New functionality and workflow improvements made this workshop a must-attend for anyone working in sheet metal design. Jonathan Landeros discussed Inventor’s Sheet Metal tools including Lofted Flange, Contour Roll, and Unfold/Refold, which can help make designs accurate while reducing manufacturing error costs. He also demonstrated how templates, bend tables, and Content Center Fasteners will standardize sheet metal design and manufacturing.

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Stay abreast of current and future technologies to stay ahead of the pack. Mine information in technology previews on Autodesk Labs and various other resources such as blogs and content rich portals for manufacturing to fly past the competition.

Create intelligent design configurations with Inventor and AutoCAD using iLogic, iParts/ iAssemblies and Dynamic Blocks. Protect your company’s design intent by adding relevant rules and conditions. Decrease design times as you increase efficiency and accuracy by capturing and focusing design know-how in the configurations provided by various Autodesk design tools.

Inventor Simulation Suite validates your design before it hits the shop floor. This course explained how Dynamic Simulation allows you to determine reaction forces and import those values into Stress Analysis, where you can design parts and assemblies to efficiently handle those forces. Included discussion on how to efficiently create “what if” scenarios to ensure that multiple design alternatives are considered.

Attendees were also introduced to ALGOR Designer, which extends analysis capabilities in the Linear Stress and Strain, Thermal Analysis, Dynamics, and Fatigue Analysis.

Session One of this course focused on the setup and installation of Autodesk software, including centralizing resources such as templates, styles, and libraries to maintain company standards, reduce errors, and ensure accuracy. The course covered how to apply effective migration strategies to minimize downtime and ensure that settings and customizations are transitioned to a new version. Master Deployment for both network and standalone licenses using some of the hidden tools provided with Autodesk software.

More and more organizations are being asked to send and receive engineering data from multiple disciplines and software applications (ERP/MRP systems, Revit, AutoCAD, Solidworks, ProE, CATIA, etc.) This course covered the best practices and methods as they relate to non-native files and illustrated how Inventor Fusion is changing the way we work with non-native data.

Session Two focused on maintenance aspects of CAD management including—

• Optimizing workstation performance through hardware configuration and settings.
• Setting up Vault web client for read-only access over the web
• Data backup and restoration strategies to help ensure the integrity of data.
• Exploring the various support resources available including subscription support.

Explored key differences between different Vault offerings and learn to identify the Vault product that best fits an organization. This course outlined how these features can revolutionize the way engineering data is accessed, used, and distributed.

Vault

• Work-In-Progress Version Management
• Integration with AutoCAD and Inventor
• Maintain File Associations
• Advanced Search Functionality

Vault Workgroup

• Release Management
• Multiple Revision Schemes
• Assign Roles and Permissions
• Advanced Security Controls

Vault Collaboration

• Multi Site Replication
• Web Client for Viewing
• Microsoft SharePoint Integration

Vault Manufacturing

• BOM Management
• Engineering Change Management
• ERP Integration

Access to Autodesk BIM (Building Information Modeling) file standards is increasingly a requirement for manufacturers that want to market and sell their products into the commercial, residential, and medical construction industry. Learn steps you can take today to ensure that customers in this growth segment come to you for products and services.

Solutions featured in this session included Autodesk Inventor AEC Exchange and Autodesk SEEK.

Demonstrated how to ‘see’ and experience CAD models in an entirely new light. Using 3D Studio Max and Autodesk Showcase to take a product design from engineering and use it in a marketing campaign weeks or months before any parts are cut. Used Autodesk NavisWorks MFG to simulate the entire installation sequence for a complex project before a single part arrives at the customer site. Created a custom storyboard and generate instruction manuals and other technical documentation in a fraction of the time it takes today.

Autodesk technologies provide the shortest path from art to part. Learned how to combine AutoCAD Inventor LT Suite, InventorCAM and 3D printer technology to rapidly convert your concepts to prototype, and then to parts.

Why is engineering the ‘last to go lean?’ Lean Engineering techniques help manufacturers reach new levels in design and process efficiency. Attendees of this session gained a thorough command of the concepts of Lean Engineering.

• Utilize lean workflows within the design process
• Measure progress and maintain success
• Utilize automation to reduce or eliminate work
• Optimize part designs to be made in a lean factory
• Refine the Engineer to Order (ETO) process