Cleaning up server, placing files, Vault or not?
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Hi,
In the company I work for we're now 6 users of Inventor, and we're considering using Vault instead of an ordinary file server. The decision has not been taken yet, so I'm trying to clean up our file structure.
We only have one project file. We all run multiple project every day, so making a project file for each project would definitely result in carnage.
Templates, styles and materials are all placed on a server. So is the content center.
We've just upgraded to Inventor 24, and I've taken the files installed locally, and copied to the server where the project file points to. To me this seems not ideal, but at least I'm pretty sure that everybody are using the same materials etc.
However, I've noticed that the folder structure is a bit different, and I think it's turning into a mess (if it hasn't already).
I've tried to look for manuals about folders for workspace, labraries and design data, but I'm looking in the wrong places, or there are no manuals.
Some of the folders from the local installation differs from the ones we use on the shared network drive. And sometimes there's a language sub-folder and sometimes there's not.
For Materials and textures it looks as if the folder "textures" is missing in my local installation. Or at least it's not a direct subfolder to Materials, as it is in our shared network folder. Should it be, or doesn't it matter?
As for Workspace and Libraries.
We have a lot of parts from subsuppliers that we're not really supposed to make changes on. They are located in subfolders under the parent workspace folder, along with a subfolder that contains yet another subfolder for each project we're working on.
We have some subsupplier parts in the Content Center, but only a few, as most subsuppliers sends us part.STP/ISG .
Should we move all the subsuppliers into "Library" folder, and only have our own designs in the "Workspace" or doesn't it make any difference for performance?
(And if "move", how to do without using the Vault??)
Just re-checked: I don't even have the "Library" in my local installation of Inventor24, so is the folder on the shared network an obsolete thing of the past (Inv18 or so)??
In short: Can anyone point me in a direction to learn the best file structure of a shared drive (or how to sync local drives), to include workspace, own parts, subsupplier parts, materials/appearances, styles etc etc. ??
I hope it all made sense (or at least that some of it did )
Best regards,
Niels
Attached are to screen dumps of local and network Inventor folder/files.