When you are ready to create a design that you eventually vault, you must create a project file for it.
To take full advantage of Autodesk Vault, your project file must be configured properly. Autodesk Vault can manage only vault-enabled project files. A project file that was configured for use with Autodesk Vault contains additional settings including the name and location of the vault and the Multi-User setting must be set to Vault. When starting a new Autodesk Inventor model, create the vault-enabled project file before creating any model files.
The key difference in a vault project file is that local and workgroup search paths are not allowed. Consolidate all project folders under the single workspace search path for the project. The workspace is the local folder mapped to the corresponding folder in the vault. The workspace can be a single folder, or can include a hierarchy of subfolders to help organize the project.
Autodesk recommends that you use Autodesk Autoloader to create the vault project. Autodesk Autoloader uploads an entire Autodesk Inventor project to a vault located on an Autodesk data management server.