How do I remote work

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my organisation (based in the uk) is looking to set up an engineer in
France. The intention is to have the French engineer access our
Solidworks data from our server in the uk and then attempt to work
live over the web. The management are convinced this can be done, I'm
pretty sure that the French engineer will need to take copies of our
files to his local pc and then work there. Now our assemblies vary
from 10mb to 100mb, and a complete assembly can consist of approx 500
parts.
Has anyone had experience with this type of working, any advice
appreciated.
Regards
Ken Carpenter

 

You could set up a "VPN" (Virtual Private Network)" to let your remote
engineer access your network "as if" he was connected locally. Then it's
only a question of bandwidth : with a 1Mbits/s ADSL, it will be 10 to 100
times slower than a local network, but still about 6Mb per minute can be
transferred, so it may be enough if checkin/checkouts aren't too frequent...

 

I've worked from home using a cable modem and VPN connection. Every
load and save is slow, but it is still far more productive than copying
files and having to synch them later.

Jim S.