
Thanks very much to Nick from Acuity training for this guest post showing us how. In this case Autodesk Vault also considers these files as part of the drawing file.Have you ever wished you could import PDF from Adobe into an AutoCAD DWG File? The same happens with AutoCAD Civil 3D files, in which most of the time there are image files, with TIFF extension, that are part of the design. For example: when we are working with AutoCAD Electrical files, it is taken into account that the projects in this application use a project file and other auxiliary files, so Autodesk Vault will work with this in mind to maintain the set of files, both drawing as the project and the auxiliaries. Note that when we talk about AutoCAD files, we not only refer to files made with the AutoCAD application only, but the concept is broader, since we are talking about DWG files, either created with AutoCAD or some other product that use the same extension:ĭepending on the application, Autodesk Vault will consider some different things. Starting with the proper drawing files, we will see how AutoCAD works in Autodesk Vault, showing in a video some examples in different situations: when creating a new drawing and using external references (XRef) in both 2D and 3D. Next, we show in a video how we can work with these files. These files can be in the most diverse formats: DOC or DOCX (Microsoft Word), XLS or XLSX (Microsoft Excel), PPT (Microsoft Power Point), PDF, JPG, PNG, and others not so common and quite frequent as reports of simulation, numerical control programs.Īutodesk Vault can work with all these file types, since the main idea of the application is to be able to have all the information related to a certain design or project in one place. The non-CAD files can be of the most diverse: calculation memories, bills of materials, information to make modifications or improvements, reports of surveys, dimensional reports, pictures of problems detected in the field, and a long list of etceteras.


But when we are working on a design project, there are, in addition to the design files, other files that aren’t drawings or models. These files are design files mainly (commonly known as CAD files). As we mentioned in our previous notes, Autodesk Vault allows us to work with different file types.
