

The square is a rectangle, but the rectangle is not a square. Its because to them they look exactly the same, but after spending time with them the differences start to appear, and soon enough you are easily able to pick them apart.

Its like my twin daughters, who are not identical, but most people immediately want to argue that they are. revision, are so close in meaning that its difficult to see the difference. So why all the confusion? Its not ignorance or that this is an advanced topic. We’ve been using Vault Pro for over 4 years and I still need to explain the differences more times then it should be. Fast forward to today and this misunderstanding and confusion between versions and revisions still exists. The Confusion was on the differences between version management, which Vault did, and revision management, which Productstream did. I did this because Autodesk had just released Productstream (which is now Vault Professional) and there was a lot of misunderstanding and confusion. Back in my Autodesk Reseller days I wrote a whitepaper explaining the differences between a version and a revision.
