Woodwork for Inventor

Have you heard of the Woodwork for Inventor add-in yet?

This powerful upgrade to Inventor brings custom functionality for the design of furniture, cabinets, and joinery with specialist commands and environments such as edge banding, veneer directions and CNC preparation.

Graham Mansfield will be hosting webinars where you can tune in and see the software in action, so head on over to the site and register now:

Woodwork for Inventor Webinar

In the mean time, you can view a selection of videos listed on our main page

Vault Office Addin Not Appearing After Installing DL19837065

After installing DL19837065 (link no longer available as it has been unpublished), you may notice that the Vault 2013 addin for Microsoft Office applications either stops working (the icons are greyed out) or you may get an error similar to this when trying to run them.

Could not load file or assembly
'Autodesk.DataManagement.Client.Framework.Vault.Forms, version=17.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=aa20f34aedd220e1' or one of its dependencies. An attempt was made to load a program with an incorrect format.

Autodesk have re-released a fix for this issue that includes additional fixes in DL20133057.

So uninstall DL19837065 and install the newer Hotfix.

This is an extract from the Cracking the Vault, Manufacturing Community Blog

Check In Related Items from Inventor to Vault

New functionality on the Vault Addin for Inventor, allows users to scan the current project or model folder for related documentation, including IDW, DWG, and IPN files. This feature offers a major productivity enhancement for users who do not regularly Check In their design documentation as they create it.

• In previous versions of Vault when you ran a Check In from Inventor, it would check in the immediately related files. So in the example below we have a Drawing which contains views of a small Assembly and its Parts.

Expand All Levels in Inventor Vault Browser

Situation: You are working on a bigger Assembly in Inventor and if you look at the Vault Browser you do not see All Levels of the Assembly structure expanded:

Add In Differences Between Inventor and Inventor Professional 2012

Please find the table below to see which Add In's are part of Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Professional:

Default Add In's for Autodesk Inventor:	Default Add In's for Autodesk Inventor Pro:
BIM Exchange	BIM Exchange
Assembly Bonus Tools	Assembly Bonus Tools
Autodesk DWF Markup Manager	Autodesk DWF Markup Manager
Autodesk iDrop Translator	Autodesk iDrop Translator
AutoLimits	Autodesk IDF Translator
Content Center	AutoLimits
Content Center Item Translator	Content Center
Design Accelerator	Content Center Item Translator
Drag & Drop Interoperability	Design Accelerator
ESKD Support	Drag & Drop Interoperability
Frame Generator	ESKD Support
iLogic	Frame Generator
Inventor Studio	iLogic
Inventor Vault	Inventor Studio
Translator: Alias	Inventor Vault
Translator: CATIA V4 Import	Routed Systems: Cable & Harness
Translator: CATIA V5 Import	Routed Systems: Tube & Pipe
Translator: CATIA V5 Part Export	Simulation: Dynamic Simulation
Translator: CATIA V5 Product Export	Simulation: Stress Analysis
Translator: DWF	Translator: Alias
Translator: DWFx	Translator: CATIA V4 Import
Translator: DWG	Translator: CATIA V5 Import
Translator: DXF	Translator: CATIA V5 Part Export
Translator: IGES	Translator: CATIA V5 Product Export
Translator: JT	Translator: DWF
Translator: Parasolid Binary	Translator: DWFx
Translator: Parasolid Text	Translator: DWG
Translator: PDF	Translator: DXF
Translator: Pro/ENGINEER	Translator: IGES
Translator: Pro/ENGINEER Granite	Translator: JT
Translator: Pro/ENGINEER Neutral	Translator: Parasolid Binary
Translator: SAT	Translator: Parasolid Text
Translator: SolidWorks	Translator: PDF
Translator: STEP	Translator: Pro/ENGINEER
Translator: STL	Translator: Pro/ENGINEER Granite
Translator: UGS NX	Translator: Pro/ENGINEER Neutral
	Translator: SAT
	Translator: SolidWorks
	Translator: STEP
	Translator: STL
	Translator: UGS NX

Enabling the Vault Add-in for 3DS Max

Here is a handy tip for those of you that have Product Design Suite (with 3DS Max Design) or 3DS Max and wish to utilise Vault (Asset Tracking).

Before you try logging in to Vault from Asset Tracking, go to the Application Menu > Manage > Asset Tracking > Options > untick Disable Asset Tracking.

Once this setting is unticked you will be able to log into Vault and start managing your files as with Inventor and AutoCAD.