Quickly find and reduce duplicate parts in your database using geometric searches that compare 3D shapes.
Duplicate parts in your engineering supply chain can cost your company thousands of dollars in redundant design, documentation, approval, release, and data management re-work.
Like an image search, but for your 3D components – Vault duplicate search smartly compares 3D shapes within the thousands of CAD files that you have within your Vault database.
It enables a team of engineers to easily run a 3D geometric search for parts easily, so they don’t waste time and effort documenting, releasing, and managing the same parts over and over again. It has the potential to help save our customers thousands of dollars each year through better design re-use.
Duplicate Search allows you to distinguish data intelligently and quickly. Being able to compare geometries within Vault significantly accelerates your productivity, and consequently, your time to market. Being able to replace WIP files with fully released components has a direct impact on your products’ quality and the company’s profitability.
Using this new set of features you can, for example:
In Vault Client:
- Quickly view the information about duplicate parts using the Dashboard with data such as the duplicate ratio.
- Create a report of the duplicate components.
In Autodesk Inventor:
- Replace all occurrences of the selected duplicate part in the whole assembly.
- Place the selected part from the Search Results panel to the assembly.
- View details of the selected duplicate part, for example, where it is used, when it was created.