--- title: Autodesk Vault Reviews meta_title: 'Autodesk Vault Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 54 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Autodesk Vault works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.1 review_count: 54 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # Autodesk Vault Reviews **Vendor:** Autodesk **Category:** [Product Data Management (PDM) Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/product-data-management-pdm) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 54 ## About Autodesk Vault Autodesk Vault is product data management software that integrates with Autodesk design tools and other CAD systems to keep everyone working from a central source of organized data. Vault automates design and engineering processes, tracks revisions and design history as you work, and controls what people can access and edit. Use Vault to increase collaboration and streamline workflows across engineering, manufacturing, and extended teams. ## Autodesk Vault Reviews ### 1. Solid cloudsharing with potential for integration access **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Simple to learn and use, with little restrictions with regards to file type and size. It is an integral part of codesigning in Autodesk programs. Good integration in Inventor. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** Implementing in to other plm systems etc is a bit restricted due to closed coding. This is understandable, but can be frustrating if needed. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** File sharing and cooperation in design without the risk of working around each other. ### 2. Autodesk Vault Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Traceability of cad files and models are easy **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** Metadata is quite tedious, need to be careful with the characters/parameters and sometimes the application is very slow. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cad file revisions are easily traced ### 3. Excellent for managing files and keeping track of file history **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Easy to use and keep track of files. I can see what team members are working on and have checked out so we aren't altering files at the same time. You can see the history of a file, a part or a drawing and go back to a previous version as well as make a copy of a design. Works well with Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Mechanical. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** It crashes fairly often but also sometime files do not check out properly or cannot check in properly. Sometimes when trying to get or check out a file it will tell me the software is busy. I'm not sure if these are problems within the software of our particular installation with our server. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** If you aren't using Vault with Autodesk Inventor or Autodesk Mechnical to keep track of your files you should. You have the whole history of the file available to you to go back to if you need to and you have control to check a file our to keep from changes being made until you check the file back in. The ability to copy assemblies is extrememly helpful. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us manage our huge database of parts. We have over 30,000 parts in our database we are able to keep organized and Vault allows us to have version control of the file and its history. Being able to copy assemblies is one of the best features as you can copy and rename the parent and child files, subassemblies and drawings all within one window. ### 4. Autodesk Vault **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Supermarkets | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2018 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** I like the security it gives with crucial documents and the ability to manage revisions **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** I wish it was more customizable. I would like to be able to adjust the workflow in the Engineering Change Orders **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** We manage our Cad Drawings, Change Orders, and Revision control ### 5. Alternative Storage for Design Files **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Version control and other SharePoint-like file management functionality for design files is my favorite feature. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The setup and configuration is difficult, but worse is the process of updating. Keeping all of the desktop clients, the servers, and the connected systems all working together is the hardest part. Plan to staff a person to manage the overall system. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** It is a great tool, and huge potential advantages to "The Old Way" of managing design files but brings with it a unique set of frustrations. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preventing our employees from storing files locally, and to eliminate the duplicates and versions of files stored within a network file share. ### 6. Autodesk Vault **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 25, 2016 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Acts like a bridge in keeping our technical information visible, company wide. I particularly love how easy it is to share files to key members in my organization. Search engine is excellent in turning up results very quickly and accurately. Unlimited amount of configuration options in deciding what information I want to display/filter. Also, as an added bonus, I can export database information to external spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel quite easily for generating reports and analysis. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** My biggest complaint, along with my co-workers, would be performance issues. When loading complex models or very large files, crashes do tend to happen. This can be annoying at times when working under a tight deadline. Also, a fast and reliable network connection is definitely recommended. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** If you want to be able to share technical files consistently plant-wide and globally, Vault should be considered your top contender. The ease of use and the organization that it allows us to establish has been a major benefit to our organization. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have 3D modelers within our organization who are based out in India. Establishing a means of receiving models and sharing key technical information between our groups is essential. Also, we regularly communicate with supply chain, who use Vault as a tool in ordering parts. As a foundry, we send the 3D model of a particular part to our contracted 3D printing company (who produce sand printed moulds for us), and we are then able to manufacture a sound casting with an incredibly high degree of dimensional accuracy. Vault plays an integral part to our casting process. ### 7. Review of Autodesk Vault Data Storage and Management Utility **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Vault as a file storage system is excellent with lifecycle and revision control, you know your files are secure, checked and released at the correct time. My employer also uses ITEM lifecycle control to control both CAD and Non-CAD data. This replaced a previous access database that contained over 170,000 part records. Now all files and part records are stored in one place. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The ECO system and the Thin Client service are both quite poor. We had to pay Autodesk Consulting to code something specifically for us to allow us to use the ECO system and the Thin Client doesn't even show the ECO function within it, this is an important function for other areas of the business to see and they shouldn't require a full Vault to do so. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** I would recommend to others that they use Vault as their base of storage but consider the package as a starting point to be enhanced upon. This isn't an all-singing all dancing PLM without a bit of customization. However the functions that can be added are very impressive and the growth of add-ins being added all the time reflects this. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Optimum storage and file control. All engineering data is housed in one location. We have enhance the Vault using a few bespoke utilities so that we also have enhanced ECO functionality, automated PDF-ing and data exporting to our ERP system. All jobs that were manually completed and in different areas of the system. The use of windows authentication also helps limit the number of passwords and user accounts staff require. ### 8. Autodesk Vault Pro 2015 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Its a great way for everyone in our company to keep projects we are working on organized. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** Managing other files can be a bit tricky and needs extra training **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Plan to use the Item Master database and Change Order Workflow to automate many aspects of product lifecycle management. ### 9. Vault Appraisal **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** The product appears to be Competitively priced compared with products such as Oracle's Agile. There are some nice features which enhance document control. For example making only released documents visible to some users. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The Webclient could be better. It does not have as much functionality as the desktop client **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** Bridges between Vault and other Enterprise software. No. of client licences required **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Configuration management ### 10. Autodesk Vault **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles M. | Lead Mechanical Engineer, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Provides company wide visibility of technical information. Files are easily shareable. Current status is clear. Key word / file property search engine is fast and accurate. Database size is quite manageable. Product lifecycle workflow is configurable. Lots of options to configure how record information is displayed and filtered. Stable in a global user environment. It's possible to export information about files, items, or change orders to external spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel quite easily for generating reports and analysis. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** I have experienced some performance issues. Crashes occasionally while working with complex models / large file sizes. Difficult to use on slow network connections. Automatic email notifications for workflow events / milestones are fairly crude and can be difficult to understand. We have had some challenges integrating shared content from some Autodesk programs (Inventor Content Center, AutoCAD Electrical) into Vault. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** When implementing Autodesk Vault work closely with all aspects of your business to be sure you are taking full advantage of all the features it has to offer. File management is just the start. Plan to use the Item Master database and Change Order Workflow to automate many aspects of product lifecycle management. Get users involved in the workflows instead of relying on a central administrator. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sharing technical information consistently plant wide and globally. Product lifecycle management. Engineering change order management. Meeting ISO 9001 quality system requirements. Storage of historical engineering records. Communication between engineering and supply chain. ### 11. Elec Design Engineers Review of Vault **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 22, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** It's reliability and is easy to use. It keeps improving and adding new features **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** when using item masters you now have to open before you can edit them. On/Off BOM rows - I don't see the point of then would provide more problems than it solves. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** Use it as much as possible as there's a lot of features **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vault stores all my files and BOMs correctly without corruption ### 12. User to Self-Taught Administrator: Basic version might be enough for your group **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan S. | Product Line Engineer, Machinery, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Vault is very easy to use. After reading a few install documents I was able to set up Vault on a local server and train my colleagues on it's use. It greatly helped in coordinating our engineering functions on several projects and kept pesky file management conflicts to a minimum. My favorite feature is that Vault allows you to work off your local machine instead of the network via your own personal "Workspace". Once files are checked out to you, they are saved to your local machine and you are free to work on them until you check them back in to the network server. This will greatly speed up your workflow. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The Basic version is very limited in it's capabilities: no revision control, customization, etc. but is still quite capable of controlling your engineering data. You'll have to upgrade (re: more $$) to get those higher-level functions. I haven't used the higher level versions of Vault so I can't speak for how they compare with other top-of-the-line PLM software packages. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** If you're looking for a good entry-level PLM software package that is easy to use and also very easy to implement compared to it's competitors, I would give Vault a serious look. The Basic version doesn't have all the bells & whistles that the high-level versions do but it will give you enough to get started with the basic tenants of document management. And that's certainly better than none at all! **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vault allowed our business to get all our engineering data in one place and have it controlled via it's check-in/check-out process. This allowed for iterative version control, file-conflict avoidance and increased productivity on many simultaneous projects. ### 13. Not the Easiest End User Experience, but Effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark S. | Mechanical Engineer, Mining & Metals, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** It is a clean interface to index drawings. I have worked in environments where drawings are just stored on a network drive, in a folder, etc. Revisions are always a problems. Someone usually sneaks in and makes changes even though they are not on the design team. The list of problems goes on. Vault gives you the control to index what is done, by whom, and also the ability to control those things. It is very handy. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The in-software (Inventor/AutoCAD) access was not great. When problems occurred, there was little fixing them myself. I almost always had to have someone with higher privileges address them. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** It is best to have an in house expert/admin who knows the software well. That person should, if possible, be an end user as well, ie an engineer not an IT person. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vault (esp Pro) guaranteed accurate documentation and provided a detailed history. ### 14. Autodesk Vault **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary B. | PDM/CAD Administrator, Automotive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2015 **What do you like best about Autodesk Vault?** Vault is best suited for managing Autodesk CAD data products such as Inventor or AutoCAD. The revision control and check-in/check-out features are key to managing drawings. **What do you dislike about Autodesk Vault?** The Change Order process inside Vault Pro could be more flexible as far as setting up the various Change Order states. Currently you are stuck with what Autodesk has configured out of the box. **Recommendations to others considering Autodesk Vault:** If you are leaning more towards PLM vs PDM keep in mind that Vault is more suited to managing CAD data vs a full blown PLM solution. **What problems is Autodesk Vault solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are heading towards Vault being the single source for drawings. 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