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- posted 09/29/06 by Daniel Philbrick Vault or Shortcuts - you pick...
- If you’ve been reading our previous posts, you can see that there are challenges with implementing a full Vault-based Project Management environment in Civil 3D. For some of you, Vault is working beautifully. For others… well, you’ve seen the posts. Based on this reality, we’ve been working on a solution that will allow users who are not able to implement Vault to benefit from the reference capabilities in Civil 2007.
So, what’s the plan?
We are actively working on an update to Civil 3D 2007 that will effectively restore the ability to work with non-Vault references. You’ll be able to manually create data shortcuts and then reference those objects so that the model can be distributed to all project team members. The behavior partially exists in Civil 3D 2007 through the Edit Shortcuts command in the General pulldown menu. However, the XML shortcut file must be reloaded every time you open a drawing containing references. The update will eliminate this issue so that references remain live whenever the drawing is opened. The net result is you have all the benefits of reference objects in a very easy to use, easy to implement system.
What’s this mean for Vault?
Vault and Vault-based project capabilities continues to be the primary project/data management direction for Civil 3D. Those of you who have implemented Vault can be sure that Vault is a secure path for the future. Those of you who are preparing for a Civil 3D implementation should take a close look at Vault to see if can work for you. However, for those of you who just can’t get Vault to fit into your workflow, we’ll continue to focus on providing a solution that works for you.
If you’re interested in testing a beta version of the shortcut functionality, please let me know and I’ll make sure you’re invited into the beta program. We’ll provide more details on how this behavior works and how it’ll be released in our upcoming webcast (Oct 6 – A Civil 3D update with Dan and Dave).
Dan
User Comments
When my users get caught up on their sleep and get recharged over the weekend I'll extend to them your offer. After an amazing week, I think they have seen what is possible.
I think they will want to help you make it better.
Thank you for trying to accommodate the Heartland Lunatic. ;-))
John Postlewait
IS Department
George Butler Associates, Inc.
Posted 9/29/2006 5:57 PM by John Postlewait
They did it just for you, John.
Posted 9/30/2006 12:21 AM by Dana Probert
definately sounds promising, vault works for me, but its definately a hard sell in this office.
Posted 10/3/2006 5:26 PM by Dieter Delloch
How can we contact you about the beta?
Posted 10/12/2006 8:57 PM by Shawn McDonald