Defer update

[pasupathy_baskar]

When performing a revision change, we enable the Defer Update option for customer drawings for future reference.
However, older drawings on the server do not have this Defer Update setting applied. (The old drawings were stored on the server before we started using the vault)
As a result, when opening these drawings from the server, they are automatically updated from the vault.

(Because we kept Latest Revision in Vault)

Is there any way to prevent the drawing from updating automatically when opening it?

[WCrihfield · Accepted solution]

Hi @pasupathy_baskar.  I am not sure, since Vault is involved, but if attempting to do things by code, then you can access that property, check its current value, and change it if necessary.  There is also an 'OpenWithOptions' way of opening Inventor files, where you can specify that option to be enforces when opening it.

DrawingDocument.DrawingSettings 

DrawingSettings.DeferUpdates 

Documents.OpenWithOptions 

We just got Vault Pro 2024 a couple weeks ago ourselves, after taking about it for several years, and are going through all sorts of complex issues while trying to get all our decades of engineering data cleaned-up, uploaded, and checked-into the Vault.  So, still don't have everything figured out yet, as far as doing stuff through Vault by code yet.  There is a whole other Forum (or few) just for Vault related stuff though also, which I will likely start paying a bit more attention to in the near future.

[pasupathy_baskar]

Thanks for the useful suggestions.