Local vs Vault/Networkdrive

[joris.engelbertink]

Hello All,

I work in a small drawing office, mostly from home, sometimes at the office.

The thing is that templates, design data, sketched symbols, content center are located at a company network drive and Inventor users need to have stable/fast internet connection to get access to this company drive via VPN. This results in an awful Inventor performance. 

Having these files on my local machine would improve the performance, but kills the company desire to centrally manage templates.

Could it be an option to put these files is the vault, so they can be managed centrally, and let the Inventor users "Get" them every now and then, when updates are available? Are there downsides that I haven't thought about?

Is there a better approach thinkable to suit these two interests best? 

Suggestions are welcome 😉

Thanks! 

Joris Engelbertink

[swalton]

Yes and no.

Project File: Yes

Templates: Yes

Style Library: Yes

Materials: Yes

Appearances: Yes

Custom Threads: Yes

Content Center: Yes

Design Accelerator supporting files: No, with an exception.  If you configure your Vault to enforce unique filenames, the Design Accelerator files can not be checked into Vault.  Autodesk has allowed repeated names for different DA files.  If you allow duplicate filenames in your Vault, you can check in the DA files.  We use filename=part number and enforce unique filenames so we always know what file should be used in an assembly or drawing. 

Vault is an ok solution for storing these types of files, but it is not a great one.  Vault users must pull updated files from the Vault server. Administrators must ask the users to pull the latest template files.  User compliance with these requests can be an issue.

It might be better to build some log-in scripts with Windows that pull the latest files from a file server.  Look into Robocopy and Windows Power Shell.  Remote users have to map network drives anyway, so adding a copy command to that mapping script should be easy.