Using Dynamic Simulation in Inventor

I’m in the middle of a machine design that the client wants to be all mechanical. Well, they are allowing a couple of limit switches, but other than that, it’s completely mechanical. Three of us here at KETIV are each putting in effort to get this assembly finalized. I am working on the internal mechanism […]
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How to Prevent Your Computer From Automatically Rebooting

The simulation tools offered by Autodesk are comprehensive and will allow you to solve many interesting problems. The solutions to some of these problems sometimes take many hours to solve. One of the barriers to reaching a successful conclusion is the tendency for Windows to restart your computer without checking in with you first. For […]
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No Need to Dumb Down CAD for the Sake of Finite Element Analysis

Automated geometry simplification tools from Autodesk make it easy to allow well documented CAD to be ready for simulation tools. As a design engineer, you are often asked to remove features from your model. I have heard the following reasons: To save disk space To make it easier to display large models To make it […]
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KickStart International and KETIV Partner to Help African Farmers

In 2016, an Autodesk Redshift article written by Ken Micallef, “How KickStart International Is Pumping Up Entrepreneurial Spirit in Africa,” reported, “Although Africa holds more than half of the world’s arable land, its small-scale farmers are largely unaware of, or don’t have access to, modern water-management methods, relying on traditional indicators such as bird migrations or rising insect populations as signals […]
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