What’s New in Autodesk Vault 2023

What’s New in Autodesk Vault 2023

Autodesk Vault 2023 has been released and comes with a host of new features and updates.

This new functionality ranges across all areas of vault including updates to CAD add ins, the vault client, and the ADMS console.

Windows 11 is now supported to host a Vault basic server enabling users to get the latest machines and upgrade existing ones to align with new Microsoft technology.

User Interface

New UI themes have been introduced to align with the new colour schemes in Autodesk Inventor. Under ‘tools’> ‘options’ a new drop-down menu allows you to choose from a dark, light, or default theme which can be customised per user.

Continuing in the options, in 2022.1 a new feature was introduced to include the use of the Autodesk online viewer, this has been built into Vault giving more high-quality tools available. These tools include explode, a more advanced measure tool, and section views. The main new tool with additional functionality, is the markup tool.

Markup is a highly sought-after array of tools that will allows CAD and non-CAD users to highlight or and keep a record of any changes or notes that are required. This new functionality also works with previously generated ECO’s and viewing features are available within the thin client. This will a valuable took for companies wanting to create an approval workflow directly within Autodesk Vault, it will ensure consistency and make everything easier as you are only using one tool for the markup process.

Another addition is the ability to always open using Inventor read-only mode. This feature will allow non-CAD users who are previewing files to always open using the read-only version of Inventor even if a dwf hasn’t been published.

Within the client the customize view tab has been enhanced and available in other areas including, Change State, Change Revision, Change Category, Pack and Go, Synchronize Properties and Undo Check Out.

Instance properties was a new tool created in Inventor 2022. This was not supported in Vault 2022, however, in 2023 support has now been included with Items and the Item Bill of Materials.

AutoCAD Vault add-in

The AutoCAD vault add-in has new features added which will be popular with regular users. Firstly, you can now directly access ‘Show Details’ from within AutoCAD. This tool will give users direct access to the history, and where the relationships of the file are within Vault, saving a lot of time. The second new tool added to the vault add-in, ‘Go to Vault Folder’. This will open up the client directly and take users straight to the folder, this is especially useful if you have a complex folder structure.

Vault Gateway

Finally, the Vault gateway has been introduced. This is a tool that can be managed and configured from the ADMS console. The Vault gateway enables users to secure direct access to the Vault without the use of a VPN connection, onsite network connection or any open inbound network ports. This tool is not only going to be useful for remote workers but any company working with a 3rd party and will allow them to connect from three versions back starting with the 2022.1 release.

Watch the video to see these new features in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEIXTksEoao

If you are interested in hearing more about vault gateway or are interested in any other new areas within Vault 2023 please visit our product page or contact us by email info@symetri.co.uk or telephone 0345 370 1444.