Some tasks are difficult and interesting, some tasks are simple and boring, but the worst tasks are difficult and boring!

Difficult and interesting is where technical people live. We love problem solving and find it easy to focus when we have a tricky problem to solve.

Happily, many simple jobs have been easily automated by our everyday software (who remembers running tracings down to the print shop to collect dyelines… mmm, the smell of ammonia!)

Difficult means that we need to focus. Boring means that focusing is hard. It’s the difficult but repetitive tasks that are most ripe for automation.

Click here to find out what else is new in Autodesk Inventor 2022.

Drawing Automation in Inventor 2022

Autodesk Inventor 2022 includes two new settings for drawing automation, which can help you get the best of sheet formats to automate drawing creation.

New in 2022 is the ability to link a model view to a drawing view, including your 3D annotations.

This allows the automation of drawing view creation and annotation when creating a drawing using an Inventor Sheet format.

Creating a drawing from a sheet format

Here’s how it works.

1. Create a new drawing, using a sheet format from your template.
2. The views of your model are automatically placed on the sheet, and 3D annotations from the model are automatically converted to 2D annotations in the drawing.
3. Tidy up your layout, fill out the title block – and BAM! Drawing complete

Getting set up

To automatically create a drawing from a sheet format, you’ll need to get set up.

First you need to standardise the names of the views that you’d like to ‘pair up’ between the model and the drawing… for example ‘FRONT’, ‘SIDE’ and ‘TOP’.

Tip: It would be a good idea to add these views to your part and assembly model templates.

Add your standardised views to an existing model that you will use to set up your template.

In your drawing template, create a temporary drawing of your existing model. Make sure that you name each Drawing view consistently with your Model views.

RMB click on each drawing view and click ‘edit’. In the ‘Drawing view’ dialog, in the ‘Component’ tab, Choose the corresponding model view from the ‘Design view’ drop down.

Now click on the cog wheel ‘Settings’ button, which is next to the design view drop down.

In the ‘View representation options’ dialog, check the boxes for ‘Camera View’ and ‘Include 3D Annotations’.

Click OK and OK again to close the dialogs.

Now save your sheet layout as a Sheet format. Click on this link to learn how to create sheet formats.

You are all set up and ready to test out your Sheet format template.

When you’ve completed the modelling process, add your 3D annotations and/or GD&T and make sure that the correct annotations are visible in each view.

Pick your sheet format from your template using the ‘New Drawing’ dialog, file menu or Quick access tool bar and watch the magic happen!

Drawing automation – Q&A

If you are testing this workflow and need help, please click here to post your question on the Autodesk Inventor form.

If you have suggestions on how to improve drawing automation in Autodesk Inventor, click here to post your suggestion on Inventor ideas.

If you would like to test new functionality inside Inventor, before it is released to the general public, click here to join the Autodesk Feedback community.

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A quiet addition to Autodesk Inventor 2022 has swathes of Inventor customers jumping for joy. The reason? Dark theme!

Dim the lights and relax your eyes – Inventor Dark theme* has graduated from pre-release and is now officially available across the Inventor user interface.

Click here to find out what else is new in Autodesk Inventor 2022.

Inventor’s Dark theme features a dark blue user interface with a complementary Color Scheme, aimed at customers who prefer to work in a low-light environment.

The intention of the dark theme is to reduce the light emitted by your PC screens while maintaining the colour contrast ratios required for visibility – and, it just looks soooo cool!

Dark theme previewed in Inventor 2021, and not all UI elements had a dark mode alternative. If you are a fan of dark mode, you’ll be pleased to hear that dark mode is now fully implemented across the Inventor UI

Here’s an image of the iLogic User Interface – so awesome!

Try dark Inventor dark theme out by going to:

Tools (Tab) > Options (Panel) > Application Options (Button) – Application options (dialog) > Colors tab > UI Theme (Section) > Light/Dark (Drop Down).

Have you tried out the new dark mode in Autodesk Inventor 2022? Let us know what you think?

Click here to add you suggestions on how to improve Inventor to Inventor ideas

Click here to join the Autodesk Feedback community

* ‘Dark Theme’ – also known as: Dark Mode, black mode, black theme, night mode, high contrast mode or high contrast theme.

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In the olden days, when I created technical drawings on a drawing board, I would often start with a perspective sketch in one corner of my drawing.

This helped me to visualise the item I was drawing, and the shop floor loved it – because it helped them to understand what they were making.

Inventor shaded views

I love creating drawings with Inventor, because it’s so easy to layout technical drawings, including those – oh, so important – 3D isometric or perspective shaded views.

To enhance drawing shaded views in Autodesk Inventor 2022, you can now change the lighting style of a shaded view. To do this, you change the lighting style in your model – and the shaded views in your drawings will update accordingly.

Shaded drawing views in Autodesk Inventor 2022 take their lighting style from the lighting style used in the model.

Enhanced Shaded Drawing View Display

Shaded drawing view lighting uses the active lighting style from the model.

• IBL styles use the lighting image for the reflection environment.
• Non-IBL styles use the Reflection Environment from the Application Options.
  You can override the application option choice explicitly by browsing to the provided reflection maps and selecting a preferred one.

Viewing updates for changed lighting sources

• The enhanced drawing shaded views, including cached views, update when the model lighting source changes.
• After changing the model lighting, select any drawing view, or pan or zoom in the sheet, to update all views. If the drawing is not open, when you next open it, the views update unless defer drawings is in use.

This feature was instigated by a post in the Inventor ideas forum. Thank you all very much for your help in improving Autodesk Inventor.

Click here to add your suggestions on how to improve Inventor to Inventor ideas

Click here to join the Autodesk Feedback community

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Autodesk Inventor 2022 includes new Interoperability capabilities to help connect design teams with manufacturing, Engineering and BIM.

Read the overview post to find out what else is new in Inventor 2022.

Export to QIF

What is ‘QIF’?

QIF (quality information framework) is an ISO and ANSI approved, open-standard, XML based CAD format.

QIF contains PMI (product manufacturing information) / 3D product definition and other metadata that is both human-readable and computer-readable for MBD (model-based definition) implementation.

Autodesk Inventor includes support for export to QIF 3.0

Click here to find out how to export QIF from the Inventor 2022 online help.

Click here to read ‘Autodesk Announces Support for QIF 3.0 in AutoCAD Inventor 2022’ on the QIF Standards website.

Export to JT

What is ‘JT’?

JT (Jupiter Tessellation) is an ISO-standardized ‘lightweight’ 3D visualisation file format. It can contain Mesh, Nurbs, PMI and metadata.

In Inventor 2022, JT file export support has been added to the Task scheduler, allowing you to automate the batch output of JT files from your Inventor designs.

Click here to find out how to export to JT from the Inventor 2022 online help

Send to Fusion

Fusion 360 (Sometimes known as ‘Inventors younger sibling’) is a web-enabled design and manufacturing platform.

Fusion has a lot of neat tricks that Inventor users may want to to explore.

Fusion design files are cloud hosted, and it isn’t straightforward to open an Inventor file in Fusion.

In Inventor 2022, this has been made easier with the ‘Send to Fusion’ command, which allows you to upload part files directly to Fusion (via your Fusion tam account) without needing to install desktop connector.

Click here to read Luke’s post on ‘Send to Fusion 360 in Inventor 2022:

Revit Project file export

Furthering the work that has been done previously to help collaboration with Revit. We can now:

• Export a Revit family (RFA) file from Inventor.
• Reference a Revit project (RVT) file Into Inventor with AnyCAD.

New for Inventor 2022 is the ability to export a Revit project (RVT) file from Inventor.

By working in the context of the Revit project, around a shared coordinate system, we can now export an Inventor model as a Revit project that can be used for coordination and collaboration on our BIM projects.

Click here to read Paul’s post on exporting Revit RVT files from Inventor 2022:

What do you think of interoperability in Autodesk Inventor?

How about the Factory design utilities or the product design and manufacturing collection?

Please click here reach out to us on the Ideas page.

Or – click here to join the Autodesk Feedback community

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There are lots of ways to navigate your models and drawings in Autodesk Inventor.

You can use the F2 key to pan, and the F4 key to orbit. You can use the Navigation menu, or the Steering wheel. You can use the View cube – or you can use your mouse…

Tip: My favourite is to use a Spacenavigator!

• MMB (Scroll wheel) down to pan
• MMB (scroll wheel) to zoom in or out
• MMB (scroll wheel) +SHIFT to orbit

Just like AutoCAD! Great!

Autodesk Inventor 2022 now allows you to map your middle mouse button navigation to Zoom, Pan or Orbit.

Click here to learn what else is new in Autodesk Inventor 2022

Mapping Mouse wheel orbit settings in Inventor

Unless – you are coming to Inventor from software with different center mouse button 3D orbit and navigation settings…

Or you are in the process of moving from another CAD software to Inventor, and you need to use both CAD systems side by side.

Rotating the model with your middle mouse button might be programmed into your muscle memory, making it hard to switch back and forth….

Autodesk Inventor 2022 now allows you to map the MMB (Middle mouse button or Scroll wheel), and the CTRL+MMB and SHIFT+MMB overrides to ‘PAN’, ‘ZOOM’, or ‘ORBIT’.

How to change MMB navigation

To change your Middle mouse button navigation settings, go to:

Tools (Tab) > Options (Panel) > Application options (Button)

In the Application options go to:

Display (Tab) > Middle Mouse Button (Area – at the bottom of the dialog!)

For each Middle Mouse button and override, pick your preference from Pan, Orbit and Zoom.

Let us know how this works for you!

This change was instigated by a post in the Inventor ideas forum. Thank you all very much for your participation.

Click here to add your suggestions on how to improve Inventor to Inventor ideas

Click here to join the Autodesk Feedback community

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You don’t have to wait for the next yearly release of Autodesk Inventor to benefit from the new functionality and workflow improvements we’ve been working on.

Subscribers can have everything we have completed – as soon as it’s ready in the current ‘Point’ release. Log into your account now and download.

We typically issue 2 point releases that have new functionality per year. File types are not affected, and they are always compatible with the current release. Point releases are a quick update and do not require a uninstall and reinstall, the new functionality is simply added to your existing Inventor 2022 installation.

All functionality released in the point releases will be incorporated into the next major release – Inventor 2023!

Click here to find out what’s new in Inventor 2022.

Autodesk Inventor update

iLogic Enhancement – copy & paste a rule within the iLogic browser.

Copying iLogic rules to new components have been made easier.

You can now select the iLogic rule in the iLogic browser, Right Mouse Button click (RMB) and pick ‘copy’ then RMB click again and pick ‘Paste’, to copy your rule into the same component or another part or assembly.

This is an Inventor Ideas request: iLogic Copy Rules & Add iLogic Copy – Paste function (Thank you!)

Rename custom Colour Schemes in the editor.

You can now re-name your custom color schemes from within the color schemes editor.

Inventor 2022.1 What’s new in Assembly modeling?

Rename Design views on creation.

When you create or copy a design view, you can now edit its name immediately.

Derived part – replace base component.

Inventor 2022.1 includes a new option for the derive workflow, which allows you to switch out the base component of a derived part or assembly.

This is an Inventor Ideas request: Derived part replace model reference.

Click here to add your suggestions to improve your Inventor workflows to Inventor ideas.

Highlighting of Invisible components.

When hovering your mouse cursor over components in the assembly browser, Components that have their visibility turned off will highlight in the model window.

Selection of invisible or suppressed components

We’ve made it easier to group select components that you can’t see in the graphics window, with new selection filters for selecting all Invisible, or all Suppressed components.

Tip: You can assign a custom command key for these filters in the Customise dialog box.

Tip: Use the hotkey combination ‘SHIFT+RMB’ to bring up the selection filters at your cursor.

Quick access to presentation files

You can now open presentation files from within the assembly model browser.

Substitute model states

To clarify what workflows are available when a substitute model is active, the following commands will be disabled (greyed out) or will display a warning message.

In the Ribbon:

• Place iLogic Component
• Analyze Interference
• Activate Contact Solver
• Convert to Weldment

Component context menu:

• Demote/Promote
• Replace from Content Center…

Dynamic Simulation will display a message explaining the substitute model state (an assembly that has been derived into a single part) has no moving bodies.

Frame Analysis will display a message explaining the need to switch to a non-substitute model state.

Migration of Legacy Substitute Parts

When migrating substitute designs to Inventor 2022, the automatic check for updates process is no longer initiated.

Migration is not interrupted unnecessarily, and you can later unsuppressed the link with the base and use local update to get the latest Substitute version.

BOM manager enhancements

You can now select multiple adjacent or non-adjacent cells in the bill of material (BOM) manager and delete their contents.

When exporting your bill of materials, you now have the same export options that you have when exporting a parts list.

(Apart from ‘Title’ because the BOM in the BOM manager doesn’t have one!).

Content center red text on save.

Red text in the ‘Save’ dialog is used to indicate files that are not in the project workspace.

Content Center components or custom component libraries, that are saved in your project workspace or are defined as libraries, will no longer appear as red text in the save dialog.

Inventor 2022.1 What’s new in Part Modelling?

Multiple edge selection for chamfers

When creating ‘Distance-Distance’ Chamfers in Inventor 2022.1, you can now select multiple edges on a shared face that don’t touch.

Window selection in sheet metal

You can now window select Sheet Metal Cut profiles.

Midpoint selection in sketches

You can now apply distance and 3-point angular dimensions to sketch line, arc, and part edge midpoints in Part, Assembly, and Drawing sketches – without having to manually add the midpoint first.

Edit and share sketch from sketch dimension.

It is now possible to edit or share a sketch from a selected sketch dimension in parts and assemblies.

When you select a dimension, the Edit Sketch option is available in the context menu for parts and assemblies. The Share Sketch option is available for parts only.

Inventor 2022.1 What’s new in Drawings?

Insert Sketch Symbol

To make it easier to insert your sketched symbols, without having to re-pick the options, Sketched Symbol options are now preserved across Inventor sessions, on a per-user basis.

This includes:

• Leader, Visible
• Static
• Symbol Clipping
• Scale
• Rotate

Delete sheets using the Delete key

You can now delete drawing sheets by selecting a sheet and pressing the Delete key.

The “Delete Sheet” command – available by RMB click on a sheet, has been re-named ‘Delete’.

Multi-sheet browsing

To make it easier to browse through the sheets in multi-sheet drawings, you can now browse using the ‘Next Sheet’ or ‘Previous Sheet’ commands, available on RMB click or by using ‘CTRL+Page Up’ or ‘CTRL+Page Down’.

This is an Inventor Ideas request: Next page/sheet … IDW

Tip: You can assign a custom command key for these commands in the Customise dialog box.

Performance improvements

• Graphics performance for these Visual Styles, Wireframe with Hidden Edges & Wireframe with Visible Edges Only.
• Changing component visibility in Express mode.
• Open performance for Assembly/Part/Drawing files with large images in them.

Inventor 2022.1 Translator enhancements

• Read and write CATIA V5-6R2021
• Read SolidWorks material names
• Enhance reading performance and memory use for DGN and SketchUp formats.
• Enhance performance when creating cloud mesh from CATIA V5 file (.catpart)
• Read Creo 8.0
• Read and write Pro/E Granite 14
• Added support for assembly hierarchy to QIF
• Added support for geometric tolerance with projected zone

Conclusion

We hope that you find this Autodesk Inventor update helpful and you download it today. And, keep an eye out for Inventor 2022.2 coming later in the year!

Give us your feedback with a post in the Inventor forum.

Submit your suggestions for how to improve Inventor on Inventor Ideas.

Join the Inventor Feeback community – test drive early Alpha/Beta builds of Inventor and give your feedback directly to the product team.

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Autodesk Inventor 2022.2 update has been released. As usual, there are enhancements and updates from the sketching and part modeling all the way through assemblies, drawings, and overall performance.

If you’re not familiar, there’s a command called ‘Rotate at Angle’ that allows you to rotate your models at a specific increment in any direction; this is super helpful for getting the exact angle on views you want to save. Now while that command is active, you can zoom and pan for a more interactive experience. This is going to save you time trying to get that exact same view from one model to another.

Previously the ‘Make Component’ tool allowed you to create associative assembly files from a combination of multibody solids and sketches. In Autodesk Inventor 2022.2, you can now select surfaces as a part of the selection process. This update also allows you to select invisible bodies from the browser as well. You can now use more of your data in associative downstream processes.

When creating new solid bodies or surface bodies in a part file you can edit the name of the body in the property panel. This is the name that displays in the solid bodies or surface bodies folder. This is particularly helpful when leveraging these bodies for the creation of other parts or assemblies.

When working with the bill of materials you can now do a multi-cell select in a column and change multiple cells at one time saving you time from editing individual cells inside of your BOM.

You can now use a window selection to add center marks across multiple drawing views in a single command.

If you leverage the derived part workflows to build geometry you can now open the base component by simply right-clicking on it in the browser and selecting open base component. (modeling view needs to be active)

The ilogic environment has several improvements. Two that came directly from the idea station include the ability to select multiple iLogic rules and perform operations such as suppressing running and regenerating as well as new options for filtering rule snippets in the edit rule dialog.

Collaboration and working with non-native data is easier with new and updated translators including NX, JT, STEP, and DWFX export.

Learn more about all the enhancements on the Autodesk Inventor 2022.2 help.

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Here we are with another great release of Inventor that continues to be driven by you.  Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to send us your feedback and suggestions.  This article will provide an overview of the enhancements and improvements you should expect to see after installing Inventor 2023.  Over the next several weeks, you will see multiple blog articles that dive deeper into each category.

There are a few major themes for this release.  Our goal is to provide you with the enhancements you asked for to improve your design experience.  We also know that collaboration is essential to you.  A large amount of effort has been focused on interoperability with Revit and Fusion 360 with more efficient workflows that we will discuss later in this article and future articles.  And we know that performance is a high priority for those working on large complex designs.  We have several improvements that will boost your productivity.

Remember that we will cover the following items in more detail throughout the next few months.  As you read the article, be sure to watch the great videos that Luke Mihelcic created as we walk through these enhancements.  And click on the following link to register for the live webinar!

Sign up for the Inventor 2023 What’s New webinar

General Enhancements

As soon as you begin using Inventor 2023, you will see a difference in the Home screen display.  As you would expect, it provides easy access to recently opened files and other helpful content.  This is similar and consistent with the interface for Fusion 360, AutoCAD, and other Autodesk products making it easy to transition between them.

Are you using the Ray Tracing capability to quickly create a rendering of your design as you work?  Inventor 2023 introduces a new display option that takes advantage of support for hardware ray tracing in recent graphics cards (GPUs). This feature is called GPU Ray Tracing. It is in a pre-release state and will be improved in future updates.

In earlier releases of Inventor, selecting the “Ray Tracing” display option in a viewport would use the Autodesk Raytracer (ART), which provides interactive results using only the CPU. Now you choose to use either CPU or GPU Ray Tracing, with the potential for higher performance and quality using your GPU.

Interoperability Enhancements

Revit to Inventor data exchange

In the past few years, the development team has continued to improve the way you work with others on different CAD software.  For example, a lot of work has been done for Revit users looking to share their data with Inventor for custom fabrication.  Inventor can already open Revit data and even choose the appropriate portions of the design for their needs.  The same is true in this release, except there is no longer a need to export a separate file from Revit and email it to the Inventor user.

Now the Revit user selects the data they want to send and creates a data exchange that gets uploaded to Autodesk Docs.  The Inventor user can then access the data exchange to load into their project.  If the Revit data gets updated, it will remain associative inside Inventor without emailing a new revision file.

Inventor to Fusion 360

Have you considered some of the capabilities of Fusion 360 that complement Inventor?  If you would like to create tool path strategies, advanced simulations, electronic design, or run a generative design study, you will find some one-click workflows in the Fusion 360 ribbon.  The updated ribbon will provide a more intuitive approach to downstream workflows.

Part Modeling Enhancements

There is a new mark feature that has been introduced to Inventor 2023.  Use sketch geometry to add marking features to your standard or sheet metal components.  It can be displayed in 2D and 3D and exported within a flat pattern as a DXF or DWG.  Marking styles will help control the modeling and export properties of your Mark features.

There are several enhancements for sheet metal, such as asymmetric contour flange extrusion, extended information in the browser, and a new option to export curved edges as tangent arcs.

You can now change the tolerance settings of each of the model states in your components.  You can configure the tolerance, text, and Boolean parameters in an Excel spreadsheet if you prefer.

Assembly Modeling Enhancements

A new BOM Settings option was introduced in this release that lets you control zero quantity visibility and item number sequencing.  Click BOM Settings and see the following options:

• Hide Suppressed components in BOM
• Automatically number items sequentially

Documentation Enhancements

When adding a 3D annotation, you may already know that you can reference iProperty information to the selected item using a leader.  However, there hasn’t been a way to choose iProperties from the subassembly level or part level in the past.  In the 2023 release, you now can reference the iProperty from any of the subassembly levels associated with the selected object.

When editing a detail view, use Edit Detail Properties to change the detail view boundary shape from circular to rectangular. The command is accessed from the view context menu in either the browser or the sheet.

The Datum Target command is added to the general annotation panel so you can establish datums on irregular surfaces.  You can now create point, circle, and rectangle datum targets.

There are several enhancements made to weld and surface finish symbols for additional options in the command dialog and updates to industry standards.

Performance Improvements

Do you prefer to display threads in your design?  There is now better performance even when showing a large amount of them in your assembly.  The Punch Tool has also been improved significantly when you have several in your sheet metal components.

If you enjoy working in Express Mode for large assemblies, you will notice a boost in performance for changing the visibility of components.

Join Us! Inventor 2023 What’s New webinar

Don’t forget to join us for a what’s new in Inventor 2023 webinar to learn more and get your questions answered by our Inventor experts.  We have two dates and times to choose from depending on your location.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 2:00 PM (EST)  [SIGN UP]

Thursday, April 21, 2022: 2PM (BST) | 3PM (CEST)  [SIGN UP]

Be a part of the Inventor Community

Your feedback about Inventor is vital to us. To share feedback and product improvement requests with our Inventor team, please join the following communities:

• Inventor feedback community
• Inventor Ideas
• Inventor blog
• Inventor LinkedIn group
• Inventor Facebook page
• Autodesk University

Thank you very much for reading and once again thank to those of you who have taken the time to participate in the enhancements for this 2023 release of Inventor.

Jim Byrne

Product Marketing Specialist for Inventor

jim.byrne@autodesk.com

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Evolution of sharing designs

When was the last time you took a trip down memory lane to remember how you collaborated on projects?  How did you share designs with your customers?  For me, it meant getting in my car with a bunch of paper drawings.  It could be an entire day of travel.  Can you imagine doing that today!

Fast forward several years, 3D modeling has become mainstream.  The benefits of moving to 3D were undeniable.  But there was one major problem.  It was easy to collaborate with DWG and DXF files, but how do you save and open 3D models between different CAD systems?  It was one of the biggest challenges for companies and teams to work together for two decades.  Translating data was a common issue depending on the CAD software or the complexity of the model.

Then seven years ago, Autodesk Inventor became the first CAD software to change the way companies shared their data.  With AnyCAD technology, engineers could directly open files from other CAD software without the need to purchase more software or translate the data!  And the model would remain associative to any changes made to the geometry.

What is happening today?

The AnyCAD technology extends to the interoperability between Inventor and Revit.  Inventor users have been capable of referencing Revit data and even selecting specific views from the Revit model to open.  This is all great news!  But it gets even better.

Autodesk introduced Data Exchanges. Data Exchanges create a seamless workflow for Inventor users to design their products around Revit data.

How does it work?

A Data Exchange acts as a neutral, secure container for granular Revit data that can be shared with many downstream applications. This opens the door to streamline automation workflows.

Revit 2023 allows you to create Data Exchanges by publishing a Revit file, along with a set of 3D views, to Autodesk Docs. The data contained within each published 3D view tailors to the information needs of any specific discipline or trade.

Inventor users can then access the Data Exchange within Autodesk Docs. They can preview the exchange, review its data properties, and load it into an Inventor assembly. From there, it becomes a reference for a more detailed custom fabrication design. If there is a change to the Revit model, the Data Exchange automatically updates after it republishes. The Inventor user will be notified that there is an update.

Watch this one minute video that briefly shows what the process looks like.

Why does this matter?

This improved workflow eliminates the disconnect or loss of data that commonly occurs in an email inbox.  It provides more control over the data exchange process ensuring that the latest version of the Revit data is available in one location. 

How can I begin using Data Exchanges?

This is a new technology that will require both the Revit and Inventor users to be on the latest 2023 release of the software.  You can access these updates on the products and services page for your account.  Or go to the Autodesk Desktop App on your computer. This is one of many new technologies for Inventor 2023. See the previous blog article to get an overview of other great enhancements to this release.

Jim Byrne

Product Marketing Specialist

jim.byrne@autodesk.com

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New webinar shows how integrated factory modeling saves money and protects schedules

Factories change constantly, and these changes involve a range of teams using disparate tools. The stakes are high because any error could put the project’s budget and schedule at risk. Digitalization is paving the way for a more streamlined, collaborative, and efficient approach.

We explored this situation in depth in a recent webinar, available now on-demand. Outpace & Outperform: Proven Strategies for Successful Factory Projects features insights from Chris Mounts, Director of Laser Scanning and CAD Services at Production Modeling Corporation (PMC). Chris has more than 20 years of experience designing, scanning, and modeling factories for a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace, heavy equipment, and more.

Chris is joined in the webinar by Marc Banning—who has 25 years of experience providing strategic manufacturing consulting for the automotive industry, and Jim Byrne—who has spent more than 24 years working on technologies for simulation and factory planning.

Here are 3 key takeaways from the webinar.

1. Integrated factory modeling bridges silos with a trusted data source.

The goal of integrated factory modeling is to shift from disparate systems and inconsistent data to a common digital 3D factory environment that allows teams to collaborate confidently and intuitively. Integrated factory modeling provides a “single source of truth” that can help multiple manufacturing disciplines execute projects with fewer errors, lower costs, and higher efficiency.

2. Potential cost savings with integrated factory modeling are significant.

Typical projects allow between 20% to 50% in construction cost overages when adding production lines, products, or processing techniques to an existing factory. Integrated factory modeling can reduce these cost overages to nearly zero by helping you catch potential conflicts and mistakes before they happen. For typical projects, this represents millions in savings.

3. You can start small and still see big results with integrated factory modeling.

You don’t have to overhaul your entire production planning process to start digitalizing your factory. The first step is bringing layouts into 3D. From there, you can employ automation to free up time for value-add work, combine layouts with BIM data to create a high-fidelity virtual representation of the entire facility, and unify the factory lifecycle around a common data source.

Watch the full webinar here and learn more about the value of integrated factory modeling.

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Here we are with another great release of Inventor that continues to be driven by you.  Thank you to all of you who have taken the time to send us your feedback and suggestions.  Those suggestions helped to shape over 100 enhancements over the past year.

Inventor 2024 is packed with new features and enhancements to improve your design experience.  We also know that documentation is essential to effectively communicate your designs to manufacturing.  You will find enhancements for 3D annotations as well as 2D drawings. And we know that performance is a high priority for those working on large complex designs.  We have continued our commitment to speed up your engineering workflows.

This article will highlight several of the enhancements you should expect to see after installing Inventor 2024.  For a complete list of enhancements, be sure to visit the Inventor online help guide.

A special thanks to James Willoughby for creating all of the video demonstrations below.

General enhancements

Section View

The section view definition persists in the design view representation. You can easily edit your section views or suppress the section by right-clicking on the view representation node.

You also have control of the end cap preview during section view plane dragging. It will be turned off by default if your assembly is greater than or equal to 500 parts.

Graphics

Until now, Inventor Studio had a 4096 x 4096 pixel rendering output. The limitation has been removed and Inventor Studio will render images up to 16K x 16K resolution, depending on what your graphics card supports.

Custom Environment Image Support

The workflow for using custom HDR and EXR images with IBL lighting styles is much improved and is supported for both CPU and GPU ray tracing.

Support for IBL backgrounds

GPU ray tracing now supports rendering with IBL backgrounds.

Perspective with ortho faces as the default

It is now possible to set “Perspective With Ortho Faces” as the default view setting in both Document Settings and Application options.

Part modeling enhancements

Parameters window

The parameter window extends export functionality to text and boolean parameters in the user parameters section.  This allows us to access parameters in other places, such as the iProperties where we can insert them as part of a live description, or simply display them in the custom iProperties tab.

Mark feature

The Mark feature was introduced last year in Inventor 2023 enabling you to laser etch or mark your 3D models.

We’ve now improved that in 2024 by adding a behavior section to the property panel. In addition to being able to etch in three different directions, there are now two different marking methods.

• Project will apply the mark across all faces in it’s path, even if they are not coplanar.

• We’ve also added the ability to wrap a mark. This allows the mark to wrap around corners or be applied to curved geometry such as shafts or cylinders.

Oriented minimum bounding box option

You can derive a solid body as an oriented minimum bounding box. A new “Oriented minimum bounding box” option is added to the Options tab of the Derived Part, Derive Assembly and Make Part dialogs. By default, the option is checked. Uncheck the box to derive a body as the orthogonal bounding box.

New Finish Feature

The new Finish feature enables you specify appearance and manufacturing processes in your part and assembly models. It provides rich data as you apply material coatings, heat treatments, surface texture, or paint color.

The Finish feature is supported by Model States for maintaining variable processes for your 3D model.

3D annotations enhancements

Model-Based Definition

There are a few new enhancements for MBD in Inventor 2024

• When applying a linear dimension, it can now be specified as an envelope requirement.

• We’ve also expanded the annotation scales to include 1:5.

• When annotating the profile of a planar surface, it was previously possible to specify ‘all around,’ Inventor 2024 also adds ‘All over’ to the note options.

• And finally, in the drawing environment, we’ve added the ability to extract 3D annotations from a part contained in an assembly file. Simply switch to the 3D annotations tab and select the source.

Weld symbol

On the annotate ribbon there is now a welding symbol option to allow you to add welding PMI information to your designs. The dialogue is almost identical to the drawing environment allowing you great flexibility over your welding symbols. Of course as always, we can bring these notes through into the drawing environment.

Remember, you don’t have to create a weldment assembly for this, 3D weld symbols are also supported in normal assemblies and even multi-body part files.

And with QIF or STEP 242 we can export this information to other systems and viewers.

Drawing enhancements

Revision clouds

Revision clouds are full-fledged Inventor objects and no longer in the SDK. Add them to drawing sheets or views, move them around, add or delete vertices, and like other annotation styles the formatting is managed using the Styles Editor. Since they are sketch-based, they can be edited either in their cloud state or from the sketch.

Edge symbol

You can now define an Edge Symbol based on ISO 13715:2019 standard. The new Edge Symbol command is added to the Symbols panel of the Annotate tab as well as the drawing Style and Standard Editor.

Tube and Pipe

In previous versions of Inventor, it was only possible to add a 45 or 90 degree elbow to a rigid pipe run. Starting from this release, it is now possible to apply custom angled elbows.

iLogic Vault Workflow Enhancements

With Inventor 2024, working with Vault has never been easier. New functions added to iLogic allow Inventor to check out, get files, search Vault, and much more as part of your automations. Vault code snippets added to the editor make it easy to quickly get started.

Fusion 360 interoperability

Access to Manual Inspection added to Fusion 360 tools

From within Inventor you can send a part (.ipt) file to Fusion 360 and create manual inspection tasks.

Fusion Exports Workflow

If a change has occurred in the Inventor model state or design view used for a Fusion 360 export, and you click Open in Fusion 360 in the export context menu, you are notified that the Inventor model and Fusion 360 model are out of sync and are given the option to update the Fusion 360 model before opening it.

Join Us! Inventor 2024 What’s Now, New, and Next webinar

Don’t forget to join us for a what’s now, new, and next webinar to learn more and get your questions answered by our Inventor experts.  We have two dates and times to choose from depending on your location.

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | 11:30 AM (EST)  [SIGN UP]

Thursday, April 27, 2023: 3PM (BST) | 4PM (CEST)  [SIGN UP]

Be a part of the Inventor Community

Your feedback about Inventor is vital to us. To share feedback and product improvement requests with our Inventor team, please join the following communities:

Inventor feedback community

Inventor Ideas

Inventor blog

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Autodesk University

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Global processing systems manufacturer streamlines workflows with iLogic and FDU

As one of the largest industrial processing systems suppliers in the world, Dusseldorf, Germany-based GEA makes the machines that make the products we use every day, from the foods and beverages in our grocery carts to the medicines our doctors prescribe to the gas in our cars. These include both standard systems and custom, made-to-order solutions.

The latter are developed with iLogic, a specialized set of tools within Autodesk® Inventor® based around rules-driven design.

Large-scale processing systems use many of the same types of components—compressors, pumps, valves, controllers, mixers, homogenizers—in unique configurations. The iLogic tools allow GEA engineers to create a “parametric skeleton” that standard product teams can then adjust to create new models automatically.

“We meet regularly with the experts who understand all the intricacies of a specific process and the GEA machine for that process,” says Lune Riezebos, Application Specialist in Service Delivery with GEA. “They explain what parameters they have, and that’s all we need to build a model that they can adjust and turn into many different configurations automatically.”

Over time, this creates a library of components that can be repurposed many times over, developing standardized products for custom scenarios without going through a lengthier, more traditional customization process.

“We can create a new model in 2 hours instead of 3 weeks,” Riezebos says. “Depending on the complexity of the system, they can cut engineering time anywhere from 30% to 80%. That makes it much easier to meet customers’ needs.”

But the company soon realized its new approach came with an unexpected challenge.

The sales cycle for large processing systems can be long because the customer and GEA are figuring out how to solve a new problem. At the same time, GEA must use its engineering resources wisely, so it was not always possible to develop a complete 3D model of a solution before the customer signed the contract.

To bridge the gap, sales teams were developing 2D layouts with AutoCAD® during the initial phase of the sales cycle. Engineers would then recreate these layouts in 3D with Inventor after the sale was confirmed. This resulted in a great deal of duplicated effort. It also created some uncomfortable situations when the sales team inadvertently created 2D system layouts that could not be manufactured as specified. This was an unanticipated result of well-intentioned sales teams responding to customer requests for changes before the engineering team became involved.

“We had worked out a way for the sales teams to build systems by putting together ‘blocks’ in AutoCAD,” says Martin Andersen, Senior Manager Design Engineer for GEA. “But it was too easy to change aspects that shouldn’t be changed. When we reached the project phase and began redrawing everything from scratch, we had to tell the customers that what they signed off on could not actually be done.”

While Andersen’s team could always amend the 3D layout to meet the customer’s needs, the disconnect brought unnecessary tension and delay into the process. That’s when the engineering team realized a much more efficient method was already available in the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection.

As it turned out, the answer was Factory Design Utilities—only available in the Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. It can link 2D layouts created in AutoCAD with 3D models. In other words, Factory Design Utilities allowed the GEA team to create 2D and 3D layouts simultaneously and keep them in sync with every round of changes.

See how this realization not only helped GEA dramatically reduce the time involved in 3D layout production but also make the entire sales cycle more efficient.

Read the full story now and learn more about the latest features in Factory Design Utilities.

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Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the full-fledged Data Exchange Connector for Autodesk Inventor (Early Access)! Building on last year’s integration, this connector now offers enhanced capabilities beyond just loading in exchanged data – now, you can also both create and update data exchanges directly within Autodesk Inventor 2023. With these updates, we’re continuing to expand how designers and engineers can use data shared with them – and also empowering them to curate and share the data they author in Inventor.

Accelerate your building design and manufacturing workflows

We developed the Inventor Connector as a starting point to bridge the interoperability gap between the manufacturing (MFG) and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) domains. Many of you design spaces and experiences that require input from HVAC, electrical, and mechanical disciplines – and the reverse often holds true too, where mechanical engineers need factory or building information to design equipment.

With this new Inventor Connector, you can do both. You can send curated design data from Inventor to apps like Revit, Rhino, Dynamo, Grasshopper, and Power Automate, as well as receive data from those tools in Inventor (except for Power Automate, which is a read-only connector).

Share curated data from Inventor with Revit, Rhino, and other apps

A key workflow we targeted with the Inventor Connector – an ask by many of you – involves sharing complex Inventor assemblies with Revit for factory and building layouts. You can now go beyond manual, bulky file-based transfers towards more a streamlined, cloud-based approach that focuses on just the data you want to share.

For instance, if you want to share just a portion of your Inventor assembly with a stakeholder who uses Revit, you can create an exchange that allows that stakeholder to quickly visualize the shared portion, bring it into their Revit model (as a Direct Shape), and map the iProperty “category” to the Revit category. As we continue to iterate on these connectors, we will enhance our cross-app mapping support and expand into more app-native object support too.

Not only can this workflow be useful for building and equipment alignment, but it can also be leveraged within the context of Revit’s powerful documentation and IFC export capabilities. An important deliverable in most AEC workflows, including relevant equipment information in documentation becomes easier with the Data Exchange Connector ecosystem, which takes the hassle out of importing / exporting bulky files.

What else is new in the Inventor Connector?

Check out the list of other key new features below. If you have any questions, reach out to us on our community forum or directly at data.exchange.support@autodesk.com

• Create and update exchanges from parts and assemblies from their respective Inventor environments. Transfer just the design data you need to share with other apps, empowering your team to work seamlessly across multiple software platforms, while keeping a durable connection with the source data.

• Load Inventor assemblies as Revit categories, using the “category” iProperty. With this feature, you can visualize and manipulate your manufacturing design data directly within Revit.

• Map Revit Properties to iProperties in Inventor. With this mapping capability, you can keep your design data synced between Revit and Inventor, reducing errors and ensuring consistency throughout the design process.

Download the Inventor Connector

You can join our early access program for the Inventor Connector through the Autodesk App Store. You can also download our early access Revit 2024, Dynamo, Grasshopper Connectors – as well as our other publicly released connectors – through the App Store. We look forward to your feedback, which is critical to shaping future connectors development and dramatically improving how we interoperate across apps and share data across teams.

As we have mentioned in previous blog posts, you might find our Data Exchange landing page, public roadmap, and community forum helpful. In the meantime, stay tuned for more updates, new connectors, and expanded features!

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Access the webinar series:

How to accelerate mechanical design with Inventor (Part 1)

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 11:30 AM (EST)  [Watch
the recording]

How to accelerate mechanical design with Inventor (Part 2)

Thursday, June 15, 2023 | 11:30 AM (EST)  [Register]

What does the webinar series cover?

Discover the power of design tools that streamline your workflows and create room for innovation. As a mechanical designer, the process of converting a concept into a working design is often punctuated with tedious, repetitive tasks. These tasks can slow down your work and impede your ability to deliver specialized products swiftly. It’s time to reevaluate the tools you’re using and seek ones that offer integrated, and intuitive workflows.

In our upcoming two-part webinar series, we aim to share strategies and tools that can help you automate design processes with Autodesk Inventor, freeing up your time to focus on areas where your unique expertise truly adds value: creating superior products.

In the first session, we will discuss how to leverage the design automation capabilities of Inventor to accelerate the creation of parts and assemblies. Utilize flexible and specialized modeling methods, design automation strategies, design accelerators, and standard components available in the Inventor Content Center.

But the efficiency of the design process doesn’t end with creation—it extends to how seamlessly you can connect your designs to manufacturing and communicate with customers. This is why the second part of our webinar series will focus on the connected tools that Inventor offers for interoperability with other CAD systems.

In the world of product development, collaboration is inevitable. This often requires shared data from a variety of software applications among different teams, customers, and suppliers.

In the second session, we will delve into how you can connect with other CAD software and speed up the creation of manufacturing documentation using features such as seamless interoperability with AnyCAD, combined functionality of Inventor and AutoCAD, model-based definition for downstream workflows, and comprehensive collaboration tools available on any device.

Join us for this insightful webinar series and learn how to make the most of your time, skill, and Autodesk Inventor to enhance your product development journey.

Further resources to learn more

Your feedback about Inventor is vital to us. To share feedback and product improvement requests with our Inventor team, please join the following communities:

Inventor feedback community

Inventor Ideas

Inventor blog

Inventor LinkedIn community

Autodesk University

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Inventor 2024 brings a revolutionary feature to the table – the Finish feature, streamlines the process of documenting design appearance and manufacturing methods. The ‘What’s New, Now, & Next’ Webinar prompted a few questions about this feature, so we’ve published this blog post to address them. This tool allows designers to integrate elements such as material coatings, heat treatments, surface textures, and paint into their designs. What sets it apart is its seamless integration with Model States, iPart, and iAssembly, enhancing the versatility of your design process.

We have reconfigured the tool’s property panel, which now offers an extensive range of finish options. It integrates with model states, facilitating hassle-free finish modifications. Notably, the order of finishes in the browser affects their visibility. Model states govern this order, enabling you to layer finishes as per your preference.

Additional Material

When you add finishes, it doesn’t result in additional material added to the model, nor does it alter assembly spacing. The dimensions of your parts remain consistent, regardless of the number of finishes applied. While this constraint ensures your designs retain their original dimensions, providing flexibility, we understand this might not align with all use-case scenarios.

Values from the Finish command are easily accessible in the parameters window, making aspects like the calculation of paint quantities a breeze. You can retrieve finish information from the drawing environment or Model Based Definition, which are automatically updated with any changes. This automatic update feature ensures that your finishes are always accurate and up-to-date.

Finish.xml

Another consideration for this process is the finish.xml file in your design data directory. Tweaking this file lets you add more customizations to the Finish process. Sharing this file among colleagues fosters collaboration and design consistency. You can even establish presets for specific finish configurations, optimizing your workflow.

In the XML workflow, you can modify your materials and appearances, stored in a separate library. The Finish processes present a unique set of predefined Finishes, providing you the flexibility to select the ideal finish for your design.

Final Thoughts

The Finish tool excels by uniting visual aspects with detailed data, offering a holistic view of the manufacturing process. It refines the design process by documenting both the appearance and manufacturing simultaneously.

When surface finishes and intricate specifications are made visible within the digital design, it fosters enhanced clarity between designers and manufacturers. This visualization can act as a pivotal communication tool in the design process.

As we wrap up this blog on the Finish feature, we’d like to emphasize that this is not our final destination. Your invaluable input through the platforms listed below will keep fueling our relentless drive to innovate and improve.

Watch the full Inventor 2024 What’s Now, New, and Next webinar here and learn more about the new features in Inventor 2024.

Be a part of the Inventor Community

Your feedback about Inventor is vital to us. To share feedback and product improvement requests with our Inventor team, please join the following communities:

Inventor feedback community

Inventor Ideas

Inventor blog

Inventor LinkedIn community

Autodesk University

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What has the Inventor development team been doing since we released Inventor 2024?  They kept the pedal to the metal!  It’s now 3 ½ months later and we’re excited to announce the release of Inventor 2024.1!  This point release is packed with 32 customer-driven enhancements that provide continued value to your subscription.

Watch the video below to learn more as James Krenisky demonstrates 25 of the enhancements.  Explore how we enhanced the user experience with the introduction of finish parameter filters, geometric text in flat patterns, and user guides for custom elbows. We also cover symbol support in notes, exporting all finish parameters, iComponent support for finish features and more!

Watch the entire video below or click on any link in the table of contents to go directly to the item that interests you. Also look at the additional resources at the end of this article to find ways to connect with the Inventor team and other Inventor users.

Table of contents

• 00:53 Cancel Sketches
• 02:12 Referenced Parameters
• 03:04 Sweep Sketch Visibility
• 03:48 Plane Display Names
• 04:55 Remember “Heal Remaining Faces”
• 05:24 Geometry Text – Flat Patterns
• 05:53 Adding Participants
• 06:43 Paste at Mouse Location
• 07:29 Dropdown List
• 07:58 Edit Constraints
• 08:23 Finish Eye Dropper
• 09:07 Export all Finish Parameters
• 09:44 iComponent support for ‘Finish’ Parameters
• 10:03 Finish Feature List
• 10:36 Delete Origin Indicator
• 11:16 DWG Border Control
• 12:08 Illegal Table Characters
• 12:58 General Surface Profile Tolerance
• 13:33 Add/Delete Vertex
• 14:01 Finish Node in iLogic
• 14:22 Default Bend Radius
• 14:44 T&P Circular Edges
• 15:19 Self-Draining Style Warning
• 15:51 Copy/Paste iProperties
• 16:50 Mark Layers DXF/DWG

Additional resources

Inventor 2024.1 help guide – Learn more about the enhancements in Inventor 2024 and previous releases

Autodesk University 2023 – Register for AU 2023 coming up on November 13-15 in Las Vegas

Inventor feedback community – Join the Inventor beta community

Inventor Ideas – Submit your ideas and vote for enhancements to future releases of Inventor

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We are excited to introduce another excellent point release for Inventor 2024! The Inventor development team has continued to work hard this year to include customer-driven enhancements.

Watch the video below to learn more as we demonstrate workflows that improve efficiency, reliability, and productivity. You will find over 30 enhancements for measure, parameters, interoperability, and several other areas for parts, assemblies, and drawings.

Watch the entire video below or click on a section in the description to go directly to the item that interests you. Also, look at the additional resources at the end of this article to find ways to connect with the Inventor team and other Inventor users.

Table of Contents

0:00 Introduction

0:34 Sketch & Measure

2:06 Parameters

3:07 Part & Assembly

4:55 Drawings

Additional resources

Inventor 2024.2 help guide – Learn more about the enhancements in Inventor 2024 and previous releases.

Autodesk University 2023 – AU is next week, but you can still register to watch live keynote speakers online.

Inventor feedback community – Join the Inventor beta community.

Inventor Ideas – Submit your ideas and vote for enhancements to future releases of Inventor.

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This year marks the 24^th anniversary of Autodesk Inventor!  After 24 years, the development team hasn’t slowed down a bit. They released three major updates that included 142 enhancements based on your feedback.  Thank you for your effort and contributions to helping to make Inventor the best it can be for your most important design work.  We received 4,500 votes to drive the focused areas for each release.  Your votes play a significant role, not only in each enhancement but also in maintaining the highest level of stability so you can focus on your designs without disruption.

Performance

Our strive for industry-leading performance remains top of mind for the seventh straight year.  We know this continues to be an important value for those who work on large, complex 3D models and 2D drawings. This year, we focused on graphics, interoperability, and patterning improvements.

Inventor 2024 Feature Highlights

Let’s look at some notable enhancements you saw this year. To see a complete list of enhancements, visit the online help guide or watch our video demonstrations on YouTube.

New Finish feature

The new Finish feature that was introduced in the spring was a huge hit and received much attention.  This enables you to not only specify the appearance of your parts but also the manufacturing process, such as material coating or surface finish.

Mark feature enhancements

Like many of the new features in Inventor, the mark feature has continued to see enhancements since its introduction in Inventor 2023.  You can now use non-coplanar sketches to define the mark sketch geometry and wrap or project the sketch to a non-planar face.

Maintaining global standards compliance

3D weld symbols are now available in parts and assembly documents, helping you to further define your documentation at the 3D level.  Like other 3D annotations, your weld symbols can be retrieved in your 2D drawing views.  They are also supported in 3D PDF, DWF, and Shared Views for better collaboration.

Over the past few years, we have continued to maintain global standards compliance for model-based definition and 2D documentation. Our goal is to reduce manual effort while satisfying standards.

These were only a few of the 142 enhancements added to Inventor 2024. We’re already working on video demonstrations for the amazing new enhancements for Inventor 2025! Stay tuned for what’s coming at the end of March next year.

Reflecting on customer successes in 2023

Engineered Arts

We had a great opportunity to meet with the team at Engineered Arts this year. They are the leading designer and manufacturer of humanoid entertainment robots in the UK, specializing in developing a wide range of robotic devices that bring historical figures, contemporary celebrities, and even fictional creatures to life. The company’s design and engineering teams rely heavily on Autodesk Inventor in their work, which blends artistic rendering, mechanical engineering, and robotic innovation to create one-of-a-kind experiences that captivate audiences at museums, science centers, theme parks, and special events.

See the full written story here.

GEA

For many years, GEA has realized the benefits of investing in design automation strategies with iLogic. Recently, this year, we had an in-depth conversation with Lune Riezebos, Application Specialist in Service Delivery, regarding their factory design process. Through the use of Factory Design Utilities in Inventor and AutoCAD, they reduced the creation of their systems from 3 to 4 weeks down to 2 hours.

See the full written story here.

AU Design and Make Conference 2023

The AU Design and Make Conference was back in Las Vegas this year. There were more in attendance than ever at over 12,000. Online attendance also grew significantly as 210,000 viewers tuned in to watch Andrew Anagnost as he encouraged the use of AI to unlock powerful new ways of working. We also had 39 classes, hands-on labs, and industry talks for Inventor this year! They are all available on demand for free at the Autodesk University website.

Looking forward to a bright 2024

Thank you to our wonderful community of Inventor users who influence the future of how your products get designed and manufactured successfully. Continue to communicate your ideas to us and to the rest of the user community. We look forward to 2024 as we collaborate with you to tackle your biggest challenges.

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An AU2023 ‘Top rated’ session.

The Autodesk Design and Make conference is our chance to celebrate the awesome work that you do.

Each year, thousands of people gather at Autodesk University, and hundreds of speakers share their stories, best practices, and top tips for success with technology for design and engineering.

All classes receive feedback from the attendees, and the best classes and speakers become ‘Top rated’. Read ‘Best of AU 2023 Awards: Top-Rated Classes and Speakers’ on the Autodesk University Blog for the full list.

In this post, we’d like to highlight the Top-Rated session, ‘A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment’ by Todd Schmoock and Kevin Smedley.

Here’s an introduction to the class by Todd.

Todd Schmoock

A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment addressed the issues with all the variables to consider, such as how many employees will need access, shared content, creating content, templates, managing cloud data, and best practices when implementing Factory Design.

All of this can be very overwhelming. To help the attendees that are in the early stages of this process, the class was intended to help you gain knowledge and save time by hearing what others have gone through who have implemented Factory Design.

For the attendees who are already working with Factory Design, the hope was to share tips and tricks allowing you to take this information and implement it into your existing workflows.

Delivering “A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment” at Autodesk University 2023 was an awesome experience and a great way of sharing knowledge on this subject with others who have implemented Factory Design and for anyone who wants to implement Factory Design. The class went very well, and we could tell others are as passionate as we are about this subject.

Several people mentioned how challenging it is to gain the knowledge needed with Factory Design because of the limited time to learn and implement it while still meeting the project deadlines. It can be challenging to implement new software and workflows in your company. Pre-planning by reading up on the subject, taking advantage of classes at Autodesk University, and trying your knowledge on a small project is the best way to have a successful deployment.

Kevin and I have another great class planned for this year’s Autodesk University. The plan is to have it as a continuation class from last year, but it will also stand on its own. So, if you have not implemented Factory Design yet, download the class document “A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment” from last year’s Autodesk University and look for this year’s class at Autodesk University 2024.

Hope to see you there!

Check out the class.

All AU class materials are accessible for free on the Autodesk University website and can include video recordings, presentations, handouts, and datasets (depending on the class type).

Click here to go to the class page and explore the free materials for ‘A Factory Design Utilities Discussion with Peers on a Successful Deployment’ by Todd Schmoock and Kevin Smedley.

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