With the release of Autodesk Inventor 2023, we have a clean new home screen which looks great. Unfortunately, this means we have lost some buttons, one of the victims is the little cog which sets your default templates. In all fairness, once you have set this you don’t need to change it too frequently. …
The Product Design Extension is aimed at making the design process easier and more intuitive. This new addition to Fusion Extensions offers some very handy tools including Boss Creation, Geometric Patterns, and Plastic Rules to name a few. The new tools are mostly focused on the manufacturing of plastic parts, and are therefore found in …
With Autodesk’s transition to Named User licensing every individual user of the software will need to have an Autodesk account in their name. This makes license management a lot easier than finding a computer name and tracking generic serial numbers across your company. However, this has left a gap for individuals who previously had temporary …
Machining parts from multiple angles is key to most CAM processes. Sometimes (pretty much always) you want to be able to see how much stock is left after you’ve run a few toolpaths through. Maybe even in a separate part. In this blog I will take you through a few ways that we can reuse …
We all have a moment that we can think back to when Augmented Reality blew our minds, whether it be from movies, books, or games. I have always dreamed of a time when I could create something digitally and be able to interact with it in the real world. Though we have been able to …
Many of you will be familiar with Fusion 360’s Manufacturing workspace and its ability to push out scripts for CNC machining, or Subtractive Machining. Fusion also has the functionality for Additive Manufacturing or 3D Printing, and in this article, we are going to explore a quick overview of the extension as well as basic tips …
VRED allows you to import a wide range of file formats, from Autodesk programs such as Inventor’s Assemblies, Maya Files, to Sketchup files, as well the universal STEP files. Below are a few other file types that can be used. Before you import your file though, you will want to get your environment set up …
If you have just installed a new version of Inventor, or perhaps you have installed Inventor CAM and found that the add in is missing. This can be caused by a few different factors, and in this blog, I would like to take you through a few tips to resolve this. The first reason may …