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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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A Must See From AU 2008
December 4, 2008 02:29 AMby Garin Gardiner
Just when you thought it was exciting to have rules in Inventor, check out some of these goodies from today at AU2008 in Las Vegas. During our Manufacturing Main stage this morning some exciting new technologies were unveiled that are worth looking at. We gave a sneak peak at something we call Inventor Fusion that is causing quite a stir around here. This is one of those things you will have to see for yourself so head over to www.inventorfusion.com/ and take a look.
Al Dean was also crafty enough to catch some of this during the main stage presentation which can be found here and a little more here.
Hope you enjoy!
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Parameter Linking and Tolerance
February 20, 2008 01:16 PMby Garin Gardiner
I wanted to cover a few tips this post that will cover linking parameters from one part to another (great for skeleton modeling) and show how your model can update with tolerance. Let's take a look at how we can easily link parameters from one part to another. First we will create a part that has a few parameters in it that we want to use in a second part. Notice I have a parameter called ID and OD and I have selected Export Parameter.
You can then select a second part and activate Parameters to link various parameters from the original part. Select the link button, change the file type to ipt / iam and select the part you want to link the parameters from.
You have now linked the parts together so any change to the first parts parameters will update any part you have linked the parameters into. Now lets add tolerance to the model one part at a time. Notice the two parts assembled together before I apply any tolerance to the model.
I want to apply tolerance to each part and set the upper/lower tolerances in the 3D model to detect any interferences. Edit a part you want tolerance applied to and edit one of its sketches. Select the dimension you want the tolerance applied to and right click to select Dimension Properties. From here you can apply the type of tolerance and the actual value for each dimension. In the following example I have applied a tolerance to two dimensions.
Once I have set up my model with the various tolerances, I can then adjust the model to the min/max of the tolerance per component to make sure I won't have interference issues. While in the assembly I will activate one of the parts and activate the Parameters dialog. Notice I have the option to adjust each dimension individually or globally to the Upper, Median, Nominal and Lower tolerance. I will set my first part to Lower and my second part to Upper to see clashes in my design with these tolerances.
Nominal Setting
Upper tolerance on inner cylinder and Lower tolerance on outer cylinder
This won't solve all of you tolerance issues although this is a great tool to manage a handful of components that you are concerned about.
Enjoy!
Garin
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Custom Profiles in Frame Generator
November 12, 2007 04:44 PMby Garin Gardiner
Hot from our developers hands is a great little tool that allows you to create custom profiles for Frame Generator assemblies.
This has been one of our most requested features recently and due to Autodesk Labs we can easily share great tools like this to get feedback as well as offer extended functionality to our Inventor users. For those of you that have a need to create custom profiles, head on over to the labs site and try it out.
Enjoy!
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Autodesk on CCNTV
November 5, 2007 05:48 AMby Garin GardinerThe first week of October, the Manufacturing division inside of Autodesk held a worldwide press event where we had just over 80 members of the press attend a Manufacturing Summit in Paris France. We spent a great deal of the time talking about our Digital Prototyping strategy as well as a 90 minute presentation where we had seven pods set up where everybody was able to see a project start in its ideation phase then get passed to mechanical and electrical engineering then off to building layout and finally the creation of marketing material. Of course we used our data manageent software to help out the process as well.
CCNTV was in attendance and reported on the event in their latest video podcast. Four minutes into the podcast they show some great clips as well as a few interviews from the event. If you have a few minutes go you and take a look you might even see a few shots of new technology that you havent seen before.
Select here to be directed to the podcast on CCNTV.
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2D Web Based Sketching (Free!!)
October 29, 2007 10:21 PMby Garin Gardiner
The Labs team is at it again with their newest addition Project Draw. This is a free web based sketcher that allows you to create simple floor plans, electronic-circuit diagrams, network diagrams, user interface mock-ups, and more. I didnt think I would have much use for this until I spend about 10 minutes with Project Draw. I quickly realized my paint program will have a little less use in the future. It is very easy to use and for certain applications will make creating sketches and drawings very simple. You never know, I might even get my wife to retire Microsoft Paint and start using an Autodesk product!
Take a look at it on Labs.
http://labs.autodesk.com/technologies/draw/
Enjoy!
Garin
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Off To the Windy City
October 26, 2007 05:58 AMby Garin Gardiner
I took a quick trip the windy city today to attend their local Inventor User Group Meeting. Ben Curtin from INCAT covered some great tips with the Selection Tools in Inventor.
If you havent used the section tools for a while, open an assembly and spend a few minutes experimenting. Notice you can change the selection from Component to Part which will allow you to skip having to burrow into a sub assembly to edit a part directly. Ben also covered being able to select one fastener and using the Select All Occurrences option to select all of the other fasteners in the assembly for various operations such as turning their visibility off.
During the meeting somebody asked how to turn everything off in an assembly other than standard parts from Content Center. One way to do this is to activate the find tool from the browser.
From here, select BOM Structure under Property and set Condition to is (exactly) with a Value of Purchased. If you want to use this again, save the search and do a Find Now to select all the purchased parts from the assembly and select Close. Once they are all selected, you can Right Click in the model window and select Isolate to turn off everything other than purchased parts. To take it one step farther, save this as a view rep if you want to switch between the standard parts and all of the other components turned on.
Enjoy!
Garin
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Transmission Box Animation on YouTube
October 25, 2007 12:33 AMby Garin GardinerI am a sucker for nice animations and for those of you that have checked out my blog have probably seen a few great videos on YouTube that were created in Inventor. The other day while playing around with my iPod, I ran across this great little animation and had to post it. Great job to kostucha22 who posted this video from Inventor 11.
Feel free to email me links to you YouTube videos or images. You never know when yours might show up here.
Garin
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Autodesk Inventor Service Pack Supports Vista
October 22, 2007 05:34 AMby Garin GardinerFor those of you that are running Vista or would like to use it, Inventor 2008 is now supports Vista. Take a look at the latest press briefing for all the details.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10218607&linkID=8391941
If you would like to download SP1 select here.
Enjoy!
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It's That Time of Year Again (AU)
October 11, 2007 03:01 AMby Garin Gardiner
With just over a month left before Autodesk University kicks off in Las Vegas, many of us are making preparations for our classes and getting ready for the well over 7,000 AU attendees. This year Autodesk University will be held November 27 - 30, 2007 at The Venetian Resort Hotel in Las Vegas. With almost 600 classes between the various industries such as Mechanical, Architectural, Civil and Media & Entertainment, there will be no shortage of things to learn.
For those of you that read our blogs, there are several of us (Jay Tedeschi, Kevin Schneider, Myself and many others) that will be teaching classes.
I will be teaching a class similar to one I taught last year on using Inventor Studio, Presentations and DWF files. For those of you that sign up to be a beta participant for the next release of Inventor, you will be able to sign up for a sneak peak to see the new features in action.
MA211-3P Pretty Pictures Sell Products! Enhancing Your Presentations to Effectively Communicate Ideas
MA301-3 A Sneak Peek: The Next Release of Autodesk® Inventor
Here is a sample of what we covered in the Studio class last year.
Hope to see you there!
To register or review classes that will be available select here.
Garin
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National Manufacturing Week
September 13, 2007 07:59 PMby Garin Gardiner
National Manufacturing Week is about upon us bringing together engineering teams, executives and practitioners. They will be responsible for the entire manufacturing endeavor, from design and manufacturing process, to customer fulfillment and business success. The event will be held in Rosemont IL Sept 24 - 27.
Amy Bunszel, director of Inventor Product Management at Autodesk, will present Becoming a Best-in-Class Manufacturer with Digital Prototyping Practices. Additionally, Autodesk customer Bosch Rexroth Canada will discuss how they use Digital Prototyping solutions to simulate the function of the St. Lawrence Seaway canal locks.
If you are in the area and would like to hear a little more about how Autodesk is leading the charge with digital prototyping, stop by and attend session 204: Design Technology.
www.ManufacturingWeek.com