Workspace

[Anonymous]

I cannot get files to check from Inventor to my local hard drive "Working
Folder". They check out, but the gd files stay on the server. I thought the
whole idea was to have them copy to the users local hard drive.

If I check them out using Vault Explorer, they copy to the local hard
drive!?!??! When I create my new vault project, where should it be. If I set
it to my "working folder", my assemblies won't open. Why I have I read to
have only one project blah blah? The tutorial is useless as an example, all
the files are already local.

This is a confusing, difficult application to set up and seemingly USELESS
at this point.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like the Inventor project file is not pointing to the right
folder.
Start Inventor.
From the Open dialog select the Projects icon
On the bottom pane look at the Location setting for the project.
This should also point to your local hard drive and not your network drive.

Irvin
"Howard Delano" wrote in message
news:5081118@discussion.autodesk.com...
I cannot get files to check from Inventor to my local hard drive "Working
Folder". They check out, but the gd files stay on the server. I thought the
whole idea was to have them copy to the users local hard drive.

If I check them out using Vault Explorer, they copy to the local hard
drive!?!??! When I create my new vault project, where should it be. If I set
it to my "working folder", my assemblies won't open. Why I have I read to
have only one project blah blah? The tutorial is useless as an example, all
the files are already local.

This is a confusing, difficult application to set up and seemingly USELESS
at this point.

[Anonymous]

Finally figured it out. What I did not realize is that the original files,
and their network location, are no longer used. Your local drive/path
becomes your "Workspace". Copy a project's files from the network to your
workspace, with matching folders and names as the original data set to some
common top level path. Set up in Vault Explorer with the same "folder"
structure. Working folder for everything has to be set to the Vault
Explorer's top level folder (/$), or whatever it's called, otherwise you
will get duplicated folder names when you check stuff out the first time on
a machine with no local copy of the files in Vault. Then use "add to Vault"
function on these files. You now have three copies of the same file. Local
in your "workspace", protected copy in the Vault data storage on the
network, which other Vault users can access and the original, now backup,
original copy which is no longer used.

Documentation on all this stuff is piecemeal at best in my opinion. I have
been doing this stuff for a long time and this was not fun.

"Irvin Hayes (Autodesk)" wrote in message
news:5081228@discussion.autodesk.com...
It sounds like the Inventor project file is not pointing to the right
folder.
Start Inventor.
From the Open dialog select the Projects icon
On the bottom pane look at the Location setting for the project.
This should also point to your local hard drive and not your network drive.

Irvin
"Howard Delano" wrote in message
news:5081118@discussion.autodesk.com...
I cannot get files to check from Inventor to my local hard drive "Working
Folder". They check out, but the gd files stay on the server. I thought the
whole idea was to have them copy to the users local hard drive.

If I check them out using Vault Explorer, they copy to the local hard
drive!?!??! When I create my new vault project, where should it be. If I set
it to my "working folder", my assemblies won't open. Why I have I read to
have only one project blah blah? The tutorial is useless as an example, all
the files are already local.

This is a confusing, difficult application to set up and seemingly USELESS
at this point.