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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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Adding Associative Dimensions to Hole Notes
September 30, 2008 09:55 AMby Garin Gardiner
Have you ever wanted to include a parameter to the hole not such as the bolt circle diameter? This can all be done with regular Inventor tools today and will be associative so that when the bolt circle parameter updates, the hole note will update as well.
If you are interested to see how to do this, click on this link for the tutorial.
Garin
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AutoCAD Mechanical: Bill of Materials – Part 1
September 25, 2008 09:53 AMby Garin GardinerFor those of you that use AutoCAD Mechanical I thought I would pass along this great skill builder that will help you setup and create a Bill of Material. If you are interested in honing your skills on AutoCAD Mechanical head on over to this skill builder.
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New Skill builder (Sheet Metal Punch part 2)
September 18, 2008 04:25 PMby Garin GardinerLast month I posted about the Sheet Metal Punch skill builder and mentioned it was part 1 of 2. I am happy to let you know that the second half of the skill builder is now available. If you went throught the fist one, good for you, now you can jump in and do Part 2. Otherwise take a look at the first one before jumping into the latest one.
Enjoy!
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Insert another belt
September 9, 2008 05:16 PMby Garin GardinerOften as I talk to Inventor users I ask if they use any of our Design Accelerators such as Belts, Gears, Shaft, Bearings or a plethora of other accelerators and find that most aren't even aware of these tools. Due to this I thought I would do a quick post of how to use the Belt Generator.
Design Accelerators tropically are created while in an assembly and by selecting Design Accelerator from the Panel Bar.
Since we want to create a belt I will select the V-Belt Generator and select the belt type I am interested in using (V-Belt DIN 2215).
From there I can select a plane to align the belt pulleys, specify an offset value and flip the direction if necessary. I can also determine if I want to use existing geometry for the pulleys or if I want to have the system build the pulleys for me. 
I am also able to select the type of placement such as enter coordinates, select geometry to constrain to, free drag and sliding positions for tensioning the belt. You will also get great indicators such as a red centerline for the belt letting you know if the belt isn't a standard belt length. I am also able to grab grips on the pulleys to change pulley dia (per standards) and change the pulley driving direction by selecting the arrow on the pulleys.Once I have all the pulleys in place and a green centerline I can make sure the belt is strong enough. 
By selecting the Calculation tab I can put in things like Power or Torque to ensure my belt will work. If I enter in about 1hp and run a calculation I will see a failure with this belt. 
If I go back to my design tab I can bump up the number of belts from 1 to 3 and see everything update. I can now go back to the Calculations tab and hit update to see that everything is now fine. From here I can select OK to create the belts and pulleys.
I hope for those of you that haven't tried some of these tools will be able to at least locate them and give them a spin. they can be very powerful tools. -
Nested Reps (Video Podcast Episode 28)
September 2, 2008 07:25 PMby Garin Gardiner
Several podcasts ago I had a few listeners ask for a deeper dive with the various representations for Inventor such as how to setup and use nested reps. This episode I cover how to create various reps and use them in a nested fashion. I hope that for those of you that aren't using reps can get a feel for the power of nested representations. For those of you that use them already, I hope you will gain a little insight on how to nest and link these reps.
BTW - I have been told that the podcast is now available on the Zune Marketplace.
Zune - coming soon
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