Vault Collaboration 2013
Digital version

Part of the Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version solution for Digital Prototyping, the Autodesk Vault family of data management software helps you keep track of all your digital design data. It securely stores and manages data in a central location, helping teams quickly create, share, and reuse digital prototyping information. With Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version you’ll spend less time chasing down files and more time creating innovative designs.

Connect Your Teams

Enhance team productivity with support for team-based design. The Autodesk Vault product line lets you work closely with others on projects without putting design data at risk. Multi-user functionality lets you control access to design data so your entire workgroup—from managers to engineers and designers—can participate in the design process. You track and manage all data related to each digital prototype in one secure, central location. And because the Vault product family integrates with Autodesk design applications, it’s easier and faster than ever to manage accurate data from concept through manufacturing.

Improve Productivity

You don’t need to recreate the wheel. The Autodesk Vault family of products includes tools that help you reuse data and minimize rework, so you can develop products faster. Instead of starting a complex model or drawing set from scratch, use a similar digital prototype as a starting point for a new design. Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version improves productivity with functions designed to help you track, find, and organize data quickly. Saved searches and shortcuts speed up data search, while productivity tools let you manipulate design files without breaking application-specific links. And data organization tools let you control indexing and access across file types—so you can improve data sharing and searching based on property sets.

Control Revisions

Making changes doesn’t have to interrupt your workflow—you can control design iterations from within your design application. The Vault product line captures the history of design concepts, so you can push the boundaries of your work, or revert to older revisions if needed. Then use Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version to secure, release, and track data revisions—granting team members access to only the correct revisions of the files. With Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version you maintain control over the digital prototype as it moves through the design and production process.

Data Management Tools

Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version helps to accelerate development cycles and optimize your investment in design data with features that help you organize, manage, and track key design and release management processes. An enhanced set of features facilitates:

• Data management for workgroups
• Data search and reuse
• Administration and configuration
• Revision Control

Connect Workgroups

Finish projects faster by enabling more engineers to work on the digital prototype without overwriting each other’s data.

Best-in-Class Integration with Autodesk Design Software

Integrate the Autodesk Vault family of products with Autodesk design applications such as Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Mechanical, and AutoCAD software. This deep integration makes it easier to manage data associated with your digital prototype from engineering through manufacturing—saving time and helping to preserve data accuracy.

Tool to Manage Microsoft Office Documents

Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version is fully integrated with Microsoft Office, including Office 2007. As a result, it’s simpler to manage all aspects of digital prototyping, including specifications, calculations, and presentations. Your entire workgroup can collaborate on product development, which helps you get to market faster.

Concurrent Design

Team members can work on a digital prototype without overriding each other's data thanks to multiuser functionality. Team members check out a design before making modifications, then check it back in when they’re done. With everyone working together, you can better balance resources, speed projects to completion, and meet tight deadlines.

Vault Access for Non-designing Workgroup Members

Give every member of your team access to Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version. Even non-CAD users can add, review, and manage data relevant to a digital prototype.

Preview Interactively with Autodesk Design Review

Publish design data as DWF files so non-CAD users can view, print, and mark them up using Autodesk Design Review software.

Quick and Simple Searching

Use a range of methods, such as saved searches and shortcuts, to find and organize data. Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version minimizes the time it takes to find information, so you can spend more time designing and less time hunting for data.

Optimized Data Reuse

Save hours of design time—stop manually recreating or duplicating complex models and drawing sets. Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version lets you copy a digital prototype—including all related files and documentation—for use in a new design. It also makes it easier to configure the files you want to replace, reuse, or copy.

Productivity Tools for File Maintenance

Edit and manipulate design files without breaking important application-specific links such as AutoCAD xrefs or Autodesk Inventor file relationships. By maintaining design integrity, you save hours of manual cleanup work.

Immediate ‘Where Used’ Analysis

Understand the impact of a design change on multiple projects—before you make it. Track relationships between design files and view where specific files are used in each project.

Improved Data Organization and Search with Property Management

Control property indexing and access across file types. Specify which rich attribute, text, and property data embedded in design files is captured and exposed for queries, filtering, and data organization. Improve data sharing and quick and accurate searching based on property sets.

Utilities to Batch-Plot Design Data

Create, manage, and reuse print or plot jobs for all managed files. Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version fully supports watermarking and stamping, so you spend less time on administrative tasks.

Design Concept Exploration

Capture the history of your design concepts with Vault Collaboration 2013 Digital version. You can iterate new ideas or revert to old ones, arriving at a final digital prototype more quickly. Create labels or snapshots that make it easier to reference and restore designs. You have the potential to reduce the overhead, errors, and lost data associated with manual backup and copy methods.

Intuitive Revision Management

Audit and track the revision history of your data files from a single location. Reduce the chance of design and manufacturing errors by securely releasing and tracking files throughout the design cycle, helping make sure that team members access the correct version of data.

Manage Data Security from Design Concept to Retirement

Manage critical aspects of design data at every stage of the lifecycle to control data security and enforce property standards. Security management helps you give the right people access to the appropriate data at the appropriate time.