Multiple Inventor versions in one Vault

[David_Orchard]

Hi all

We are in the process of upgrading our Inventor to AIS2012 and are using the Vault basic.

Now the problem we will encounter is we have a couple of clients still on 2010 and one on 2011. So we need to have all 3 Inventors loaded on our PC's which is no problem in itself but we need to keep certain clients vaults and projects from being accidentally updated to a newer version of Inventor.

Does any one have a best practice on preventing this from happening? Or is there a tool that locks a particular clients vault from being accessed by a different version of Inventor? If this makes sense.

Regards

Dave

[JamesMcMullen]

Hello Dave,

I am not aware of a program that will block certain versions of Inventor from updating files inside the vault that are specific to an older release of Inventor.  Unsure if it is a safe assumption or not, but if the individuals have a specific release of Inventor on their machine with no other version of Inventor you could grant those users full control to the files in question and leave it as read-only for the other users.  This would not work if you have a mixed release of Inventor on various client machines.

Thanks,

Jim

[CAD-One]

If there isnt a great solution the atleast creating Multiple vaults on same server might be good to try.

[JamesMcMullen]

Using multiple Vaults is a good idea.  However, there is no way to really merge them when you move groups.  You will end up having to do a get latest on your assemblies and add them to the other vault.

-Jim