This class will review the best ways to share data with users who are not part of a company’s local area network. External collaborators and suppliers will be able to easily access drawing view and complete files. This class will cover Vault Professional software and Fusion Team Web.

Robert Ostermann (Magna Steyr Graz) and David Reaume (Autodesk) will present how easy it can be to create a 3D representation of an existing factory campus that contains and combines infrastructure, building, factory, and asset data. This integrated model enriched by real-time data will help all stakeholders to easily fulfill their different tasks in a perfect manner. To come to this valuable integrated model, you'd need a qualified data strategy and structure, behind which will be the DNA of this model. A short introduction about this process will be part of this presentation as well.

In this class, we examine substation assemblies and models for a utility. We also look into the lifecycle for substation parts in Vault Professional software. We cover the use of Items to keep track of information, such as purchase price, basic impulse level (BIL), operating voltage, specification information, and more. We discuss how to work in Inventor software and how to use the released bias or non-released bias to an assembly for insertion into your model. Finally, we examine how to keep track of legacy designs and greenfield designs in a standard format.

The ideal lifecycle is possible. Everyone can manage change the way they want—and, in fact, they do. Because, the way you manage files now, regardless of whether you like it or not, is what you choose to do. To move past the basics of file management into the area of drawing revisions, approvals, security, and advanced property management, you need to deal with lifecycles. In this class, we’ll look at Vault lifecycles and help you decide which is the best course of action. This class will introduce you to the powerful tools that are available in Vault Workgroup and Vault Professional for revision management, approval workflows, and engineering change orders (ECOs). Learn how categories are used to control the flow of your data and how versions and revisions are intertwined. We’ll also cover how to apply different revision schemes and how to initiate and track change via a change order.

Vault software is built to help you more efficiently manage your engineering data, improve collaboration within your teams, and take control of your product development processes. Vault is tightly integrated with more than 30 Autodesk design applications and provides powerful revisioning and access control capabilities. With simplified installation and optional multisite scalability, Autodesk customers worldwide use Vault to connect their people and processes so they can get more done, better, in less time. The 2021 release of the Vault data management software includes major enhancements in areas such as experience design, engineering efficiency, and administrative efficiency. This class will give you an overview of some of these enhancements.

iLogic is by far the most used application within Inventor software. Vault software is the most used product data management (PDM) system for Inventor. This class elaborates on how both can collaborate by connecting to each other. Attending this class, you will discover the answer to these four questions: What can you achieve for iLogic rule execution if your rule connects to Vault? How can you achieve the iLogic-Vault connection without knowing the Vault API? What can you achieve for Vault Job Processor if your Job connects to iLogic? How can you capitalize on iLogic rules while running custom jobs?

If looking to improve the general health of your Vault SQL Server implementation, improve performance, or automate backups, this course is for you. It’s geared towards Vault administrators looking to improve maintenance in their SQL Server environments using SQL Server Maintenance Plans. As maintenance plans are not something that is installed or implemented with out of the box solutions from Autodesk or Microsoft, we will provide a suggested solution for use with SQL Server. We will cover the basics of implementing a SQL Server maintenance plan to keep Autodesk Vault SQL Server Databases running at their most optimum levels, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and beyond. Users will have a base maintenance plan to get started and will walk away with the knowledge to modify that plan to suit their own unique environments. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Basic, and Vault Workgroup.

Managing your data is critical, and keeping it managed for releases can be a key to having the right designs available at the right times. This class will explore the ins and outs of using Autodesk® Vault Workgroup, Autodesk® Vault Collaboration, and Autodesk® Vault Professional to manage the release process of your design documents. We will cover several aspects of release management, including how to build the right lifecycle workflow and how to incorporate Vault engineering change order (ECO) capabilities into your process. We will also explore the key considerations for security and access to your data. If you want to take full advantage of all Vault has to offer to manage your designs, this class is for you!

This class will be an overview of Vault products, and what they can do for your company. We will talk about the features of the different products, and help you figure out the right questions to ask when deciding if Vault is right for you.

What does it take to strategize and implement an efficient CAD and Vault software environment? Standards, communications, and consistency: the 3 keys to an efficient CAD and Vault software environment. This lecture is about how to build, implement, and run a highly technical CAD arena to produce and sustain small to large CAD designs. This discussion pertains to Vault software startups; small, medium-size, or large companies; and those that have been using Vault software for some time. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Office, and Vault Workgroup.

This class will look at properties in Vault Professional data management software, both system and user defined. We'll explore where to access them, how to create mappings to your CAD files, and how to use that information in Vault software or on your CAD files themselves. I will use examples from my own Vault setup to show the power of property data and how to use it. Examples will include property mapping to both files and items. Come to this class to start thinking about how these might help you in your Vault setup.

We all know that it's best to keep on current versions of applications, but upgrading a Vault environment can be a daunting task for some. We're here to show you that you can do this successfully and within a very reasonable time frame, even in a very complicated environment (e.g. Global SQL Server replication). Join Matt Williams (Komatsu Mining) and Stephen Porath (Autodesk) to discuss real-world experiences, best practices, tips, tricks and everything in between covering upgrading complex Vault environments. If you are responsible for upgrading your own Vault environment (big or small, simple or complex), this class is for you.

This session will cover and demonstrate planned functionality for Vault software. We will discuss the future strategy of the product and how you can help drive the product to fit your needs.

Copy Design is one of the most powerful features in Autodesk Vault. Engineers are leveraging existing designs in one way or another, either by reusing the design completely to eliminate design time, or by copying an existing design or updating the design which will take less time. Less time is less cost. Moreover, apart from the reduced modeling time, design reuse will further have its impact in the form of cost and time savings in the downstream engineering, manufacturing, and purchasing. The Copy Design feature in Autodesk Vault 2020 has many enhancements which help engineers do more faster with existing designs. This class will discuss the enhancements to Copy Design and illustrate how to use Copy Design to be more productive.

Do you find yourself fighting with large or very large assembly files? This class builds on the speaker’s previous Autodesk University classes (“CADZilla” and “CADZilla Jr.”), and we’ll cover best practices for opening and closing large assemblies, related drawings, and tips and tricks on settings and processes that will make you victorious over these monster files. There’s been such interest in this class and subject matter that the speaker wanted to offer it yet again with the updates provided by the 2020 release, as well as giving those who couldn’t make the previous classes a chance to attend this one.

Ever wondered why Vault software works the way it does? Ever had a question about a specific workflow or piece of functionality? Now is your chance to interact with a senior developer on the Vault product. Ask them about any aspect of Vault and learn the reasons for the current functionality. Take the opportunity to interact directly with the people who make Vault work and evolve. This will be an open conversation on the hows and whys of Vault workflows and technical details.

Autodesk Vault 2018 includes a large number of customer-requested enhancements aimed at improving design workflows, engineering efficiency and administrative control. This class will give you an overview of some of these enhancements as well as a sneak preview of future planned functionality for Autodesk Vault. This session features Vault Professional.

Vault data management software isn't just a single program; it's a framework, composed of many pieces like CAD add-in or Vault Explorer (Client) working together. You can customize some of these pieces and not others. This class will discuss the various ways to customize and integrate with Vault, including Vault Data Standard advanced scripting layer and Vault application programming interface. Following samples of standalone applications interacting with Vault, jobs automating repetitive tasks, or event handlers extending workflows, you can get started scripting and coding your own first extensions.

Now that you have purchased one of the Vault products, you need to get the environment set up for you and your users. This class will look at what to do once the Vault Server has been installed. We will discuss topics such as creating users and groups, setting up permissions and security, establishing projects and working folders, and getting your CAD content into the Vault itself.

The Vault client in itself is a powerful data utility, but just imagine there’s so much more that can be done with the Vault software development kit (SDK) software. Learn how to use the versatility and flexibility of Microsoft PowerShell, and bring your logic to new levels of automation. Learn how to instantiate Vault objects, call Vault Web Service methods, and manipulate the data stored within Vault in a lightweight scripted .NET language.