AutoCAD continues to innovate with its latest 2022 release by emphasizing collaborative and automatic workflows that let you work with more people, from more places, with fewer errors. New feature commands like Trace and Share allows users to collaborate and review.  Similarly, the improved web and mobile app integration allows AutoCAD 2022 to be accessible […]

Finding the mass and volume of a solid part is relatively easy in Inventor, as it is in any parametric modeler.  However, it is not as intuitive to find the volume or mass of an internal volume as one would need to do when designing enclosures or preparing models for CFD analysis.  In this blog […]

Introduction Content Center allows users to develop their own standard family of parts. During the publishing process, you will likely need to manage the properties of your custom content center families. Depending on what type of property you need, the process will differ accordingly. That said, there are three workflows which we will discuss today: […]

To work properly from home, there are a few facets of everyday office tool collaboration that we must maintain. It once was a matter of walking over to your coworker’s cubicle to check your findings or schedule a meeting. Nowadays, working from home means you must come to terms with the variety of technology and […]

Remote work is becoming the norm in many industries. However, working from home may present some unique challenges to your current workflow. How does a decentralized company retain their engineer’s access to their software tools? How do engineers stay connected to on-site design data? And of course, how do you promote effective collaboration with your […]

Inventor Tips: How to update Your Snapshot views in your Presentation Files Problem: This is one of your first attempts at using the presentation environment inside of Inventor.  You would love nothing more than to have a view you explode to feature on the next IDW that you send down to manufacturing.  However, there is […]

The basic tips for making holes in the sheet metal in Inventor The problem of holes made in flat pattern and folded model: You have a curved surface on a sheet metal in Inventor that you would like to punch perpendicular holes into.  You attempt to make the holes in the flat pattern. However, they […]