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I am working with some oversees users who like to work outside the system, and I’m trying to understand the benefit of doing so compared to working in a WS offline. It seems like adding the models to a WS, creating a local backup, working on the backed up models locally, importing the models into a WS, and then trying to check them in is more complicated than simply staying in the WS, setting it to offline, working, and then connecting and synching it when the work is done and ready to check in. They work offline sometimes due to network connection or speed issues. Do you see an advantage to working outside the system? What disadvantages do you see that may bite us later? When importing into a WS I always seem to have issues with existing objects, so offline just seems simpler and easier. Thanks for your insight.
I've seen people export data from workspaces and work offline locally due to being surprised.
Basically the server keeps going offline and they get tired of the messages.
I have to agree that most of the time it's just user inexperience and lack of acceptance of the Windchill workflow.
Joshua Houser
(have I talked to you about FIRST robotics yet?)
Pelco by Schneider Electric
Methods & Tools Sr. Engineer
If I had a choice, I would work offline. Especially if using Creo and make us of the correct tools to take the workspace off-line. We have used this on various occasions where users have had to work off-site for a few days. Not quite so easy with WGM for CATIA etc though.
Yes workspaces can become corrupt, but that can happen even when permanently connected to the server, with the same result.
As for the issue of Windchill not keeping each save, in Creo workspaces you can make use of frames if your admins have the facility switched on. This allows you to step back through saves etc. How far you can go back depends on the maximum number of frames set by the admins.
We don't use this ourselves as we use 4 different CAD systems, and it saves confusing the users over differing functioanlity (and saves us admins from lots of "why can't i do this in WGM" moans!).
Simon Lucas
Do you have a remote file server set up for your overseas users? We have a very sluggish connection to one of our sites, and the file server has made performance much better for the users. So if performance is the real issue, this may solve the problem.