Customized Inventor application

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I am not very familiar with vault so needed a quick view on following scenario.
If we are to develop a custom application on some Autodesk product and if we also wish to use Vault along with that product, do we need to take any additional care in designing/developing the custom application. Does vault offer any programming interfaces/APIs? Does custom app really need to bother about the existing integration between the vault and the base product?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

Vault does have an API which allows you to communicate with the server. In
your install directory for the Vault server, there should be an SDK
directory which contains documentation and sample programs.

If you write a Vault plug-in for a CAD app which already has a Vault
plug-in, the two plug-ins will not interfere with each other. They will
behave as completely separate Vault clients. I should also mention that
there is no way to re-use functionality from the existing plug-in. All
Vault features will have to be written entirely by your team even if the
existing plug-in has those features.


Let me know if you have any more questions,
Doug Redmond
Software Engineer, Autodesk Inc.

[Anonymous]

Vault has a web services API; this allows a custom Vault client to use the
Vault server. There are minimal documented ways to otherwise interact with
the Vault from within a vault-enabled application: for example, in AutoCAD
(yes, I know you said Inventor) you could use the VAULT command-line.

It sounds like you may have some rather specialized requirements; you might
consider contacting Autodesk directly for more specific guidance on your
particular situation.

Dan

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Hi,
I am not very familiar with vault so needed a quick view on following
scenario.
If we are to develop a custom application on some Autodesk product and if we
also wish to use Vault along with that product, do we need to take any
additional care in designing/developing the custom application. Does vault
offer any programming interfaces/APIs? Does custom app really need to bother
about the existing integration between the vault and the base product?

Thanks in advance.