Sketchup Approval by IT department for SOE
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Does no one care to chime in on this?
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Kevin, I am guessing that most of the active participants here are workstation users unconcerned with networks. You may have to go to Google to get help. Try searching the forum with "construction, network, etc.". If you find a applicable comment, email the user.
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@unknownuser said:
I will be presenting Sketchup 7 to the IT department tomorrow..............and I am trying to get Sketchup approved for use
This seems odd to me. An I.T dept should only be concerned with the running requirements of the proposed software. As a designer/architect/technician you shouldn't need to justify using SU to them, they should not be concerned with project delivery.
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I imagine it depends a lot on the company, but it isnt unusual for larger IT departments to completely lock down company workstations and only allow pre-approved software. Obviously helps a lot with stability but not so good for the more adept user who cant do anything.
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@unknownuser said:
SIS type video drivers or clients machines with weak CPU's then yes it will be difficult from day one.
This is most helpful.
I greatly appreciate the responses and corrections to my errors in terminology. I am not familiar with SOE and it has yet to be fully transitioned.
Thank you much for the responses, it is difficult to understand our IT departments reasoning.
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Well that meeting wasted more money than several seats of Pro would have cost.
I am still allowed to use SU, but only if I use it on a computer that is in no way connected to the IT departments realm of control.
How frustrating...
Any suggestions?
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Is there a reason why you want the actual program to be on the server? I don't think this would limit you from storing/retrieving .skp files from the server from any workstation.
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Kelvin
What is the core function of your business? If its architecture or design based, I think your I.T. department need a reality check. I.T. management is a supporting, enabling function to a business. If you need Sketchup for the business to operate, they should facilitate that.
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If you have a reasonable laptop with a graphics card (not integrated graphics) you shouldnt have any problems running SU on that, it would have to be a personal laptop, though, as per your IT departments request. If you need to do any serious work in SU you could probably hook it up to a screen at work to make it feel more like a desktop.
And if i could ask, did the IT department have any particular reason for not wanting to install SU, or was it just a blanket 'we dont want/need this' sort of thing?
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To answer your question, SU would be used as supplement to AutoCad until enough people use it, then we all know what will happen. I am a mechanical/construction engineer that is trying to make up for the fact that the client didn't want a 3D model. Why?, I really don't know. The size of this project is larger than you might guess, regardless of the size I would like to continue using SU even if it just for my own increase in productivity and ease of reporting with simple visualizations.
Time will tell. -
Does the client, in your eyes, need a 3d model?
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@unknownuser said:
This seems odd to me. An I.T dept should only be concerned with the running requirements of the proposed software. As a designer/architect/technician you shouldn't need to justify using SU to them, they should not be concerned with project delivery.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an IT man in possession of authority turns into a control freak."
From experience...
"What you need to do is install i-drop to work with AutoCAD. It's a free add-on from Autodesk."
"We can't do that the IT manager won't approve it!"
"Then he's a WCW!"
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