Vault Question - Attributes

[Anonymous]

So I have a question that i need help with. I found out how i can take a field from a title block and have it be a searchable field for said drawing but i want to take it a step further.

We make floor plans using cad, the items that we drop on the floor plan are blocks that have attributes. What i would like to do, if possible, is if i had a block named "Chair001" when i check it into the vault, i want the vault to be aware that there are 4 blocks named "chair001" thus i could see that i have 4 of those chairs on the floor plan from SQL.

Is this possible?

[olearya]

Hi There,

Unfortunately not - the reason titleblocks work so well is that there is usually just the one of them per drawing with unique and consistent attributes.  When you start dropping in multiple blocks with the same name we can start to have issues and we do not have a method to easily extract block counts unless you are using BOM structure.

To clarfy that last point, when integrating a product like AutoCAD mechanical that permits users to construct a BOM within the document we can extract that into Vault Professional.

[Anonymous]

This is what we are considering. I propose that we build all of our products in Inventor and give them whatever BOM attibutes they need so i can get the quantities from Vault Pro. Is this something that i can achieve through using 3d blocks that come from inventor?