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 1st File shows list of available revision for first file. The Revision dropdown under 2nd File shows list of available revisions for second file.
    Remarque 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.