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I am currently starting a database of selected manufacturer libraries and several user defined products. This database of products will need to be accessable to anyone in the office who has StarDraw. I have made a standard template that would include the company title block and sheet layouts as per company standard and I was under the impression that when others would open this company template that the list of UDPS and manuf libraries would open with it, but from the few other computers I have tried the template on this doesn't seem to be the case. Could anyone please give me some insight on how I could go about making these libraries accessable by others (ideally they would automatically load when they open the template).
I believe our current config using Visio has all the products saved as a visio stensil template and we have those saved on to our internal server which is accessable to everyone. However, StarDRaw doesnt appear to allow me to save the manuf libraries that are applicable to us and the UDP's in this fashion so I am unsure how to go about making them accessible to others.
If someone could tell me how or where StarDraw does save these UDP's and selected manuf libs it might help me to figure out a way to make them accessable by others. Do the UDPs and selected manufs save on to each individual computer, within the StarDraw files on each computer, on to the USB activation key, into the drawing file or into an external file?
Thanks.
-Eric
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Hi David..
This is my thinking about your post. I don't need have to access all of my colleagues UDPs, I will have access to only the ones I already have and copied to my computer. Number 1 and 2 from your post is the problem generally speaking, but I was talking from ours company point of view.  Let me explain. We use,lets say 200 products total in all our projects. The goal is to make them in the way that suits our needs. Maybe we want bigger letters, different colours, no need for 20 inputs on some monitors,different look for monitor or some other products etc... So we would have some rules of how we will create our products and change yours. Regarding that there will never be products that some of my colleagues will not use. We are company of 10, 4 project design engineers, so in light of that we all have the same task. Fill in the library with products that suits our needs the best. I understand this is problem from your point of view, and from the point of view of many others with much more project designers. I was just looking at our needs and based on that, gave some ideas. (maybe little selfish)
So somehow the best way maybe it is for the shared UDP library in on some cloud. But how can we all fill in that library and work from there? Again speaking from our point of view, we know everyone of our products numbers and markings, so there wont be double products in shared library, but I understand that can be the problem in companies with many employees. Maybe solution is that like with manufacturer synchronization, we have some big UDP library,lets say on some cloud, and when we want some device, we go in that library, have search option, find the products we need,and import,sync them with our library on our computers. If there is 2 devices with same product number, and you want to save them both, for instance, I made a block that suits my need more,i don't like my colleagues block for this product (i am looking this from a general point of view,not my company) we can save that UDP,with the same name and only adding number 1,number 2 etc if there are already 2 products with the same name, at the end of the name. So when some of my colleagues is looking for that products, they will see several products with the same name and only with numbers at the end, and he can use which ever he finds the best for his project. That way there will not be overwritten products, just several products with same name and numbers at the end, Samsung B2230,Samsung B2230-1, Samsung B2230-2. Maybe this is bad example because it already has numbers in it,but you get where I was going with this.. Just like when you are downloading same file from net, from google chrome for example, when you download the file you already downloaded,it just puts (some number) at the end. In that way we don't have problem with more people working on same product, cause all products will be saved, just with numbers on the end. There wont be any lost UDPs, everything will be in the main library. And we wont have the need to download all the library to our computers, just the ones we need, so that fixes the problem,if some of colleagues, put picture 10MB in some products. If i see it takes to lot of time to sync that product, i will only cancel that product. Sorry for long post.
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