Doing It’s Part – Inventor Part Modeling 2018
Inventor Part Modeling 2018 got a whole bunch of loving, building on Inventor’s breadth of modeling capabilities. Mike is back with a tour around what’s new.
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Category: Parts
Autodesk Inventor 2016 Now Uses AnyCAD format
Well, well, well, Autodesk have really stepped up to the plate with this new feature. Multi-CAD… Sound familiar? PTC served up their version last year. Have Autodesk taken it further? Is it a truly useful workflow? What about improving the DWG import performance? Are all questions you may be asking.
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Ahhh, sketching – the Foundation of Any 3D Parametric Model
Sketching is not always the most exciting part of creating your models but it is so important to robust models. Here are many tips, tricks, and time-savers that I have collected over the years…. tips that will make you more productive and get you building more robust models.
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Free your forms with Autodesk Inventor 2015
In this episode of our Inventor 2015 Deep Dive Series, Gavin takes us through the new Direct Edit and Freeform t-splines features, and provides insight into some potential new workflows.
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Could Solidworks Teach Inventor a thing or two about modelling augers and feedscrews?
Solidworks has a solid-sweep function that Inventor doesn’t have. But does Inventor actually...
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Inventor | Driving Constraints From Workplanes
I didn’t realise until today that you can’t flip a work plane’s normal in an...
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Inventor | Reusing Sketch Geometry
Have you ever wondered if you can reuse sketch geometry and maintain associativity to a base set of parameters or driving geometry? You can with Autodesk Inventor’s Sketch Blocks
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Inventor | Setting up a sketch text style
Scott offers up a will hidden productivity tip when creating sketch text in a part file. Its especially useful if you are placing the text for CNC engraving.
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Inventor | Multi-body naming prefix tip
Scott’s first post on D&M since the birth of his son details a small time saver when it comes to publishing parts using the multi body modelling technique. Hopefully the post frequency will start to pick up again.
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Inventor | Creating CNC cut files from your Inventor Models – Part 2
For the second part in this series I have a couple of...
Read MoreInventor | The dreaded ‘Use Color Override from source component’ annoyance.
Scott brings us a solution to the color override bug, with some some code he wrangled from the folks at Autodesk. Check it out.
Read MoreInventor – Derived Solids pass on thread data
Derived Solid components leave behind their feature identifications. Remember the thread data still passes through.
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