The Autodesk Inventor sketch symbols library has been around in the drawing environment for a while now and it does exactly as you would expect in storing all your drawing symbols. Generally we would create or copy all our required drawing symbols into the sketch symbols folder under drawing resources when creating your drawing template …
When it comes to ensuring your Vault has a reliable backup procedure in place there are many options. With virtualisation of servers it has become easier to backup servers regularly with IT procedures like snapshots of virtual machines. What I want to discuss is backup options and setups using the ADMS (Autodesk Data Management Server) …
Our support team at Man and Machine, occasionally come across Vault issues. One issue which appears sometimes is a ‘greyed out’ or disabled Check In feature on the Vault tab within Inventor. Albeit a small issue, this can be the cause of a greater problem which would need investigating. In this blog, I will explain …
Issue After drawing a model in AutoCAD, the text and dimension text disappears in your Paper space. This can cause a huge issue and will prevent any text or dimensions to be printed or shown in layout views. Sometimes the drawing can appear broken, or the text can be distorted when you zoom in and …
Have you ever tried to find a point exactly midway between two objects or points on your drawing using snap override in AutoCAD? Here is a handy tip to help you do exactly that. When you start a create command to create a new object, hold the shift key down and right click on your …
We recently came across an issue whereby printing an Adobe PDF from Inventor using the Adobe PDF Print option would return a text file error stating ‘No PDF File Produced’ (full error message below). Troubleshooting Within the error message we noted one of the fonts in use in the document. This could indicate that your …
How to quickly activate and deactivate Ortho mode in AutoCAD (Orthographic mode). Ortho mode in AutoCAD can be quickly and easily activated via the status bar on the bottom right corner, but did you know that you can temporarily activate it with a shortcut key, without adjusting the status bar options. When Orthographic mode is …
Our support team have had a number of cases come in where Autodesk Construction Cloud Users were missing key features within the platform, such as being unable to access schedules and mark up tools. This can be due to restrictive IT policies that cause these issues. Below is a list of critical services used by …