[TRNSYS-users] sim studio: direct access

[Michaël Kummert]

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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