Locking Components

In a collaborative environment, you can lock a physical product or geometry that you are working on to prevent others from making changes to it.

Note: Consider the following conditions when working with components:

After making a new component, you need to save it first to view or change its reservation status.
In the collaborative environment, you can open and edit the component locked by another user but you cannot save it.
If multiple users are working on the same component, you are prompted to Update the component if it is not up-to-date with the latest changes.
You can lock the component after updating it.
If the component is up-to-date, the lock is applied preventing other users from making edits that might conflict with your changes.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open a physical product.

Lock a Physical Product

From the Design Manager, select a physical product to lock.
You can choose multiple physical products.
From the Lifecycle section of the action bar, click Lock .

Note: You need to save the product first to lock it.

The physical product becomes available only to you and restricts other users from accessing it.

From the Design Manager, select a physical product whose geometry you want to lock.
You can select the geometry of multiple physical products.
From the Lifecycle section of the Action Bar, click Lock Geometry .
The geometry becomes available only for you and restricts other users from accessing it.