Vault Rev Table update my old Inventor Rev table

[hugo.trepanier]

Hello,
I had used in the past the inventor rev table without vault. Now since that I've installed vault pro, I need to activate rev table from vault. The problem is that the vault table replace his old table and lost all historical comments in his table. Can I preserve his old rev table and add vault table?
I use the job processor to update my IDW when I release this IDW. Now my rev table lost all his old rev lines and replaced by the vault table with just one line.

[xavier_dumont1]

Hi, unfortunately, it's not possible. Revision Table only show the existing revisions in Vault.

Then 2 (bad) solutions:

a) Don't use Vault Revision Table for now.

b) Develop a macro who will replace old revision table + revision TAG by simple table and Leader Text (or sketch symbol).

If an Autodesk people show this, can you share with us if this will be improved in future release?

[cbenner]

Vault Rev table DOES take over any existing rev table on your drawings, I've had this happen as well.  It is true that the Vault Rev Table (VRT) will only show revisions that are set to "Released" in the Vault.  What I have done to older drawings that already have revisions on them is tedious,... but works. 

Print the drawing or make a PDF of it so you can see the existing revisions.  Then in Vault Set the revision to match whatever the first revision is on the drawing, modify whatever properties you need to modify in order to correctly populate the VRT.  Release the file in Vault.  Then change it to WIP to bump the revision (assuming this is how your lifecycles are set up).  Modify the properties again for the next revision on your printed drawing, release.  Step this through until you've captured all of the existing revisions.  Now you Vault file should be at the same revision as the old drawing, and (hopefully) the VRT will update to show all of these Released revisions.  Sometimes, even after this, it can be a bit squirrelly.

I don't use the Job Processor...  hate that thing... I update my VRT by setting the file to Quick Change after the last revision is released, and using Synchronize Properties... and then updating the visualization.  I set that up by following this blog post:

http://underthehood-autodesk.typepad.com/blog/2012/11/diy-revision-table-manually-updating-your-revi...

I'm not sure how this will behave with JP in use... so try it out on a dummy file first perhaps?

Good luck.

[scottmoyse]

You could save the drawing as an autocad dwg, explode the rev table and paste it back into your drawing. Snap the VRT to the bottom of the old data you just pasted back into Inventor.

[junyi_zhu]

You may also consider sheet scope revision table that vault won't update.