About Locking and Unlocking

Locking a design in ENOVIA reserves the right to modify the design for the person who has locked the design .

Locking a design in ENOVIA ensures that no other user can overwrite the design with their changes. For example, if Part A is locked by User A, then another user, User B cannot modify Part A.

It is recommended to retain the lock for your designs when you save the designs to ENOVIA. Leaving a design unlocked in ENOVIA allows other users to modify the design and save their changes to ENOVIA.

This following is the read-only behavior of Connector for AutoCAD files depending on the lock status of files.

  • When locked designs are checked out, the files are downloaded to your computer with write access.
  • When unlocked designs are checked out, the files are downloaded to the computer as read-only files.

The Read Only behavior of a design depends on the attribute settings. For more information, see Entering GCO Attribute Values in X-CAD Design Management Administration Guide.

For the behavior changes due to the Read Only attribute, see Behavior Changes - Read Only Flag in X-CAD Design Management Administration Guide.