Project Management enables you, in the role of an administrator, to set up and manage a Smart 3D project and its related hierarchy of permission groups and access privileges. Specific tasks that you can perform in Project Management include:
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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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Granting administrative permissions to other site administrators.
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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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Adding external reference data to the model.
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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 database must already exist before you can open Project Management.
You use the Database Wizard to create these databases. For more information, see Set up a new Smart 3D 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.