This is a bit of a unique freak situation, two completely different Vault platforms within the same release year.
The problem I have, which can't be unique to me, is that I have both R1 & R2 feeding a connectivity addin into one CAD client. Inventor 2015 is receiving the Vault plugin from both R1 & R2, and as far as I can see there's no way to tell Inventor which version to use on demand.
Currently my Inventor 2015 is registered with the R2 plugin, meaning I can't connect to a R1 Vault even though I have the R1 client installed. Obviously R2 is a full release, therefore a R2 client or plugin can't connect into a lower platform version. The workaround is ridiculously clunky if they're both installed:
To then get R2 Inventor Addin working again:
I can't image this is likely to be addressed this late in the product cycle, 2016 will come and I assume there won't be a 2016 R2 like we've had this year. But does anyone know of a more efficient way to have both R1 & R2 clients installed and alternate between them in CAD?
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Hi Neil,
I'm not sure if there is a good way to easily switch between the add-ins. However it does seem like you could use the 2015 (R1) add-in to connect to both vaults. R2 supports backwards compatibilty to 2015 so all the R1 document services are available to the add-in. The only caveat here is that backwards compatibility for item services was disabled due to incompatible functionality, so add-in features like 'open from item' would not be available. I don't know if that would be a showstopper for you or not, but wanted to mention this option if you haven't considered it.
Paul
Hi Paul,
I have absolutely no idea why I didn't think of that Must have been so wrapped up trying to figure out how to use them both at the same time, I totally forgot that R1 add-in would hook into R2 ADMS. The irony being that I've had Inventor 2013 hooking into ADMS 2015 for the last 5 months!
Thanks for the kick, good shout.
Neil.