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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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Skeleton Tolerence
December 22, 2007 03:44 PMby Garin Gardiner
The other day I ran into a customer that needed to create a skeleton sketch to drive the entire assembly (single sketch layout that controls entire model). They designe wood furniture and wanted to easily layout new projects like dressers although they didn't want to have to build in all the tolerances for the dresser drawers to be able to slide in and out easily. By using the Thicken/Offset feature in the part environment we were able to get create a simple skeleton sketch then add the tolerance to the components that need it later while still keeping everything tied to one sketch.
To set this up I created a very simple sketch as an example of how you can use this.
I then created an assembly with several blank parts all tied to the origin. I then derived in the sketch to each part and extruded the portion I wanted for each part.
The only problem with this is that the door is a tight press fit and we need at least .0625 around the door to be able to open and close it easily. This is where I used the Thicken/Offset tool to add that tolerance all the way around my door.
Notice that there is now plenty of room around the entire cabinet for the door to open and close. My model is still completely tied to that original sketch so any changes it will still update my model.
If you would like to learn a little more about skeleton modeling, below is a great tutorial about setting them up by Neil Munro.
Hope you all have a great Holiday Season. See you next year!
Garin
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Manufacturing Headquarters Update
December 17, 2007 01:28 PMby Garin GardinerSome of you may recall a podcast a few months ago where I mentioned we moved into a new office in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The move has been final since mid summer although our front receptionist area received a bit of a face lift recently with some really great additions. With the new face lift we now have several of our customers products displayed as well as several projected touchscreen, a milling machine and Rapid Prototype machine and plenty of other fun things to play with.
Learn more about how Autodesk is leading the charge on Digital Prototyping
Brokk is the leading supplier of remote controlled demolition robots.
RKS Rocks Electric Guitars
On of several interactive touch screen - this is very cool!
Magic Wheels introduces first 2-gear manual wheels
And finally visitors will be able to see parts being created with our rapid prototyping or milling machine
We are very excited about the new addition and hope many of you can come and "Experience it before it's real."
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Leveraging the New Sketch Tools in Autodesk Inventor 2008
December 14, 2007 02:48 PMby Garin GardinerI recently ran accross this PDF of the latest tools added to Inventor 2008. There were several new tools added to Inventor 2008 that you might not have seen yet so pull it down and take a quick look.
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Everything You Need to Know About Autodesk Inventor Styles
December 10, 2007 06:11 PMby Garin GardinerShortly after Autodesk University, I received an outline from a styles class that was presented by Andrew Faix. Andrew is a Product Designer for Inventor and works primarily in the drawing environment. Who better to teach a class about style than Andrew. In case you weren't able to attend AU or his class, here is his outline that has a great deal of useful information for both novice and expert users.
I would like to thank Andrew for the great material and I hope many of you find useful information in it. You can download it by selecting here.
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New World Speed Record
December 7, 2007 01:25 PMby Garin Gardiner
Take a look at this interview with Russ Wicks shortly after he broke the world speed record (again) in a new stock car. Russ broke his own record October 9, 2007 when he reached a speed of 247 MPH in the SASCAR-spec Autodesk Dodge Charger on the Bonneville Salt Flats. Keep an eye on this guy over the next few years - he has a few things up his sleeves.
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Large Assembly Episode (Video Podcast Episode 19)
December 5, 2007 11:49 AMby Garin Gardiner
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 - Episode 19 Podcast Show Notes
As you may remember from last eppisode, I had a request to cover some large assembly tools in Inventor so this month we will talk about Level of Detail representations.We also have a few goodies left over from Autodesk University so enjoy!
The Official Inventor Podcast is available for free here at the iTunes store or you can right click here and save the file to your computer.
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Inventor 2008 Service Pack 2 Now Live
December 3, 2007 05:14 PMby Garin GardinerLast week service pack 2 for Inventor 2008 went live while we were all playing around in Las Vegas at Autodesk University. If you are running Inventor 2008 head on over the the download page and pull down SP2. You will need to have SP1 already installed so if you haven't pulled it down yet either, install SP1 then SP2.
There is a readme doc that has detail for all the changes so if you are wanting to see if a specific issue is fixed pull it down as well.
Enjoy!