Collaborating and sharing designs with Pack and Go

In this recipe, you will learn how to use Pack and Go functionality to share a design or project with someone else.

Pack and Go is used to archive a file structure, share or copy a complete set of design files while retaining links to referenced files, or isolate a group of files. It can be used to share data externally as well as internally within your company. Note that recipients must have a valid Autodesk product to open their files once a Pack and Go package is received.

Pack and Go does not create a live link for multiple stakeholders to make edits too but instead sends a copy of data on your local machine as a package. If collaboration on the same files is required within the same organization, then using Autodesk Vault with Inventor is highly recommended for this and is much more efficient.

When Pack and Go is initiated on a file or multiple files, these files are copied to the location specified by the user, and the...