Tekla Structures 2019i Share models and files September 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................................................................................ 12 Tekla Model Sharing licenses............................................................................................... 12 How Tekla Model Sharing uses the sharing service.......................................................... 13 1.2 Work with Tekla Model Sharing ....................................................................14 Share a model in Tekla Model Sharing................................................................................18 Start sharing a model.......................................................................................................18 Invite new users to a shared model...............................................................................19 Modify user roles in Tekla Model Sharing..................................................................... 20 Remove users from a shared model..............................................................................22 View information on users and sharing action.............................................................22 Join a shared model in Tekla Model Sharing...................................................................... 23 Join a shared model......................................................................................................... 23 Information on shared models in Tekla Model Sharing.............................................. 25 Update the model with other users' changes....................................................................27 Share your model changes in Tekla Model Sharing.......................................................... 28 Write out............................................................................................................................28 Reserve the next write out.............................................................................................. 29 Share your model changes automatically..................................................................... 30 Detect sharing changes and view sharing history in Tekla Model Sharing.....................31 Detect sharing changes................................................................................................... 31 View the sharing history.................................................................................................. 34 Set object locks, drawing locks, and privileges in Tekla Model Sharing......................... 35 Set object locks................................................................................................................. 35 Set drawing locks..............................................................................................................37 Set privileges..................................................................................................................... 37 Create a baseline for a model in Tekla Model Sharing......................................................38 Collect model history in Tekla Model Sharing.................................................................... 39 Collect model history in Tekla Model Sharing...............................................................39 Clear model history in Tekla Model Sharing................................................................. 40 Tekla Model Sharing settings................................................................................................41 Exclude a model from the sharing service in Tekla Model Sharing................................. 44 Convert a shared model to a multi-user model in Tekla Model Sharing........................ 45 1.3 What is shared in Tekla Model Sharing.........................................................46 How data is shared................................................................................................................ 47 Exclude files and folders from Tekla Model Sharing......................................................... 51 How to share catalog updates............................................................................................. 52 How to share Organizer data............................................................................................... 53 How different object types work in shared models.......................................................... 53 How property files in the XS_FIRM and the XS_PROJECT folders are shared..................56 1.4 Best practices in Tekla Model Sharing.......................................................... 57 Install the Cache service for Tekla Model Sharing............................................................. 58 Use GUIDs correctly in shared models............................................................................... 60 Back up shared models.........................................................................................................60 2 Number model objects in Tekla Model Sharing.................................................................61 1.5 Repair Tekla Model Sharing issues................................................................61 Restore shared models......................................................................................................... 62 Rejoin the model if the model is not saved after write out..............................................63 Get support for sharing issues............................................................................................64 1.6 Multi-user mode ............................................................................................. 64 Multi-user system................................................................................................................. 65 Tekla Structures multi-user server as a service........................................................... 65 Install Tekla Structures multi-user server as a service.................................................66 Restart the multi-user server service.............................................................................67 Install a new instance of the multi-user server service............................................... 67 Uninstall an instance of the multi-user server service................................................ 68 Change the server of a multi-user model......................................................................69 Convert a multi-user model to a single-user model.................................................... 70 Convert a single-user model to a multi-user model.................................................... 70 How multi-user works.......................................................................................................... 71 Locks for models in multi-user mode............................................................................ 72 Saving in multi-user mode ............................................................................................ 72 Autosaving in multi-user mode..................................................................................... 73 Model history in multi-user mode..................................................................................74 Shutting down the model in multi-user mode ............................................................75 Copy multi-user models................................................................................................. 76 Display active multi-users............................................................................................... 76 Error messages in multi-user mode ..............................................................................77 Remove inconsistencies from a multi-user database.................................................78 Modeling in multi-user mode .............................................................................................78 Numbering setup in multi-user mode ......................................................................... 82 Synchronize numbering with the master model.........................................................83 Drawings in multi-user mode...............................................................................................84 Guidelines for multi-user drawings...............................................................................84 Locks for drawings in multi-user mode......................................................................... 85 Delete unnecessary drawing files in multi-user mode................................................ 86 Access rights in multi-user mode .......................................................................................87 Change access rights in the privileges.inp file.............................................................. 88 Options in the privileges.inp file....................................................................................89 User-defined attribute Locked........................................................................................90 Control access to lock and unlock objects in a multi-user model.............................. 91 Control access to numbering in a multi-user model....................................................91 Control