Most people are aware many of the searching techniques that can be used to locate data in Vault, but did you know most of this can also be done directly from AutoCAD or Inventor?

When in the "Open from Vault" dialog box this is Find command in the upper-right corner of the dialog box:

This gives us all of the same searching capability as the Find command in the full Vault client, but can be used directly from the CAD software without switching to another window:

By double-clicking the file located in the Find dialog, it is automatically located and populated in the Open dialog so you can verify the proper file and location:

Contributed by Ben of the CAD Geeks