Project Management enables you, in the role of an administrator, to manage the design and the related hierarchy of permission groups and access privileges. Specific tasks that you can perform in Project Management include:
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Granting administrative permissions to other site administrators.
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Defining models and their related properties.
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Defining permission groups and the folders that organize them.
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Granting read, write, and other access privileges to users in specific permission groups.
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Defining and managing locations for Global Workshare.
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Creating Reports databases for an individual model.
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Backing up and restoring Smart 3D databases.
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Migrating catalog and model databases to the currently installed version of the software
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Managing the administration of projects through the stages of active, complete, and merged with as-built.
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Configuring and managing the database interference detection service.
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Copying portions of a model to a different location or to another model.
A site and site schema databases must currently exist before you can open Project Management. You use the Database Wizard to create these databases. For more information, see Set up a new project.
Where do I go from here?
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The Smart 3D databases gives you an overview of the seven interrelated databases that the software uses.
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Exploring the Project Management hierarchy gives you a quick tour of the Project Management window and the icons the software uses in the Project Management tree.
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What do you want to do? provides a library of step-by-step procedures of common Project Management tasks.
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Command Reference provides command descriptions for al the commands available in Project Management.