Tips & Tutorials Blog: data management

Last week, Robert Green, everyone’s favorite CAD Manager, added a post to Cadalyst to help CAD managers with tips to help them choose and prepare for a data management solution. As projects get larger and larger, and carry more and more data in the design, massive data is now a sign of the times. In […]

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Bill Knittle, Synergis Buildings Solutions Engineer: For us seasoned Revit users, worksharing is a part of daily life when performing concurrent edits on our own model. Until now, these methods have been on-premise. With Revit Server, we extended worksharing over the wide area network. However, this was just an […]

Data management software helps organize, manage, and track data creation, analysis, and documentation processes for design, engineering, and construction teams. Get more control over design data with revision management capabilities. Quickly find and reuse data to more easily manage your design and engineering information. Some of the benefits of Vault: Integration with Autodesk Software: Autodesk […]

A common theme among companies today is the need to streamline design processes from start to finish as well as communicate across all company departments. Many times a project will get delayed due to an awaiting approval or feedback from an additional party. Greenpoint Technologies, a premier completion center for Boeing Business Jets, was experiencing […]

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Mark Lancaster, Synergis Product Support Specialist: As Daylight Savings comes to an end it is a friendly reminder for us to check and replace our batteries in our smoke detectors. However this article is not about smoke detector batteries but about your Vault backups. So I have a simple […]

One of the most important steps to building and construction design is organizing the designs and documentation.  When working in a collaborative, multi-team environment as most projects are today, it is difficult to track and organize all the data. How do you know if your firm needs a data management solution?  Are you: Challenged to […]

(And Without Pulling Out Your Hair) Data management solutions always look good “on paper”. When it’s just a matter of proposals and ROI projections, the “abstract” seems perfect. It’s only when you go live, and real people get involved that things can get messy. If you don’t have a clear, strategic implementation plan in place, […]

Autodesk® Vault products—Autodesk® Vault Basic, Autodesk® Vault Workgroup and Autodesk® Vault Professional software—are part of the Autodesk solution for Digital Prototyping. Autodesk® Vault products help design and engineering workgroups manage the creation, simulation, and documentation process. Gain control over design data with revision management capabilities and quickly find and reuse design data to easily manage […]

This month we had the opportunity to have Kevin Robinson from Autodesk speak to our customers about managing data.  Let’s face it, no one became an engineer to steward data files, file names, file structures, file versions, etc.  With Vault Professional, you can spend less time managing these files, worrying about back ups and versions […]

When you imagined a career in engineering, you probably did not think about how to manage all the design files, including versions and parts.  In fact, it is often a key factor in workflow that is overlooked in book learning as well even though there is nothing more important than keeping your designs safe and […]