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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 Wish List Ballot from AUGI is open
November 19, 2009 06:40 PMby Garin GardinerThe most recent Inventor Wish List Ballot is set to close November 23 so head on over to AUGI to add your wish list items and cast your vote. Each year AUGI gives Autodesk their top ten items (from this Ballot) for future enhancements to Inventor. In recent years we have added 4 or 5 of these items into Inventor so make sure you add your items and cast your votes. This is one of the best ways to be heard and help guide future enhancement to Inventor.
Happy voting!
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Where's my sketch?
November 9, 2009 07:19 PMby Garin Gardiner
When creating Inventor drawings, there is a great way to bring over 2D sketch information from the Inventor model. This works well if you have something like text represented on your Inventor model and want to see also have it visible in the Inventor drawing view.
To do this, open a part or an assembly and create a sketch with some text or draw a rectangle. Save the part and create a drawing with a drawing view of the component.
In the browser locate the view that you want the sketch to be visible in and expand the view to show the part or assembly that has the sketch.
Right click on the part or assembly and select "Get Model Sketches" to expose the visible sketches.
Thats it - you will now see all of the visible sketches for that part or assembly. You will also notice it shows them in the browser and you can turn off sketches that you aren't interested in seeing.
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Design it your way with iLogic
November 4, 2009 10:44 AMby Garin GardinerOne of our good joinery Inventor users (and reseller) put together a great example of how to use iLogic. I know you don't all do joinery work but I am sure you can find some useful things that iLogic can do for you. It is surprising just how easy to use iLogic and doesn't require you to be a developer. If you understand basic if/than statements, you are good to go.
Take a look at what you can do with it.
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