Using Fusion 360 with a separate document management system

[aberickson]

The company that I work for has around four people who work on Fusion 360 drawings.  The amount of ongoing Fusion work ebbs and flows depending on specific projects.   

Normally, we store all of our technical drawings and documents in a separate document management system.   Files need to be manually checked in and out of this system.   We had been exporting files in a .step format and storing them in the system, but the problem I'm running into is that some of the assemblies share common components; and so when a component gets changed I have to update each step file.    Inventor seems to handle this much better with the use of the .iam and .ipt files, but I was wondering if Fusion Team would provide a better method of getting components in and out of Fusion and allow us to use our document management system.   I realize keeping it all in Fusion may be preferred, but we like to have it all in our management system so we know where everything is instead of this is over here and this is over there.

Thanks.

[saito.kh]

Hi @aberickson ,

Thank you for posting in the community!

To get a better understanding, I would appreciate if you shared a bit more information about this.

When you said "if Fusion Team would provide a better method of getting components in and out of Fusion", does this mean an automating of the process to export in STEP?  or you would like to update Fusion files on Fusion Team?

Please keep me updated.  If you have any questions, please let me know!

Thanks.

[aberickson]

Either automating the process of getting the steps out or having a better method of getting them out or changed to a different format.   Part of the reason I was asking about Fusion Team was that I came across it in reference to sharing Inventor .iam and .ipt files.    Is there a good overview on how Fusion Team works?   I've used the folder sharing capability of Fusion but this seems like an akward way of sharing things.

[saito.kh]

Hi @aberickson ,

Thank you for your update!

I imagine Forge may be able to help the process: Data Management API .  I will check with my colleagues if there is more information about this.

Regarding an overview of Fusion Team, have you checked the online help?  Hopefully this helps.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thanks.