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Manage Your Design Data Using Autodesk Vault
Autodesk Vault is an engineering data management application for workgroups that is fully integrated with
Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Professional software solutions, at no additional cost. The powerful
combination of Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Vault helps improve engineering productivity, decrease your
product development cycle, and reduce errors by ensuring access to the right data.
Many companies suffer from lower engineering productivity and longer design cycles because of difficulty in
managing, organizing, and accessing accurate, timely data across engineering and manufacturing teams.
Autodesk Vault improves your engineering productivity by synchronizing the workgroup efforts of your
individual designers. Autodesk Vault manages all your engineering files, regardless of the file type. Files can be
Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD®, FEA, CAM, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel, or other standard file types used
in the design process (such as files from other CAD systems). Autodesk Vault is easy to install and does not
require complex IT or prolonged deployments. And a design team can start using it without much training or
downtime.
To view an animated demonstration of Autodesk Vault:
1. Insert the Autodesk Inventor 8 Hands-on Test Drive CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2. If the setup program does not start automatically, choose Run from the Start menu, type D:\testdrv.exe
(where D is the CD-ROM drive), and then click OK or press Enter.
3. On the main page of the install, click Autodesk Inventor Professional and Autodesk Vault.
4. On the Autodesk Inventor Professional and Autodesk Vault page, click Autodesk Vault.
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