Using Vault without Inventor installed

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Regarding the topic title, is this possible? 

Let me give you some background info. I work for a company as a draughtsman, we are a team of 5 autodesk inventor & vault users. The company MD would like to use the vault to view and print stored drawings only.

When he purchased the autodesk package he was told by the salesperson you can only use Vault with Inventor installed on the computer. His liscence has expired on Inventor and now has lost associativity in vault for inventor files.

Is it not possible to unistall his version of inventor and use Inventor Viewer? We do not want to buy another copy of Inventor as he only wants to view signed off drawings not edit models ETC.

Thankyou

Richard

[minkd]

Vault Basic can only be used on seats where a licensed copy of a qualifying CAD product (such as Inventor) is installed.  At the moment the CAD product is no longer licensed, you no longer have a license to use Vault.

To continue using Vault I believe you have two options : 

1) Purchase licenses to a qualifying CAD product for each user of Vault.

2) Upgrade your Vault to Vault Workgroup (which is licensed seperately, so you don't need a qualifying CAD product to use it).

Unfortunately, neither of those options is free, which is what you seem to be looking for.

-Dave

[Anonymous]

OK, if paying for a licensed inventor is the only option that is fine.

Will inputting a new serial code into inventor bring back associativity into vault? At the moment its acting as if the computer does not have inventor installed at all

Thanks

[minkd]

Since Vault Basic doesn't actively check for licenses (it assumes a qualifying CAD product is present), I would think the Vault client would still work in the sense that it will come up and allow you browse around.  But once an operation that relies on CAD support is attempted, I imagine you would start seeing error dialogs.

So I suspect that once Inventor is working again, things should be back to normal.

-Dave

[scottmoyse · Accepted solution]

I'm actually baffled that Vault has stopped working in the way described here. Vault Basic only checks for a qualifying CAD license during installation. It should work forever after that.

If Inventor has stopped working, because his Desktop Subscription (Rental) has expired, then he won't be able to open Inventor files from Vault anymore, since it won't be able to launch. In that case, yes you can install Inventor View, to simple view the Inventor files. But if there is a DWF/Visualisation file created for that version of the Inventor file, then it should open in Design Review anyway.

When you say Vault has lost associativity to Vault, what do you consider associativity means?