topic Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes in Vault Forum

Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 23:48:31 GMT

Good afternoon,

I'm working with a customer that's interested in reserving a sequence of numbers in an already-configured vault number scheme (transcribed from the customer):

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If we create custom numbering schemes in Vault.

Is there a method one can reserve 20 sequential assembly numbers or 15 part numbers, presuming they had unique schemes for parts and assemblies.

I am thinking this would involve creating new files and naming and saving them for future use.

If this can be done, what is the best method?

Is there any way to do this inside of vault? Thanks!

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

ihayesjr — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:02:35 GMT

No, there is not a way to reserve numbers in Vault.

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:17:37 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation Irvin!

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

Gene.R — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:59:22 GMT

For Item numbering schemes, I use the Actions/Import Items to reserve blocks of numbers.

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

swalton — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 20:33:54 GMT

It looks like Vault Data Standard can be used to reserve part numbers.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/simplecontent/content/vault-data-standard-2020-reserve-numbers.html

How hard is it to use Data Standard?

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

JO3ATI — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:54:37 GMT

I'm assuming we cannot reserve part numbers using data standard in Vault Professional 2023 using this guide?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/simplecontent/content/vault-data-standard-2020-reserve-numbers.html

Please advise.

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

ihayesjr — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:59:34 GMT

~~It is not possible to reserver numbers at all with Vault.~~

You can take that zip file and update it to work with 2023.

This is a sample someone customized. This is not out-of-the-box functionality.

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

JO3ATI — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 20:59:39 GMT

What's the suggested workflow then, when using custom numbering schemes and iParts/iAssemblies?

In this case, we'll end up with duplicate values, and we enforce unique file names, so that makes our part numbering scheme unusable, unless we specifically reserve outside of that range, which is not-ideal for our part numbering taxonomy...

Just looking for best practices because I'm currently at an impasse where we have overlapping part numbers and are currently unable to use the part number generator sequence.

Thanks

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

swalton — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:09:08 GMT

Two additional ideas:

Our reseller provides Vault utilities that include a tool to pull part numbers from Vault. Your reseller may have something similar.
It you only have a few one-off needs to pull part numbers, it it possible to do it manually. Simply create a new inventor file, save it to disk and name it with the numbering tool. Don’t check it in. Use that number in your iPart\iAssembly. Repeat as necessary.

Re: Reserving part numbers in vault numbering schemes

JO3ATI — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 21:42:19 GMT

Yes, that's one option-you don't even have to 'save'/commit the file to the local drive, you can just cancel AFTER the dialogue, but before saving via Windows Explorer and it'll increment. It's just quite cumbersome if you have a relatively robust table.

For what it's worth, I attempted the Reserve Numbers application that was previously listed and it does not appear to work with Vault 2023. I can see the 'button' under my "Tools" menu, but when I click on it, nothing happens. I undid and redid following the instructions included, and I even pulled the latest from the GitHub repository, but same result.