Topic: Vault, and VPN

[Birdy]

Anyone have any experience with this?
New job, and I work from home.  They use acad (08) and Inventor.  All files are worked on via Vault.  It's kinda cool, but for me to access stuff via VPN it is annoyingly slow. 

Any help with speeding things up (other than mega bucks for bandwidth), or best practices type stuff would be appreciated.

[KewlToyZ]

Usually VPN tunnels while secure are going to be annoyingly slow for AutoCAD files.
In particular when there are many XREF's or (the worst) OLE linked objects.
My best advice is usually downloading the project files, work locally as much as possible.

[Birdy]

'Tis what I thought.
Yes, there are several xrefs, typically.

Initially, it took about 8 minutes to just boot AutoCAD with our default template. 
All menus, toolbars, etc. were extremely slow.
After pathing all the support files, etc. locally, it works as normal.  I'm not sure they'll like that, but if that's what it takes to be productive.....?

Inventor may be another story all together. 

[KewlToyZ]

Use Reference Manager on project files, set everything to relative paths.
Definately make a local VPN version of your AutoCAD customizations.

[CHulse]

I can't speak to Vault - but on our simple file server system, I use Windows "offline files" successfully. I keep all my current projects avaliable offline and only connect to the VPN when I need to sync (mainly at night when noone else is using the files). We are a small office and I can keep track of who is working with what files. I don't think it would work in a large office. Need to also keep all the support files and enterprise level stuff avaliable offline also. Working with the VPN connected is just too slow.

[Krushert]

Anyone have any experience with this?
New job, and I work from home.  They use acad (08) and Inventor.  All files are worked on via Vault.  It's kinda cool, but for me to access stuff via VPN it is annoyingly slow. 

Any help with speeding things up (other than mega bucks for bandwidth), or best practices type stuff would be appreciated.

It not good practice to be downloading porn and cad files at the same time.   

That is my help to you free of charge of course.