• Vectorworks Tip 375 – Project Sharing – Setting Up Privileges For Users

    Project sharing has an administration dialog box that allows you to set up preferences (or privileges) for different users. This allows you to set up a system that allows some users to have full access to the file,while other uses can only see the contents of the file and cannot…

  • Vectorworks Tip 370 – Project Sharing – Viewports

    Because the design layer is the basic currency of project sharing, if you want to update a viewport on a sheet layer, you may need to check out that sheet layer and the design layers that have been used to create that viewport. If you do not you will be…

  • Vectorworks Tip 335 – Project Sharing – Save and Commit

    When you are working on a Working File and you save your work, this work is not automatically sent to the project file. This gives you the option of trying out some of your design before committing it for others to work on. if you want to send your work…

  • Vectorworks Tip 331 – Project files and Working Files

    The concept behind project sharing is that there is one Project file, but eveyone that wants to work on the project has a working file. The data is stored in the Project file and the working file, but the data is only sent to the Project File when you Save and…

  • Vectorworks Tip 327 – Project Sharing

    Project sharing allows you to set up a project so that several people can work on it at once. It allows users to check out specific layers (like checking out a book from a library), which prevents other people from working in those layers. Other users can see the changes…