Manage Project Settings

Project administrators can specify the main model used by the project, manage support for DWG files in the project, and export project templates.

Note: The Project Admin > Services > Design Collaboration page contains multiple tabs. This topic describes the Manage tab. The Shared Folder tab shows the location of the shared folder for the project. The function of the Team Setup and coordination tabs are described in the Teams in Design Collaboration topics.

Select a Main Model

The main model is used to derive details for levels and phases in the project. It is also used for certain hypermodel features.

If no main model is selected, the largest published model is used.

To select the main model:

  1. Use the Module selector to switch to Project Admin.

  2. Under Services, click Design Collaboration in the left panel.

    Note: If you enter the Project Admin module directly from Design Collaboration, you start in this position.

  3. Click the Manage tab.

  4. Select the model you want to use as the main model from the drop-down list.

The list of models is populated from the Shared folder.

Manage DWG Support

The performance of Design Collaboration can be affected by having large numbers of DWG files in your project.

To turn DWG support on and off for the project:

  1. Use the Module selector to switch to Project Admin.
  2. Under Services, click Design Collaboration in the left panel.
  3. Click the Manage tab.
  4. Toggle the DWG support option to turn DWG support on or off for the project.
Tip: To improve the performance of Design Collaboration with DWG support on, we recommend that you keep only DWGs that are relevant to the design in the team folder. You can store non-design DWGs, for example deliverables, in a separate folder outside the team folder.

Project Template

You can export a template from the current project, allowing you to reuse settings when creating new projects. See Project Templates for more information.