Putting Design Data on the Network

[Anonymous]

Hello,

We're interested in rolling out some automation across the company that uses iLogic Global Forms. Right now, we use Autodesk Vault Pro 2019 as our PDM server but we our Design Data, Presets, and Content Center folders are unmanaged and pointed at their default local locations.

It's easy enough to change this in the Project settings (which are managed in Vault), but we're concerned about what we might lose by rolling this out across the company. Is there anything we should we aware of before changing the Design Data to a Vault managed folder?

Thanks,

Tighe

[Anonymous]

Make sure that you migrate your content centre from desktop to a Vaulted content centre:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-...

Design Data can sit on the server and should be read-only. Some customers like to put this into Vault, and let users "get" the data. This means that users need to "get" the data whenever there is a change, but it's faster than relying on data on the server, as it is local.

Presets would be treated the same as Design Data

Your Vaulted project file would need to be set up to cater for these new changes.

With global iLogic forms and external rules, I would put all of it into Vault and let users "get" the rules and forms, this way everything is controlled and for the most part, controlled versions are sitting locally on the machines.

The only drawback is that users need to "get" the latest release of everything when there is an update or change, but this works well, I've seen it in serveral successful implementations.