Locking and Unlocking Objects in the Workspace

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Locking a workspace object gives it a read-only status in the workspace and in the CAD application session. The action is only available from an active workspace.

You may want to make an object read-only for any of the following reasons:

• To avoid inadvertent modification

• To reduce the number of times that the Conflicts window is presented for objects that are not intended to be modified

• To give the user better visibility into changes made implicitly by the CAD application (for example, unplanned or unexpected changes required during regeneration/rebuilding)

• To prevent the object from being saved

Read-only object status is a property of the local cache, whether the workspace is online, offline, or portable. There is no notion of a locked object in the server-side workspace (which is viewed in standalone browser) or the commonspace.

The preference Workspace > Add to Workspace and Checkout > Automatically lock objects added to workspace can set the workspace lock default to automatically lock all objects that are not being checked out during Add to Workspace and Checkout operations.