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System Administrators See also

The Autodesk 3ds Max Install Guide for a full list of install and configuration

documents for both Vault 5 and Vault 2008.

Asset Tracking Dialog

File menu > Asset Tracking

With the Asset Tracking dialog, you can check files in and out, add files to

the Asset Tracking System (ATS), get different versions of files, etc., all from

3ds Max without the need to use separate client software. Another important

function of the Asset Tracking dialog is for repathing; locating missing files.

For example, if you move bitmap files used by materials in your scene to the

same folder as the scene file, the bitmaps will be loaded when you open the

scene file, but the materials will still use the original, no-longer-valid path for

the bitmap files, and the Asset Tracking dialog will show the files as missing.

To resolve the incorrect paths, you can use the tools available from the Paths

menu.

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.

The Asset Tracking dialog provides the principal functionality for working

with the Vault data-management solution from within 3ds Max, but you can

also work directly with Vault using the Vault Explorer client software, which

is included with 3ds Max. To run Vault Explorer, go to Windows Start menu

> Autodesk > Autodesk Data Management and choose Autodesk Vault Explorer.

To learn more about using Vault Explorer, open the Autodesk Vault Explorer

Help menu and choose Autodesk Vault Help Topics, or simply press F1 while

the Vault Explorer window is active.