working locally on network and cgr?

[dtwo]

Our company works with large catproducts through a local network. Each V5 user will open these catproducts at one time or another and each time a different person opens these products load time is longer because V5 creates cgr's each time the catproduct is opened.

My question is how does one create the cgr's once so when the next person loads the data the cgr's are already in place thus decreasing the load time?

 

[DBezaire]

dtwo - you need to have DMU licenses for this. This will allow you to setup the released cache.

Regards,
Derek

 

[dtwo]

We have DMU licenses so how do you set up released cache?

 

[DBezaire]

Tools--options-Infrastructure- Product Structure - cache management.
Press F1, help will come up that explains it fairly well.
The computer I am working on has this option locked by admin or I would go into a little more detail.

Regards,
Derek

 

[dtwo]

Just to let you know "work with the cache system" is active and also we have a common local cache folder amongst all the users.

Personally it doesn't make sense if each user opens the same data and each time the cgrs are created.

 

[ferdo]

Hi,

Tell to admin to setup a path for your cgr files. Then create a search order only with that path, without any other paths so everybody will load the same cgrs from only this folder.

That folder should be automatically updated by admin from time to time so everybody will use last version of the CATIA cgr files.

I'm supposing that all your CATIA files are somewhere in a read only area. You should have then a method to replace the cgrs with CATIA files (not cgr).

You have also to create another search order and load it to be able to use those files.

Regards
Fernando

 

[DBezaire]

They are only recreated if the time date stamp on the file has changed. If somebody opens the file - performs a hide/show on an object and saves - it changed, but it will perform the check on startup. With a central cache the user would only generate if the file has changed. I will run a check on Saturday, if 2 users touch the file (just open with no save) if the files regenerate the cgr.

Regards,
Derek

 

[catiajim]

Having everyone write to the same "user" level CGR directory is a Very Bad Idea. Set up your release directory as described above, and set up a batch job the populates the release directory on a regular basis.