Is your engineering team doing whatever they want when creating 3D Models and Drawings? How do you get control and manage the chaos?
The goal of this session is to provide an overview of how standards can be imposed and managed by Autodesk Vault. Standards provide structure and guidance on how Engineers/Designers are to prepare and manage their engineering design data resulting in less mistakes, efficient workflows, accountability, and consistency within the team.
2. • 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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.
Create new categories: show new and copy
Production_Parts – make new
-Orange
-Finished forged parts
Lifecycle – Flexible
Revision – Alphabetic
Properties – select a bunch
In_House_Tools – make new
-Blue
-Tools Made In House
Lifecycle – Basic
Revision – Alphabetic
Properties – select a bunch
Outsourced_Tools – copy from IN_HOUSE_TOOLS
-Yellow
-Tools purchased outside
Explain:
How to assign Lifecycles
Edit
Here you can create new lifecycles
Assign
Here you assign a lifecycle scheme or schemes and select your default
How to assign Revision scheme
Add properties to category
Create new properties
-Tool_Type (for rule for category selection)
-Text
-Associations
---File
---Select IN_HOUSE_TOOLS & OUTSOURCED_TOOLS
-State – Enabled
-Search – Enabled
-Initial Value – leave blank
-List Values
---2 tools categories created and ‘-’
---set default to ‘-’
------show initial value changed to what you selected as default
-Enforce List Values – True
-Requires value – True
Map property to inventor template file standard.ipt
-Manufacture
-Text
-Associations
---File
---Select OUTSOURCED_TOOLS
-State – Enabled
-Search – Enabled
-Initial Value – leave blank
-Enforce List Values – false
-Requires value – false
Map property to inventor template file standard.ipt
-MFG_Part_Number
-Text
-Associations
---File
---Select OUTSOURCED_TOOLS
-State – Enabled
-Search – Enabled
-Initial Value – leave blank
-Enforce List Values – false
-Requires value – false
Map property to inventor template file standard.ipt
-Lead_Time
-Number
-Associations
---File
---Select PRODUCTION_PARTS
-State – Enabled
-Initial Value – leave blank
-List Values
---30,45,60,75,90
---set initial to ‘30’
------show initial value changed to what you selected as default
-Enforce List Values – True
-Requires value – True
Map property to inventor template file standard.ipt
Create rules for category selection for Tool_Type for IN_HOUSE_TOOLS & OUTSOURCED_TOOLS
Create numbering schemes
PRODUCTION_PART
Finished Part – Fixed Text – FP
Delimiter – ‘~’
Part Number – Auto-generated – 4 digits
TOOLS
Predefined List – Run Machine – “-,FP1 – Forging Press 1, FP2 – Forging Press 2, FP3 – Forging Press 3”
Delimiter – ‘-’
Free Text – Finished Part Number – ‘EnterPartNumber’
Delimiter – ‘-’
Predefined list – ‘OP’ – ‘~,1,2,3’
Predefined list – ‘Abbreviation’ – D – DIE
S – SPRING
P – PIN
E – EJECTOR
K – KNIFE
Force to uppercase!
MAKE SURE BOTH ARE ACTIVE!
Assign to categories!
PRODUCTION_PART TO PRODUCTION_PARTS
TOOLS TO IN_HOUSE_TOOLS & OUTSOURCED_TOOLS
Show thru Vault for a part and a document and thru Inventor