topic Retrieve old file versions without overwriting current version... in Vault Forum

Retrieve old file versions without overwriting current version...

magnus.torell — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:12:42 GMT

Hi there,

I'm sitting here in Product Design Suite Ultimate 2013 with basic Vaultand have a question I can't find the answer to in any forum nor FAQ's.

If I would like to pick up say version 2 of a part that currently is in version say 15 - how can I do that WITHOUT overwriting version 15? I would be OK with being forced to renaming it or something, but right now it seems that the only way is to overwrite version 15...

Re: Retrieve old file versions without overwriting current version...

olearya — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:46:41 GMT

Hi Magnus,

By the sounds of things you are almost there - to retrieve this file and split it off from the original design you should simply:

1. Select and "get" previous version from Vault (Ver 2)

2. Open local copy (Ver 2) in Inventor

3. Save as new file

4. Check in as new file.

You do not get to keep any history associated with your new file but I would suggest you add a comment that it was copied from Ver2 of original file.

Hope this helps.

Re: Retrieve old file versions without overwriting current version...

magnus.torell — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:03:46 GMT

Maybe I let you of the hook a little too fast there... 😉

I just tried the prescribed solution and it didn't work for me.
Probably I managed to do something wrong, however simple it appeared to be...

The funny thing is that when I tried this I did it on a file that had in total 15 versions in it's kronological tree, I tried to break out version 5 - followed your instructions that seemed so easy and logical, that I therefor marked as an accepted solution before I actually tried it (stupid me).

To my amazement I didn't get verison 5 - and even more funny is that I didn't get version 15 either, which to me would be the second most logical solution... judging from appearance it could have been version 2 or version 8 which are identical at a quick glance... but I know they differ...

So now I'm "dazed and confused" again... 😉

Re: Retrieve old file versions without overwriting current version...

olearya — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:24:29 GMT

Hi Magnus,

Well I better keep trying to help then 🙂

This is strange but if you are working with an assembly containing a lot of sub assemblies it is possible the sub assemblies are not coming down as the right version.... I would look at this.

In Vault Workgroup and up revision bias ensures that the file revisions are maintained when you choose rev bias but versions are not quite that smart. So this could mean you actually need to download the sub assemblies at the correct version and open locally - you should be able to test this with a couple of assembly examples and see if this is the issue.