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Re: [TRNSYS-users] sim studio: direct access



David,

In our office, we are 3 users involved in simulation with TRNSYS 16 and want to share our TRNSYS models through shared directories on our server: it's not so easy to do it because of the proformas that had to be saved in the Studio/Proformas directory of the installation directory, on the local machine, in order to be viewed in the Direct access tree. Of course we can use the "insert tree" function but it might be useful to manage a list of "based library folder" (from the Settings) to add user's defined components in a network shared folder.
Something like:
based library folder: "%TRNSYS16%\Studio\Proformas";"\\MyServer\TRNdir\UserProformas";etc...

Your suggestion seems a good one to me (but I am not the one programming the Studio!). As a workaround, you could also just put the whole TRNSYS installation on a network drive. With external DLL's, it is easy to organize your files so that the 3 users can use each other's components without touching them when they recompile a DLL. I must admit that we haven't tested that configuration recently here at the lab but I know users have done that in the past with TRNSYS 15 without any problems, and the multi-DLL architecture makes it even more interesting. Simulations might be a little slower depending on your network speed but, again according to my limited experience with that implementation, it should be OK.


Kind regards,

Michaël Kummert

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Michaël Kummert

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