Take ownership

While working on a large assembly, you may need to update a particular part. To prevent other users from making changes to this part simultaneously, you must take ownership of the file.

To take ownership of a file within an assembly, do one of the following:

Click in the PLM toolbar.
In the PLM menu, select Take Ownership.

As a result, you are the owner and the file is locked for other users.

Note: When Take Ownership during Edit File preference check box is not selected, the users do not get the ownership of the files even when they execute Edit File command.