In a recent webcast, our Autodesk Virtual Academy session covered Advance Steel and highlighted a number of key features available in the tool. Julio Alfaro (Autodesk Advance Steel Team) took us through some of the functionality and showed a live demonstration of what you can do in the tool. In this post, we will cover […]

Last week, Autodesk released the Inventor 2017 R2 update which includes productivity enhancements voted on by Inventor users worldwide. Over 40 enhancements have been made in sketching, part and assembly modeling, design automation, drawings, interoperability, and presentations to help you get your work done faster and make great products. Today, I’ll show you some of my favorites.

In last week’s webcast, Nigel Ambayec and Joe Mouradian explained the upcoming changes to perpetual licenses that are coming at the end of July. In addition, they provided best practices so you can best prepare for the transition.

This past Autodesk Virtual Academy covered Factory Design utilities and the workflows inside of AutoCAD and Inventor. So we’re going to go over just a few of the highlights from the first half of the session. To find out more you’ll have to check out the video for yourself on the KETIV YouTube channel.

How to find Inventor material properties This post is going take you through and explain how you can find the material properties of a design using the Inventor Region Properties command. Normally, we use the Region Properties tool to evaluate the area, perimeter, and the Area Moment of Inertia properties of sketch loops. It then […]

One of the most common issues we run into here at the KETIV Support desk is how to restore the Vault tab if it goes missing in Inventor. We’ll show you three ways to solve this issue so you can get your Vault tab back.

Users have been calling into KETIV Support with concerns about the update notification they’ve received announcing that Autodesk Application Manager is being replaced by the Autodesk desktop app. So we felt we should address some of these concerns, as well as go over what exactly this new desktop application is.

Every Network License product you own needs it’s own license file and we recently showed you how you can create this file. However, if you have more than one Network License Autodesk product, you’ll need to combine the license files for each of your products into one single license file. Today, we’ll give you some […]

In the past weeks we have covered a lot of info for the new 2017 products such as new features, updating LMTools, and generating new Network License files. Now it’s finally time to go over how to get your hands on the new 2017 software so you can try it out for yourself. To start you […]

With the release of the new 2017 Autodesk products comes a to-do list that needs to be completed before you can finally play around and use your new products. For network license users, this means you’ll need to update your Autodesk Network License Manager (LMTools) and generate a new Network License file. In this post we’ll go over […]