Publishing Capabilities

Publisher4VLT contains a multitude of publishing modules that allow the source documentation to be automatically or manually published to various file formats. Publishing jobs can be invoked on both files and items.

Publishing module name
What is published

AutoCAD PDF

To publish an AutoCAD drawing as a PDF. Civil 3D drawings are not fully supported yet.

AutoCAD DWG

To publish an AutoCAD drawing as DWG or DXF. It can convert AutoCAD drawings into various versions of AutoCAD or AutoCAD Mechanical DWG and DXF formats.

Inventor PDF

To publish an Inventor drawing as a PDF.

Inventor DXF

To publish an Inventor sheet metal flat pattern (3D model) as a DXF file. The flat pattern can be created automatically before publishing if it does not exist in the sheet metal file.

Inventor RASTER

To publish an Inventor drawing or model as a raster file image (JPG, PNG).

Inventor STEP

To publish an Inventor model (assembly, part) as a STEP file.

Inventor SAT

To publish an Inventor model (assembly, part) as a SAT file.

Inventor Drawing to AutoCAD

To publish an Inventor drawing as an AutoCAD DWG or DXF file.

Inventor GEO

To publish an Inventor sheet metal model as a GEO file. CS GEO Translator must be installed in the system. (needs to be purchased separately)

Inventor STL

To publish an Inventor model (assembly, part) as an STL file.

Inventor JT

To publish an Inventor model (assembly, part) as a JT file.

Inventor BOM (Beta)

To publish an Inventor assembly Bill of Materials (BOM) as a CSV or XML file.

Office PDF

To publish Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel) as PDF files.

Copy native files

To copy native (design) data from Vault to an external folder.

EPLAN

To copy the EPLAN data from Vault to an external folder.

Publishing visualizations

To publish visualization files (DWF) of Inventor models to an external folder.

Publishing thumbnail

To publish a file preview (thumbnail) to an external folder.

Update visualization

Only for items. To update visualizations (DWF) of files connected to items.

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