Share a project that has multiple documents to allow editing - but not to original documents

POC

Hi,
I have a large project that I would like to share with a 3d Party, so that they can make edits to the native Onshape parts & assemblies.. I don't want to allow them edit my parts though.
The project calls multiple documents what is the most straightforward way of sharing?

Thanks
Paul O'Connor

S1mon

Yes, if you branch documents, they would need to confine their work to the branch. You could derive parts into new documents and share those only, but then they wouldn’t have access to the full history. You also couldn’t merge their work the same way. 

To some degree you’ll need to trust your 3rd party. Keep in mind that every little edit is captured in micro versions which you can revert if necessary. If you just share the documents and give them guidance, the worst that would happen is you’d need revert stuff they did by mistake.

S1mon

Seems like a good opportunity for branching. 

POC

S1mon said:

Seems like a good opportunity for branching. 

Thank you for the response - I've looked at branching and it seems to me that it will depend on the 3rd party regulating themselves to work/modify only within the branch ? i.e. they will have access to allow editing in the version too?

S1mon

Yes, if you branch documents, they would need to confine their work to the branch. You could derive parts into new documents and share those only, but then they wouldn’t have access to the full history. You also couldn’t merge their work the same way. 

To some degree you’ll need to trust your 3rd party. Keep in mind that every little edit is captured in micro versions which you can revert if necessary. If you just share the documents and give them guidance, the worst that would happen is you’d need revert stuff they did by mistake.