How to move existing single users designs to vault

[troyostrander]

New to Inventor coming from Fusion. I installed just Vault Basic. Looking for best practices or a tutorial for moving designs to the vault. Thanks. 

[SharkDesign]

You are best asking in the vault forum, they are the Vault experts. 

If they're only small assemblies though, you could just move them all to the vault directory, put all top level assemblies in one empty assembly and then check that in and the children will follow. 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vault-forum/bd-p/vault-forum-en

[dave.cutting]

You could use the task scheduler to add multiple folders and files to Vault in one go.

[blandb]

Create a vault project file with the same locations as the single-user. Then when you open the files with the vaulted project, you should be able to check them in. Keep in mind that the working folder, Content center and .ipj fall at the same level. IE (C:\Whatever you want to call this folder\ CC folder, Designs Folder - where all your designs are place, call this what you want, IPJ here). We also throw our design data in here as well so it can be tracked via vault.

[arkad_s]

I will leave also few links that might be helpful:
Getting started with Vault | Autodesk
Vault Help | Setup Vault with Inventor | Autodesk
Vault Help | Getting Started with Vault | Autodesk
How to upload multiple Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD, or other non-Autodesk CAD files to Autodesk Vault...
What are the best practices to upload huge amount of existing data into Vault? - Autodesk Community

If you plan to move all your design files into Vault you might also consider getting touch with Autodesk Partners/Resellers who can help you with this project - Partner Finder | Autodesk Support

[johannes.bauer]

Hi @troyostrander 

Please review this: 

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-load-CAD-da...

[lauri_barnhart]

Greetings, @troyostrander!

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[troyostrander · Accepted solution]

Lots of good resources in this post but AUTOLOADER is what I ended up using. 

https://help.autodesk.com/view/VAULT/2026/ENU/?guid=GUID-EA9B2552-30B9-4789-9A5E-6580B8648981

https://youtu.be/_x9Bpf7_Ty8?si=oADSMeOk5kYbocpR