Mastering AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2010

Chapter 19. Teamwork: Vault Client and Civil 3D

Now it's time to pull it all together. Every chapter to this point has focused on individual tasks or design elements. This chapter focuses on using Vault to assemble the pieces into a complete set of plans. Although you won't create every single note on every sheet, you'll look at the various plans and how they come together. You'll learn about a potential workflow and then explore the mechanics of populating Vault with design data for sharing, handling changes and updates, and finally, tracking and restoring versions.

As you work through this chapter, remember that the puzzle has three pieces: Vault (Server), which was covered in the last chapter; the Autodesk Vault (aka Vault Explorer) application; ...