Inventor and Vault Library

[mslosar]

So we're implementing vault...i've taken a library folder we have, made it all self contained and uploaded it to a library in vault.

When i try and place an assembly from that library into a blank assembly, it's saying it can't find pieces and then it's finding them in a library that is not defined in my project file - and isn't defined in any other project file i have (i've actually removed all but the current project file).

Am I missing something here? Are you supposed to download the whole Library folder to your local drive from vault before being able to use it? I would think that it would download all the pieces required into the relevant folder since they're all in vault - not peruse my network for the closest match.

Any ideas as to what's going on, or the proper methodology here?

[Mark.Lancaster]

How are you placing that sub-assembly into your assembly..   Place from Vault, using a local copy?

I assuming this library folder was somewhere else prior to Vault, is that correct?  Did you move it to a new location and then uploaded it to Vault?   Do you still have access to the orignal location of the library folder.  Inventor may be looking in the orignal location and you may have to update these library models so they use the correct location.  It all depends on how you configured this library folder in Vault, your project file and the folder mapping under the Vault ribbon tab.

[mslosar]

I had to move it because i had to make a lot of edits so all the assemblies were pointing inside the library. Don't want them pointing at other libraries that will no longer exist.

Everything was pulled up and saved back down in it's new location then uploaded to the vault.

Yes, it's actually looking at it's original location for files. I didn't think they were supposed to store original path info, but apparently they do. Regardless - i thought the point of the library folder was to contain these things. So, if i place an assembly from my library, i'd have thought it would extract all the files needed to my local machine to display that part. However, it is seeming that i have to have a path to the raw files already existing for it to pick them up from.

One of the reasons we're going to vault is that we have branches in different parts of the country and they need to access these files as well. We have a VPN, but their access is very slow. We're the 'home office' and what takes us 5 seconds takes them 3-4 minutes. So, making them reference these files via a network locaiton isn't really feasible. The alternative - if this is how it works - is that they each need to launch vault and do a 'GET' on the entire library so it's resident on their machines.

Then again, i guess that's what you wind up doing if you put design data and templates on the vault as well...