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Brian Schanen joined Autodesk in 2005 as a Product Designer and currently is a Customer Success Engineer for Autodesk’s Data Management products. Brian has taught at Autodesk University numerous times and has authored white papers on Vault and Productstream. He works with customers to implement a complete digital prototyping solution specializing in Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault and Productstream. Brian lives near Detroit, Michigan.
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Roundtrip markups with Productstream and Autodesk Inventor DWF Extension
September 12, 2006 07:49 PMbyAutodesk DWF Extension's new Load Markup functionality works hand-in-hand to bring Productstream Change Order information direct to the CAD user. This allows the extended design team members that may not have Inventor installed to communicate ideas with members that do have Inventor. DWF becomes the exchange format between these two groups, and Productstream manages the whole process.
This begins with the Change Order process on an Item in Productstream. The Inventor Drawing can be measured and Marked up using the various tools within Autodesk Design Review 2007, included with Productstream.
This Markup file (DWF) is then saved in a Vault Explorer folder. For best results, when prompted, browse and place the DWF Markup adjacent to the IDW that it was based on. The DWF is also part of the file set included with the ECO, thus adding to the digital "paper trail".
The DWF file has a unique name based on ECO number, created by user, calendar date, and time stamp. You will need to retrieve this file to the Workspace along with the IDW to load into Inventor. From Vault Explorer, Check Out this DWF file.
Information captured in a Change Order Markup on an Inventor IDW can be realized directly in the Inventor interface through the Load Markup tool. From the File pull down in Inventor 11 DWF Extension, select Load Markup Set. Browse to the folder with the ECO, and note that it loads the IDW as well. You may be prompted for the IDW if there is no local copy, use Get Latest to retrieve the latest copy.
Note Inventor's browser displays the individual Markups created back in Productstream's Change Order environment. The Inventor user now has a clear idea of the edits to be made to the file. Each Markup listed has properties and states that can be changed to indicate progress on the edits.
Once the changes have been made to the Inventor models and drawing, right click each Markup and set the Status appropriately. In the Markup browser, right click on the ECO name. The DWF Markup can be saved and Checked back into Vault. This creates a new version of the DWF and preserves historical changes. Save and Check in the IDW, then Checkin the DWF Markup in Productstream.
Next, update the Item either through the Item Master or the ECO, and proceed with editing the Change Order with comments on work performed, and moving the ECO through the process based on the routing.
In this example, Productstream was used to generate a change, communicate with Inventor through the use of DWF Markup, and record all change history within its database.