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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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Conditional suppression
July 29, 2009 11:31 PMby Garin Gardiner
If you've ever wanted to suppress a feature if a parameter reached a specific value, there is a great way to do this at the feature level. To see how this is done, I will create a rectangular extrusion with a shell on it that has a condition to suppress the shell if the size of the rectangle gets below a certain value. To do this I will just create a rectangle with two dimensions for width and height and specify a name for at least one of the dimensions.
Extrude the rectangle to create a 3D model and add a shell with something like 0.5 in.
Here is where we will add the conditional suppression. Before we add the conditional suppression you will want to make sure you have renamed one of the parameters on the rectangle sketch. If you don't rename one of them, you wont see the dimension for the conditional suppression. Right click on the shell feature in the browser and select properties. Select If and choose the parameter that drives the width of the rectangle and specify Less than 2 and choose OK.
Now if we return to the 3D model ,we can edit the parameter that we renamed from 4 in to less than 2 in and notice that is suppressed the shell feature. Change the parameter back to 4 in and notice the shell shows back up.
I have seen some very creative ways people use this. If you want to take it past this you might want to take a look at iLogic which will let you do much much more.
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One more try...
July 23, 2009 02:00 PMby Garin GardinerA few months ago I posted about an MS ride we are doing August 1 and offered a shameless plug looking for some small donations to help me hit my goal.
Needless to say I got nothing. After pouting for a few days and swearing that I wouldn't post another tip to the blog, I decided it was only putting me in the same demographic as my 4 year old daughter so I tried to take the high road.
I have decided to take a different strategy from my 4 year old daughter - bribery!
I have three prizes for the top three donations to my MS Fundraising site. If you make a donation, email me your name, amount and contact info so I send you your prize if you are a winner. I will leave this open until next Thursday July 30 and will mail out prizes the following week with an announcement of the winners.
I don't have a fancy car to give away or a load of cash but I think you will like the prizes I do have.
1st place - Autodesk Expert's Garage t-shirt and an Autodesk Inventor Simulation 2010 book
2nd place - Autodesk Alias Studio t-shirt
3rd place - Autodesk embossed notebook and pen
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Autodesk Producs on the Mac
July 20, 2009 06:59 PMby Garin Gardiner
Great news today for all of you that are interested in using Autodesk products on a Mac. Autodesk is adding official support for Apple Boot Camp, a component of the Mac OSX operating system that enables you to run Windows on Apple Hardware for several Autodesk products. Autodesk also has several products that run nativly on the Mac.
Mac Compatible Products - Autodesk Alias Design
- Autodesk Alias Surface
- Autodesk Cleaner
- Autodesk Combustion
- Autodesk FBX
- Autodesk Image Modeler
- Autodesk Maya
- Autodesk SketchBook Pro
- Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited
- Autodesk Mubbox
Boot-Camp Supported Products - AutoCAD
- Autodesk 3ds Max
- Autodesk 3ds Max Design
- Autodesk Inventor
- Autodesk Revit Architecture
- Autodesk Revit Structure
- Autodesk Revit MEP
Head on over to http://www.autodesk.com/mac for more information!0 Comment | Add CommentIn In the Machine > Autodesk Inventor, News
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Assembly Folders
July 20, 2009 06:36 PMby Garin GardinerIt's great to have the problem of having so many great blogs with tips that I can't keep up with them all. I was notified of another site from the folks over at Ketiv (Autodesk Premier Solutions Provider) that have tips for a lot of the main Autodesk products. They have several posts around Inventor and one of which I really liked was "How to Use Assembly Folders". As many of you know, this is new to Inventor 2010 and is a great way to organize your design without needing to create additional sub-assemblies to separate components. If you are interested in playing around with this and would like a quick tip to get you going, head on over to Ketiv's blog site.
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Official Autodesk Inventor Podcast Episode 36 - Drawing Tips
July 14, 2009 11:48 AMby Garin Gardiner
Podcast Episode 36 here and its all about the drawing environment. Over the last few months I have received several emails concerning putting a few podcasts together with drawing tips so here is the first one.
- Selection Tools
- Hide Parts
- Hidden Lines Per Component
- Quality of Shaded View
- Section Clipping
I hope you find some useful tips from the podcast and as always don't hesitate to post about tips or things you would like to see in the future.
1 Comment | Add CommentIn In the Machine > Autodesk Inventor, Helpful Resources, Podcast, Tips
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Advanced Surface Modeling YouTube Video
July 9, 2009 02:06 AMby Garin GardinerI haven't forgotten about my blog - I have been on vacation last week and this week but wanted to at least get you something before I went back to work on Monday. I wish I could say my vacation has been all fun but mostly a lot of yard work and helping watch the new addition to our family.
I am sure you don't come here to listen to what I did or didn't do on my vacation so I have a very cool YouTube video I wanted to share. I ran across this one tonight and was impressed with complexity of the video. Samuel PLante modeled an airplane in Inventor using surfaces, created decals in Photoshop and animated it in 3D Max. It is a 4 minute video that is sped up to give you an idea of how he did it.
Take a look and enjoy!
More to some when I am back in the office next week.
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