As of right now, the company I work for has three separate facilities (essentially three different companies). Over the new couple of years two facilities will be combined into one facility, the other will remain in Europe. The facility I am at does not use EPDM yet, but soon will. The other facility down the road does use it. The thing common between us would tend to be hardware, connectors, etc.
Has any one had experience with something similar to this? We are trying to determine if sharing one vault now is the best approach, as opposed to having two separate vaults and either trying to combine them in the future or leave them separate. And as i said for the most part, the only thing we would share would be workflow (maybe), cards, hardware, and maybe a few parts between them. We would share the same part numbers and part number logs, but that could be done outside of SolidWorks.
Or is there a way to share/mirror a hardware folder inside of a vault, replicated to the other? So we would always share the same hardware?
If anyone has any insight it would be appreciated.
Hi Brad
Currently there is no way to replicate folders between different vaults. The best would probably be to merge one of the folders in the one vault with one of the folders in the other vault
There is no limitation on the number of (practical) views that can be created for users. So you could have files from the one office in one vault, and files from the other office in another vault.
I would recommend that you try to rather merge all the data into one vault though, as this makes for easier management and requires much less overhead when upgrading / making changes to your vaults.
Also - it will become a nightmare to manage file numbers in two vauls, if the numbers have to be the same. Controlling this manually will not be possible really... yes maybe theoretically, but not practically.
This is an opportune time to reorganise the structure / or maybe make some optimizations that will make data access easier - which, by the way, is the end goal of having enterprise - to make access easier... just my 2c