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haloumis
5 years agoNew member | Level 2
Using Dropbox to sync Solidworks files
Hi all
I just want to add my experience on this subject and some tips and issues.
I worked on a project using Solidworks, with 3-4 other engineers from 3 different companies. The CAD folder w...
JanMahler
5 years agoHelpful | Level 5
There are some settings in SW that is importent...
1) Set Auto-recover and Backup folder to local drive away from the "Dropbox" folder.
2) Set the collaboration: Enable multi-user environment.
This will do the trick. Dropbox will mark files with a (local users counterintuitive copy). So if to users are opening the same file Dropbox will save changes to both users in to separate file. No overwriting.
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