Does anyone have experience with the new Vault Pro 2015 SolidWorks plug in?
We have legacy Inventor files and Vault 2010 and wish to upgrade.
We are also using SolidWorks 2013 and need to manage those files.
We have seats of EPDM but find the revision management to be cumbersome. Certainly a step back from Vault.
So, back to my original question, does anyone have experience with the new Vault Pro 2015 SolidWorks plug in?
Any issues?
Does it treat files any differently than Inventor files?
Does the plug-in handle 2014 SW files?
Thanks,
John
Hi John,
The Vault Professional 2015 SWX add-in supports up to version 2014. The integration behaves similarly to Autodesk Inventor with some limitations around things like copy design etc.
Please see additional documentation on the add-in here: http://help.autodesk.com/view/VAULT/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-C262B695-102C-48B1-8F4B-83EEDED67DB5
Hope this helps
Thanks for the information.
I had already received this link from my reseller.
The information seemed a bit thin in the "known Issues" section and does not mention anything about the copy design issue. Please explain this copy design issue.
Sorry for being a pain but I really do not want to support 2 separate PDM systems.
Thanks,
John
Hey John,
The readme documentation should contain an overview of known limitations. In terms of copy design, as Vault stands today we do not have an extension handler that permits you to open a SWX assembly in copy design for example, copy it with all its drawing references and rename etc. We encourage users to leverage the existing SWX copy tool for this.
There are a few other specific areas too relating to the way we handle family parts or create DWF files that, while this all works, differs from Inventor, so its important to set the correct expectation for the integration with users and I would say the best approach is to set up a small test environment to ensure that the integration behaves as you expect.
Regards,