Managing the Native 3DEXPERIENCE Cache

The 3DEXPERIENCE platform offers many advantages, together with the flexibility to handle your information on the cloud for simple entry anyplace, anytime. A neighborhood Home windows Explorer folder is outlined as a cache listing to load SOLIDWORKS fashions.

These native information are uploaded to the 3DEXPERIENCE servers on demand for cloud storage and collaboration. Managing the native 3DEXPERIENCE cache is a key side of guaranteeing designs are updated and lowering disk utilization.

The place is the 3DEXPERIENCE Cache?

The 3DEXPERIENCE cache is often discovered inside SOLIDWORKS and as a folder in Home windows Explorer. Managing the cache manually by Home windows Explorer will not be beneficial; nonetheless, these are the default folder places.

• SOLIDWORKS Desktop utilizing the 3DEXPERIENCE add-in:
  C:3DEXPERIENCE
• SOLIDWORKS Linked:
  C:CustomersAppDataLocalDassaultSystemes3DEXPERIENCE

Accessing the 3DEXPERIENCE Cache inside SOLIDWORKS

Inside SOLIDWORKS and SOLIDWORKS Linked, enabling the “3DEXPERIENCE Recordsdata on This PC” add-in will present a Process Pane tab to handle the cached information. The tab features a checklist of cached information with key info akin to Standing, Lock Standing, and Maturity State.

The Refresh view command will replace the native cache for any information presently chosen within the Process Pane. The Refresh from Server command will examine for modifications between the cache and the 3DEXPERIENCE server, akin to if one other person had modified a file because it was final retrieved to the native cache. A brand new session of SOLIDWORKS will mechanically refresh the information within the background.

Refreshing the native cache

Native Cache Standing Icons

The Standing icons present info on the state of the native cache model in comparison with the server model. These may also help you establish whether or not you have got the newest model of a file or if a more moderen one exists. The icons may enable you to decide whether or not you have to refresh the 3DEXPERIENCE cache, save an area file to 3DEXPERIENCE, or if there’s nothing to be up to date. Probably the most generally seen Standing icons are proven beneath. You will need to do not forget that reloading a file from the server will overwrite your native copy and any modifications will probably be misplaced.

3DEXPERIENCE file standing icons

Clearing the 3DEXPERIENCE Cache

The native cache must be cleaned periodically to keep away from extreme disk utilization. This will also be carried out to make sure the native cache pulls the newest model from the server whenever you open a file. To clear the native cache, choose particular information or click on the highest left field to pick out all. Proper-click and choose “Delete from this PC” to delete the information from the cache folder in Home windows Explorer.

Utilizing the completely different file filters within the Process Pane can be utilized to streamline deletion, whereas the search field can allow you to discover particular information within the cache. You will need to confirm that every one mandatory information are saved and in sync with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform earlier than clearing the native cache.

Deleting information from the 3DEXPERIENCE cache

The Clear Up command has automation to take away unchanged information after a specified timeframe. Any information referenced in a cached meeting, together with information which might be locked or domestically modified, won’t be deleted.

Whereas it solely removes unchanged information, opening an meeting that references the eliminated parts sooner or later will obtain a brand new copy to the cache. The default timeframe is one week; nonetheless, if web efficiency or bandwidth is of concern and laborious drive house is enough, take into account altering to an extended timeframe.

Utilizing the Clear Up command

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