Inventor
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Inventor 2014 - Physical iProperty Units
by David Gate
I was asked the other day “how do I change the units of the surface area calculated on the physical pr...
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Inventor Helpful Command Prompts
by David Gate
By default when you are working within an Inventor command, the software will give you prompts on what...
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Adding an Extra Marking Menu in Inventor 2013
by David Gate
Autodesk introduced the Marking Menu to us in Inventor 2012, in 2013 they improved it further to now a...
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How to change the date format in Inventor 2012
By Luke Davenport
Inventor stores various dates (creation date, approved by dates etc) that can be pulled into your ...
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Perspective in Inventor - Quick Tip
If you want to adjust the level of perspective (from plain isometric through to almost fish-eye lens), simply select ...
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Inventor 2015 - (MFG for BIM) Export To Navisworks
by David Gate
When working with 3rd parties, especially in the construction and infrastructure industries passing ov...
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Inventor 2015 - View Representation Assembly Drawing View
by David Gate
When working with assemblies it is often useful to use View Representations to aid your work by hiding...
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Inventor 2014 - Create a Material/Appearance
by David Gate
When working in Inventor there are a large number of materials available. Not only in the Inventor Mat...
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Inventor Bolted Connection Options Greyed Out
by David Gate
The other day I came across a strange issue that ended up having a very simple fix.
I went to place a...
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Inventor 2014 - Metric Punch Tools
by David Gate
Unfortunately the punch tools that come with Inventor are all imperial, but it is really easy to add y...
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Inventor 2014 Assembly - Relationships or Constraints
by David Gate
New Inventor 2014 Tools to display and diagnose the relationships and constraints in an assembly.
T...
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Inventor 2013 - Leader Text Justification
by David Gate
When placing leader text in Inventor drawings they will default to the style and standards you have se...
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Inventor 2013 Center Point of Loop Edges
by David Gate
Autodesk Inventor 2013 has some handy plane and work point creation tools to make your design life eas...
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Display Inventor iProperties as Dual Units with iLogic - Part2
by Clint Brown
Today’s blog is an improvement on some work I did last year (see part1 of this blog)
In some instanc...
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iLogic- Email your Part Files with EOP Rolled up
by Clint Brown
I was recently asked for some help with emailing Inventor Part files for review, and I came up with...
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Inventor iLogic Rule to report Selection Set
by Clint Brown
I wrote a bit of code to help with finding the name of objects in Inventor and I thought I would...
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Inventor Quick Tip - Pack and Go
By Clint Brown
I was again asked how to create a Pack and Go in Inventor, and I thought the easiest way to explain t...
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Inventor 2015 Quick Tip - Import Step Assembly
by David Gate
When importing a Step file into Inventor it is important that you first pick the correct import option...
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Inventor Quick Tip - Joints
by David Gate
The joint command was added to Inventor 2014 and it has been improved even further in 2015.
If you ar...
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Inventor 2014 to Revit Family BIM MEP Connector Tricks
by David Gate
Inventor 2014 introduced the new BIM export tools allowing you to export Revit files from Inventor, if ...
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Inventor 2013 - Content Center Editor Tips
by David Gate
If you have created your own custom content center library then it is likely that you will want to edi...
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Inventor Quick Tip - Assembly Constraint ALT+ Drag
by Clint Brown
Alt + Drag
Here’s another little time saving tip in Inventor assemblies. I learned this one from Chr...
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Inventor 2015 Basics - Rectangular Pattern tips
by Clint Brown
Here’s a quick tip to help new users with rectangular patterns, when trying to follow a pre-defined...
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Inventor 2015 Basics - Logo in your Drawing Template
by Clint Brown
Today’s blog features another Inventor Basics video. In this video, we are going to be looking at add...
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Inventor 2014 - Demystifying Self-intersecting Sweeps
by Clint Brown
I was going to do a blog post explaining the new self-intersecting sweeps in Autodesk Inven...
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Inventor GOST Russian Parts List
A common support call issue that is really easy to fix is the Russian parts list conundrum. When I had this occur to ...
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Inventor 2013 - 3D Sketch Auto-Bend
by David Gate
When 3D Sketching in Inventor you have the ability to turn on Auto-Bend. This is available through the...
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Geometry Text Tools in Inventor 2013
by David Gate
The normal text tool within Inventor allows you to add text into a sketch but it only allows you to ad...
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Change Autodesk Inventor Units
by Clint Brown
A common question that I come across is; "How do I change Inventor's units" the answer is quite strai...
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View Inventor Files on Web and Mobile Devices
by Clint Brown
I've had several people ask what the best way to view Inventor Models on iPads iPhones and Android de...