How to share materials in a group?

[JamieW_Campbell]

Hello! I work at an interior design office and we have finally got the whole office to convert to Chief Architect (X14). The issue we are running into is that we need to save new materials that we can all access. Specifically I'm talking about custom materials we are creating based on the client's selections. For example, our client selected an Ann Sacks tile. We have a lead designer and assistant designer on this project. Both need access to this material because both designers prepare renderings for the client. What's been happening is that the assistant designer will create the custom material and apply it to the walls or floors in the 3D, but then later when the lead designer is reviewing renderings in their own instance of Chief, they can't see the materials that the assistant designer added.

 

I imagine part of the solution is that all designers have to save the custom materials into a shared drive? Is there a way for the designers to set up an auto-refresh for their material library to pull in custom materials saved in the shared drive? Thank you in advance!

[DBCooper]

You can either use "backup entire plan" to share the plan and all of the referenced files or you could move your user library to a shared location.

 

Here is a tech article about using backup entire plan:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-00987/using-the-backup-entire-plan-layout-tool-to-send-files-to-another-user.html

 

Here is a tech article about moving your user library:

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-03090/moving-library-content-to-the-cloud-or-other-custom-location.html