Scott Moyse takes a look at why Autodesk are concurrently developing two Design Review applications for the Cloud & Mobile computing. ...Read the rest of this article...
Collaboration | AutoCAD WS vs Design Review Part 1
Labs | Civil 3D Point Cloud Feature Extraction Tech Preview
Today, February 1st, 2011, they released another technology test bed for the area I have been insisting needed a lot of love: Point Cloud Feature Extraction. ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Quick Edit with Work Features via Derived Component
I needed a threaded hole for a drive shaft in the top plate of my carrier assembly, and was using it to show how well Update works in Autodesk Inventor Publisher now. I thought it would be nice to show you just how fast Autodesk Inventor Derived Components can make annoyances like having to return to edit Assembly components, simply evaporate. Everything in the entire design was established using a base skeleton to get a [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor | The Zen of Design Intent
I have jumped into the Design Intent conversation. Read why a model should be more than 'just a model'. ...Read the rest of this article...
Publisher – 5 cool features
A quick look at some of Publisher's capabilities ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Plane Origin Tip
Sometimes the part Origin planes are the best bet for defining key components in the design. Work Features like Planes are the most stable portion of the Inventor Model. However history based modeling causes us to create a strategy for when things go wrong. In this model I need a plane above and below the highlighted plane. It would seem reasonable that I would come from that mid plane, and it would be easiest, and [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Garin’s hole article
I was going through my RSS feeds, that are backlogged, and I ran across Garin Gardiner’s page again. Sometimes they have him so busy that he cannot update his page often, but when he does, there is usually something interesting in there. This time Garin’s decided to find a way to use a sledge hammer to drive a thumb tack. Why not? I guess I do it all the time. Get your sledge hammer ready. [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Projected Geometry and Converging Edges
In the last post we discussed sketched features that rely on projected geometry from features that are not orthogonal to the sketch plane. Similar errors occur when the face of an object’s angular relationship merger with another. Kind of like collapsing bleachers. The results vary depending on how clean the application, and how careful the planning. What I was doing The intent was to create a pocket whose angular relationship to the surrounding features is [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Inventor – Match Shape and Open Profiles
The Match Shape, and conversely the Match Contour option is available in the Extrude and Revolve Features. These are not rocket science options, but do occasionally present confusion, either by the situation they are used with, or by the Inventor help available. When an Extrude feature is created, it expects a closed loop profile, from which it will add a feature perpendicular to the plane the profile lies on. Alternately, an open profile can be [...] ...Read the rest of this article...
Civil 3D – Part Builder Part 2
Today we continue from where we left off in Part Builder Part 1. Before we proceed, I’d like to note that a wing wall may not be everyone’s biggest desire. I needed it, and I felt that it would proved a fairly well rounded view of things. It needs equations, and gets worked laterally instead of vertically, which make it more of a challenge. Sitting on the axis of 2 different careers I can see [...] ...Read the rest of this article...