Autodesk Vault product data management (PDM) software integrates with Autodesk design tools and other CAD systems to keep everyone working from a central source of organized data. Use Autodesk Vault to increase collaboration and streamline workflows across engineering, manufacturing, and extended teams.
Enable collaboration capabilities across stakeholders using Project Sync with Autodesk Inventor and Fusion. Share native files and design updates bi-directionally while maintaining access permission control, versioning, and traceability.
Extend data and processes when you bundle Vault Professional with Autodesk Fusion Manage, a powerful cloud-based PLM solution for managing new product introductions, quality, supplier collaboration, requirements, and more. Talk to your Autodesk Sales rep or reseller about Vault PLM.
Vault helps ensure that everyone is working with the most up-to-date information in a system that automatically tracks changes, maintains past file versions, and captures the entire history of your designs.
With a subscription to Autodesk Vault software, you can install it on up to three computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the Software License Agreement for more information.
Vault PDM integrates with Autodesk design tools and other CAD systems and is used for managing data and automating design and engineering processes. \n \nVault helps ensure that everyone is working with the most up-to-date information in a system that automatically tracks changes, maintains past file versions, and captures the entire history of your designs. \n \nMultisite functionality, available with Vault Professional, enables companies to synchronize design data among distributed workgroups across locations, geographies, and the entire organization.\n"}]},"@type":"Question","name":"Who uses Autodesk Vault?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Autodesk Vault is used by engineers, designers, and extended teams to streamline workflows and speed up product development. Everyone works from a central source of organized data\u2014collaborating, reducing errors, and saving time.\r\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"What is Vault PLM used for? ","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Autodesk Vault PLM combines Vault Professional with Fusion 360 Manage to provide enterprise-wide collaboration for all involved in the product lifecycle\u2014from engineering and supply chain to quality and manufacturing. Organizations use Vault PLM to digitally transform product development workflows to achieve better business outcomes, such as reducing time wasted on non-value add tasks, improving product development agility, and bringing better products to market faster. \n"],"@type":"Question","name":"What is the difference between Vault Professional and Vault Office?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Vault Professional is for CAD users to manage design and engineering data and processes whereas Vault Office is for non-CAD users to manage documents.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Which operating system does Vault run on?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Vault runs on Microsoft Windows. See Vault system requirements for details.\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Which versions of Vault can I use if I subscribe to the current version?\u202f ","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"Your Autodesk Vault subscription gives you access to install and use the three previous versions. Available downloads are listed in your Autodesk Account after subscribing. See also\u202fprevious releases available for subscribers.\r\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"Can I install Vault on multiple computers?\u202f ","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"With a subscription to Autodesk Vault software, you can install it on up to three computers or other devices. However, only the named user can sign in and use that software on a single computer at any given time. Please refer to the Software License Agreement for more information.\r\n"],"@type":"Question","name":"How much does an Autodesk Vault subscription cost?","acceptedAnswer":["@type":"Answer","text":"The price of an annual Vault Professional subscription is\u202f and the price of a three-year Vault Professional subscription is\u202f. If you have infrequent users and are interested in a pay-as-you-go option, please visit www.autodesk.com/flex to learn more.\r\n"]],"@type":"FAQPage","@context":" "} window.adsk = window.adsk ; window.adsk.api = window.adsk.api ; window.adsk.api.countdownDictionary = day: "0day left", days: "0days left", time: "0h1m2sleft" Autodesk Company overview Careers Investor relations Autodesk Trust Center Newsroom Diversity and belonging
My company has asked myself and a coworker to set up a new file organization system using Vault, which is completely new to us here. We've been reading over documentation and are now hard pressed to determine whether we should set up a single project file for all CAD and documentation on each job, or multiple project files corresponding to each job.
Note: I read this article which helps introduce some of the benefits and tradeoffs to each approach, but still have some remaining questions for those with more experience: -single-vs-multiple-project-files-update/
We tackle both large automation projects involving unique assembly designs, as well as small single-part jobs (reverse engineering, one-offs, etc.). We are leaning more towards using a single project file since we reuse a lot of standard purchased components in automation design projects, and often have to switch between working on these projects and small parts/drawings immediately required by our machine shop. Our concern with the single project approach is how parent and children relationships are linked. For example, if we were to copy a folder containing all of the files used on an automation job to a USB drive for travel purposes, would these relationships be maintained?
Also, would there be any disadvantages to creating two vaults: one for the larger automation projects and the other for smaller one-off parts? Any advice from those who are experienced with using Vault would be highly appreciated, thanks.
Under vault, you're pretty much using a single ecosysetm and you'll want the single project file approach. You'll also likely want a single vault as well and not separate ones, but that's another topic all together.
This is all opinion of course, but in my experience I would agree with @mslosar that a single project is probably best. Especially if you will be using Content Center or other libraries that need to be common across all of your jobs. Where I have found the multiple project approach to make the most sense, is in companies that have multiple divisions or departments sharing a Vault database, but using different libraries and Content Centers due to the differences in their work.
I would avoid doing remote work from a USB stick. Instead I would supply remote users a laptop and a VPN connection back to the Vault server. That way the remote users can get the latest data from Vault copied to the laptop at any time.
Could you elaborate as to why you don't recommend multiple vaults? We know that you would have to log out/in to switch between vaults, which seems inefficient, but would it be possible to copy parts or designs (e.g. purchased components) from one vault to another without this extra step? If not, I understand how this could be tedious. Thanks
At my last job, we used Vault with multiple project files, as each project was independent. There was a master project file used for Vault admin and maintenance, but routine work was done with separate project files. This worked well, to the best of my recollection. All projects referenced the same Content Center parts (fasteners and the like), but were otherwise completely isolated from each other.
We have had two employees leave my company, and we are trying to see if they had any files on their computers workspace that haven't been uploaded to the vault yet, before their computers are wiped.
I have tried using the autoloader function, but unfortunately it will not upload files as we have unique file names enforced (It would be nice if the autoloader could just not upload duplicate file names and still work with this setting enforced..) and the workspace sync seems to only sync files onto the computers workspace, and doesnt upload any of the possible missing files to the workspace into the vault, it just wants to delete them from the computer workspace.
That isn't what I need. I need to see files that were never even put into the vault or checked out. I want to see if there is anything on their workspace they had made and never checked into the vault.
If a part was added to assembly that in the vault you can see that the files checked out is out of date in the vault , but you need to check in all the working folder. if you are working with number scheme it will be easier , because you can't know if file that called part1 for example had a goal to check in to vault
I am trying to see if they have anything they created on their own that needs to be added into the vault. I understand how to look for things that were in the vault they may have checked out and not in.
I need to know if they had created anything and never checked it in to the vault at all. They could have files on their personal workspace that they never checked in, so there would be no way in the vault to search and do that.
The closest thing I found to doing this is looking at the unmanaged objects when doing a workspace sync, but it wants to delete these files from the workspace and not add them into the vault. I could also see what files it wanted to add using the autoloader, but since our vault has unique file names enforced, I cannot use the autoloader.