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Inventor Tips & Tricks – Updating a Poor Camera Angle in a Presentation File

“Well, that doesn’t look right…” I’ve occasionally said to myself while working on an Inventor Presentation file. I know this probably doesn’t happen to anyone else, but…

Inventor Tips & Tricks - Better Simplify Results when Using Selective Envelopes

Often, we need to create simplified models that can be passed along to Revit, Plant 3D or used as Factory Assets. However, our engineering models are WAY too complicated…

I had a customer recently ask me if there was a way to automatically place components in relevant assembly folders, as they try to keep the assembly browser as organized as possible. Unfortunately, there is no out-of-the-box tool that will…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Manipulating a 3^rdParty Assembly: Part 3 

Conditionally Suppressing Problematic Features

 In this final post of my 3-part mini-series Manipulating a 3rd Party Assembly, I’m following up on the lengthy part manipulation post from last week, where we…

Manipulating a 3^rdParty Assembly: Part 2 

Er, Manipulating a 3rd Party Assembly (as a Part)

In my last post, we walked through the process of converting a STEP assembly into an Inventor part. This consolidates the assembly into a format that can be…