Implementing Engineering Standards through Autodesk Vault

Joe CorsonJohn Kavusak

• Manage Templates and Design Data inside Vault

• Automatic file naming

• Property Configuration

• Property Dropdowns

• Property Compliance

• Vault Data Standard

• Property Edits

• Job Server

Class Overview

Create Custom Categories

• Create categories that group like files together

• Categories can define a property set, lifecycle workflow, and a revision scheme for a type of file

• Categories can also help control property compliance

• Create rules for automatic Category selection from CAD

UPD – User Defined Properties

• Types of properties

• Assign properties to categories

• Set initial value

• Create a dropdown list

• Controlling case of property values

• Setting the min and max values

• Configure overrides for categories

• Mapping Vault properties to file properties

Numbering Scheme

• Create smart file names and item numbers based on user specified criteria

• Using an auto-generated sequence insures unique file naming

• Numbering schemes work with design accelerators like frame generator, tube and pipe, and bolted connections

• Numbering schemes also play an important role in the Vault Data Standard and the NEW Copy Design tool

• File names can be automatically assigned in any application with a Vault add-in

Vault Data Standard

• The Vault Data Standard is a data control feature that enforces users to enter data for new or existing files in a standard format

• Works inside of Inventor, AutoCAD, and the Vault client

• Controls category, file naming, property compliance, and file path

• Very easy to use with dropdown pick boxes and text boxes to enter all data in a single form

• From within Vault the data standard can be used to create new blank files populated with property data for virtually any file type

• Available to subscription users of Vault Workgroup and Professional

Job Server

• The Job Server is used to take the dwf creation process away from the check-in process, create dwfs after state or category changes, and to sync properties after a lifecycle change has occurred

• The Job Server consist of two components: Job Queue and the Job Processor

• The Job Queue is the list of files that are to be processed. Files can be submitted to the queue thru Inventor, AutoCAD, Vault, or the AutoLoader.

• The Job Processor is the application that runs to process the files that are in the queue.

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