EMA Virtual Classroom Training

• Overview and benefits of OrCAD Capture CIS and CIP
• OrCAD Capture CIS interface and functionality
• Relational database support
• Introducing a new part
• OrCAD Capture CIS part manager
• Finalizing and documenting the design
• Launching a standard OrCAD Capture CIS BOM
• Performing a database search
• Using the distributor search tab
• Creating a formal part
• Creating and saving searches
• Creating new temporary parts

• Entering a design for simulation
• Running DC bias, DC sweep, and AC sweep analysis
• Editing stimulus and run parametric analysis
• Editing models, running Monte Carlo analysis, creating subcircuits, and creating parts for simulation from a model or subcircuit definition
• Create linear and non-linear transformers; and performing temperature, worst case, and noise analysis
• Analog behavioral modeling
• Running digital and mixed simulation

• Creating parameterized models
• Advanced sensitivity analysis
• Advanced Monte Carlo analysis
• PSpice Optimizer
• Smoke (stress) analysis

• Design Parameters
• Foldaway windows
• User Preferences, primarily the PSMPATH and PADPATH variables
• Color Visibility
• Intertool communication between capture and PCB
• Import logic, do's and don'ts
• Basic constraint overview
• Quickplace component placement
• Shape creation
• Basic routing and vias
• Gerber and NC drill generation

• Constructing design libraries
• Importing logic design data
• Defining design rules
• Interactive and advanced interactive placement features
• Swapping gates and pins
• Routing interactively
• Running automatic glossing
• Creating copper areas
• Generating manufacturing output and documentation
• Customizing OrCAD PCB Editor

• Customizing the OrCAD and Allegro PCB Editor
• Constraint Manager
• More Constraints
• Differential Pairs
• Interactive Etch Editing
• Copper Planes
• Test Point Generation
• Technology Files
• Unused Pad Suppression
• Accessing Information

• Drawing lines, polylines, rectangles, circles, and arcs
• Using erase, stretch, trim, fillet, copy, mirror, and many other useful tools
• Adding text, dimensions, and hatching
• Using layouts to create views of designs
• Plotting
• Working with grips
• Creating and editing blocks
• Template creation
• Advanced editing commands
• Coordinate entry
• Editing styles
• Working with external references
  
  

• Application menu
• Ribbon updates
• Quick access toolbar enhancements
• Command enhancements, including text, spline, and polyline
• Updates to dimension styles and multileader styles
• Hatching updates
• Measuring tools
• Working with geometric and dimensional constraints
• Adding constraints to dynamic blocks
• Navigation tools
• Using Autodesk® Seek
• And much more!

• Inserting wires, ladders, components, panel footprints
• Creating parent-child relationships
• Choosing catalog items
• Creating custom catalog entries and custom schematic components
• Running audits
• Running and creating custom default reports
• Inserting 3-phase busses and components
• Creating point-to-point wiring diagrams
• Trimming wires
• Assigning wire layers
• And much more!

• The Autodesk Inventor® interface
  
• Creating 2D sketches
  
• Constraining and dimensioning sketches
  
• Generating 3D parts from sketches
  
• Part modeling, adding and editing 3D features
  
• Work Features
  
• Creating equations
  
• Duplicating sketched geometry and features
  
• Understanding and controlling feature relationships
  
• Model information
  
• Customizing Inventor
  
• Placing and constraining parts in assemblies
  
• Assembly component display
  
• Presentation files (exploded views)
  
• Assembly tools
  
• Creating drawings and views
  
• Working with Projects
  
• Documenting parts and assemblies in drawings (views, detailing, annotations)
  
• Defining the assembly bill of materials
  

• Interface and general enhancements
  
• Sketching enhancements
  
• Part modeling enhancements
  
• Top down design enhancements
  
• Part design using iLogic
  
• Assembly modeling enhancements
  
• Drawing enhancements
  
• Sheet metal modeling enhancements
  

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault features
  
• Basic Autodesk Vault tasks
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and Autodesk Inventor (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD Electrical (optional)
  
• Working with Autodesk Vault and AutoCAD Mechanical (optional)
  
• Common Autodesk Vault tasks
  
• Organizing and populating Autodesk Vault
  
• Managing Autodesk Vault
  

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault features
  
• Autodesk Vault workflow
  
• Using Autodesk Vault Explorer
  
• Organizing Autodesk Inventor, project, and library files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Searching Autodesk Vault
  
• Working with non-CAD files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Working with Autodesk Inventor files in Autodesk Vault
  
• Customizing the user interface
  
• File management and reusing design data
  

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault Workgroup and Autodesk Vault Collaboration
  
• Lifecycle states
  
• Revision management
  
• Working with categories
  
• Managing properties
  
• Automatic file naming
  
• Creating reports
  
• Job server
  
• Web client
  

• Introduction to Autodesk Vault Professional
  
• Working with items
  
• Managing change
  
• Working with bills of material
  
• Reporting
  
• Administrating Autodesk Vault Professional
  

• Applying motion to existing assembly constraints using Drive Constraints or Motion and Transitional Constraints.
  
• Introduction of the Top-Down Design technique for creating assemblies.
  
• Inventor tools for Top-Down Design, including associative links, adaptive parts, multi-body design, layout design, derived components, and skeleton models.
  
• Creating Positional Representations of an assembly to review motion, evaluate the position of assembly components, or document an assembly in a drawing.
  
• Creating Level of Detail Representations to reduce the clutter of large assemblies. Also learn about Substitute Level of Detail Representations.
  
• Design Accelerator to easily insert standard and customizable components.
  
• Creating rendered realistic images and animations of parts and assemblies using Inventor Studio and the Video Producer.
• Using iMates, iAssemblies, and iLogic to work efficiently with assemblies.
  
• Working with weldments.
  
• Using the Frame Generator to create members in a structural frame work.
  
• Using pattern, mirror, copy techniques to duplicate components in an assembly.
  
• Link system parameters and custom parameters to an external spreadsheet file. .
  

• Advanced model appearance options
  
• Multi-body part modeling
  
• 2D and 3D sketching techniques
  
• Advanced geometry creation tools (work features, area lofts, sweeps, and coils)
  
• Part creation using iLogic
  
• Analysis tools
• Creating and editing basic surfaces
• Importing surfaces and surface repair tools
• Using iFeatures and iParts to work efficiently with part models
• Advanced Drawing tools (tables for iParts, surfaces in drawing views, and custom sketched symbols)
• Importing and exporting data
• Emboss and Decal features
• Adding notes with the Engineer's Notebook
  

The AutoCAD Mechanical Essentials 6 day class teaches students about the indispensable core tools required to use the AutoCAD Mechanical software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to accelerate the mechanical design process. With specific tools for creating and manipulating geometry, automatically acquiring bills of materials, generating mechanical components, and performing design calculations, the AutoCAD Mechanical software offers significant productivity gains that the student learns to maximize. Major topics include:

• Introduction to AutoCAD Mechanical interface elements
  
• Configuring and manipulating Layers with the object property management system
  
• Working with Mechanical Structure in AutoCAD Mechanical
  
• Using the core mechanical design tools to create and modify geometry
  
• Modifying and editing drawing objects
  
• Inserting industry standard parts into assembly designs
  
• Creating production-ready drawings in model space
  
• Layouts of structured and non-structured geometry
  
• Annotating drawings
  
• Bills of material, parts lists, and balloons
  
• Using Inventor Link Data to create Mechanical drawings
  
• Create custom drafting standards and drawing templates with configuration settings
  
  

Pre-requisites:
Previous AutoCAD experience is recommended, though not required.

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This Exclusive EMA fundamentals 3 day class is focused on the Point-to-Point Cable & Harness features of the powerful AutoCAD Electrical software. Geared toward designers that work with Cables, Harnesses and Connectors in a Point-to-Point environment (as opposed to Ladder/Logic Diagrams), this class will provide the student indispensable information to become more efficient in the creation of these designs. Major topics include:

• Introduction to AutoCAD Electrical
  
• Managing Project Files
  
• Inserting and Editing Wires
  
• Wire Types
  
• Wire Numbering Basics
  
• AutoCAD Electrical Editing Tools
  
• Point-to-Point Wiring Diagrams
  
• Creating and Editing Symbols
  
• Creating and Publishing Reports
  
• Drawing Settings, Project Settings, and Templates in AutoCAD Electrical
  
• Updating Components and Wire Numbers in a Project
  

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This Advanced Inventor 3 day class introduces students to the core tools in the Inventor Cable and Harness environment. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to design physical cables and harnesses for electrical systems in almost any kind of product or machine. Students will learn to maximize specific tools to incorporate cable and harness runs into digital prototypes. The Inventor Cable and Harness environment offers the ability to calculate accurate path lengths, avoid small-radius bends, and help ensure that electrical components fit into the mechanical assembly before manufacturing. Major topics include:

• Introduction to cable and harness functionality
  
• Adding and documenting cable and harness designs
  
• Creating Wire Harness Assemblies
  
• Using the Content Center Library
  
• Adding and importing wires and cables, ribbon cables, and route segments
  
• Editing cable and harness designs
  
• Creating and annotating 2D drawings
  
• Exporting design data
  
• Library and configuration files
  
• Custom Content Center library
  

• Autodesk Inventor Part & Assembly Modeling
• Drawing View Creation & Annotating

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This Advanced Inventor 3 day class introduces students to the core tools in the Autodesk Inventor Tube and Pipe environment. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to design routed elements, including tubing, piping, and flexible hose. Students will learn to maximize specific tools to incorporate tube and pipe runs into digital prototypes. The Autodesk Inventor Tube and Pipe environment provides rules-based routing tools that select the correct fittings and helps the pipe run to comply with your standards for segment length, round-off increments, and bend radius. Major topics include:

• Introduction to the tube and pipe environment
  
• Setting up routes and runs
  
• Placing initial fittings into the tube and pipe design
  
• Creating, editing, and managing routes for rigid pipe, rigid tube, and flexible hose designs
  
• Managing content libraries
  
• Publishing custom content to content libraries
  
• Creating new styles that use custom content
  
• Documenting tube and pipe designs through the creation of 2D drawings and parts lists
  
• Exporting 3D design data
  

• Autodesk Inventor Part & Assembly Modeling
• Drawing View Creation & Annotating

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The Autodesk Inventor Publisher Essentials 1 day class instructs students in best approaches for creating technical documentation using the Autodesk Inventor Publisher software. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to create accurate and compelling documentation, and to publish it in a variety of supported formats. The class progresses from the initial planning phase, in which you begin by reading in all of the source data and then adding the necessary annotations to create and publish the product documentation. Major topics include:

• Overview of the Autodesk Inventor Publisher software
  
• Opening and creating documents
  
• Using the Autodesk Inventor Publisher interface
  
• Pre-planning and outlining projects to meet product documentation requirements
  
• Introduction to Storyboards and Snapshots
  
• Documenting products using Inventor Publisher's unique authoring tools
  
• Creating Animated Presentations
  
• Publishing documents, storyboards and snapshots
  
• Introduction to the Autodesk Inventor Publisher Mobile (IPM) Viewer app
  

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This fundamental training class provides a thorough introduction to Autodesk 3ds Max Design software that will help new users make the most of this sophisticated application, as well as broaden the horizons of existing, self-taught users. The practices in this training guide are geared towards real-world tasks encountered by users of Autodesk 3ds Max Design. Major topics include:

• Introduction to Autodesk 3ds Max Design
  
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design Interface and Workflow
  
• Project Configuration
  
• 3D Modeling with Primitives and 2D Objects
  
• Assembling Files
  
• Materials in Autodesk 3ds Max Design
  
• Autodesk 3ds Max Design Lighting
  
• Lighting with Autodesk 3ds Max Design mental ray
  
• Cameras and Rendering
  
• Animation for Visualization
  

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The Autodesk Navisworks Essentials 4 day class instructs students in best approaches to combine 3D geometry from cross disciplines into one scene to enable effective model reviews. Through a hands-on, practice-intensive curriculum, students acquire the knowledge needed to review and markup models, using TimeLiner, Animator, Scripter, and Presenter, as well as the Clash Detective tools within Autodesk Navisworks. Using the functionality of the Autodesk Navisworks Review, Simulate, and Manage features, students learn how to open, review, and run object-interference checks on 3D models. Students also learn how to link to task-scheduling files and create 4D construction simulations. Using the Animator and Scripter tools, students create interactive animations. In addition, students learn how the Presenter tools can help them create photorealistic images and animations. Major topics include:

• Introduction to Autodesk Navisworks
  
• Opening and appending 3D files of different formats
  
• Saving files in Autodesk Navisworks format
  
• Utilizing external databases when creating links to object property and scheduling files
  
• Review and reporting tools
  
• Checking the validity of construction schedules with Construction Simulations
  
• Use Animator and Scripter to create interactive animations for presentations and demonstrations
  
• Materials, lighting and backgrounds
  
• Interference detection between 3D files of different discipline
  

• 3D design and task-scheduling software.

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• Inventor Sheet Metal interface
  
• Sheet metal design process
  
• Creating base Faces, Contour Flanges, and Contour Rolls
  
• Creating secondary Faces, Contour Flanges, and Contour Rolls
  
• Sheet metal Parameters
  
• Creating Flanges
• Creating Hems, Folds, and Bends
• Corner Rounds and Chamfers
• Sheet Metal Cuts (Holes, Cuts, and Punch Features)
• Corner Seams (Seams and Miters)
• Generating Flat Patterns
• Lofted Flanges
• Rips
• Unfolding and Refolding
• Documentation and Annotation of drawings
• Converting solid model to sheet metal models
• Sheet Metal Styles