Compare Drawings

You can compare drawings with the Enterprise Add-on for Vault.

Release Availability

This feature is available in certain editions of vault. To see if your Vault edition supports this feature, refer to the following table .

	2012	2013	2014
Autodesk Vault Basic
Autodesk Vault Workgroup
Autodesk Vault Collaboration
Autodesk Vault Professional

Compare Drawings

Follow these instructions to use the drawing compare functionality:

1. Select a document in Vault Explorer. Press right mouse button to display context menu.

   As alternate option you can select two different files in navigation pane. It's also possible to select two different file versions on History tab of preview pane.

2. From context menu select Compare Drawings command. The command displays following dialog.
   
3. The Revision dropdown below 1^st File shows list of available revision for first file. The Revision dropdown under 2^nd File shows list of available revisions for second file.
   Note Only Revisions where DWF preview is available are listed in drop-down.
4. Click on Compare button. The graphical comparison is displayed in the dialog.
5. Use Additions/Deletions buttons to change color for additions and deletions.