Do you struggle with performing and coordinating your Vault software and Inventor software installations? Do you struggle with how and when to install, upgrade, or migrate your custom or standard Content Center libraries? Stop playing “choose your own upgrade adventure,” and attend this class! We will help you plan a methodical upgrade and rollout. What is the recommended and required order of operations? Vault? Inventor? Client? Server? This class will include how to update custom Content Center libraries while still having them available for the current drawings and adding new standard libraries. We will show you how to upgrade and migrate your Vault databases. We will discuss tips on using enterprise software deployment tools to update all clients in your organization. By the end of this class, you will be fully armed and ready with all the knowledge you need to upgrade your Vault and Inventor environment.

Autodesk Fusion 360 software has rapidly arrived in deeply integrated Vault and Inventor enterprise environments. Entire departments and suppliers often strategically align their complete designs in Autodesk Fusion 360. The new challenge for CAD managers is to find ways to integrate Autodesk Fusion 360 data into Inventor data managed in Vault Professional software. This class will focus on collaborative ways to complement Vault-managed Inventor data sets with Autodesk Fusion 360 designs. Given the growing Autodesk Fusion 360 usage and the existence of complex Fusion data sets, we’ll also cover the Inventor integration into Autodesk Fusion 360.

At Autodesk University 2015, the combined use of the Vault API and the Forge Viewer API was first demonstrated. This class continues on that path and showcases the use of the Vault API and Forge Design Automation for Inventor software to programmatically modify Inventor files that reside within Vault software. We will see how to check out a file from Vault and modify the file using Design Automation for Inventor, eliminating the need for a local install of Inventor and its dependent licenses. Post modification, we’ll check the updated file back into Vault, creating a new version and maintaining file history.

Managing the metadata associated with your designs can be a confusing task. If you are using Vault software, the first step in the process is realizing that Vault Properties and Inventor software’s iProperties are actually different. Also, you have to understand the difference between a Vault system property and a Vault user-defined property. Once you understand all the different types of properties involved, how do you get them to work together? This class will guide you through the journey, from understanding the difference between iProperties versus Vault properties and Vault system properties and Vault user-defined properties. Then we will demonstrate how to create the proper mappings that will enable them to work seamlessly together. We will discuss different ways to use this data, from searching Vault for these properties to how to use those properties on drawing title blocks and parts lists.

This class will be a discussion and demonstration of using Vault Professional software (along with the Vault Revision table and Engineering Change Orders) to control and document changes to your CAD documents. The focus will be on Inventor and AutoCAD drawings, but may be applicable in many other areas. We will show how to set up the Vault Revision table for Inventor and AutoCAD, and how to use that along with Vault’s Engineering Change orders to control and track revision level drawing changes. This is one important step for maintaining an audit trail of document changes.

Inventor software and AutoCAD Electrical software are powerful products of electromechanical design. The data in these two software systems can be transferred to each other bidirectionally. We can manage the data of electromechanical design via Vault software. We can create a BOM with objects drawn in AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor in Vault. We can map the Properties of our AutoCAD Electrical project to Vault Items. Come to this session to see how.

Manufacturing companies have a headache about visualising their designs. They need to revise their printed catalogues as their designs get changed. What if there is an automated way to overcome this obstacle? In this class, we will be presenting you solution to have a fully automated 3d catalogue using Autodesk Vault, Inventor and Forge. Learn how to leverage Robotic Process Automation to create dynamic data on your own website.

Vault software products specifically support Inventor software’s iPart/iAssembly factory and member file management. This class will have practical examples that will illustrate and unveil the secrets from basic file management tasks up to advanced workflows like partial revision of families. Experienced Inventor software users and product data management administrators will learn recommended setup and configurations to capitalize on the full capabilities and benefits managing and consuming component families. The class will discuss file structures, setup of family tables, and the implementation of file and item numbering schemes for family members. Follow considerations and implementation scenarios to drive CAD and item bill of materials. Another important aspect is to manage component families over larger periods of time. Get introduced to revision management and all file management tasks like rename, move, and copy. We will also cover Inventor file migration for vaulted families. This session features Vault Professional, Inventor Professional, and Vault Workgroup. AIA Approved

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?

Vault Data Standard is a free Autodesk add-on for Vault software, Inventor software, and AutoCAD Mechanical software. This class will show what it is, what it can do, what it’s good for, and how to install it, along with first insights into customization. Vault Data Standard comes with cool features out of the box, and can really improve your Vault experience. Join this class to see the latest version of Vault Data Standard and learn how to improve your workflows.

This session will show you how we've maximized automation and customization within Inventor and Vault software to streamline our workflows at Dynamic Attractions. Using a multifaceted approach utilizing iLogic, add-ins (app store, custom built, and in-house), and changes to the setup, we’ve better optimized the software’s potential. These workflows have enabled us to drastically decrease our modeling/drawing times and drive consistent data. We want you to walk away from this session with a greater understanding of what’s possible in terms of automation innovation, and how data can be used to streamline your processes.

Every company should strive to make its customers more successful! A very important topic is that the customers have permanent access to good data available in the expert systems in ERP, Vault, Inventor and other systems over all life phases of the machines and plants. Companies can make their customer more successful, reducing internal and administrative work through the clever use of existing engineering data in the company with the help of service information systems! This potential transformed into proactive customer service leads to more orders and turnover! The demands of the fast-changing times are only realised with very good information management. Companies have good information in their expert systems ERP and PDM. However, access to this information is denied to many employees. The expert systems are complex, sometimes difficult to understand and operate, and often not linked.

If you've been wondering how to put together a dream team to connect your electrical and mechanical designs and have those connections properly maintained with data management, then this is the class for you. Not only will you learn the electro-mechanical workflow between AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor software, but you will also learn how that workflow ties into Vault software.

New in Inventor iLogic 2024 software: Vault is now accessible! In this class, we will delve into programming and explore an alternative method for expanding Vault connections, using the complete Vault API. Learn about Dynamic-Link Libraries (DLLs) and automate Vault search queries and improve decision making. This course will provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills to fully unleash the power of iLogic and Vault, enabling you to gain unrestricted access to information related to Vault files. Take your iLogic skills to the next level with this class!

This session will cover the adventure of electromechanical designs with lifecycles that started with AutoCAD Electrical software and Inventor synchronization and extended to architectural projects. The data synchronized with AutoCAD Electrical and Inventor software can be managed with Vault software and Autodesk Construction Cloud. It can be defined as 3D BIM content—electrical connector in Inventor and transferred to Revit. Through the collaboration of Autodesk Construction Cloud and Vault, we can share both Revit and Inventor data with colleagues in different departments, edit them, and publish the final versions.

Learn to extend the power of Autodesk, Inc.'s, fully integrated CAM Solution for Inventor software by complementing it with Vault software. You will learn about the workflows used to create machine code for the CNC (computer numerical control) machining of your parts, and you will also learn the benefits of using an integrated CAM system. Data management is often a nightmare for companies that maintain design separately from files containing manufacturing information such as toolpaths. In this class you will see just how easily you can maintain both in a single file, using Inventor HSM software and Vault software.

This class will show you how we have developed new processes in our company through the use of Inventor software and Vault software. We will explain how Vault software features such as lifecycles and categories are being used to control design to manufacturing workflow and operations. We will then cover the integration of the software in a globalized environment, the implementation of site-specific processes, and the system monitoring required to avoid complication with several errors we have encountered. The final point will show how, thanks to use of custom API, we provide design information to our manufacturing department. This includes how we initially planned to use Vault vanilla or thin client, and how we had to develop customized tools aimed for the manufacturing department to access design documents.

A 2D sheet metal design using Inventor software is easy, scalable, and cheap. After the sheet metal design process is complete, production of the sheet metal design needs to be optimized to reduce cost and time. The same part/assembly designs that are created and stored in Inventor software can be used to drive cutting tools for all types of cutting machines. This session will cover the process of programming cutting tools to cut material in the most efficient manner possible using TruNest Multi-Tool software. The specific topics covered will include: maintaining design intent and revision control through direct link to Inventor software or Vault software; extracting 2D flat-pattern shapes from each sheet metal part automatically; nesting shapes together on each material to get maximum material efficiency using TruNest Multi-Tool software; and postprocessing the nested result for a variety of different styles of cutting machines. The postprocessor optimizes the machine cycle to maximize machine throughput and reduce wear on consumables. This session features TruNest Multi-Tool, Inventor Professional, and Vault Professional. AIA Approved

Managing external rules presents challenges, including where to store them. For instance, is a network location secure enough? The speaker has faced this conundrum firsthand, and will demonstrate how Inventor software, iLogic, Vault software, and coding expertise enable a transition to a secure Vault environment. By using Vault software's advantages—such as revision control, lifecycle states, and permission management—we ensure safer, more organized external rule storage. Furthermore, we'll explore methods for keeping rules up to date and best practices for managing changes in a collaborative, multi-developer environment. With the right tools and knowledge, we maximize Inventor and Vault.