 Multi-user mode ............................................................................................. 57 2 Multi-user system................................................................................................................. 58 Tekla Structures multi-user server as a service........................................................... 58 Install Tekla Structures multi-user server as a service.................................................59 Change the server of a multi-user model......................................................................59 Convert a multi-user model to a single-user model.................................................... 60 Convert a single-user model to a multi-user model.................................................... 60 How multi-user works ......................................................................................................... 62 Locks for models in multi-user mode............................................................................ 63 Saving in multi-user mode ............................................................................................ 63 Autosaving in multi-user mode..................................................................................... 64 Model history in multi-user mode..................................................................................65 Shutting down the model in multi-user mode ............................................................66 Copy multi-user models................................................................................................. 66 Display active multi-users............................................................................................... 67 Error messages in multi-user mode ..............................................................................67 Recommendations for multi-user setup...................................................................... 68 Remove inconsistencies from a multi-user database.................................................69 Modeling in multi-user mode .............................................................................................70 Numbering setup in multi-user mode ......................................................................... 74 Synchronize numbering with the master model.........................................................75 Drawings in multi-user mode...............................................................................................75 Guidelines for multi-user drawings...............................................................................76 Locks for drawings in multi-user mode......................................................................... 77 Delete unnecessary drawing files in multi-user mode ............................................... 77 Access rights in multi-user mode .......................................................................................78 Change access rights in the privileges.inp file.............................................................. 78 Options in the privileges.inp file....................................................................................79 User-defined attribute Locked........................................................................................81 Control access to lock and unlock objects in a multi-user model.............................. 81 Control access to numbering in a multi-user model....................................................82 Control access to save standard files in a multi-user model...................................... 82 Control access to remove users from a multi-user model..........................................82 1.6 Trimble Connector...........................................................................................83 Download a reference model from and upload a reference model to Trimble Connect...................................................................................................................................84 Launch Trimble Connect and Trimble Connector from ribbon or Quick Launch.......... 84 Link a Tekla Structures model to a Trimble Connect project............................................85 Download a reference model from a Trimble Connect project to a Tekla Structures model 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