AutoCAD 2004 with Vault 2014

[ddavis]

This may sounds ridiculous, but we have a need to access our Vault system from a few machines running AutoCAD 2004. The reason for using the older version of AutoCAD is due to a plug-in/add-on we use called MD-Tools. We now use the Inventor version of this add-on, but we still have many legacy files created in AutoCAD 2004. The add-on creates proxy graphics that often times get lost when opening the files in a newer version of AutoCAD, they can only be restored by re-opening them in 2004 w/ the add-on enabled. This as you can imagine is a real pain to deal with. We are currently using the client to check out the file and then transferring the .dwg to a shared space to access from the other older machine running 2004. Is there a better method, can the vault be installed to use with the 2004 AutoCAD?

Thank you,

Darek

[Lancasterm · Accepted solution]

No this is not possible.   Vault add-in is based on the ARX program format and the current vault addin.arx will not work on AutoCAD 2004.   The lowest you can go is AutoCAD 2013.

[ddavis]

Thank you for the quick response, I suspected that this might be the case. We will just nhave to continue to use the current work flow.

Darek