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As Darren stated there is no Vault add-in for Revit. However, Vault can be used for managing the history of the project files and sharing with downstream consumers. Use Vault in this way also provides a single location for all project related materials. Revit work sharing of central files remains the suggested solution for concurent file access. The Revit documentation has further detail about how this works and how the work shared files can be linked.
Workshared project files are compatible with Vault but does require some manaul interaction or custom automation. The concept is simple, at selected milestones or a predefined period, use the Vault Client to add the project files to Vault. Here are a couple of options and some details to consider:
1. Check in the central files from the shared location. Make sure no one attempts to sync to central during the check-in. If you use the central files you will need to either leave them checked out so the files remain read/write, or manually set the files to read/write after checkin. Remember a Vault check in automatically sets the files to read only. This process could be automated to run in non work hours. For automation options see the Vault API or talk to your reseller.
2. Check in a local copy of the files. With this option you will have decide how to address the modified file names of the local copies. You could manually rename the files, choose to live with the modified names or remove the default name from Revit.
Hope this helps,
this has changed with the release of Revit 2012 there is a Vault 2012 add on now
i am still trying to figure out how vault and revit work together and the value of vault with revit
DarrenP
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