Autodesk Vault
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Autodesk Vault is an data management tool integrated with Autodesk Inventor Series, Autodesk Inventor Professional, AutoCAD Mechanical, and AutoCAD Electrical products. It helps design teams track work in progress and maintain version control in multi-user environments. It allows them to organize and reuse designs by consolidating product information and reducing the need to re-create designs from scratch. Users can store and search both CAD data (such as Autodesk Inventor, DWG, and DWF files) and non-CAD documents (such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files).
[edit] History
Autodesk Vault was initially known as truEVault; part of an acquisition from a company called truEInnovations, Inc. based in Eagan, Minnesota. truEInnovations was started by two entrepreneurs, Brian Roepke and Dean Brisson in 1999. The company was founded on the basis of bringing a more affordable tool for managing engineering data to the market.
After the asset acquisition of truEInnovations by Autodesk in 2003, Autodesk began to further the integration of the product into the manufacturing product line, starting with Autodesk Inventor.
[edit] Software Timeline
- Autodesk Vault 1.0 ships with Autodesk Inventor 7 (as a subscription only download)
- Autodesk Vault 1.3 ships with Autodesk Inventor 8
- Autodesk Vault 2.0 ships (Available as a subscription only download)
- Autodesk Vault 3.0 ships with Autodesk Inventor 9
- Autodesk Vault 4.0 ships with Autodesk Inventor 10
- Autodesk Vault 5.0 ships with Autodesk Inventor 11, Autodesk Civil 3D 2007, AutoCAD Electrical 2007, AutoCAD Mechanical 2007
