Autodesk Vault Basic or Professional?

Worrying about data management is not how designers and engineers want to spend their time? Not only can it affect creativity, productivity and product outcomes, but it has the potential to impact your bottom line. Consider using Autodesk Vault Basic or Professional.
Fortunately Autodesk Vault is an easy-to-use and powerful data management software available for today’s engineering teams to help automate and digitise the way they work.
In understanding what you want to achieve with your data management tool, here are some common questions and scenarios that your business may be currently facing:
- Is your engineering documentation disorganised and confusing?
- Does your engineering team struggle to locate the latest version of the files every time a new project starts?
- Does your manufacturing team struggle to understand what files to use for production?
- Are you unsure if your engineering documentation is stored in a secure way?
- Do you want to enhance your Autodesk Inventor or AutoCAD files used in your everyday engineering work?
- Do you want more connected data and improved collaboration?
If you answered ‘Yes’ to even a few of these questions then you may need to consider using Autodesk Vault as your engineering data management system.
First things first: What is Autodesk Vault?
Autodesk Vault is a product data management software that helps you and your team manage and organise your design and engineering data, accelerate collaboration and better take control of your product development processes.
Used by thousands of companies across the world, Autodesk Vault can rapidly streamline workflows across engineering, manufacturing, and related teams, giving users a powerful way to automate and control design and product development.
The main benefits of Autodesk Vault are [1]:
- Organise, find and reuse design data and minimise rework and repetitive tasks
- Accelerate workstreams in a system that increases collaboration between teams
- Better track and control drawings modifications and revisions
- Control level of access to data to maintain file integrity and safety
- Achieving faster response times and fewer errors with automation and data accessibility
If you’re a modern business struggling with your current data storing systems – whether through storing information in multiple databases, poor integrations with your ERP and other software, or a lack of consistency and usability with your file structures – then you may find yourself deciding which version of Vault to use: Autodesk Vault Basic or Autodesk Vault Professional.
Autodesk Vault Basic Vs Vault Professional
Autodesk Vault has a growing range of features and benefits across its Basic and Professional versions. To help you understand which version is right for your organisation and how to choose between the two, we’ve put together this handy overview.
*Eligible Autodesk products for Autodesk Vault Basic [3]:
- Inventor Professional
- 3DS Max
- AutoCAD with Specialized Tools
- Product Design & Manufacturing Collection
- Architecture, Engineering & Construction Collection
- Media & Entertainment Collection
How to start using Autodesk Vault in your organisation
It’s simple to begin using Autodesk Vault – you need the software installed, your workflows implemented, and Autodesk Vault training completed. If you’re a new company with no legacy data to be transferred to Autodesk Vault, then no other steps are required.
If your business is moving to Autodesk Vault from the current ways of storing data in multiple places – such as OneDrive, SharePoint, server folders or other databases – you’ll need to think about moving your existing (legacy) data to Autodesk Vault in a organised way without losing links between files and preserving metadata from legacy drawing registers.
Deciding between the Basic and Professional will typically come down to your organisation’s specific needs, your overall budget and how much you currently rely on Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD.
In short, the Professional Vault version is a more advanced, enterprise level solution that helps connect larger teams, automate and synchronise numerous design processes and integrate with a range of ERP software. While the Basic free version has some outstanding features, it is limited in its features.
A data transfer to Autodesk Vault can be simple and painless, run over a single weekend to minimise disruption to your business and automatically clean your data before upload, removing duplicates, restoring xRefs, classifying documents and assigning lifecycles.
Modern CAD specialises in small to large data transfers to Autodesk Vault, making transition to a more secure, flexible and accessible workspace effortless, fast and simple.
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