Unlocking Components

You can unlock a physical product or geometry that you have locked during your work to make it available to other users in the collaborative environment.

This task shows you how to:


Before you begin: Open a physical product.

Unlock Objects from Action Bar

  1. From the Design Manager Tree, select an object you have locked during your work.

    The object can be one of the following:

    • One or more physical products
    • One or more 3D Shapes

  2. From the Lifecycle section of the action bar, click Unlock .
    The selected object becomes available for others to edit.

Unlock Objects from Context Toolbar

  1. From the Design Manager, select an object you have locked during your work.

    The object can be one of the following:

    • One or more physical products
    • One or more 3D Shapes

  2. From the tree, right-click the object and from the context toolbar, click Unlock to unlock a physical product or to unlock a geometry of the physical product.
    The geometry becomes available to others to edit.