Greetings,
When running a pilot of Autodesk Vault, there are some things to keep in
mind. First, since your machine will act as both server and client (the two
components of the install), you may see a reduced performance on your box as
the service needs to run along with Inventor. You will need to install IIS
before installing the server portion. This is typically not installed on an
end user workstation. You may have other machines in your group log into
Vault providing your machine is configured properly. When you decide to go
live with Vault, you can move the entire pilot database to a dedicated
server.Also consider using the Single Project method, especially in pilot.
This will ease the learning curve and is the best way to move forward with
Vault.
I suggest using a copy of production data. This way, you do not hinder the
flow while in the learning or pilot stage. You will not affect actual
production databases this way.
The Managing your data .pdf that installs with Vault is a good place to
start. This lays out the concept of Vault. Other resources include a variety
of white papers published on Vault that can be found in Inventor Customer
Files. Go to sdotson.com under Forums, Inventor discussion, Autodesk
University Handouts. There you'll find my paper from AU - CAD Manager's
Guide to Vault. This includes several embedded white papers along with
minimal install guide of IIS (mentioned above).
There is a published book AOTC Vault 3 Essentials that I can vouch for. You
may find it on Autodesk's estore. And finally, watch and search this
newsgroup. Lots of good questions posted here.
BTW, whileIV8 will work with Vault 3 (follow Rob's url post) the rename does
not work with Inventor 8.
Hope this helps.
--
Brian Schanen
Autodesk Inventor Certified Expert
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Implementation Certifed Expert
MasterGraphics
brian.schanen@masterg.com
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> Oh and BTW - We are using IV8, which version of Vault should I load (if
that matters)?