I ran into a recent support case where a user was unable to see a Cable & Harness design in one of their drawing views. Thankfully, this is a pretty easy fix that can come in handy for a variety of scenarios, as we’ll see below. For those who are…
Inventor Tutorial: How to Publish Content Center Families with Numeric Controls from an iPart Table
Now that Autodesk University 2019 (AU) is all wrapped up, I am able to take a breather and get caught up on all my other CAD pursuits. AU was a great time where I met some amazing people, witnessed some powerful technologies and got to present…
Set Area Base Units
How to Set a Components Base Unit to Utilize Area Unit. When designing components and organizing an assembly’s BOM, users will often set their base units either to a value of Each (like if someone has 10 apples) or a length value (like 10 in).…
Save Time by Customizing the Marking Menu
In my last post, I showed how to more quickly access and create geometric constraints in an Inventor sketch by using an alternate Marking Menu (access by holding down the CTRL key + Right – Clicking on the mouse). This post will highlight an even…
Using External Rules
For this week’s topic I want to discuss why we would want to use external ilogic rules vs just putting the rules locally inside of the file. The simple answer to that is for flexibility of running something that is not needed on every file, or a…
Save Time by Accessing Geometric Constraints with the Alternate Marking Menu
Been a doozy of the past 6 weeks, so sorry for the delay in getting a new post out to everyone, but we’ve got a powerful quick hitter today! One of the primary tasks when modeling in a 3D CAD software is actually building and controlling a 2D…
Inventor Tips & Tricks – How to Modify a Shrinkwrap and Shrinkwrap Substitute
The Shrinkwrap tool enhancements that were released in the 2018 version of Inventor were some of the best tools that have ever come out in Inventor, in my opinion. Controlling the outcome has never been easier and the ability to specify individual…
Using iLogic to enforce Standards
This week I want to talk about how we can use iLogic to enforce Company Standards. Today’s scenario comes from a customer that wants to be able to push data from their inventor properties to an ERP system, but there is a character limit when…
Using Parameters in your iProperties Part II
Continuing from last weeks topic, this week we want to look at using the flat pattern extents from a sheet metal part in our iProperties. For this scenario we want to be able to put the extents in our Stock Number iProperty to be able to show what…
Using Parameters in your iProperties - Part I
Part of my job involves tech support, so if you’ve called D3 for support, there’s a chance you may have talked to me before. And this is where I’ve pulled this blog topic from for today.
