While running Inventor, you select a new file to open and a complete new instance of Inventor appears and runs. I have seen this problem occur a couple of times now, so I am writing to explain the solution and how to get around it. You will need to amend the Registry Keys to get …
After installing an Add In for a version of Inventor, you may find the tabs at the top of Inventor do not show anything, and the Add In is now missing. This can occur for a number of reasons. For the first example I am going to choose Vault. When installing a client version for …
With the release of Inventor 2020, Autodesk has introduced a new unwrap feature. To some designers this probably won’t be all that useful but to manufacturers of composite materials that in the past had to use 3rd party methods for creating flat patterns, you will love this one! The unwrap tool is located on the create …
Many Architects are leveraging tools such as Rhino or Catia for their surfacing capability, but wanting to take that data across to Autodesk Revit to integrate into their BIM Authoring Environment. Traditionally, this can be a painful and manual process, but there are ways of getting a good quality, and smooth representation of aesthetically pleasing …
Using parametrics in Inventor to define your model can not only save you time and money down the track, but also open up new pathways to design optimisation and configuration. If you are not yet using parameters and would like to see how they can be better leveraged, read on. What are parameters?When we are defining …
Lately, a series of Windows updates have knocked out Inventor’s threading tool, disabling the use of threading, some holes and tables. Here’s a quick guide for fixing the threading tool. Solution 1: Fixing the Registry 1. Close all Autodesk products.2. Click the start menu, type in “Regedit” and hit enter.3. In the registry tree, locate …
A customer called in earlier this week wanting to link Autodesk Inventor with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. In other words, driving the value of a dimension inside of Inventor with a value from an Excel sheet. There are 2 possibilities here, using either a direct link with Excel between files or using iLogic. In this …
IntroductionInventor’s Frame Generator excels at producing a frame model quickly and easily. However, while it will happily produce a Bill of Materials (BOM) for the frame, it will not be optimal by default – the total length of unique segments (rather than unit lengths and quantities) will be written, and it will omit end treatments …