AutoCAD Plant 3D collaboration project files are hosted in Autodesk Docs.
AutoCAD Plant 3D primarily checks the folder permissions within Autodesk Docs for access management.
Anyone accessing the Plant 3D project should have the view and download permissions to the project root folder at the minimum for AutoCAD Plant 3D to function.
Drafters should have the view, download, upload, and edit permissions. The permissions can be managed for each folder. For example, you can allow only designers to edit models, and only drafters to edit P&IDs.
Permissions are cascaded automatically to the folders under them, but giving a subfolder increased permissions (for example, P&IDs) does not give increased permissions to the project folder above it.
For CAD administrators, it is recommended to grant them Full Control permissions to the project root folder to enable editing of Project Settings. Providing the view, download, upload, and edit permissions in the root folder have similar capabilities but the Full Control is useful for CAD admins as it offers more capabilities.
CAD Administrator | Piping Designer/3D Modeler | P&ID Drafter | Pipe Spec Editor | |
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Project Root | Full Control | View+Download | View+Download | View+Download |
Isometric | Full Control | View+Download+Upload+Edit | View+Download | View+Download |
Orthos | Full Control | View+Download+Upload+Edit | View+Download | View+Download |
PID_DWG | Full Control | View+Download | View+Download+Upload+Edit | View+Download |
Plant_3D_Models | Full Control | View+Download+Upload+Edit | View+Download | View+Download |
Report_Templates | Full Control | View+Download | View+Download | View+Download |
Spec_Sheets | Full Control | View+Download | View+Download | View+Download+Upload+Edit |
Autodesk Docs also has Roles in the Account Admin section where you can specify a role with default permissions (for example, as a drafter), and add team members to that role. You can still override those permissions for each Plant project folder as needed.
For more information, see the Autodesk Docs topic in the Autodesk Design Collaboration Help.