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What is PLM? A Deep Dive into Product Lifecycle Management
Learn what PLM is, the role it plays in manufacturing, and factors to consider when choosing a PLM software solution.
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Autodesk Vault 2025.2 What’s New
Discover new features in Autodesk Vault 2025.2! Unlock productivity with Data APIs, client deployment enhancements, hyperlink UDPs, and more.
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Lean Manufacturing and its Role in Production
Explore lean manufacturing its benefits and role in modern production. Learn the importance of choosing the right tools for a lean strategy and how Autodesk Vault and Fusion Manage support these initiatives with data management and enterprise collaboration features. Lean manufacturing is a production methodology that aims to minimize waste while maximizing customer value. Originating…
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How to Boost Fusion Manage Reporting with Power BI Integration
In today’s data-driven world, having a comprehensive view of your information is crucial for making informed decisions. Using a product lifecycle management solution like Autodesk Fusion Manage helps with this by centralizing product development data and processes. While this allows for different roles and responsibilities to collaborate with greater accessibility, Fusion Manage includes a lot of PLM…
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Autodesk Vault Data Standard – Migrating Customized Configurations
Autodesk Vault Data Standard is a customization layer that allows custom business logic and rules to be integrated into the file management workflow. Custom configurations need to migrate if Vault Client software updates. Some essential steps make a legacy configuration compatible, and you may want to merge enhancements of the new configuration templates into your…
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Autodesk Vault Data Standard 2025 – What’s New
Autodesk Vault Data Standard is a customization layer that allows custom business logic and rules to be integrated into the file management workflow. Therefore, product news targets customizability rather than functionality. However, the latest release enhanced default error messaging and shared the inventor’s capability to automatically generate part numbers with the Vault Client. Review the…
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Autodesk Vault 2025 SDK – Breaking News
Have you seen Vault 2025’s new functional and administrative enhancements? I suggest reading Autodesk Vault 2025 What’s New Overview first if not. The Vault API directly supported most of the enhancements. However, the Vault 2025 SDK also introduced support for .NET Core and continued supporting .NET Framework developments. The development community requested it for a while; now…
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Autodesk Vault SDK Getting Started #5 – Login/Authorization Types
The Autodesk Vault SDK enables developers to build custom applications that interact with Vault servers. Any Vault application must log in and, in most cases, obtain a Vault license. Watching the Vault Customization Forum discussions, establishing a Vault connection is one of the most discussed topics. Even long-term API consumers may struggle to migrate legacy applications as…
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Autodesk Vault SDK Getting Started #4 – Event Handler
The Autodesk Vault Professional API enables developers to implement individual business logic handling events like check-in. Custom applications can subscribe to different event types for any Vault entity type. Handling events also includes capabilities to restrict the execution of the underlying action. The SDK template “API Onboarding – Event Handler” provides a pre-coded starting point for new Event and…
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Autodesk Vault SDK Getting Started #3 – Custom Job
Autodesk Vault Professional includes automation capabilities known as Job Processor. Job Processing includes a server-side component (Job Server), the Job Queue, and a Job Scheduler. Job Processors are Vault Clients that log on to the server and pick up jobs for execution. Many job types are available as a default but might have good reasons to…
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Autodesk Vault 2025 What’s New
Autodesk Vault 2025 is here with enhancements to help you accelerate your overall design creation and data management experience. Vault subscribers can start taking advantage of the new functionality right away. This release of Vault delivers enhancements you and the Vault user community requested. Watch the overview video to see some of the new features…
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Autodesk Vault SDK Getting Started #2 – Console Application
The Autodesk Vault API enables developers to establish standalone applications that interact with a Vault server. A console application could be seen as the most basic Vault application; the primary intent of this type is automation, like connecting two systems by reading data from Vault and transferring it to other targets. The biggest challenge for a standalone…
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