Hello Everyone,
Background: I am the IT Director for Budzar Industries, Inc. based out of Willoughby, OH (3-5 designers). We also have a branch in Shanghai, China which we would like to collaborate with (1 designer, but may be more soon). We design large custom heating/cooling process equipment for the rubber, pharm, plastics, etc.. industies using Inventor 2011 Professional. Our assemblies are a mix of custom drawn blocks along with content center driven blocks and typically amount to 2-30MB in size. WE DON NOT USE VAULT, only a Windows filing system based folder structure. We had Imaginit (RAND) and Autodesk try to implement Vault in our environment and were unable to.
Questions:
- Is everyone in a Wide Area Network environment with multiple locations using Vault to collaborate? Are there other viable options? Should we be trying Vault again?
- What speed of internet connection are you finding is acceptable?
- Do the parts databases "sync" or do they transfer across the wire? Our files are to big to go across the wire, they must sync (we think).
- Is there a company out there that specializes in this type of implementation? Who have you used?
Anything you guys can tell us would be great. Thank you so much in advance!
