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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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Consolidating License Files for Multiple Products

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 […]
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How to Download Your Autodesk Software

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 […]
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Generating Network License Files – Made Easy

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 […]
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What’s New in Autodesk Inventor 2017 – Roundup

(Find links to all our posts and videos on the new features below) With Autodesk releasing their new line of products there is an abundant number of new features and improvements. It almost seems like there are too many to keep up with and that’s why we at KETIV are striving to keep our customers […]
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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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