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Recommendations

Consider these recommendations when subsetting:

• Know what you plan to do with a subset before you define it. Each subset should be created to support a specific set of workstation tasks.
• Keep subset definitions small. Understand what each scoping object adds to the subset and scope only those objects you need. Smaller subsets result in:
  • Reduced time to download
  • Reduced protection conflicts between subsets of a model
  • Maximized concurrent access to the encyclopedia
• Do not request delete protection for a scoping object unless you need to delete a component that requires this level of authority on the object.
• If you download a subset with delete protection for a scoping object, perform the operation quickly and check the subset back in.