© 2011 Autodesk CM D Standards : New Thinking Allan Chalmers – Kempe Engineering Kevin J. Smedley – Engineering Design Systems, Inc.

© 2011 Autodesk Who are we?  Allan is a CAD Administrator at Kempe Engineering in Geelong, Australia. He has worked in the Cad industry since the early nineties. He worked for 8 years as an Applications Engineer in an Autodesk® Manufacturing Solution Center, implementing solutions and providing training services in both the manufacturing and architectural /interior design disciplines. From AutoCAD® to Autodesk® Mechanical Desktop® and onto Autodesk® Inventor®, Allan has had a long term hands on approach to using Autodesk® software. 

© 2011 Autodesk Who are we?  Kevin is a Sr. Mechanical Applications Engineer at Engineering Design Systems, Inc. in Roanoke Virginia. Kevin is a fully accredited and certified expert with Autodesk® ® Inventor® Professional along with Autodesk® Vault Professional Data Management. For 23 plus years, he has provided Cad management, consulting services, custom training, and implementation services for over 750 clients. Kevin has been a productive user, trainer, manager, and consultant with Autodesk® products since Since 1996 Kevin has been specializing in 3D modeling and digital prototyping for manufacturing. Kevin has multiple years in presenting at AU and he has belonged to AUGI® (NAAUG) since 1989 

© 2011 Autodesk New Thinking Starts Here!  If you are sitting in today, you will want to know more about productivity, standards and using Autodesk® Inventor® in a team environment  It will be all about trying to change the way we think about the process of design  We intend to broaden your existing knowledge and make you question what steps you can take to improve your outcomes  It is not a detailed demonstration of each step  Please hold your questions until the end

© 2011 Autodesk Learning Objectives At the end of this class, you will be able to:  Describe how to keep consistency throughout a project lifecycle  Explain why it is important to establish and grow modeling environment standards  Describe how design styles and templates can escalate the creation of models, assemblies, and drawings  Explain the magnitude of 3D tools needed to produce work effectively no matter who is completing the work

© 2011 Autodesk The Norm.. Standards Standards ! Without them we wouldn’t have much chance of screwing in our light bulbs Our needs are slightly different Standards become more than a nice to have! What role will the drawing play in the future ? Will the metadata matter ??

© 2011 Autodesk Consistency throughout a Project Lifecycle –How to Keep it  Model data can be leveraged by other areas of the business  Projects are undertaken to deliver a specific set of client specifications  Some are made to measure others designed to suit

© 2011 Autodesk The Project File Is the most important toolMust contain the correct pathsControls the showUnderstand what it does

© 2011 Autodesk Design Intent - Planning Planning and more Planning Make sure you plan to succeedPlanning should include model structure and approach methodKey parameters can be used throughout the projectSpreadsheets are a vital new toolMake a list of all the data you wish to shareLook ahead to maximize your digital prototype

© 2011 Autodesk Filing Structure  Employ a logical numbering or naming convention  Let Vault be your friend – include searches that support your structure  Have a manual to explain it  HAVE A SYSTEM

© 2011 Autodesk Styles -Standards  Save your Style Library information on a server or in Vault  Include everything that you use regularly into these styles  Use the Style Library Manager to work with your styles  Use the Style Management tool to harvest and purge styles  DO Not give users write access to the styles THE ACTIVE STANDARD IS IMPORTANT

© 2011 Autodesk Styles – Standards (cont’d)  Incorporate your company wide standards by defining this location in the IPJ  Use the read only setting in the IPJ for the styles  Create a separate project file dedicated to editing your style library information.(CAD Administrators only)  Use meaningful names that are clear to describe your standards  Make 100% sure when you change anything that you have checked it out first in a local document to see if it works.  Copy from existing Styles to create your own company standard

© 2011 Autodesk Styles (cont’d)  Styles can be updated from the server library or Vault  Styles have Read –Write or Read only from the IPJ  Let the Project set the Style location

© 2011 Autodesk Templates  Create templates that have all the resources that you use frequently  Provide the user with a consistent start point  Make them task specific  Define and share a Level of Detail standard  Create Naming conventions for iMate, Work Planes, Folders and View Reps.  Define how you want to use the iProperties in all documents

© 2011 Autodesk Templates (cont’d)

© 2011 Autodesk Automating the Process Identify repeated tasks and explore better ways to streamline and standardize them Learn more about iLogic™ Learn more about programming Autodesk® Inventor®  Links to Programming resources  inventive/ilogicvba/ inventive/ilogicvba/ 

© 2011 Autodesk Vaulted Data Map your iPropertiesCustom your searchesEnforce the structure to usersMake all files uniqueLeverage your hard workExport your data to others

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