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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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Inventor Illustrations
September 24, 2007 05:44 AMby Garin Gardiner
Have you ever needed illustration rendering for catalogs or marketing material? Inventor 2008 added the ability to create illustrated rendering with several options. Not only can we create realistic renderings with shadows, reflections and materials, we can create rendering with no color, single color or surface style.
To get into these rendering options, open an assembly and select "Inventor Studio" under the Application pull down. Once in Studio, Select the render
button to determine setting for you rendering. In the General tab you can specify Illustration rendering then determine how you want the illustrated rendering to look from the Style tab.
You can create still images or acutal animations with these settings as well. If you are a little creative and have a little time to playou can even mix them together with a little post editing. take a look at an animation I did in Inventor 2008 where I used these setting to make various animations and images all blended together.
Enjoy!
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
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Leverage the New Inventor 2008 Sketch Tools
September 10, 2007 05:31 PMby Garin Gardiner
If you have recently started using Invetnro 2008 you may have noticed the sketching environment has has several nice additions. Somebody brought the following white paper "Leverage the New Sketch Tools in Autodesk Inventor 2008" to my attention. It isnt a coimprehensive list of all the new capabilities althoug it highlights reusing existing sketch data and managing constraitns with some of the new tools found in Inventor 2008.
http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/sketching_in_inventor_2008_white_paper.pdf
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Standard Parts Tips (Video Podcast Episode 16)
September 4, 2007 08:17 AMby Garin Gardiner
Friday, August 31, 2007 - Episode 16 Podcast Show Notes
I often need to locate various parts from several different sources and wanted to post a podcast of some areas where you can get files as well as a few little tips I have discovered with some the available labs tools.
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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