The Vault and the identification server are on a server in your company: your are 100% independent.No internet access = no data access! NOT ACCEPTABLE Drawback: If you don't continue with Altium and stop to pay the yearly subscription you don't have access to your own server data anymore. In order to access the data, you have to identify yourself to the Altium web services which unlock the access to your own server. The Vault is on a server in your company.If you don't continue with Altium and stop to pay the yearly subscription you don't have access to your data anymore. The Vault is in the Cloud: No internet access = no file access.I had to decide something similar years ago.Īt that time, Altium were selling their Vault solution which can have several different configurations: Do any of you out there have any thoughts and experience on the issue? Are there any other small companies or design teams (5-10 engineers working with Altium across design, manufacturing, procurement, etc.) who have found Vaults worth implementing? In my brief research, it seems like it would take a full-time Altium librarian to keep the wheels greased on a vault and keep the release process of components and designs flowing smoothly. Process to release components and 'items' into the vaults is very complex and time-consuming.Makes it very difficult for the individual designer to quickly make changes to schematic symbols and footprints for components, without going through vault release process.Makes it easy to share design data with vendors and verify that they're looking at the correct version of design data.Allows for concept of 'items' and design reuse of validated blocks larger than the component level.Easy way to create validated, trusted, versioned components.

Very good design release and versioning process.Here are the pro's and con's as I see them: I'm going through the process of starting a bunch of new design work in Altium at the moment at my company, and am trying to decide whether it's worth going through the effort of setting up the Altium Vault infrastructure, vs.

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