William Sterbenz and Hagay Dvir

Cloud PDM Demystified – The Future of File Management

@AutodeskForge

#ForgeDevCon

Hagay DvirSr. Product Manager &Chief Product OwnerFusion Lifecycle

Will SterbenzSr. Architect &Chief Product ArchitectFusion Lifecycle

About Us

About The Class

• Data management is especially important for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions as means to manage Product Data (PDM)

• In this class we will introduce you to Fusion Lifecycle, Autodesk’s PLM solution, and discuss Data Management in that context

• Due to the nature of the class, Fusion Lifecycle will be covered only briefly. Prior experience with Fusion Lifecycle will be beneficial

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What is Fusion Lifecycle

• Fusion Lifecycle is Autodesk’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system

• Data is organized in Workspaces

• Workspaces are Data Containers for items with the same Business Purpose

New Product

Introduction

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

Project 4

Items and BOMs

Component 1

Sub-Assembly 1

Sub-Assembly 2

Assembly 1

Change Orders

ECO 1

ECO 2

ECO3

Workspaces

Items

Fusion Lifecycle Items

• A single item usually represent a single business object

• Items have Properties (‘item details’) and Aspects (‘tabs’)

Data API

• UI is separate from service

• Client-side MVC

• Backend service implements Data Model and Business Logic

FLC UI templates, static content and JS

Browser

FLC services

Server Client

Data

HTML, JS

Get Workspace Content

• GET https://<tenant>/api/v3/workspaces/<id>/items

• Unbounded, Paged collection

• Each element in the collection has:• Title (name)

• URN

• Link

• Version (because it is integral to the name)

GET Item Details

• GET https://<tenant>/api/v3/workspaces/<id>/items/<id>

• Key/Value pairs

• Each element in the collection has:• Title (name)

• URN

• Link

• Version (because it is integral to the name)

Bill Of Materials (BOM)

• A BOM is a built-in Aspect that can be enabled in any Workspace

• A BOM is a hierarchy of Fusion Lifecycle Items

BOM Configurations

• When an item is released, it gets an Effectivity date

• BOM configuration allow to view a BOM as it was on a given Date and with a given Revision Bias

BOM Data Model

• Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)

• Edges and nodes

• Edge properties

• Node properties (Items)

• Reflection

Edge properties:Quantity,custom

Node properties:Descriptor,Lifecycle state,custom

Attachments

• Files surface in Fusion Lifecycle as Attachments

• Attachments are relationships between Fusion Lifecycle Items and Files stored in the Data Repository

Data Repository

• Folder hierarchy (as in Windows Explorer)

• Lineages are a sorted collection of Versions of the same data

Attachments Data Model

• m:n relationship• Many documents can

be attached to the same item

• Same document can be attached to many items

• Pinning policies

New service and API for attachment relationships

• Forge hides the details

• Uses existing building blocks

• Multiple services under one API

• Interoperability with FLC API and DM API

FLC

Attachments

DM

API

API

API

Real World Example

Example: Build a CAD BOM

LifecycleWorkflow

Release Management

VersionsFile refs

BOM

CAD

DS

Forge provides a platform API

Using existing building-blocks

Can be used to build a BOM inFLC based upon CAD structure

with custom logic for excludingLibrary parts, purchased items,etc

Custom logic

Build BOM from CAD

1. GET CAD objects and relationships

2. POST Items

3. POST Bom-Items

4. POST attachments

Forge provides a simple resource-based REST API that hides the underlying micro-service architecture

Step 1: read CAD from Forge DM

POST https://developer-stg.api.autodesk.com/wipdata-serv-qa/storage/v3/entities/get

["urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA"]

{"versionedFiles": [

{ "lineage": {

"urn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA",

"createTime": "2016-06-10T19:43:46+0000",

"lastModifiedTime": "2016-06-10T19:43:48+0000",

"lastModifiedUserId": "38SCJGX4R4PV",

"lastModifiedUserName": "bot@autodesk360.com",

"createUserName": "bot@autodesk360.com",

"createSortableName": "Bot Staging bot@autodesk360.com",

"parentFolderUrn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:fs.folder:co.ekykwQljTHKJiTjLXKFJ1Q",

"tipVersionUrn": "urn:adsk.wipqa:fs.file:vf.-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA?version=1",

"title": "Sports Car.dwfx",

"hidden": false

}]}

Filter out unmanaged parts (e.g. library components)

Step 2: create Item in FLC

POST https://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items

{

"sections":[

{

"link":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/sections/233",

"f ields":[

{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/views/1/fields/ROHS",

"v alue":"f alse"

},

{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/v iews/1/fields/REACH",

"v alue":"f alse"

},

{ "__self __":"/api/v 3/workspaces/57/views/1/fields/CONFLICT_MINERALS",

"v alue":"f alse"

}

]

},

}

Copy meta-data from Forge DM to FLC (e.g. description)

Step 3: create BOM relationship in FLC

POST https://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6795/bom-items

{link: "/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6797/bom-items",

title: "151-0323-058 - BRACKET SGL WIDE SS TAB DVI (3.152) DVI (1.552)",

deleted: false,

version: "A",

}

Can apply FLC release management to BOM(e.g. ECO process)

Step 4: attach CAD to FLC Items

POSThttps://alphaforgecpdmclass3.autodeskplm.com/api/v3/workspaces/57/items/6922/attachments

{

"itemId":"urn:adsk.plm:tenant.workspace.item:ALPHAFORGECPDMCLASS3.57.6922",

"lineageUrn":"urn:adsk.wipqa:dm.lineage:-w295kWRTZ-Nbf9PrSFRBA",

"pinningPolicy":"On Lock“

}

Set policy for release management

Forge Platform API for Cloud PDM

FLC product is being built on Forge data platform

Combining Forge DM with FLC product API…

will provide platform API for Cloud PDM

Disclaimer: the FLC API and attachments API are not yet released