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AutoCAD Electrical Tips from Nate Holt - AutoLISP Utility
When Nate Holt began blogging in April of 2006, he promised that "Controlling the Machine" Blog" would focus on automation, controls ...
AutoCAD Electrical February 2009
4/5
Design Accelerators - Part 4 - Bolt Calculations
Continuing on with our series in Design Accelerators, today we'll take a look at how we can use them to determine design compliance. In this example I ...
Autodesk Inventor February 2009
I'm Bringing IGES Back!
Here is a post for one of the tools that do not get my having just plain AutoCAD. The ability to import IGES data and use it. The IGES import tools ...
AutoCAD Mechanical February 2009
Batch Plot within Productstream
There are many benefits for going beyond Vault into Productstream. One is quite simple to understand: The need to batch plot. Without using a 3rd p ...
Autodesk Productstream February 2009
5/5
2D Auto Dimensions
Placing dimensions on drawing views has to be one of the most time consuming parts of creating working drawings. AutoCAD Mechanical has a set of auto ...
AutoCAD Mechanical February 2009
Design Accelerators - Part 4 - Bolts
One of my favorite design accelerator....the Bolted Connection. You can save a ton of time with this tool.....eliminating the need to insert a bunch o ...
Autodesk Inventor February 2009
Mechanical - Hide the What?
Filling in for one of my colleagues today, I'd like to show one of my favorite Mechanical features - 2D Hide Situations. Usually when I show people th ...
AutoCAD Mechanical January 2009
Design Accelerators - Part 3 - Shafts
Today we'll keep working on our belt design utilizing another aspect of the Design Accelerators. Watch how easy it is to create a simple shaft using t ...
Autodesk Inventor January 2009
DIM Scales on Detail Drawings
One of the really nice features that AutoCAD Mechanical has going for it today is its ability to manage your dimscale factor on the fly. How many t ...
AutoCAD Mechanical January 2009
Design Accelerators - Part 2 - Keys
Exploring the Design Accelerators a little more, leads us to the next part of our design process. Today we'll add a keyway and key to our V-Belt desig ...
Autodesk Inventor January 2009

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