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What is Advance Steel?
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 […]
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What’s New in Inventor 2017 R2
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.
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Recap: In-House Vault Care Workshop 7/28
Yesterday, KETIV Technologies hosted its first Autodesk Virtual Academy Double-Header. Aside from our normal weekly webcast at 10 am, we also hosted a special in-house workshop for a large group of local customers and AVA subscribers. The in-person event reviewed the capabilities of Autodesk’s PDM software, Autodesk Vault, as well as how to maintain your […]
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In-Person Vault Care Workshop Event
We have answers to all your Autodesk Vault questions. Whether it’s a simple question or a technical question particular to your organizational setup, we can answer it all at our special in-person Autodesk Virtual Academy workshop here at our Brea, CA offices.
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Upcoming Autodesk License Changes
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.
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Autodesk Virtual Academy: Factory Design Utilities
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.
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KETIV Training Services: Keep Learning & Advancing
Change is a fact of life in manufacturing today. Systems, methods, and processes are evolving every year, making new efficiencies possible and giving us new, more agile approaches to production. That’s good news for the industry overall, but it means that you need to keep learning to stay competitive. At KETIV, we make that kind […]
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What’s New in Fusion 360
When Autodesk created Fusion 360, they planned it a bit different then their other products. Instead of coming out with a yearly version they promised to continually update it so that everyone will always have the latest version. Well, Autodesk continues to hold up that promise as they just released a large update. Check out […]
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KETIV Meetup: Welcome to Fusion 360
Hello everyone! It’s time for another Fusion 360 Meetup. This month, KETIV is partnering with the Autodesk Fusion 360 Team in order to bring this to reality. Join the Los Angeles Fusion 360 Meetup group, where you’ll join engineers, designers, makers, startups, students and like-minded design experts in conversation about building great products. When: Tuesday, June […]
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How to Find Materials using Inventor Region Properties
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 […]
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Autodesk Future of Making Digital Conference
The Era of Connection will require you to change the way you design, manufacture, and build. Learn how others are capitalizing on new, disruptive technologies to outperform the competition.
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Restore a Missing Vault Tab in Inventor
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.
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KETIV Welcomes CAD Tech Solutions Customers
CAD Tech Solutions has chosen KETIV Technologies to take over providing their former customers with Autodesk software licensing, consulting, training, and support services. “After extensive research of all Autodesk partners, we selected KETIV due to its proven expertise in successfully implementing Autodesk solutions and their strong reputation of achieving customer success,” said Robert Gonzalez, Owner […]
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Introducing Autodesk Industry Collections
The way you design and build is changing rapidly, which also changes the tools you use and the ways companies and individuals buy and access software. Autodesk is introducing Industry Collections as a way of delivering on their promise to offer greater value, more flexibility, and a simplified customer experience. Autodesk Industry Collections will offer […]
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New Autodesk Desktop App
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.
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Quick tech tips
AutoCAD Electrical Bill of Materials Report Says “No Data to Display”
Discover the solution to address the "No Data to Display" issue in the AutoCAD Electrical Bill of Materials Report. This report specifically showcases components that have been assigned catalog data. If you encounter the absence of data, follow these steps to resolve the issue...
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How to Make a Previous File Version the Latest Version in Vault Professional
Learn how to make a previous file version, the latest version of Vault Professional. Get the steps and watch the video here.
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