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Automatic Material Thickness Detection in Sheet Metal – New in Autodesk Inventor 2016
In short, when converting a model to sheet metal, Inventor 2016 automatically detects the material thickness, versus the “measure and copy” method of previous Inventor versions. Check at the bottom of this post for the video version of this blog, or just keep on reading for the text version! The process starts out with a […]
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Welcome to Our Blog – Side Note
With over thirty years behind us, we can’t help but have an opinion every once in a while. We thought it was time to share it with you and we want you to give us yours. We’ll be talking about the latest industry trends, tips and tricks, and best practices for the mechanical design and engineering community […]
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NEW! Transparent Parts in Inventor 2016 Drawings
For my post today, I thought I’d delve into creating transparent parts in a drawing.
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Using Inventor’s End of Part Marker to “Compress” a File
Here’s how I came up with using Inventor’s End of Part Market to “Compress” a file. A while ago, I was conducting some basic benchmarks for extruded text versus sketched text in an Autodesk Inventor part model, and I was getting ready to e-mail them out for some testing on external systems. First, what […]
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A Trick to Attach Text to an Inventor Drawing View
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work inside of Inventor drawings. During that time, I was asked how to make sure that all my text and symbols will move with a view. If you’ve used Inventor for a while, you may have noticed that if you put in a text or symbols next to […]
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Capture Autodesk Inventor Version in an iProperty with iLogic
Howdy! This is Jonathan Kriek for KETIV. I work daily with customers to help them achieve their goals within the PDM, PLM, and automation spaces. A particular passion of mine over the last 17 years has been developing solutions that help automate everyday repetitive tasks. Naturally this overflowed into the design and engineering realm, specifically for […]
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A Trick to Attach Text to an Inventor Drawing View Old
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work inside of Inventor drawings. During that time, I was asked how to make sure that all my text and symbols will move with a view. If you’ve used Inventor for a while, you may have noticed that if you put in a text or symbols next to […]
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