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Vault CAD Add-ins – We have an app for that…

schanenb
March 10, 2011

This post launches a theme on Vault integrations within various applications. If you’ve followed along, we have focused on Vault with Autodesk Inventor, and the occasional AutoCAD integration and workflow. It’s time to discuss the results of a little project of mine.

I took a look at the read-me doc for Vault, specifically the section on Qualifying Autodesk Products. See table below. Then undertook the odyssey of installing ALL of these products (and a few others not on the list), just to see how they interact with Vault.

Qualifying Autodesk Products
Version
Autodesk 3DS Max
2011
Autodesk 3DS Max Design
2011
Autodesk Inventor (Stand Alone)
2011
Autodesk Inventor Suite
2011
Autodesk Inventor Professional
2011
Autodesk Inventor Simulation
2011
Autodesk Inventor Routed Systems
2011
Autodesk Inventor Tooling
2011
AutoCAD Mechanical
2011
AutoCAD Electrical
2011
AutoCAD
2011
AutoCAD Map
2011
AutoCAD Civil 3D
2011
AutoCAD Architecture
2011
AutoCAD MEP
2011
AutoCAD P&ID
2011

Coming up, I will show the integrations, discuss workflows, propose best practices, and showcase the Vault integration with these products. Starting at the top and working down the list seems like a good way to work, unless I get distracted (squirrel) and need to focus on another product. Stay tuned, as the first one is an integration that has been there since ever – 3DS Max and Vault.

-Brian Schanen

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