Wicked Cool Stuff
Dominick Gallegos, Civil 3D Technical Marketing Manager for Autodesk, shares his unique perspective and ideas on the functionality and use of Civil 3D for a range of different project types.
About DOMINICKLatest Post
- posted 11/09/06 by Anthony Governanti To share or Not to share....
- That is the question. Whether tis easier to leave your vault working folders local or to place them on a network share....Ok Ok Ok, 'nuff of the Shakespearian stuff.
So the debate continues to wage on about how to setup vault with regard to where to store working folders. I've been fairly torn over this battle myself for quite sometime. Just when I felt I had a decision made, and I picked a side, someone would come along and make a great counterpoint to the argument, and I'd be right back on the fence.
Well no more; I'm a pickin' sides, and that's that!
Network locations for working folders is the one I'm stickin' with; for now anyway.
Here are the advantages I see on this side of the fence.
- Locating the Working folder on the server allows for nightly backups of one set of data files.
- IT best practices discourages data being stored locally.
- Drawings that have data references or external references will be notified/updated every time they are saved; they don’t need to be checked back into the Vault (I think this one only applies to a shared working folder).
- Sheet set manager can leverage the network shared Working folder for construction documentation.
- Working remotely can be achieved via VPN.
- This is the way people are already used to setting up there project folders.
Of course, the next level of the debate, even after choosing this side, is whether or not to make the network share have a folder for each individual user, or use a shared working folder. That still remains to be decided.
Now this isn't to say that I'm dead set against local folders, I just haven't heard or experienced enough argument for them as I have for networked working folders. So for now, that's what I'm sticking too, take it or leave it. I'm open to hear arguments either way, so feel free to comment.
Till next time,
Cheers,
AG
P.S. For those of you who care, I just got my final grade for my first class back at school; A-. Not too bad for a stress case like me huh?
