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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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Catia V5 Translators Available on Labs
December 19, 2008 03:32 PMby Garin Gardiner
CATIA V5 Translator Now Available on Autodesk Labs!Continuing our emphasis on providing attainable Digital Prototyping benefits to you, we have added a CATIA V5 translator (for Inventor 2009 SP1) to Autodesk Labs. This new translator rounds out our suite of data exchange tools, allowing you to leverage 3D data from virtually any source. This tool will allow Inventor users to open parts and assemblies created in CATIA V5 R6 through CATIA V5 R18 directly into Inventor 2009 SP1.
If you have need to use Catia V5 data, head on over to Autodesk Labs and grab the new translator.
Have a great Holiday Season!
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Add more to your model
December 15, 2008 12:57 PMby Garin Gardiner
Images are great to be able to add to your model to make it look a little nicer and add realistic detail although at times I am guessing you need to add more than images. If you need to add a lot of text information to your model for things like specifications or assembly instructions, you may want to insert a MS Word or Excel document. Using the standard Insert image work flow, you can insert both an Excel or Word document as well as many other formats.
First, open a model you want to insert a document into and create a sketch that will allow you to insert it into your model. You can then select Insert Image from the 2D Sketch Panel. From the drop-down you can select from a number of file formats such as Excel and Word.
Here is an image of Word document that I want to embed into a motor to add specifications similar to a decal I might add to the real motor.
Once you have selected a Word or Excel file, you can insert it into the sketch and scale/position it where you want.
If you want to embed this image into the model similar to a sticker you can then use the Decal Feature from the Part Feature Panel to wrap it to a face. Select the Decal Feature then select the image and face you want it to wrap to.
You can then select OK and voila!
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A Must See From AU 2008
December 4, 2008 02:29 AMby Garin GardinerJust 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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News from AU2008 Subscription Breakfast
December 3, 2008 01:14 AMby Garin GardinerAutodesk University kicked off this morning with a bang at Manufacturing breakfast when it was announced the agreement to acquire Logimetrix. Logimetrix paved the way for rules based design with an Inventor add-in called iLogic. For those of you that have wanted to set up rules in Inventor such as "if / than" statements, keep an eye out for future news.
In the meantime, here are a fun images from the Manufacturing lounge today.
More to come from AU2008
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