I recently came across a case where one of our clients was experiencing an issue inserting a frame member into their assembly in Inventor. They had been using the Frame Generator for quite some time but had not experienced like this before. When trying to insert the frame onto their drawing, they selected the lines …
Blocks with attributes can be very useful but quite often the attributes will appear on the Attribute Editor in a random order, usually the order they were created in. In my example below I have a block with six invisible attributes, these attributes do not appear to be in a logical order. To re-organize and …
The Issue You may have encountered a bit of a mystery error in Autodesk Inventor CAM when using the 2D Milling Thread or Circular strategies. This only happens when selecting an external face of a cylinder as geometry for one of these toolpaths. The same setup that will work on an internal hole face will …
Didn’t you ever think it’d be great to create a grate? Maybe throw in some diamond plate? Well this isn’t clickbait; this spate will help you navigate textures in Autodesk Inventor, so you can generate great and computationally lightweight grates, plates and gates! Beautiful poetry aside, it is easy to create and apply complex colours …
In the world of engineering, 2D drawings have traditionally been our tool for sharing designs. However, with the advent of 3D modelling, the 2D drawing paradigm is starting to show its age; is there perhaps a better alternative? Model-Based Definitions In my ideal world, we wouldn’t have 2D drawings at all – we’d simply have …
Autodesk’s Product Design and Manufacturing Collection (PDMC) now comes with an embedded nesting utility for Inventor, and it’s fantastic. Part of the economy of sheet metal manufacturing comes from the ability to cut component parts out of a single sheet of… well, sheet metal. In order to minimise wastage, it is important to maximise the …
Why do we bother with 3D models? Didn’t we get to the moon just fine with 2D drawings? The truth is that 3D models have so much more to offer than pretty visuals. Read on to discover the great things that become possible when working in the third dimension! In a Nutshell By using 3D …
A few years ago, Autodesk greatly improved the interoperability between Inventor and AutoCAD by allowing them to open each other’s drawings. Traditionally, this meant the IDW and DWG formats respectively. Soon, it became possible to save Inventor drawings in the DWG format. However, confusion arose as ‘Inventor DWGs’ were not the same format as ‘AutoCAD …