Add Drawing Compare to Vault with huge history

[Maxim-CADman77]

If there any easy way to use Drawing Compare on old versions of Vaulted IDWs that doesn't have DWFs (only latest versions does have DWF)?

[olearya]

Hi Maxim,

Sorry for the very delayed response here - not sure how we missed this one, but drawing compare requires dwf files as this is and ADR functionality - you would need to be able to generate an old version dwf in order to compare.

[Maxim-CADman77]

Could you describe steps for creating DWF for not latest version of IDW
in the Vault?

[olearya]

Hi Maxim, 

From the preview pane you need to select the previous revision and select "update view" - if you are looking to compare a dwf which is not associated with a revision and you would still like to do a comparison, you can download the previous version and generate a dwf from the CAD application which could be used in ADR to do a comparison.

[Maxim-CADman77]

Not sure what do you mean "From the preview pane you need to select the
previous revision". We don't use file revisions - we only have versions.

Comparing two drawing Versions (one of which doesn't have DWF) is what
interests me.



On the Preview tab of Preview Pane I do see drop-down list that gives
ability to choose file revision. But there is only "1" revision there
for all our drawings.

Unfortunately the drop-down control don't show versions....



Thus I don't see the way to initiate visualization on previous version
of file.



Am I missing something?

[olearya]

Hi Maxim,

As I mention in my post - if you are not using versions and you want to do a drawing compare this can be achieved by downloading the previous version files, create dwf and compare using ADR capabilities.

[Maxim-CADman77]

We DO use versions. What we don't use is file revisions.



So the only comparison method for us is outside the Vault.