As KETIV’s resident AutoCAD certified instructor and our AutoCAD support point of contact, I’ve pretty much seen it all when it comes to using and supporting the software. I’m sure power users like yourselves feel the same way, but there’s always that one command that you’ve just never heard of or used. That one command is called […]

Now that 2015 has come and gone let’s take a look back before we break in the new year. We’ve covered all the new features from the 2016 Autodesk lineup, talked about the state of manufacturing, the future of 3d printing, and of course, tips and tricks to help get you faster at day to […]

What is the easiest way to create a simple cam in Inventor? Your first response might be: “Just create a sketch outline of the cam using the Spline function and then extrude.” It makes sense right? The problem with the Spline method however, is it has a tendency to not create one continuous smooth edge and create […]

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?

It’s been a little while since I’ve been able to dig into Autodesk Vault, but just this week, I had to locate a script to defragment the Vault database. The reason for a defragment is to make sure Vault performance doesn’t degrade when making database queries. For those of us not intimate with SQL, those […]

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 […]

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 […]