# 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**                 | <p>To publish an AutoCAD drawing as a PDF.<br>Civil 3D drawings are not fully supported yet.</p>                                                                                                  |
| **AutoCAD DWG**                 | <p>To publish an AutoCAD drawing as DWG or DXF.<br>It can convert AutoCAD drawings into various versions of AutoCAD or AutoCAD Mechanical DWG and DXF formats.</p>                                |
| **Inventor PDF**                | To publish an Inventor drawing as a PDF.                                                                                                                                                          |
| **Inventor DXF**                | <p>To publish an Inventor sheet metal flat pattern (3D model) as a DXF file.<br>The flat pattern can be created automatically before publishing if it does not exist in the sheet metal file.</p> |
| **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**                | <p>To publish an Inventor sheet metal model as a GEO file.<br>CS GEO Translator must be installed in the system. <em>(needs to be purchased separately)</em></p>                                  |
| **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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