
Autodesk Vault 2015 focuses on transforming the Item/BOM experience, making it easier for you to manage your design process. In addition, this release improves the editing workflow, introduces a brand new thin client experience, and broadens the feature offerings in the Revit Vault Add-in. Additional functionality and enhancements have been made to the Inventor Vault Add-in, Project Sync, ADMS Console, and Installation process.
- Inventor Integration Enhancements
- Revit Integration Enhancements
- New Thin Client
- Item Workflow Enhancements
- Revision Table improvements
- New Autodesk Vault File Server
- Vault Data Standard
- Project Sync Updates
- ADMS Console Updates
- New Consolidated Installation Process
Here are more details for each feature:
- Inventor Integration Enhancements
- The Inventor Vault Add-in has been updated to include a Fast Open from Vault option. This means that you can open a drawing without finding or resolving any of the referenced files.
- Refer to Open File from Vault with the Inventor Add-in for more information.
- Revit Integration Enhancements
Autodesk Vault 2015 focuses heavily on the Revit Vault add-in experience by introducing several new features and enhancing existing features.
- New Import from Vault Feature
- New Load Group from Vault Feature
- Improved Load Family from Vault Workflow
- Link More File Types
- Maintain Link to DWF
- New Login Interface and Connection Status
- Shared Parameters Support
- New Lifecycles, Revisions, and Categories Support
- New Mapping User Interface on the Vault Options Dialog
- Import Revit Project Properties
- New Thin Client (Available only with Vault Workgroup and Vault Professional)
- The thin client has been completely redesigned to provide a superior experience when accessing a vault through a web browser.
- The redesign includes Enhanced user interfaces, Customizable view functionalities, New BOM interface, and Enhanced report printing.
- See the Thin Client help for more information.
- Item Workflow Enhancements
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New Item CAD Integrations
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Improved Usability
- New Modeless Item Interface
The Item Wizard has been eliminated and a new modeless interface introduced for item management. Now you can manage item records and work with the main Vault client at the same time. In addition, you can drag and drop or copy/paste files onto items, components onto items, or items onto items.
See Work with Item File Links for more information.
- Save Item as Needed
In previous releases, you had to save and close an item to record changes, and then reopen it to continue modifying it. Now you can save as you edit without having to close the record.
- Save a Copy of an Item as a New Item
Save a current item as a new item so that all of the properties, BOM rows, and item details are copied into the new item.
Note: Item links are not copied to the new item.
See Save Item As for more information.
Not only can you go to an item from a selected file but you can open the item directly from the file.
See Open Item from File for more information.
- Assign Items to Components
Assign items to virtual components, allowing you to keep track of placeholders in your BOMs.
See Assign Items for more information.
- Change Item State from the Right-Click Menu
Not only can you change item states from the item record, you can also right-click on an item and select change state without ever opening the item record.
- Easy File Link Management
Restrictions on file links have been eased. In addition, an associated link type column has been added to the Associated Items dialog so you can see at a glance whether a link is primary or not.
Note: Administrators have the option of suppressing the Associated Items dialog.
When viewing the Associated Files section of an item, non-primary links are hidden by default, making it easier to locate the associated file that you need. Users have the option of revealing the other links with the click of a button. See Work with Item File Links for more information.
- Auto-select Duplicate Item
Right now, Vault will automatically select one item for assignment when it finds two of the same items. Administrators can opt out of auto-selection by modifying preferences on the Configure Assign Item dialog. Administrators can also decide whether or not to allow a user to override auto-assignment.
Now, instead of having to remove BOM rows, you can turn rows off to keep them listed in the BOM but exclude them from the BOM-related processes.
In previous releases, you could only modify the parent item in a BOM. Now you can make nested edits to items listed in the BOM, as well as add and remove nested items.
Automatically add rows to a BOM by creating new items. Administrators can also specify on the Configure BOM Row Settings dialog whether Vault automatically creates items for children files in the BOM or turns BOM rows on for them.
Additionally, you can easily reorder rows in the BOM by dragging and dropping them (Bill of Materials - Reordering) as well as configure item position numbers (Bill of Materials - Change the Position of an Item in a BOM.
Export BOM has been renamed to Save BOM view and now has a simplified workflow.
- Enhancements to Item Number Workflow
When an item is created, the default numbering scheme is used to generate the item number. If the scheme requires user input, users are immediately prompted to fill in the required values so there is no need to go back and edit the item record later.
A Replace button is provided to help you search the Vault for properties that you want to map to fields requiring user input. A Precheck button is provided to verify the mapped values.
See Assign Item Numbers for more information.
In addition, you can quickly access the Change Number dialog by right-clicking on an item.
- New status icons and improved User Interface
New status icons and an improved user interface help you manage your items and BOMs with quicker, more convenient workflows.
See Items and BOMs for more information.
- Revision Table improvements
Based on user feedback a number of enhancements have been made to the Revision Table greatly improving its flexibility and usability across design disciplines.
Content
Administrator can now control the file information displayed in the revision table rows including:
◦ Initial or final released states (where user may have more than one released lifecycle state)
◦ First or Last version from within the revision state (where the file may have been modified after initial release by Job Processor or quick change style operation)
◦ Update latest revision only (ignore updates to existing revision table rows)
Filters
In addition to selecting information to display users can also select which revision types should appear in the table, whether that is:
◦ Omit the original revision where initial release is not detailed in the table.
◦ Skip the secondary, tertiary, or even primary revision display for users leveraging different revision types.
Users are also able to reset the table rows on change to the revision scheme so the final revision displays only the production revision.
- New Autodesk Vault File Server
- In a bid to improve replication performance Autodesk introduces Autodesk File Store Server (AVFS) a new console type that permits a local site file store while enabling users to redirect SQL calls to the remote ADMS.
- Removing the requirement for user web calls to route through local ADMS to remote ADMS significantly increases remote client performance making this single SQL model a more attractive option for connecting workgroups that may have previously used full replication or a slower file store replication option.
The Autodesk Data Standard for Vault 2015 release focuses on providing support for Autodesk Vault Workgroup 2015 and Autodesk Vault Professional 2015.
In addition, Autodesk Data Standard for Vault 2015 provides a new way of handling Data Standard templates, enhanced property mapping for AutoCAD DWG properties, and support for generated Inventor components.
- Enhanced Mapping for AutoCAD DWG Properties
- Improved Handling of Templates
- New Data Standard Support for Generated Inventor Components
- Folder Lists Now Available for Data Standard
- New Custom Object Support
- Suppress Default Data Standard Commands
- New Localization Support
- See more details in What's New in Autodesk Data Standard for Vault 2015
- Project Sync now provides multiple mapping support. In previous releases, users had to map a folder that contained all of the files that they wanted to synchronize with Vault. This meant that the folder had to be high enough in the folder hierarchy to contain all of the necessary files. However, as a result, many files and folders inside the hierarchy did not need to be synchronized.
- Autodesk Vault 2015 introduces a way to specify multiple mappings between Vault folders and Buzzsaw sites/folders within one Vault. Now users can select the exact Vault folders that they want to synchronize.
- A few dialogs had to be overhauled to support the new mapping functionality.
- The Project Sync Settings dialog now offers a way to specify folders for mapping and site management.
- Vault templates have been introduced to the ADMS Console for easy vault creation based on your industry. Now when you first log in after installation, you are prompted to create a vault. You must select an industry template or choose the default template before the vault is created.
- In addition, the Civil 3D template is now included with all three industry templates.
- See Create a Vault for more information.
- In addition, the enable SSL compatibility option has been relocated to the Administration dialog.
- New Consolidated Installation Process