Hello All
We use Inventor and EPDM vault, is it a best practice to have the Inventor project file (.ipj) inside the EPDM vault?
We use an approach of using a standard project file used by everyone for almost every project. This is creating multiple problems for us now. Since a single project file is referenced by thousands of CAD files, any interaction with the CAD files in EPDM is really slow.
We are thinking of deleting the standard project file from the vault (which takes a few days to remove all the references and do all kind of other related stuff) and moving it to outside the vault. Is that a good/bad idea? Has someone tried this before?
Thanks
Rekha
Another attempt to get this on the radar.
Our major problem is since a single project file is referenced by thousands of CAD files, any interaction with the CAD files in EPDM is really slow.
For example opening an assembly file (saved in the EPDM vault) in Inventor would take so much time because before spinning up the Inventor session, it would take a ~1-2min to do reference checks.
If the same assembly is saved in the EPDM vault with the ipj outside PDM it is 2x-3x faster. We have been doing some testing in non-prod vaults and don't see any problems with this approach of deleting the ipj file from the EPDM vault and creating new one outside the EPDM vault.
I want to know if someone thinks this is a really bad idea, we are completely missing something here or have some comments/questions
Because as far as I understand, once these references are removed & ipj is deleted from the vault, if we find after a month or later that this is a really bad move, it is creating more issues than before, then going back to the old state would be really difficult considering the number of files, time and effort involved.
Thanks
Rekha