Inventor

Inventor Publisher 2013 – Working With Large Assemblies
by Luke Davenport We have several customers working with large (>100 Mb) assemblies in Inventor Publisher. Occasiona...
Autodesk Inventor 2013 – Assembly Internal Volume
by Luke Davenport A nice little tip for you here – a simple way to find the internal fluid volume of any assembly in...
Inventor 2012 - Prevent Blurred Edges in Shaded Drawing Views
By Luke Davenport Inventor employs a number of memory-saving tricks in drawing files to enable users to work as fast...
Inventor 2015 – Tube & Pipe Section Views
By Kim Hyde I have recently received a couple of support calls regarding creating section drawings from Inventor des...
Inventor Basics - Quick Tip - Lines & Arcs
by David Gate A really nice little tip that I always give to my new users is the classic lines and arcs trick. Many ...
Inventor Quick Tip - Place iLogic Component
by David Gate When creating assemblies in Inventor, you often want/need to create slight variations on the component...
Inventor Basics - Copy and Paste Features
by David Gate When creating features in Inventor you have the option to pattern them. This is ideal if you want dupl...
Autodesk Inventor - iLogic – Auto Update Virtual Part QTY in Assembly
by Luke Davenport Hi comrades,   Virtual parts in Inventor – they're very useful in cases where you don't need t...
Convert Image to DWG and Extrude in Inventor 2014 & Raster Design
by Luke Davenport      Interesting one this… How can I bring an image file into Inventor and extrude it? You...
Import STEP Sheet Metal Files Into Inventor 2014
by Luke Davenport   Problem: You are opening STEP files in Inventor and converting them to sheet metal parts, but...
Inventor 2014 - Copy Components with Constraints
by Luke Davenport Hello again, A quick post this time. You may have read somewhere that you can now copy and paste ...
Inventor 2014 - Extend Or Contract Solid Bodies
by Luke Davenport Editing solids within Inventor? My old grandpappy always used to tell me – "dumb solid editing ...
Inventor 2014 iLogic - Scale Entire Inventor Part
by Luke Davenport Hello friends, How do you scale an Inventor part while keeping all its sketches, work geometry ...
Inventor 2014 - View Representations with iLogic – Part 2 – Update
by Luke Davenport Welcome back! This is Part 2 of my 3 part Blog on iLogic View Representations! Question: Can yo...
iPart Error in Inventor 2013 - Break Link
By Luke Davenport Just a quick heads up for you guys - on more than one occasion we've had a customer having errors ...
Inventor 2015 - Locks Up After Starting
by David Gate One of our customers recently had an issue with Inventor 2015, I thought I would share the solution in...
Inventor BIM Export Properties
by David Gate I have previously posted a number of BIM export blogs with tips and tricks in. One which advises on ad...
Inventor Section Views - Display standard content
by David Gate Simple tip and trick for you today. Modelling using Content Centre components, Inventor’s Frame Gener...
Inventor Drawing When A Balloon Becomes a Label
by David Gate When doing an assembly drawing many people will be familiar with the parts list and balloons. By defau...
Inventor Drawing Balloon Tip – Not Updating?
by David Gate The way balloons work in Inventor is really handy. If you ever reposition the leader arrow onto anothe...
Inventor Drawing Leader Tips
by David Gate Please find below a few simple tips for changing your text or balloon leaders in Inventor Drawings. In...
Inventor 2014 - Revit BIM Export Properties
When exporting BIM models from Inventor there are a few properties which are created automatically.   These are f...
iLogic for Flat Pattern Features in Inventor 2014
by Luke Davenport Not a common request this, but an interesting one perhaps you agree.  Can you control the suppres...
Inventor 2013 Stress Analysis - Run Multiple Simulation
By Luke Davenport Inventor Optimization technology allows you to solve multiple simulations simultaneously (...
Autodesk Inventor 2013 - Eliminate Duplicate Filenames
By Luke Davenport Continuing our series of very useful/often overlooked Inventor tips: If you are trying to move fro...
Losing your Inventor 2012 Keyboard Shortcuts?
By Luke Davenport I think any veteran Inventor user will have made some of their own shortcuts or ribbon changes and...
Inventor 2015 - Vault Quick Tip - Creating a Drawing
by David Gate Inventor and Vault work really nicely together and hopefully you have some already robust practices in...
Inventor 2015 - Simple iLogic Configurator
 by David Gate When working in Inventor many of our clients produce products that have and offer many variants. Ofte...
Inventor Basics - Assembly Browser Folders
by David Gate When working with larger assemblies your assembly browser can often become a very large unmanageable l...
Inventor Change Centre of Rotation
simple tip and trick which is often over looked or unknown for those of us who don’t use. When rotating a model/asse...