Autodesk Vault 2014

[craigboez]

We attempted to use Vault last season, but due mostly to access speed it was abandoned mid-season. We have since switched to Dropbox, which although not perfect, has worked a lot better for us than Vault.

Our problem with Vault is that it slowed us down too much. If your server is local and you can connect to it using a local network I think you'll have better luck. The second you want to leave the building and connect remotely to that server, you may wind up very frustrated as you wait for files to transfer.

We have several CAD contributors and wanted to make it easy for everyone to work from home. While it did function just fine, it was too frustrating to use based on transfer speeds. Dropbox works much better for us because it synchronizes in the background. It doesn't handle version control which is a bummer, but that is a tradeoff we were happy to make.