Challenge: I have too many constraints (relationships) in my assembly, how can I streamline my assembly and lower the amount of relationships I have? How can I use the Inventor Joint to optimize that?

The 2016 R2 Release of Inventor is bound to change the way you think about CAD tools. With the introduction of “Shape Generator”, what Autodesk is calling “Generative Design“, will enable users to design products using minimal material and optimize a design based on a set of input parameters.

How do I get an Inventor model into Revit? How can I easily transfer models from Inventor to Revit? Am I able to open up an Inventor model in Revit and save it as an RFA file? Can I export an Inventor model to an RFA file? Can I save as my Inventor model to […]

If you’ve created your own content in Inventor’s content center, you’ll have to update it when you move to your next version of Inventor. Fortunately, this isn’t really that difficult, but it’s good to know the steps. So in the interest of sharing, here are the steps that I used to update my own content […]

In my adventures taking aircraft maintenance classes at Mount San Antonio College, I’ve learned a lot of things. Not the least of which, is how much I have to learn! Another piece of knowledge I’m grateful for, is how to drive and set solid rivets. I’m not the best at it, but I can do […]

A combination of advantages come with Network Licensing, including flexibility, accurate tracking, standardization, and control. You may be somewhat familiar with Network Licensing if you own Autodesk Vault, but it’s not limited to just that – most Autodesk products can be network licensed and even combined into the same license file. With Autodesk’s planned changes to perpetual […]

I’ve been out of the office quite a bit the last few weeks. And while it’s good to be busy, it has put a hold on my video creation schedule. But as was said in the song, “we get by with a little help from our friends”. So with the help of the KETIV Technologies team, […]

In short, when converting a model to sheet metal, Autodesk 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 […]

For my post today, I thought I’d delve into creating transparent parts in a drawing.

  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 […]