1.
William Sterbenz and Hagay Dvir
Cloud PDM Demystified – The Future of File
Management

2.
@AutodeskForge
#ForgeDevCon

3.
Hagay Dvir
Sr. Product Manager &
Chief Product Owner
Fusion Lifecycle
Will Sterbenz
Sr. Architect &
Chief Product Architect
Fusion Lifecycle
About Us

4.
About The Class
• Data management is especially important for
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions
as means to manage Product Data (PDM)
• In this class we will introduce you to Fusion
Lifecycle, Autodesk’s PLM solution, and
discuss Data Management in that context
• Due to the nature of the class, Fusion Lifecycle
will be covered only briefly. Prior experience
with Fusion Lifecycle will be beneficial

5.
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6.
What is Fusion Lifecycle
• Fusion Lifecycle is
Autodesk’s Product
Lifecycle Management
(PLM) system
• Data is organized in
Workspaces
• Workspaces are Data
Containers for items with
the same Business
Purpose
New
Product
Introduction
Project 1
Project 2
Project 3
Project 4
Items and
BOMs
Component
1
Sub-
Assembly 1
Sub-
Assembly 2
Assembly 1
Change
Orders
ECO 1
ECO 2
ECO3
Workspaces
Items

7.
Fusion Lifecycle Items
• A single item usually
represent a single
business object
• Items have Properties
(‘item details’) and
Aspects (‘tabs’)

8.
Data API
• UI is separate from
service
• Client-side MVC
• Backend service
implements Data
Model and Business
Logic
FLC UI
templates, static
content and JS
Browser
FLC
services
Server Client
Data
HTML, JS

9.
Get Workspace Content
• GET
https://<tenant>/api/v3/workspaces/<id>/items
• Unbounded, Paged collection
• Each element in the collection has:
• Title (name)
• URN
• Link
• Version (because it is integral to the name)

10.
GET Item Details
• GET https://<tenant>/api/v3/workspaces/<id>/items/<id>
• Key/Value pairs
• Each element in the collection has:
• Title (name)
• URN
• Link
• Version (because it is integral to the name)

11.
Bill Of Materials (BOM)
• A BOM is a built-in
Aspect that can be
enabled in any
Workspace
• A BOM is a hierarchy
of Fusion Lifecycle
Items

12.
BOM Configurations
• When an item is
released, it gets an
Effectivity date
• BOM configuration
allow to view a BOM as
it was on a given Date
and with a given
Revision Bias

13.
BOM Data Model
• Directed Acyclic Graph
(DAG)
• Edges and nodes
• Edge properties
• Node properties
(Items)
• Reflection
Edge properties:
Quantity,
custom
Node properties:
Descriptor,
Lifecyclestate,
custom

14.
Attachments
• Files surface in Fusion
Lifecycle as
Attachments
• Attachments are
relationships between
Fusion Lifecycle Items
and Files stored in the
Data Repository

15.
Data Repository
• Folder hierarchy (as in
Windows Explorer)
• Lineages are a sorted
collection of Versions
of the same data

16.
Attachments Data Model
• m:n relationship
• Many documents can
be attached to the
same item
• Same document can
be attached to many
items
• Pinning policies

17.
New service and API for attachment relationships
• Forge hides the details
• Uses existing building
blocks
• Multiple services under
one API
• Interoperability with
FLC API and DM API
FLC
Attachments
DM
API
API
API

18.
Real World Example

19.
Example: Build a CAD BOM
Lifecycle
Workflow
Release
Management
Versions
File refs
BOM
CAD
DS
Forge provides a platform API
Using existing building-blocks
Can be used to build a BOM in
FLC based upon CAD structure
with custom logic for excluding
Library parts, purchased items,
etc
Custom logic

20.
Build BOM from CAD
1. GET CAD objects and relationships
2. POST Items
3. POST Bom-Items
4. POST attachments
Forge provides a simple resource-based REST API that
hides the underlying micro-service architecture

21.
Step 1: read CAD from Forge DM
POST https://developer-stg.api.autodesk.com/wipdata-serv-qa/storage/v3/entities/get
["urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA"]
{"versionedFiles": [
{ "lineage": {
"urn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA",
"createTime": "2016-06-10T19:43:46+0000",
"lastModifiedTime": "2016-06-10T19:43:48+0000",
"lastModifiedUserId": "38SCJGX4R4PV",
"lastModifiedUserName": "bot@autodesk360.com",
"createUserName": "bot@autodesk360.com",
"createSortableName": "Bot Staging bot@autodesk360.com",
"parentFolderUrn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:fs.folder:co.ekykwQljTHKJiTjLXKFJ1Q",
"tipVersionUrn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:fs.file:vf.-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA?version=1",
"title": "Sports Car.dwfx",
"hidden": false
}]}
Filter out unmanaged parts
(e.g. library components)

22.
Step 2: create Item in FLC
POST https://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items
{
"sections":[
{
"link":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/sections/233",
"f ields":[
{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/views/1/fields/ROHS",
"v alue":"f alse"
},
{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/v iews/1/fields/REACH",
"v alue":"f alse"
},
{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/views/1/fields/CONFLICT_MINERALS",
"v alue":"f alse"
}
]
},
}
Copy meta-data from Forge
DM to FLC (e.g. description)

23.
Step 3: create BOM relationship in FLC
POST https://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6795/bom-items
{link: "/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6797/bom-items",
title: "151-0323-058 - BRACKET SGL WIDE SS TAB DVI (3.152) DVI (1.552)",
deleted: false,
version: "A",
}
Can apply FLC release
management to BOM
(e.g. ECO process)

24.
Step 4: attach CAD to FLC Items
POST
https://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6922/attachm
ents
{
"itemId":"urn:adsk.plm:tenant.workspace.item:ALPHAFORGECPDMCLASS3.57.6922",
"lineageUrn":"urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA",
"pinningPolicy":"On Lock“
}
Set policy for release
management

25.
Forge Platform API for Cloud PDM
FLC product is being built on Forge data platform
Combining Forge DM with FLC product API…
will provide platform API for Cloud PDM
Disclaimer: the FLC API and attachments API are not yet released