Drawing Collaboration?

silas

When two people (both with access to the drawing package) are in the same document, it seems they cannot both access the same drawing tab at the same time. Is drawing collaboration something that will be supported in the future? Or will two people at least be able to view the drawing at the same time?

bobminer

@silas - As you said, collaboration in the same drawing tab is not supported yet.  It is something we want to support and we have a plan for it, but it's not there now.  To help us prioritize this vs. other things we might implement for drawings (e.g. other dimension types, other view types, datums, GD&T, etc.), how important is collaboration in a drawing to you?  Or how would you use it?  Thanks.

_Ðave_

@silas Thanks for noticing and mentioning this. Upon reading your post i checked this out and got a notice that collaboration is not supported in this tab. I also hope/wish that this will be available in the future.

thanks
Dave

bobminer

@silas - As you said, collaboration in the same drawing tab is not supported yet.  It is something we want to support and we have a plan for it, but it's not there now.  To help us prioritize this vs. other things we might implement for drawings (e.g. other dimension types, other view types, datums, GD&T, etc.), how important is collaboration in a drawing to you?  Or how would you use it?  Thanks.

_Ðave_

@bobminer Hi bob I think that I would only be interested in using it basically just for something visual to point at during a discussion on the phone. I do feel that it may be too much to have two people actually editing a drawing at the same time.

Thanks
Dave

bobminer

@da_vicki - Thanks.  That feedback helps.

3dcad

I would see collaboration possibilities in drawings, one is adding dimension, other notes and another user creating partial/section/detailed views.. but there should be certain restrictions on 'who is the boss' for moving things in place etc.. Or possibility to lock things?

Not a priority feature for me, but at least read-only and follow-me modes should be there before launch to keep the software consistent.

ps. When thinking stuff like this Ons could have some hierarchy in organizations where leader could assign tasks for co-designers..