The command for property management is available in Inventor and AutoCAD.
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 .
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2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
Autodesk Vault Basic |
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Autodesk Vault Workgroup |
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Autodesk Vault Collaboration |
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Autodesk Vault Professional |
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- AutoCAD Add-in
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The VTKEDITPROPERTIES command is available after loading of AutoCAD.
- Inventor Add-in
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The Inventor Add-In commands are available in the Vault ribbon under VAO panel:
The commands require an active connection to the Vault.
Synchronize Properties
The command is available only for drawing documents. It copies selected properties from associated model document to the drawing.
All based on the definitions uploaded to the Vault Server the user is connected to.
It's possible to copy properties manually (using command) or automatically.
The automatic synchronization is executed within the document save action with the interactive Inventor session. It will not
be executed with a JobServer driven save process. During the JobProcessor actions all Inventor addins are usually disabled
by default.
Edit Properties
The Edit properties command provides advanced user interface for selection of property values. The command is enabled only
if connection to Vault server is established.
The "Default" Property Schema and the four named Property sets ("Common", "Product", "Rotation" and "Material") correspond
to the Property sets defined in the property.xml mentioned in the configuration - part (Property Management) of this document.
One example of property edition is the following one:
- Select the Property set Material
- In the Property Editor locate the Material Name property. Mandatory properties are highlighted with bold font.
- Select a value.
- Select a value for Material Thickness.
The Material code is calculated.
The Edition of the Material (CSV Data) Property Sets is supported by the definition in the file Material.csv mentioned in the configuration - part (Property Management) of this document.
- Click on Edit Properties command in Vault Tools panel.
- In the Property Editor locate the title property. Mandatory properties are highlighted with bold font.
- Click on … next to property value.
- In Data Table dialog locate new property value.
Remarque
The dialog uses same grid as Vault. Thus it's possible to use same method for data sorting and filtering. When using custom
filter following placeholder characters could be used:
- % represents series of characters
- _ represents single character
The search option on top bar, searches for possible matches over all columns (highlighted in blue).
- Close dialog "Data Table" with OK button.
- Close dialog "Property Editor" with OK button.
Value of mapped iProperty will be updated.