Edit Properties Enhancement: Match Properties Tool

[Anonymous]

In Vault, we often have files which are associated with each other directly, but have different file extenstions.  For example...

123.iam

123.dwg

123.pdf (Published copy of the drawing for client)

123.jpg (Image of the part for marketing, etc.)

123.nwd (Navisworks copy of the model)

All of these files represent the same part and must have identical property values.  However, the .pdf and .jpg files have no intelligent link to the CAD files.  Right now I have to open the 'Edit Properties' dialog and copy and paste each and every property from the CAD file to the other formats.  Multiply this by the 300+ files I have to do this with for each project.

Best option:  I would like to see a tool which could be used to have all files 'inherit' properties from a master file (i.e. the .dwg file) whenever the root filename is the same.

Minimum option:  A tool that behaves similar to the 'Match Properties' command in other applications, so that by clicking I can match all of the properties manually from the file to the others manually.

[cmcconnell]

I agree 100%. I would like to see a setting that could be turned on that forces these properties to be synced automatically.

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping the new effort by Autodesk to better integrate with .pdf format visualization files (in addition to .dwf) solves this issue for us...at least for that file format.  I still think it would be nice to link several files (which represent the same part) together with a single revision level.

[Senthil_Kumar]

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[cmcconnell]

Can you please add which idea you are archiving to the email you send out? It takes a lot of digging to go to the ideas page and try and find them.

[Anonymous]

Exactly what I was thinking.