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Asset Tracking
The Asset Tracking feature provides direct access within 3ds Max to asset
tracking systems (ATS), also known as providers. You use asset tracking systems
to share files such as scene files and bitmaps used in materials with other
members of your development team.
Asset tracking provides full support for the Autodesk Vault data-management
solution, and basic version-control support for other providers, such as Perforce
and Microsoft SourceSafe. In general, asset tracking supports version-control
providers that are capable of integrating into Microsoft Visual Studio,
sometimes referred to as MSSCC support. This topic assumes usage of Autodesk
Vault.
NOTE When you have Vault installed, you can open files directly from the Vault
database with the File menu command
Open from Vault on page 6721 . This
command mimics the File Open process, but browses the vault instead of the file
system. In addition to opening the scene file, it downloads or updates any
dependent scene files, such as bitmaps and XRefs. You see Open from Vault in the
File menu only if you have installed the Vault add-in.
Asset Tracking with Autodesk Vault
The 3ds Max Vault add-in works with 3ds Max by adding data-management
tools to the interface. Through the Vault add-in, you can add files to a vault,
and check files out and in. The add-in works with many different types of files
including MAX and image files. The recommended method for performing
Vault operations depends upon your working environment.
When you work on a file that is checked out of the vault, you work on a local
copy of the file and not the original. At no point do you ever work on the
actual vaulted file. When you check a modified file back into the vault, the
modifications are available as the latest version in the vault. All past versions
of a file are maintained in the vault.
See also:
■ ms-its:3dsmax_t.chm::/WS73099cc142f4875514c01ac112a7acef16-7535.htmUsing
Asset Tracking tutorial for an overview of the asset tracking workflow.
■
Asset Tracking Dialog on page 6897
■ Open from Vault on page 6721
■
Prompts Dialog on page 6914
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