What are Items in Autodesk Vault Professional?

Autodesk Vault Professional has Items, and they are key to moving beyond file-centric data management. Items act as a container tied to a part number, collecting all related documents into one organized record. These documents could be CAD files, STEP files, DXFs, work instructions, and more. Vault Items also enable parent-child relationships for building a bill of materials (BOM). They integrate with Inventor, AutoCAD Electrical, Mechanical, and even SolidWorks to extract BOMs. Items make it easier to control access, capture additional metadata, and manage change orders with specific dispositions and automated state changes.

Chapters:
00:05 – Introduction: What Are Items?
00:17 – Part Numbers and Inventor Assemblies
00:43 – Files That Describe a Part Number (STEP, DXF, NC, PDFs, instructions)
02:11 – Why Vault Items Matter (a container for all related files)
03:38 – File Relationships vs. Item BOMs
05:03 – File Attachments and Version Pinning
05:49 – Items and Life Cycles (behave like files, but with differences)
07:18 – Properties on Items vs. Files
08:02 – Items in Change Orders (dispositions, automatic state changes
09:30 – Bill of Materials from Multiple CAD Tools
10:18 – Compare and Export BOM Data
10:51 – CAD Ownership of BOMs and Updates
11:41 – Capturing Model States as Items
11:59 – Summary: Why Use Items in Vault Professional

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