About Locking and Unlocking

You can lock a design in 3DEXPERIENCE to reserve the right to modify it.

Locking a design in 3DEXPERIENCE 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 that you retain the lock for your designs when you save them to 3DEXPERIENCE. Leaving a design unlocked in 3DEXPERIENCE means that other users could potentially modify the design and save their changes to 3DEXPERIENCE.

Read Only Behavior for Configurations

The following are the behavior changes while managing configurations in 3DEXPERIENCE depending on the lock status of the files:

  • When you check out a locked configuration, the instances are downloaded to your computer with write access.
  • When a configuration is unlocked, all of its instances are unlocked. Upon check out, these instances are downloaded to the computer as read-only files.