The Vault

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Let me first say I'm not a Vault wiz, it's new to all of us. But this is the jist of it:

Using the Vault in Civil 3D allows you to control not only who can access specific drawings, but the data within those drawings as well. I can create a surface as a team lead, and I can give specific users the rights to modify the surface, while other users only have permission use it/see it in various drawings related to a specific project - it's awesome. Think about it - in the past we could control drawing access via permissions; now we can control object data as well. I can create a terrain model - if you need to change the model, you'll need to have the proper authority to do so. Sweet. Think you'll need a Vault Admin? Absolutely.

(From Help) Autodesk Data Management Server is a secure database. A user must have an account to access data and must be assigned appropriate user permissions. Permissions are assigned based on roles. When more than one role is assigned, the permission set is the union of the roles, extending the permissions of the user or group.

The following roles can be assigned to users:

Administrator
Full privileges within to all folders all the time and administrative privileges on the server, including ERP rights.

Vault Editor
Full privileges within the vault, but no administrative privileges on the server.

Vault Consumer
Read-only access to files and folders only.


The following roles are included in Vault Administration, but are not currently used by Civil 3D:
Content Center Administrator
Content Center Editor

Cheers!