CAD Revision Control

[Walter Deitzler]

I know that you can download Vault, because I have, but I do not have any experience with it, as I am the only CAD member on my team.

Edit: You should be able to download it here: http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=fir...12-LA-1-6-2012
You will need to log in if you have a FIRST autodesk account, but then navigate to available downloads and it should be there.

[baronep]

Thats what I thought as well, but it seems that they have removed vault from the free student software?

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by baronep

Thats what I thought as well, but it seems that they have removed vault from the free student software?

Hmm, I just checked and that seems to be the case. It downloads when you download inventor pro though.

[baronep]

Ok, I am trying that right now. Does that install the server too or just the client?

[Walter Deitzler]

Originally Posted by baronep

Ok, I am trying that right now. Does that install the server too or just the client?

I believe it installs the servers, but as said, I have never tried using vault as I am the only one on my team who uses the software, so I have never tried this.

[avanboekel]

This last season was the first season that we had more than 1 person doing a significant amount of cadding. We tried using autodesk cloud early in the season, which didn't work well at all. For the rest of the season, we had each student put their work on a team flash drive at the end of each night. This worked fairly well, but it was a pain to have only one person being able to work on the complete assembly as a time. From our experiences, there is no one good way to have many people working on the same model at the same time. Please report back on what you think of vault as it may be something that our teams would look into for using next season.

[baronep]

I am still having trouble finding the installation for Vault.

We used Solidworks last season and the only reason that we were thinking of switching was because of vault. I have found the Solidworks version of vault on the installation disk, but I am still interested in figuring out how to get inventor to work.

From what I can gather, only the vault client is installed with Inventor. What I am looking for is ADMS (Autodesk Data Management Server). Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this?

[thefro526]

Vault can be really neat, we're starting to phase it in at work. I don't have too much experience with it, but from what I've seen, it helps a lot when multiple people are working on/with the same model.

Also, on the subject of multiple people working on different subsystems, having frequent meetings to update everyone on the design can be really, really helpful and save time down the road, especially if everyone is in the same place as subsystems start to get integrated. Also, On a few of the larger projects I've worked on at my job, we've allotted volume for different components from the beginning and worked out some part inference issues without even drawing the entire part - it really saves a ton of time.

[baronep]

Still confused on where to actually get the vault server from

[agamemnon]

Originally Posted by LedLover96

Hmm, I just checked and that seems to be the case. It downloads when you download inventor pro though.

I think that's the Vault Client software (which can be used to browse through a Vault server), not the server itself. The only place I've seen the server software is in this post, which has a download to the 2012 (not 2013), and in the Inventor software boxes that used to come in the KoP (there wasn't one this year, I don't think).