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Join KETIV at Autodesk University 2026!
Sep 15, 2026We’re excited to be at AU 2026!
Hear how our partnering companies and fellow customers are planning for the future, applying the latest technologies, and building stronger American manufacturing together!
Tiffany Hayden, Application Developer at KETIV Learn from KETIV’s Tiffany Hayden
📍 MFG1906: Vaultify your Inventor Add-In Tue, Sept 15th, 11:30-12:00 pm PDT | Veronese 2503 – L2
📍 MFG2514: iLogic in Practice: A Panel of Experts on Rule Management and Automation Excellence
Thurs, Sept 17th, 10:00-11:00 am PDT | Lido 3103, L3Will you be at AU 2026?
If you are onsite and want to connect with KETIV leadership, just fill out our form and let us know!
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From Idea to Market Faster with the Autodesk Fusion Manage NPI Accelerator
Oct 01, 2026New product introduction rarely gets delayed by engineering work alone. Teams also lose time searching for the right information, waiting on approvals, validating BOMs, reconciling different versions of product data, and bringing manufacturing, quality, and sourcing into the process too late.
In this session, we’ll look at how the Autodesk Fusion Manage NPI Accelerator helps manufacturers reduce that overhead and move new products from idea to market faster.
You’ll see how Fusion Manage supports concurrent engineering so work can continue while reviews and approvals are underway, automates common checks around BOMs and product data, and gives cross-functional teams earlier visibility into the information that affects cost, quality, sourcing, and manufacturability. The goal is to catch problems while changes are still relatively easy to make rather than after designs have moved downstream.
What we’ll cover:
- Where unnecessary delays enter the NPI process
- Using concurrent engineering to reduce approval bottlenecks
- Automating BOM validation, data completeness, and part-reuse checks
- Giving manufacturing, quality, and sourcing earlier visibility into product decisions
- How the Fusion Manage NPI Accelerator can be configured around your organization’s NPI process
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Building the Digital Thread with PLM
Oct 15, 2026Product information rarely lives in one place. Design files sit in CAD and PDM, requirements may live somewhere else, manufacturing depends on ERP, and quality and service teams generate their own records. The result is often a fragmented history of the product rather than a connected one.
In this KETIV Virtual Academy session, we’ll explain the idea behind the digital thread and how PLM provides the structure needed to connect product information across its lifecycle.
You’ll see how a connected digital thread can trace information from requirements and design through bills of materials, manufacturing, quality, and service. We’ll also look at why that traceability matters when investigating field failures, managing compliance, or simply making decisions with a more complete view of the product.
Finally, we’ll explore the role Autodesk Fusion Manage can play as the PLM backbone connecting these processes and information sources.
- What a digital thread actually means
- Where product information becomes disconnected
- Connecting requirements, CAD, BOMs, manufacturing, quality, and service data
- Using traceability to improve root-cause analysis and compliance
- The role of PLM in creating and maintaining the digital thread
- How Autodesk Fusion Manage connects product data across the lifecycle
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Using Inheritance in Autodesk Inventor Automation
Oct 08, 2026
As Inventor automation projects become more sophisticated, organizing your code effectively becomes increasingly important. Inheritance provides a way to share common functionality across related classes without recreating the same properties and methods every time.In this Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy session, we’ll build on the object-oriented programming concepts introduced earlier in the series and explore how inheritance can be applied within an Inventor add-in.
You’ll learn how parent and child classes work, how child classes can inherit and extend common functionality, and when inheritance can help reduce repetitive code. We’ll then put these concepts into practice using the engine example from the Automation Academy, including an approach for simplifying how user parameters are updated.
- How inheritance works in object-oriented programming
- The roles of parent and child classes
- How classes can share common properties and methods
- How child classes can extend or override inherited functionality
- How to structure inheritance within an Inventor add-in
- How inheritance can simplify repetitive tasks such as updating user parameters
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Understanding the Autodesk Inventor API Object Model
Sep 24, 2026
Building more advanced Inventor automation requires more than knowing how to write the code. You also need to understand the objects you’re working with and how they relate to one another inside Inventor.In this Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy session, we take a closer look at the Inventor API Object Model and some of the concepts you’ll encounter when developing more sophisticated automation.
You’ll explore component occurrences, component definitions, documents, proxies, and the relationships between them. Understanding these distinctions can make it easier to navigate the API, troubleshoot your applications, and build a stronger foundation for more advanced automation projects.
- How the Inventor API Object Model is structured
- The relationship between documents, definitions, and occurrences
- How component occurrences differ from component definitions
- Why proxies are needed and how they fit into the Object Model
- How understanding object relationships helps with more advanced Inventor automation
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Automating Assembly Configuration in Autodesk Inventor
Sep 10, 2026
Take the next step in the Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy by bringing individual automation techniques together into an assembly configuration workflow.In this session, you’ll see how an Inventor add-in can take inputs from a user and use them to build a configured assembly. We’ll work with a library of components, copy and place the appropriate assets, push parameters into parts and subassemblies, and call existing iLogic rules from an add-in.
The example provides a practical foundation for understanding how these techniques can be combined and expanded into more sophisticated product and assembly configuration workflows.
- How to build an assembly based on user inputs
- Working with libraries of configurable components
- Copying and placing components through automation
- Passing parameters into parts and subassemblies
- Calling iLogic rules from an Inventor add-in
- How these techniques can scale into larger configuration workflows
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The AI Shift in Engineering Is Already Here
Jun 26, 2026AI is no longer a future concept for manufacturing. It is actively reshaping how engineering teams design products, manage data, automate workflows, and scale operations. In this webinar, we’ll explore how AI is already driving measurable impact across engineering organizations and why manufacturing leaders must prepare their data, systems, and processes now to stay competitive.
From AI-assisted CAD workflows and design automation to intelligent data retrieval and compliance support, this session will break down where AI is creating real business value today. We’ll also discuss the critical foundation required for AI success, including structured product data, governance, engineering change management, and establishing a connected digital thread across your engineering systems.
Agenda
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- Why AI adoption is accelerating across manufacturing
- Real business impact and measurable ROI from AI initiatives
- The importance of structured engineering data and governance
- AI use cases across design, data management, automation, compliance, and production
- Building the digital thread for AI readiness
- How to prepare for AI adoption
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Engineering Paradigm Shift: The New Autodesk Assistant AI
Jul 02, 2026AI is no longer a future concept in engineering software. It’s becoming part of the everyday workflow inside the tools engineering teams already use. In this KETIV Virtual Academy session, we’ll explore how Autodesk Assistant is reshaping design, data management, and manufacturing workflows across Inventor, Vault, and Fusion 2027.
See how natural-language interaction is changing the way engineers work by reducing repetitive tasks, accelerating onboarding, simplifying automation, and helping teams move from concept to production faster. We’ll walk through real examples, live demonstrations, and practical next steps your organization can take to prepare for AI-enabled engineering workflows.
Agenda
- Autodesk AI in 2027: What’s new across Autodesk Inventor, Vault, & Fusion
- Live demonstrations
- Your AI action plan
- Phased next steps for engineering organizations
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What’s New in Autodesk Fusion
May 28, 2026This webinar will cover new enhancements to design, assemblies, modeling workflows, drawings, data management, and overall usability improvements designed to streamline product development. We’ll also take a closer look at the new Autodesk Agent integration and how AI-powered assistance inside Fusion can help accelerate workflows, improve productivity, and simplify everyday design tasks.
- Welcome and overview of the April 2026 Autodesk Fusion update
- What’s New in Fusion
- Assembly and modeling workflow improvements
- Drawing and data management enhancements
- Usability and productivity updates
- Autodesk Agent Integration
- Overview of AI-powered assistance
- Example workflows and productivity benefits
- Demo
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Automating Dimensions in Autodesk Inventor
Jul 23, 2026Dimensioning can quickly become one of the most repetitive and time-consuming parts of the drawing creation process. In this 7th session of Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy, we’ll combine two advanced automation workflows into one practical walkthrough focused on automating dimensions inside Inventor drawings.You’ll learn how to place dimensions by working directly with drawing geometry and curves, then expand into more advanced techniques using attributes and intelligent selection logic to target the exact entities you want. Instead of hard-coding every edge or manually selecting geometry, we’ll explore scalable approaches that make drawing automation more flexible, reusable, and production-ready.
Whether you’re building Inventor add-ins, experimenting with iLogic, or trying to reduce drawing cleanup time, this session will help you better understand how dimension automation actually works behind the scenes.
Our agenda:
- Automating dimensions from drawing geometry
- Working with drawing curves and view data
- Selecting geometry intelligently without manual picking
- Using attributes to identify and target entities
- Building more scalable and reusable drawing automation workflows
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Drawing Automation in Autodesk Inventor
Jul 16, 2026Drawings are often where engineering automation efforts slow down. Manual view placement, repetitive notes, title block updates, balloons, parts lists, and sketch cleanup can consume hours across every project. In this 6th session of Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy, we’ll bring together multiple drawing automation workflows into a single practical session focused on eliminating repetitive drafting tasks with the Inventor API and iLogic.You’ll see how to automate the creation and management of drawing views, annotations, title blocks, tables, hatching, balloons, sketches, and documentation standards directly inside Autodesk Inventor. Whether you’re building internal automation tools or looking to standardize outputs across engineering teams, this session will help you understand how drawing automation fits into a larger design automation strategy.
Our agenda:
- Automating Drawing View Creation
- Working with Title Blocks and Drawing Standards
- Automating Notes, Balloons, and Parts Lists
- Managing Tables and Drawing Data
- Sketches, Hatching, and Draft View Automation
- Structuring Reusable Drawing Automation Workflows
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Component Placement & Attributes in the Autodesk Inventor API
Jul 09, 2026As your Autodesk Inventor automation projects grow, understanding how to intelligently place components and persist data becomes critical. In this 5th session of Autodesk Inventor Automation Academy, we combine two foundational API topics into one session.You’ll learn how to programmatically place and orient components inside assemblies using the Inventor API, then take it a step further by storing persistent metadata using attributes. From translation and rotation matrices to reading and writing attributes that survive between sessions, this session helps bridge the gap between simple automation scripts and scalable automation architecture.
Whether you’re building configurators, guided assembly workflows, or custom Inventor add-ins, these concepts are core building blocks for creating smarter automation tools.
Our agenda:
- Programmatically Place Components in Assemblies
- Working with Rotation & Translation Matrices
- Assembly Component Definitions & Occurrences
- Reading & Writing Inventor Attributes
Using Attributes for Persistent Data Storage - Named Entities & Attribute Relationships
- Real-World API Workflow Examples
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