Vault Office software is a new set of Vault software components tailored for users who don't work directly with CAD files. This class is designed to help you understand the features and functions of Vault Office software. Learn the when, what, who, and how of Vault Office software.

Learn how to capitalize on the important design and product detail generated in engineering with downstream consumers using Vault Office software. This class will look at how system administrators can provide a connected environment to non-CAD and non-technical-process contributors for change management, and approvals through to viewing and printing of documents while enforcing and maintaining data access integrity with Vault Office software. This class is designed to help you understand the features and functions of Vault Office software and how it fits in your organization.

Vault has undergone a massive overhaul in the recently released Vault Professional 2015 and Vault Professional 2015 R2, especially in the areas of items and bill of materials (BOM). This class will give you an overview of some of the major item and BOM enhancements in Vault 2015 including support for long-lead item workflows and enhancements in Vault 2015 R2 including multiple BOM rows, BOM properties, BOM reports, Copy Design, and Vault Office.

This class provides attendees with a deeper understanding of the Vault Professional, all-grown-up, next-generation web client interface. More than simply a coat of paint, the new, completely redesigned (almost unrecognizable) product delivers a much simpler, cleaner, and more powerful interface for users to consume data. The interface includes a number of important performance improvements that address a long list of user enhancement requests. Attendees will leave with a much better idea of how the new web client can be used in their business to streamline the flow of information out of engineering and design departments into other critical business units, as well as the role that Vault Office software can play in a more complete data management solution within their organization.

Autodesk Vault software is an often-overlooked tool that can provide remarkable benefits for the infrastructure design community. This class will explain exactly what document management software truly is and how it can benefit the civil design firm, and cover the steps for creating your own Autodesk Vault software environment. From the initial decision to implement document management, and all the way through development and final production rollout, we will review how Maser Consulting P.A. came to use Autodesk Vault Collaboration AEC in all 14 of its regional offices as well as the benefits gained from doing so.

What does it take to strategize and implement an efficient CAD and Vault software environment? Standards, communications, and consistency: the 3 keys to an efficient CAD and Vault software environment. This lecture is about how to build, implement, and run a highly technical CAD arena to produce and sustain small to large CAD designs. This discussion pertains to Vault software startups; small, medium-size, or large companies; and those that have been using Vault software for some time. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Office, and Vault Workgroup.

This round-table discussion will focus on the actual experiences that infrastructure engineering companies have working with Vault software. The speaker will present a training strategy that was especially useful for introducing employees to Vault software. He will also share experience regarding effective motivations for employees. The discussion will include the functionalities of Vault software most useful to and appreciated by engineers, managers, and administration. We will examine the main advantages of Vault software as seen by the employees of the company (the administration, managers, engineers, and IT and CAD administrators) who carry out different functions and use different software that includes Vault Client software, Microsoft Office software, AutoCAD LT software, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Bentley Microstation software. The speaker will share practical ideas for optimizing Vault software through the use of additional programming and configuration. The discussion will also cover tasks for job servers.

The First Order has risen and will stop at nothing to get to your data. Vault software security can be complex and confusing if you do not understand how it works. This class is essential for administrators who want to learn the different security models within Vault software. The main focus of the class will be object- and lifecycle-level security. Learn how object-level security sets or denies access to objects for users or groups. Learn how lifecycle-level security sets or denies access to objects based on the state of the object. Finally, learn how object- and lifecycle-state security are combined to work together to control object access, which is new in Vault 2017 software. Leave with the knowledge needed to awaken your security needs and restore peace and justice to your Vault software. Defend against the First Order. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Office, and Vault Workgroup.

Making the decision to convert to a Vault system is easy, but the work required to make that leap can be daunting. In this class, attendees will learn tips to help the transition. From tackling duplicate file names, to overcoming the struggles of clean file migration, to making sure revision schemes work properly—there are many aspects of the Vault to organize. This class will cover best practices for not only Autodesk file management, but also Mastercam, Microsoft Office documents, and PDFs.

This class shares our know-how about implementing Vault software in an infrastructure engineering company. We provide information on all stages of implementation: choosing the best document management system (DMS), as well as analysis, implementation planning and strategy, installation, system configuration, and adaptation to company needs. We discuss results of DMS system analyses and pilot projects, and we provide arguments for choosing Vault over Bentley® ProjectWise® or any other DMS system. We share Vault best practices for managing infrastructure projects and business processes. We also share experience on Vault integration into AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® Map 3D, AutoCAD LT®, Microsoft® Office, and Bentley® MicroStation® software. You also learn how to configure and maximize link efficiency between Vault and an Autodesk® Buzzsaw® server.

Learn how to increase efficiency in your development process by implementing Vault software and Fusion Lifecycle software. In this class, you will hear about the journey Reynaers Aluminium took to move from its old product data management (PDM) system to a fully integrated solution: CAD, PDM, PLM (product lifecycle management), and enterprise resource planning (ERP). You will learn about the how and why behind our architecture and the lessons learned during implementation. Get insight into the place PDM and PLM have in our organization today, how they are connected with other core databases, and what our further digitalization road map looks like. Also discover how Fusion Lifecycle offers article lifecycle management as well as full project management by streamlining our NPI (new product introduction) flow. All project phases are implemented into Fusion Lifecyle, including a customized project management tab to enable real project planning. Integrating Fusion Lifecycle with Vault creates one common platform, resulting in an efficient way of collaboration as well as a single source of truth across the company.

The First Order has risen and will stop at nothing to get to your data. Vault software security can be complex and confusing if you do not understand how it works. This class is essential for administrators who want to learn the different security models within Vault software. The main focus of the class will be to cover object- and lifecycle-level security. Learn how object-level security sets or denies access to objects for users or groups. Learn how lifecycle-level security sets or denies access to objects based on the state of the object. Finally, learn how object and lifecycle state security are combined to work together to control object access, which is new in Vault 2017 software. Leave with the knowledge needed to awaken your security needs and restore peace and justice to your Vault software. Defend against the First Order. This session features Vault Professional, Vault Office, and Vault Workgroup.

2020 imposed upon us an unprecedented need to shift our workforces from office environments to remote ones. With this, many Vault users found themselves struggling to access their data, IT personnel had to scramble to set up previously unnecessary VPNs, and many companies found themselves struggling to maintain status quo amid the pandemic. Fusion Team is a suggested resolution to this data-access issue, but setting it up to work with Vault software without knowing the intricacies of that relationship will usually end with more frustrations than solutions. In this class, we will provide guidelines to maximize the efficiency and productivity of using Fusion Team with Vault software in order to keep your team up and running no matter what life throws at them.

AutoCAD Plant 3D software and Vault data management software have been able to work together for some time now, but there have been a lot of improvements since the early days. Have you wanted to increase the level of security of your AutoCAD Plant 3D projects, add versioning and check-out; and in workflow, make it easier for other offices to work on your AutoCAD Plant 3D project with you seamlessly? If you have thought about this but thought Vault was too difficult or too hard to send AutoCAD Plant 3D projects to, then this class can show you how easy it can be. We'll look at how incorporating Vault into your AutoCAD Plant 3D project workflow can secure the data, make collaboration seamless, and make design work faster.

You’re in a small shop of 10 people, or you’re working in a company with hundreds of users who break into teams to deliver a project. What you share in common is the need to effectively collaborate and manage the data. You’ve had a look at Data Management and it looks like it will solve some significant business needs, but you don’t know how to present it to your manager, or who to ask for more information. Join us in this class where we’ll talk about use cases for Data Management, from small customer needs to those solving the needs of the enterprise. We’ll talk about Data Management for those who have needs in manufacturing to those who may want to use it to help them manage civil or architectural data. We’ll also discuss ways you can go back to your office, understand and assess your requirements, choose the appropriate product, and have an understanding of what software, hardware and training requirements will be necessary to present a business case to your manager.

Underground utilities such as cables and conduits are rarely seen, and underground electrical vaults are complicated, dangerous, badly lit, and sometimes full of water or ice. Vaults are hard to access and records of what is inside of them will often be missing. Using cameras and ReCap 360 software, the Locates, Engineering, and Operations personnel at Anchorage Municipal Light & Power are creating 3D models of these assets in hard-to-reach underground vaults. They then use ReCap 360 software to make these 3D models available to utility personnel out in the field or back in the office.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) represents a great deal more than switching from 2D CAD to 3D modeling. Face it; these tools and work processes can be complicated. Throw in multiple office locations, different design partners, and old work methods, and you can have a real mess on your hands. In this session we will take a look at how programs like Revit software disrupt these ponds, and how you can learn to gain efficiencies while you’re in it. We will start by explaining how a basic peer-to-peer type of environment could work, and the pros and cons of this system. Next, we will throw CAD into the mix, and we’ll cover lessons learned. Then we’ll review document management tools such as Vault software, and we will wrap up with a discussion about how the Autodesk 360 software applications can help. If you’re a business owner trying to make sense of all of this, or a designer just looking to get your work done, you need to join us for this fast-paced and sometimes downright funny way to learn how to manage your BIM projects.

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This class presents a strategy for development of structural projects using Revit® Structure, Vault, Navisworks, Autodesk® Design Review, and Robot™ Structural Analysis software. Learn about every step of a workflow for large projects, including setting up the LAN environment, creating Revit central files, generating links among architectural and MEP files, defining the stakeholder groups, and drawing and model reviews. This class also brings up some best practices, limitations, advantages, and tips for designers and BIM managers.

A typical manufacturing company is very digitally mature in the design office. However, that maturity reduces as we move down toward production. The manufacturing process can easily become costly and inefficient due to the use of software or paper-based methods that do not fit the goals of collaboration, traceability, accountability, reporting, and so on. As a result of this, customers can lose a lot of time finding the correct data at the correct time, ensuring that the correct versions of files are in use, understanding what past decisions were made and why, reworking parts to correct mistakes, and reworking scrapped parts. This talk will look at how customers can use Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage Extension and Prodsmart together with Vault software in order to create a digitally connected platform for process and data management as well as the scheduling of jobs and resources on the shop floor. We will also look at how this then enables better change control processes around the process configuration.