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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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iLogic Do's and Don'ts
September 29, 2009 12:58 PMby Garin Gardiner
As many of you are already aware, Autodesk released a new tool to the subscription center earlier this year called iLogic. I posted a blog post back in March it you would like to get a little more information. Inventor iLogic extends and enhances parametric design capabilities, automates tedious design tasks, and adds higher levels of design intelligence to your digital prototypes. With an easy-to-use authoring capabilities and an intuitive user interface, Inventor iLogic integrates seamlessly with Inventor.
I know many of you have downloaded it and are using it and I also know many of you haven't had a chance yet. I received a Top 10 Do's and Don'ts document from the design team that can help you get started. It is also useful if you have been using iLogic to help you make more robust models with iLogic.
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Drawing Symbols
September 22, 2009 04:42 AMby Garin GardinerJust as you create blocks in AutoCAD, you can also create symbols in Inventor. One of the questions I received the other day was a way to control insertion and connection points. When you create a sketch symbol you can control not only the insertion point but also additional points to connect various symbols together.
To create a symbol head over the browser and right click on Sketch Symbols under Drawing Resources. From there you can select Define New Symbol. Now you can create the sketch geometry and text you need to define the symbol.
It may be necessary to add prompt text similar to AutoCAD or have it pull model property values such as mass properties. This can be accomplished from the text dialog and specify the type of text used.
One of the lesser used and often not realized is how you set insertion and connection points into the symbol. This will allow you to specify where the insertion point is and if you want to use various end points / center points as connector points to connect multiple symbols to each other.
Center Point: Used to create hole centers for hole features. The Hole feature automatically selects a hole center point in a 2D sketch.
Connection Point Grip: Construction point used to help position sketch geometry
Set Insertion Point Grip: In drawing sketches, a sketch point can be used as a connection handle to snap together sketch symbols, title blocks and drawing borders.
Select a point then you can specify what type it will be by selecting the Center Point drop down in the format portion of the ribbon to see the three types. You can only have one insertion point although you can use as many connector points that will show up when inserting and dragging symbols around.
Once you have specified the insertion point and additional points as connector points, you can now save the symbol and start inserting it into your drawing.
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SketchBook Mobile from Autodesk
September 16, 2009 11:33 PMby Garin Gardiner
Today the Industrial Design (ID) team announced a new SketchBook Mobile app that is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. If you are the proud owner of an iPhone or Touch, this will be a must have for its impressive sketch tools. This is a professional-grade paint and drawing application for a killer price of 2.99 on the iTunes Store. I personally have been looking forward to something like this on my Touch for some time and will be downloading it as soon as it goes live. If you are interested, take a look at a few of these images and YouTube video then head on over and try it out.
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Where are my iProperties?
September 10, 2009 04:40 PMby Garin GardinerPerhaps I am slow to the draw on this one but I recently updated my Space Pilot driver and ran into something really cool I wanted to share. I haven't used the LCD screen on it much since I got, so you can imagine my surprise (after I installed the latest update) to see it was displaying something that I hadn't seen before.
It now shows the file name and type of document that is active as well as file size, creation/save info. More importantly it shows the mass, volume, material and density without having to go to File > iProperties.
Talk about a great enhancement to the device!
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Inventor 2010 SP1 Hotfix
September 8, 2009 01:21 AMby Garin GardinerWe have discovered a nuisance introduced with the Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 posting of Monday 8/23/2009. Our Live Update and Communications Center mechanisms did not recognize the fact that Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 has been installed, and as a result continue to notify of an available update.
We have issued a, Hotfix TS1109427 which will repair this behavior. If you installed the Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 before Thursday August 26th, please download and install this hotfix at your earliest convenience. This hotfix is highly recommended over uninstalling the Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1. The hot fix will preserve your customizations and other Inventor behaviors that you have established.
We have also updated the Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 download as of Thursday, August 26th. Customers who download Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 on or after this date will not experience this nuisance behavior.