Vault shows you folders. Stratumworx shows you your drawings.
Stratumworx is an add-in for Autodesk Vault Professional that gives drawing offices what a vault alone cannot: every drawing under a branch in one click, counted before you look, filtered by discipline, milestone, status, and revision — with an audit trail that writes itself.
Request a demo See it in actionA stratum is a single, distinct layer within a structured whole — one bed of rock, one course of brickwork, one level of order in a larger system.
Stratumworx is built on that idea: an integrated layer that sits above your Autodesk Vault environment, organising the data already inside it and presenting it with clarity. The vault beneath stays exactly as it is — Stratumworx is the layer you read it through.
Navigate by branch, not by folder
Click any area in the tree and see every drawing beneath it — files only, the true total in the header, counts on every branch before you commit to looking. Native Vault shows a parent folder as just more folders.
Filter by what drawing offices ask
Discipline, milestone rung, drawing status, revision — each a click, each showing its count first. Stack them, and a breadcrumb trail above the filters rolls back any step. No search dialogs, no property names to memorise.
An audit trail that writes itself
Checkout, check-in, approve, unlock: every status change records the user, the date, and a reason from your company's configured list — or the ECO number driving it. An audit becomes one look, not an afternoon of reconstruction.
The drawing office, on screen
Every image below is the live add-in running against a 1,727-drawing project — nothing staged.
Every drawing's route, on one canvas
Who owns each step, what milestone it lands on, when it is due — laid out, not left in email.
The same task, both ways
| Task | Native Vault | With Stratumworx |
|---|---|---|
| See every drawing in an area | Drill folder by folder, or hand-build a subfolder search each time. ~2 minutes. | One click on the branch. ~2 s |
| Count a branch | No answer — the grid header counts only the loaded page. | Counts in the tree and the true total in the header, always. |
| Milestone overview | No milestone concept without custom properties and a search per value. | The whole ladder with live counts — 100% — issued (1,615) — one click filters to any rung. |
| Revision at a glance | Working increments between issues are invisible. | A.0 → A.2 → A → B.0 on every row, filterable as a ladder. |
| Who changed it, and why | Dates and users in version history; the reason lives in email. | User, date, and reason recorded on every status change. |
| Batch milestones | One property edit at a time. An afternoon. | Multi-select, pick the rung, watch the progress bar. Minutes. |
| Onboard a legacy register | Folders, files, names, properties — by hand, per drawing. Weeks. | One resumable import: numbered, filed, stamped, with revision history. An afternoon. |
Time figures are typical estimates from a live project; your register will differ. We would rather under-promise here and let the first week speak.
Configured to your standards, not ours
The numbering, the milestone ladder, the disciplines and reasons are all defined during delivery — everything shown above runs on the settings below.
“Going back to vanilla Vault will break people's hearts.”
Rides on Vault. Never around it.
- Your vault stays the vault. Files, versions, and security remain 100% Autodesk Vault's. Stratumworx adds a data layer beside it — nothing bypasses the vault.
- Onboarding is real setup. The navigation search and the drawing index are created when Stratumworx is installed — that is part of the delivery, not an exercise left to you.
- A power user can hand-build any single search we automate. What they cannot build natively are the counts, the ladders, the reasons, and the audit trail — those live in Stratumworx.