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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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AliasStudio Success Story: Magna Steyr
October 30, 2006 01:59 PMbyCheck out this recent success story from Magna Steyr. They used Autodesk AliasStudio to create a concept car that is ecologically friendly, all weather and sporty. The MILA (Magna Innovative Lightweight Auto) concept car began as an idea in the design studio then quickly developed over the months into a full-fledged road-ready prototype.
Did you know that if you own a car you own a product designed with Alias products? Or if you own an iPod or a Razor phone. The list goes on ... Harley Davidson motorcycles, Blackberrys and Legos were all designed with Alias as well. Alias has been part of Autodesk for over 6 months and nicely rounds out the manufacturing solution to include conceptual design.
-Amy
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Inventor Podcast Episode #5
October 28, 2006 08:17 PMby Garin GardinerOctober , 2006 - Episode 5 Podcast Show Notes
Right click here and select "Save Target As..." to save a local copy
Its also located on iTunes.
News:
1. Cadalyst Labs Review: Autodesk Inventor 11
2. F1 in Schools Announces 2006 National Winners
3. FINAL RESULTS - Inventor NG World Cup - September 2006
4. Small Manufacturer Thinks Big - Q-Light
Events:
1. Autodesk University (AU) Nov 28 - Dec 1 - Garin Gardiner
2. AUGI Manufacturing Conference
a. Houston TX - Oct 31
b. Phoenix, AZ - Nov 1
c. Orlando, FL - Nov 14
d. Orange County, CA - Dec 14
3. Automation Fair - Baltimore, Maryland - Oct 25
4. Springfield Industrial Expo - Springfield, Missouri Oct 25
5. UK - London October 25
6. Ireland - Dublin October 26
7. Sweden - Gothenburg November 7
Resources:
1. Autodesk Multimedia
a. Animated Chain
Tutorials
1. Sketching Tips for New Users
Tips and Tricks:
1. Avatech Tricks: Entering Property Information into the Title Block
2. Building Lighter Models
inventor.blog.feedback@autodesk.com
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Global Illumination
October 26, 2006 02:45 PMby Garin GardinerOne of our Product Designers (Bill Bogan) sent over a few settings for Inventor Studio that will allow you to make realistic lights without too much effort. If you would like to have shadows on the ground like the image below, you will need to create an object (like a box) that can receive a shadow.
1. Create a new light style.
2. Disable or delete all lights of the newly created style.
3. Style General tab set the controls as follows.
a. Brightness = 80
b. Enable Sky Light
c. Intensity = 90
4. Illumination tab, set the controls as follows:
a. Ambience = 40
b. Bounced Light Quality = Medium
5. Shadows tab, set the controls as follows:
a. Turn on Soft Shadows
b. Highest quality
c. Density = 80
6. Make the style the active one, save the style, and I suggest you save it to the library as you will likely want to use it or a derivative later.
7. If you want a subtle white/gray back ground, create a scene style to your liking.
8. Click the render command. In the dialog set the controls as follows:
a. Use the new lighting and scene styles as appropriate.
b. High Anti-aliasing
c. True Reflections
9. Render the scene
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mCADForums Contest #3 Results
October 17, 2006 08:51 PMby Garin GardinerThe results from the latest Inventor rendering contest from mCADForums have been posted! The first place winner won a free ticket to Autodesk University and the second and third place won thumb drives.
Special thanks to Sean for putting these types of contests together!
Garin
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Inventor Tips from Avatech
October 16, 2006 05:01 PMbyI just discovered a great column on the Cadalyst website. Erik Kurek, Eric Robb and a few other applications engineers from Avatech Solutions have been very busy posting Inventor Tips and Tricks. They covers a variety of topics on Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical and a few other Autodesk products. Some recent articles inlcude tips for getting the correct views in Inventor and effectively creating production drawings to name a few.
-Amy
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Are you going to Autodesk University?
October 15, 2006 07:10 PMby Garin GardinerWith Autodesk University right around the corner there are hundreds of great classes from industry experts and Autodesk employees.
I will be teaching a class on making pretty pictures with Inventor as well as helping Sam Antos present the next release of Inventor.
MA32-5: Collaboration: Pretty Pictures Sell Products!
MA22-5: Looking into the Autodesk Inventor® Crystal Ball: The Next Release
This is a great opportunity to gain valuable information from class instructors and peers alike.
Hope to see you there!
Garin
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New Report on 2D to 3D Transition
October 14, 2006 04:02 PMbyA new report on the transition from 2D to 3D has been published by the Aberdeen Group. Since Autodesk partially funded this study we are able to distribute it to our users. If you are interested in key learnings on the transition from other companies you can download the report here. Hurry, it is only posted until the end of the month.
-Amy
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Autodesk Northeast 2006
October 13, 2006 02:27 PMbyLast week I went to Boston to speak at Autodesk Northeast. This is a one day event sponsored by our reseller M2 Technologies (www.m2t.com) that offers an agenda full of learning opportunities and plenty of time to network. I kicked off the event with a presentation on our Functional Design vision and also a sneak peek at some really interesting DWG interoperability capability we've been developing called DWG TrueConnect. There were over 90 users in attendance. They've given me permission to post some of the handouts from their breakout sessions. These are an awesome collection of tips, tricks and best practices that the M2 AE's created:
* Inventor Studio
* Tips & Tricks for Inventor 11
* Complex Shape Description
* Dynamic Simulation and FEA
* Model Tolerances
* Demystifying Project Files
(note, a few of these files are over 1Meg so they may take a minute to download.)
Also, here are links to a few recent articles on Functional Design and our new DWG Technology by Martyn Day and Kenneth Wong. Stay tuned for more info on DWG TrueConnect ...
Enjoy! Amy
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mCADForums Contest
October 9, 2006 09:50 AMby Garin GardinermCADForums has a design contest that ends this week for those of you with a little extra time and would like to win a free conference pass to Autodesk University 2006 (a $1300 value). If you are interested take a look at at mCADForums.com for more information.
Deadline is evening of Oct 13 so if you haven't submitted anything yet you have a few days to post your design.
THE CONTEST
This one is a rendering contest. The contest will be to model and render an "everyday" object. By "everyday" object we mean a stapler, or cell phone or coffee mug etc.. If you are not sure if your object is "everyday" post in the forums and ask and we'll give a ruling. Keep in mind that the model CAN be an assembly.
THE PRIZEs
First Place: A free conference pass to Autodesk University 2006 (a $1300 value). You are responsible for airfare and hotel and all other expenses incurred.
Second Place: A (to be determined size) USB thumbdrive/laser pointer
Happy modeling,
Garin