How to Check in and Check out Models and Subsets › How to Perform Automatic Check in and Check out › Example: How to Create and Update a Model › Step 6 Update the encyclopedia

Step 6 Update the encyclopedia

Send your changes from the workstation to the Host Encyclopedia often, especially if you have checked out a subset. Frequent updates without check in provide backup in case of a workstation failure. They also improve concurrence by helping avoid contention problems and make changes available to other project team members. When you perform an Update But Do Not Check In, you retain control of the subset or model you are using because it is still the active copy.

Note: To keep transmissions small, when you do an update, CA Gen sends only the changed portion of your model, not the entire model.

Updates with check in also provide backup in case of a workstation failure and make changes available to other project team members. When you update and check in a model, you relinquish control of the model or the objects in your subset. To work further on the model or subset, you must check it out again.