topic Sharing custom surfaces across projects in Libraries & objects

Sharing custom surfaces across projects

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:25:46 GMT

Hello

What is the most efficient way of making custom made surfaces available across different projects?

I know you can save a file from attributes manager and load into another project, but I was wondering if there is now a way to save custom made surfaces or complex profiles to a centralized database that is immediately accessible to other projects.

Is this feature available in Teamwork? Do people working alone use Teamwork to centralize libraries and to make customized attributes available to all their other projects?

Thanks

Re: Sharing custom surfaces across projects

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:56:56 GMT

Attribute Manager is the only means of moving any attributes - such as surfaces - from one file to another. In TW, of course, the user adding the attributes must have access rights and a reservation to modify things.

Re: Sharing custom surfaces across projects

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:16:08 GMT

Thanks Karl, that is what I feared.

Hopefully AC will one day have an attributes manager that can synchronize to a centralized office attributes file folder. Cant be that difficult to do can it?

Re: Sharing custom surfaces across projects

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 22:55:17 GMT

You wouldn't think so, but it has been on the wish list for a long time... so who knows when we'll see it... We could still have 'embedded' attributes like now to freeze things... but live-linked attributes (and other settings - such as CineRender scenes) would sure simplify complex projects.