To Work with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD Electrical

Workflow overview

1. Start AutoCAD Electrical.
2. Log into Vault.
3. In a single user environment, if you did not set a working folder yet, start Autodesk Vault Explorer and set a working folder on your local computer and then switch back to AutoCAD Electrical.

   In a multiple-user design environment, set the working folder on a shared network resource for the entire project team. This allows simultaneous access for all users on the same dataset and maintains the data consistency.

4. Open a project you want to add to the vault.
5. Go to the Vault ribbon tab.
6. Add the opened project to the vault using the Check In or Check In Folder command.
7. Use the Open or Check Out command to open and check out the file from the vault.
8. To work on more files in the project, check out multiple files to the working folder using the Check Out All command in the Project Manager.
9. When you finish modifying the files, check them back into the vault using the Check In All command in the Project Manager. All related files update.

Open from vault

1. In the Project Manager, select Open Project from Vault from the project selection menu.
2. Navigate to the project definition file, and then select it. To maintain the relationship between the drawing files that are defined in the project file, you must check out all files specified in a project file when opening a project from the vault.
3. Click Open.

Get latest version

Get Latest Version retrieves a read-only copy of the most recent design data that is checked in.

1. In the Project Manager, select a file.
2. Right-click and select:
   • Get Latest Version to get the most recent version of the selected project file.
   • Get Latest Version for All to get the most recent version of the selected project file and all of the related files.
3. In the Get Latest Version dialog box, click OK.

   If the working copy of a file is newer than the most recent version of the file in the vault, you are prompted to cancel or overwrite the local version.

4. Click Settings to get the parents and children of the selected file.

Get previous version

Get Previous Version retrieves a past version of a file or a project and places a read-only copy in your working folder. Historical versions can never be modified. You can only create a new version of a file.

1. In the Project Manager, right-click a file or project, and then click Get Previous Version.
2. In the Get Previous Version dialog box, select a version of the file or project to retrieve.
3. If the file has parents and children to get, click Settings, and then specify which related files are retrieved as well.
4. Click OK.

Create a project version

1. Check out the project .wdp file.
2. Check in the project .wdp file.

Even if the .wdp is not modified, if any drawings have newer versions, a newer version of the .wdp is created, associating all newer drawing versions.

Tip: Use Vault Explorer to examine the relationship between versions of the project file and corresponding drawings.

Roll back to a previous project version

You can roll back to a previous project version using Vault Explorer, restoring the project file (.wdp) and all associated drawing and project configuration files to a previous version.

1. Close the project and drawings in AutoCAD Electrical.
2. Using Vault Explorer, examine the .wdp file and corresponding drawing versions.
3. Select the desired .wdp file.
4. Click Get Previous Version.