Request - major Project Sharing improvements

[matteoluigi]

1) a better server system, sth like bim cloud from archicad.

- for a better quality of project sharing

- for a better quality of cloud based project sharing, specially for users working from home!

 

2) check-out for resources (specially symbols) very urgently needed.

depends on the project of course, but due to the fact that it's very easy and simple to create symbols many users love working with symbols. When these users now start working with project sharing they got stuck quite quickly in collisions caused by symbols edited by more than one user. Of course, a better organization in the project could help, but, honestly, we are working on a computer in order that the computer provides tasks like that, tasks like checking out symbols and releasing them, checking out object styles...

I can understand, that that's not possible because of problems with the undo list which project sharing is based upon. However, it's neccessary!

[Jeremy Best]

What method of file storage/sharing are you using? If you have network conditions that interfere with speed or reliability, such as those sometimes experienced when using a VPN, or cloud storage services where internet speeds aren't good enough, then the Vectorworks Project Sharing Server software sounds like what you need. It's very efficient communicates minimal data to achieve 'Save & Commit' and is apparently way more robust. 

[matteoluigi]

actually we're using a qnap system, we recently switched to.

 

some colleagues still did have reliability problems. Title blocks and dimensions have been suddenly disappearing from one commit to another (VW 2021).

We don't work in project sharing via VPN (we tried to but, acutally we don't, from the beginning I tried to make the teams work via dropbox, which worked quite ok)

 

We use the project sharing server mainly to be safe from afp/smb issues, also the qnap storage fortunately only supports smb and newer mac operating systems (Big Sur, Monterey) seem to have a better smb-system working)

However I honestly never really have been satisfied from project sharing. However how we are using it, there's always some lag, some data missing, some bug (in 2022 there has been a data-visualization/opacity problem which caused, that opacity from solid fillings hasn't been transmitted to the project file).

There's missing some kind of quality assurance-system in project sharing. PS is cool but it always feels like a system which still can cause some unexpected problems, also in VW 2023.