Hey Inventors,
A department at our firm is taking it's first tentative steps into Inventor. They build substations for power utilities. It will only be a handful of users that will run Inventor Pro. What beginner mistakes can we avoid?
- Hardware - We should have more than adequate hardware to run Inventor Pro for projects over 1000 pieces. Anything to be aware of here?
- File management - How should Inventor projects be handled on a network drive? When is Vault justified?
- Is 2016 a good version to start with? Does 2017 have anything better? (We are on subscription so we are covered both ways.)
- We have a couple of designer in an office and a couple of designers that are "in the field". If they are outside the corporate network, will they have a bad time loading assemblies or having parts referenced in assemblies if those files are not contained on their local drives? Is there a workaround for this?
- What level of proficiency is required to create something like a substation? When is more training needed?
Thanks for any general advice you can give.