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[Note from Editors: This week’s article is from David Manning, an Autodesk Enterprise Support Specialist located in our Sydney, Australia office. \u00a0David shares an overview of AutoCAD Plant 3D and Autodesk Vault and explains a little about the benefits of using Plant with Vault. We hope you enjoy it!]<\/em><\/p>\n

There has been lot of interest and discussion on Project Calgary recently and most of you have probably already have heard of Autodesk Vault. Back in the earlier versions of Plant the Vault compatibility was fairly new and I think fair to say was not at its best.<\/p>\n

These experiences have left some people sceptical of using Plant 3D with Vault and possibly prevented them from looking at it again.\u00a0 What you may not know is since then the Plant development team have done a lot to improve Plant and Vault interaction and in this article I want to talk to how incorporating Vault into a Plant workflow can help your design team. Perhaps I may be able to convince you that Vault is not all bad for Plant users, and to have a look at including Vault in your design workflow again.<\/p>\n

If you have never heard of Vault before, or you have heard of it but don’t really know what it is, this might help.<\/p>\n

Reference: Autodesk Knowledge Network – What is Vault?<\/a><\/p>\n

Vault data management software helps organize, manage, and track data creation, simulation, and documentation processes for design, engineering, and construction teams.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

So now you know what it is, why would you want to add Vault into your design work flow?<\/p>\n

Vault offers a number of benefits to a business, as well as some changes that are sometimes perceived by designers as a negative impact. These negative more often than not are the user\u2019s perception of the workflow only and often ignore the greater benefit to the team, office and business. When implementing any document management system there is always a period where it seems that everyone hates the “New Way”. Typically, once users get familiar with the new work flows the benefits are easier to see.<\/p>\n

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What can Vault offer to your team? The Plant help documentation, “About Autodesk Vault<\/a>” page, offers these examples:<\/p>\n

If you create a plant project in the vault, you can benefit from the following vault-enabled features:<\/em><\/p>\n