Each time a new design is made, a new drawing must also be made and sent to manufacturing.  This drawing has crucial information for manufacturing, such as front/side/top views, dimensions, and tolerances, BOM, a Part Number, you name it.  It is best that some of this information is manually added to the drawing.  However, as […]

What are Design Accelerators? Autodesk supplies many Design Accelerators within Inventor, such as Bolted Connection, Frame Generator, Shaft, O-Ring, and Spring to name just a few. Today I’m focusing on V-Belt Generator. Why would you want to use the V-Belt Generator? To improve the design time and accuracy of using power transmission V-belts. Want to […]

Using iLogic within an Inventor part can unlock many opportunities for automation. However, at some point the requirements of your desired automation outcome surpass what iLogic was designed to do.  This is when you need to leverage a full IDE like Visual Studio.  A great way to do that is by creating an Add-in. Getting […]

In this blog post we will be unpacking configuration modeling in an assembly environment. Earlier in 2020, I hosted a KETIV AVA session which went over configuration modeling in Inventor at a part level and that was an easy way to dive into the iLogic interface. If you have not had the chance to watch […]

Content Center Parts in Inventor The iLogic snippet to add a Content Center in Inventor part is really powerful. Not only does it make the placement process so easy, it also lets us change the size of a content center part that has already been placed. This is a follow-up to our recent AVA session […]

This blog and video review how Autodesk Inventor Automation can help you export data from Revit to Inventor using Inventor iLogic. In Revit, we start with a sample curtain wall that is two walls high and four frames each wall. We export the curtain wall design data into an excel spreadsheet that gives us wall […]

With a powerful blend of parametric, direct, freeform, and rules-based design and documentation capabilities, Inventor has been a trusted partner to engineers and designers for the past 20 years. With the 2020 software update, Inventor incorporated integrated tools for sheet metal, frame design, tube and pipe, cable & harness, presentations, rendering, simulation, machine design and […]

Standardize View Size on Autodesk Inventor Drawings We recently had a customer who wanted to streamline their documentation process. This company had a part with a lot of variety in length and found themselves having to manually set the scale for their views on each of Inventor drawings. Today, I’ll show you how you can […]

Autodesk is constantly working to gather customer data to drive yearly improvements to their products. In fact, customer driven improvements from the Autodesk Knowledge Network and Autodesk forums have helped to drive some exciting changes for “What’s new in Inventor 2020”. Keep reading to learn about the top 4 updates. What’s new in Inventor 2020? […]

Inventor Tips: How to update Your Snapshot views in your Presentation Files Problem: This is one of your first attempts at using the presentation environment inside of Inventor.  You would love nothing more than to have a view you explode to feature on the next IDW that you send down to manufacturing.  However, there is […]