InventorCAM 2014 SP2 / Autodesk Vault Basic Integration Build 18.086.0

Presentation Guideline

Create a new InventorCAM Part from a CAD model in vault

Save a InventorCAM Part to Vault (without a Link to CAD model)

Save a InventorCAM Part to Vault

Open a InventorCAM Part from Vault

Recorded Presentation

Contact

FAQ’s

Preample:

InventorCAM Vault Basic integration Supports two general workstyles how CAM users allowed to

open the CAD models saved in Vault: Whether the CAD model is checked out or only “get” write

protected from Vault.

□ Start Showing the Server Folder structure at with the Vault Browser.

Explain two modes of creating a new CAM Part:

a) with CAD model which is checked out (modification possible)

b) with CAD model in write protected mode (“get”)

Note: If an InventorCAM part with linked CAD model will be open from Vault, and the CAD

model was not checked out before, the CAD model will be “get” automatically from Vault, to

do the synchronization.

□ Open Inventor \ Projects and show the settings in the project File / Show an Exist *.ipt in

Vault

□ Open with Inventor a CAD model from Vault in write protected mode (“get”)

Choose Open and click to the Safe

Select the CAD model and choose option write protected

□ Starting with: Create a new InventorCAM Part with a CAD model from Vault

Using a CAD model from Vault and define a new InventorCAM Part.

Before Start: Open InventorCAM settings and set Work directory related to you Vault Project

Settings as default, for Example:

The InventorCAM New Part dialog will be shown:

Note: with the Vault browser you can check the existence of the CAD model in the Model name path.

□ After creating a new InventorCAM Part save it to Vault with InventorCAM Option: Save to PDM

Open dialog with Right Button Mouse click at CAM Manger Partname and choose save to PDM

□ At the first time you need to enter the Server Connection to the Vault

□ The Save to PDM dialog opens and shows the folder structure at the Vault server.

□ Browse to your CAM part folder and click: Save

□ After the location is chosen, the user has to link the CAD model in Vault, to the CAM part he

wants to add.

Browse to the folder of the CAD models in Vault and click to the model.

link to a model

□ User may add a comment and get some options what to do with the working part:

After clicking on OK, InventorCAM Part will be closed, saved to the server.

□ Save to PDM (CAD model is linked to the CAM part)

In general it’s the same process of saving a part without a link to the CAD model. The only

difference is that the step of choosing the reference model will be skipped.

Note: As long as any model is linked to the InventorCAM part, the Dialogbox to link to a

model is skipped. User may add a new comment and click to OK to save and close the

InventorCAM Part.

□ Open an InventorCAM part from Vault server:

Use InventorCAM Open Part from Main Ribbon

□ Choose in CAM Parts dialog: Open from PDM

□ Browse to your CAM Part folder

select your CAM part to be opened

□ Note: If the InventorCAM part has a link to the CAD model, it will be automatically

downloaded in “get” modus to the working directory of the client.

Status of the CAM part in the Vault Browser: checked out

Status of the CAD model: not checked out

A GotoMeeting in German Language was recorded and can be downloading from here

https://solidcam.box.com/s/z886u54takbol8t0st7o

A first Address for Questions will be FAQ’s sector here under

or

Harald Schumacher, harald.schumacher@solidcam.de, Tel. +49 6241 95409-0

April 2014

Harald Schumacher

SoidCAM GmbH

FAQ’s

□ the Save to PDM dialog opens but is empty

Save to PDM dialog Box Empty == Vault Server connection lost

Solution: Exit InventorCAM and restart it.

□ What happens if an InventorCAM part will be opened from PDM and the CAD model was

changed before?

InventorCAM will detect that the CAD model in Vault is different from InventorCAM

Designmodel and ask if user wants to get an updated model.

□ What happens if a New InventorCAM Part with the same name exists already in Vault?

At Save to PDM: If Part Name exist and has the status: Not checked out, InventorCAM cannot

save the Part with the same name:

Warning: Please check out the part first == Part Name exist in Vault and was not checked out before.

User need to use the InventorCAM “Save as” to save the part with a new name and choose again:

Save to PDM

Note: It’s not allowed to change the file name shown in the Save to PDM dialog

□ Can I save a InventorCAM part without to link it to a model?

Yes. Click at the Save to PDM Dialog at the “…select the referencemodel” stage to Cancel

confirm that you want to check-in the part without a model:

you will be asked to add a comment before OK will close and save the part to Vault: