topic Re: Telecommuting in Modeling

Telecommuting

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:14:56 GMT

just curious...how many out there are you telecommuting in a small office. And is AC a good tool to do this with. Any takers...after all it is Sunday

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:13:38 GMT

Yes, for the both…

450 kms under me and my old office…

ArchiCAD with Teamwork and good pen charts is a good way to do this.

Time to Telecommute

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:48:34 GMT

just curious...how many out there are you telecommuting in a small office. And is AC a good tool to do this with. I posted this yesterday and it was moved, I posted this question here because I am curious how do you handle your Teamwork files and libraries....have you had any problems doing this...has anyone have any success in telecommuting....

Re: Telecommuting

Stephen Dolbee — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:05:01 GMT

Yes and yes. Office is only about 25 mi. from home, but I only go in about once a week.

Steve

Re: Time to Telecommute

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:12:37 GMT

is there a way for a manager to actually watch what you are doing...?

Re: Time to Telecommute

TomWaltz — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:54:33 GMT

r wrote:
just curious...how many out there are you telecommuting in a small office. And is AC a good tool to do this with. I posted this yesterday and it was moved, I posted this question here because I am curious how do you handle your Teamwork files and libraries....have you had any problems doing this...has anyone have any success in telecommuting....

When you sign into a Teamwork job, you have the option of saving a "satellite copy" of your libraries.

You can only send & receive when you are connected to the network, either via VPN or in person.

Re: Telecommuting

Link — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:40:32 GMT

Sure - Idaho, USA and Auckland, New Zealand, but of course distance doesn't matter. You could share a project between Timbiktu and Easter Isalnd - as long as they both had internet access.

You can simply email zipped up Teamwork Draft Archives (.pca's) - that's what they're there for!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Time to Telecommute

Aussie John — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:34:44 GMT

I work remotely and always use a local copy of CAD things although connect direct for other items - spec databases etc

Re: Time to Telecommute

Djordje — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 03:29:23 GMT

r wrote:
I posted this yesterday and it was moved

If it is moved please continue the discussion in the place where it was moved to. Now I have to move this again ... 😉

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:15:14 GMT

Djordje,

I posted this subject in "Working with Archicad”…it’s gets the most traffic and I wanted to see how other firms split up there files and go about working in a telecommute environment…. I guess I will continue here……

if you telecommute how do you have a manager look over their employees work during the day

is there a way to look over the files live…..

when you access a project is better to cache the library on your home computer or to pull off your server….

Anyway more question to come…would like some more detailed feed back…I think it’s great that works but I need to present the how instead of the wows

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:40:25 GMT

r wrote:
if you telecommute how do you have a manager look over their employees work during the day

is there a way to look over the files live…..

Architime can measure "time of work". But it is for me a strange way to telecommute… Confidence is necessary.. to work at distance.
You can divert this tool, it does not measure quality of work…

I don't use them nor even imagines to use it…
May also you can buy the rule book and "Also included will be a mouse driver for delivering high-voltage shocks to people who do not comply" of Tom Waltz®.

If Architime interest you look at this subjects :
— Project Time Log
— Architime
— Architime won't forget

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:01:36 GMT

When I travel to Glasgow I still do work for my office in Detroit, MI... Before I leave I archive whatever Projects I'm currently working on, and take them with me, then I do the work and publish to an online PDF database that is hosted by a third party web hosting company. I'm the only one in my office who does work in ArchiCAD, so my bosses can just look at the PDFs, make notes, and email them back to me so I can make the appropriate changes in ArchiCAD. When they need to print something they can just make a print from Acrobat Reader... it works out pretty well, and I havent come across any major stumbling blocks yet.

cheers,
dan

Re: Telecommuting

Aussie John — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 12:05:50 GMT

r wrote:
Djordje,

if you telecommute how do you have a manager look over their employees work during the day

is there a way to look over the files live…..

Apples remote desktop allows you do do this. I think microsoft has a similar product

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:03:01 GMT

Daniel....interested in that which pdf online database, you or if you can recommend

Group.....if there is a teammate project on a website that everyone work can access...do they sign and save as a draft on their home computes or do they just sign in and work on that server...

in addition...does anyone use nitropdf to do markups in this type of work...

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:27:05 GMT

I am networking with my neighbor. When I load a file from his server it takes hours to read his library over the internet. I have the fastest DSL connection, and I have an identical library on my hard drive. How can I get my machine to read the library from my hard drive first?

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:39:30 GMT

Laurie,

that can be solved by using your library manager and just point to your hard drive....but just curious...what kind of server is it....unix/windows....

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:15:59 GMT

The server that we are using is an Apple X Serve.

I am able to go to the Library Manager and select my satellite library only AFTER the original 2 hour upload from the remote server.

I would like to set it up so that no matter who has opened the file from the server, my machine will choose my local library first. - Laurie

Re: Telecommuting

Aussie John — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:49:51 GMT

Laurie wrote:
I am networking with my neighbor. When I load a file from his server it takes hours to read his library over the internet. I have the fastest DSL connection, and I have an identical library on my hard drive. How can I get my machine to read the library from my hard drive first?

Make a client file and open it locally. When you sign in you get the option to select a satellite library. If not turn off your connection first and then you can open you file and load your local library. Then reopen your connection.

If you are trying to connect by directly teamwork , I believe that will be a struggle as each send and receive takes a long while (although I havnt tried it for a couple of versions).

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:15:30 GMT

Dear John,

Thank you. This seems like it should work. Perhaps we are having difficulties because our libraries do not match exactly.

Originally we were attempting to use teamwork. We gave up on that and are now just using solo projects. The highest level of success has been achieved through mailing zipped .pla files that have been archived with their parts.

I should be able to open files from the server using MY library. Server files always load the library from the server first, even after I work on my files that use my library. We must have different libraries. I'll let you know how this turns out. - Laurie

Re: Telecommuting

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 02:14:40 GMT

now I am curious...do you use redline markups when you work like this....or how do you resolve this