Thomas Rambach of CADToolbox.com recently asked if I would BETA test his latest creation “Batch Logic”. Before I get into Batch Logic, it’s worth pointing out that Thomas is the creator of Swift Prints and Design Notes for Inventor. Batch Logic is two fantastic utilities rolled into one, the first for Inventor and another for … More Batch Logic for Inventor & Vault
I mentioned the launch of Duplicate Search for Vault 2020.2 in a previous blog post. Once you have installed the update (brief update instructions at the bottom of this post), the new Duplicate Search Dashboard is available in your Vault client. To set up the duplicate search, from your Vault Settings (Tools > Administration >Vault … More Setting up Duplicate Search in Vault 2020.2
And that’s a wrap! 2020 is on the horizon. I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited the site in 2019, thank you for your support. I run this site as a hobby, generally putting blog posts together on the weekends, usually early on Saturday mornings with a cup of … More 2019 – A Year in Review
The Vault team have just made “Duplicate Search” available to subscription customers. This is different to any duplicate searches that you have run on your Vault in the past, as this new technology allows you to search for duplicate files by their 3D shape. The new duplicate search actually compares the geometry of files to … More Vault 2020.2 Duplicate Search
Autodesk University London 2020 call for proposals is open. Submissions close on the 2nd of March 2020. AU London 2020 will be held at London’s Excel on the 23rd and 24th of June 2020. If you would like to submit a class proposal, follow the link below: Propose a Class
If you use AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion360, Vault, or pretty much any of the main stream Autodesk products, you will have at some stage used an Autodesk cloud service. To help understand any planned maintenance or outages, Autodesk have created a “Health Dashboard”, which shows the current status of all cloud services, as well as … More Autodesk Cloud Services Up-time Dashboard
It’s finally here, for those of you who enjoy this site on the go, you can now get to it via the Unofficial App. The new version of the app was uploaded on the 26th of December 2019. Click on the image above to download the “Unofficial Inventor” App for Android. The app is currently only … More Download the Unofficial App
In some installations of the Vault server, the “Reboot Needed” error will show on the installer pre-checks. If you have rebooted the server, and the pre-checker still shows this, the steps below will bypass the checker and proceed with the installation of Vault Server. NOTE: This method should be used as a last resort. You … More Autodesk Vault Server install – ADMS Pre-checks “Reboot Needed”
Vault 2020 is now available, this release features updates to the Vault Sync tool, as well as Copy Design and some improved functionality around PDF’s. Below are 3 videos highlighting the new features: New features in Project Sync: New Features in Copy Design: 2020 PDF Enhancements:
You may have the Autodesk Vault Client installed on your CAD workstation, but find that the product specific add-ins are not installed. This is pretty simple to resolve, the steps laid out below show how I recently added the Vault add-ins for MS Outlook and AutoCAD Electrical to my system. Step one, go to “Apps … More Vault 2019 – Get Your Add-ins in Order
