Working together live?

Chriswh86
Chriswh86 Member Posts: 5 ✭
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Is It possible to actually work live with co-workers In OnShape? Live in the aspect of being able to see & watch what my co worker is doing In real time? Or how exactly does collaboration work in OnShape. Thanks
Chris
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  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2015 Answer ✓
    @chris_halliday626 , Yes it is possible in Onshape with the help of "Follow mode" option. When users are collaborating in a single document, they can choose to follow another collaborator. This allows the follower to see the actions of the other collaborator.
    To follow someone, double-click their social cue icon in your toolbar:


    To stop following, click anywhere in your browser window.

    Followers can see:

    • The collaborator’s active tab and actions in that tab
    • The collaborator's cursor movements (shown as a hand in the social cue icon color)
    • Views and Render modes of parts (accessed from the viewtoolicon-sentencesize menu, including Section view)
    • Selections made in the graphics area

    What followers do not see:

    • Selections made in the Feature list
    • Dialog boxes and work done inside dialogs
    • Part movement and sketching: you will see the part/assembly in its new location after a collaborator moves it, and a sketch after the Sketch dialog is accepted.

    • Tips

    • A single collaborator can have many followers
    • A follower may follow only one user at a time
    • For tabs that do not support collaboration (drawings, for example, or third party applications), a user who has shared permissions to edit the document can "steal" focus on a non-collaborative tab:
      • While on the tab, right-click the tab and select Steal edit to get a lock on the tab, preventing other users from getting focus on that tab.When trying to access a non-collaborative tab when another user has focus on it, you'll see this message:

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  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2015 Answer ✓
    @chris_halliday626 , Yes it is possible in Onshape with the help of "Follow mode" option. When users are collaborating in a single document, they can choose to follow another collaborator. This allows the follower to see the actions of the other collaborator.
    To follow someone, double-click their social cue icon in your toolbar:


    To stop following, click anywhere in your browser window.

    Followers can see:

    • The collaborator’s active tab and actions in that tab
    • The collaborator's cursor movements (shown as a hand in the social cue icon color)
    • Views and Render modes of parts (accessed from the viewtoolicon-sentencesize menu, including Section view)
    • Selections made in the graphics area

    What followers do not see:

    • Selections made in the Feature list
    • Dialog boxes and work done inside dialogs
    • Part movement and sketching: you will see the part/assembly in its new location after a collaborator moves it, and a sketch after the Sketch dialog is accepted.

    • Tips

    • A single collaborator can have many followers
    • A follower may follow only one user at a time
    • For tabs that do not support collaboration (drawings, for example, or third party applications), a user who has shared permissions to edit the document can "steal" focus on a non-collaborative tab:
      • While on the tab, right-click the tab and select Steal edit to get a lock on the tab, preventing other users from getting focus on that tab.When trying to access a non-collaborative tab when another user has focus on it, you'll see this message:

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