How would I build a house on CATIA with 3 different people?

[SacOU]

I've been instructed to design and build a house. I have 3 group members so we decided to divy up the work between the basement, first floor, and second floor. How would I divy up the work and still be able to connect each part into one file on CATIA?

 

[Azrael]

Have you considered concurrent engineering instead. Work in the same context (same assembly)and publish geometry that others can use, divide work in function groups maybe. Just thinking out loud, don't know if it's good, say that one guy works on the structural bits, the other with walls, the third one doors and windows.

 

[SacOU]

I don't really know. This is about my 3rd month into CATIA so I'm not sure how I can take parts and put them together as such.

I'd do the thing myself but I don't have easy access to CATIA whenever I want.

 

[m1mason]

Ideally you need a PLM or a PDM solution, ex. SmarTeam or Enovia. These are specialized programs for collaboration. they allow you to have a "vault" where you check parts in and out and you get notified when changes take place from different users.

The cons are, the high price point, difficult installation, hard to learn (relatively).

if that's not an option. then consider skeleton modeling. The idea; you create one part with all the necessary info and have everyone in the team insert a copy with a link to that skeleton model. it takes more effort to get this method to work and you have to have your design intent clear upfront.

http://mtm-cadtutorials.blogspot.com/

 

[wingatet]

Makes more sense to divide a building into either 'functional' systems; Structure, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Cladding, etc. or by construction sequence.
A simple approach to work together is to meet up and define a geometric skeleton which drives all other parts in the assembly and sub-assemblies and then each of you go off and build parts based on this skeleton.