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Inventor 101: Coil Command
Some mechanical designs remain relatively blocky and basic in terms of their design structure. However, as you start developing more complex projects, you’ll likely come to a point where you need a...
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Quick Tip – Symmetry Constraint
Adding constraints to your designs within Autodesk Inventor is a crucial step in every assembly process. However, sometimes constraints aren’t as simple as just faces or centerlines. Take, for example,...
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#AUDesignChallenge: The Winners
#AUDesignChallenge: The Winners As you all know, we recently ran a contest, challenging the Fusion 360 and Inventor community to design a functional piece of furniture (i.e. chair, stool, table, desk,...
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Inventor 101: Sheet Metal Basics
Designing parts out of solid metal block stock is useful and all, but every good design engineer isn’t limited to just those materials. A variety of modern parts are designed and constructed using...
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Building a bridge between Inventor and InfraWorks & Civil 3D
As many of you know, Inventor is not just used by industrial equipment manufactures but did you know Inventor plays a big part in modern bridge design? Last year the InfraWorks & Civil 3D teams...
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Simplify and Share with Shrinkwrap
Let’s say you have some information you want to share with the customer, vendor or partner. But you want to simplify the geometry because they don’t need to see all detail or perhaps you’re protecting...
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What’s New in the Collection: Generative Design
For Product Design and Manufacturing Collection subscribers, getting started with generative design just got easier. How? On October 16, we enhanced Fusion 360 to a single product offering that...
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Turning iPart Descriptions into iAssembly BoM
If you work with a lot of iPart and iAssembly models, you know that keeping track of what version of the part you are working with can be tedious, especially when calling the same part out in your Bill...
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Inventor 101: Design Accelerator
Creating accurate designs in Inventor is only the beginning of the engineering design process. The next step is accurately illustrating or animating designs to make them easier to understand and...
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Check out Autodesk Nastran In-CAD at Autodesk University 2018
Whether you’re a seasoned analysis veteran or brand new to simulation, we have the Autodesk Nastran In-CAD classes for you at Autodesk University 2018. Nastran In-CAD is a part of the Product Design...
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Quick Tip – Patterning Milling Operations
As CAD and CAM continue to be further seamlessly integrated, the tools available to the modern design or manufacturing engineer are only expanded. Some of the most useful integrated tools are those...
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Inventor Tolerance Analysis
An assembly is only as good as the sum of its part tolerances, but traditional methods for considering tolerance stack-ups just don’t add up. Excel sheets and manual calculations leave room for error....
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Your Quick Guide to Autodesk University 2018
The time has come once again and the most exciting time of the year is upon us, #AU2018! Whether it’s your first time or your seventh, if you want to survive the week, then follow these simple steps....
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Expand Your Inventor workflow with Generative Design
Connect Inventor to Generative Design right from your desk. I have never been on a design project where much time was quoted to get design ideas out of your head. “Time equals money” as they say....
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Autodesk University 2018 is a wrap
With AU2018 wrapped up, you might be thinking “I don’t have to think about AU for another year”. Well, you would be half right. AU2018 was an awesome event with record high attendance and amazing...
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3D CAD Preparation & Cleanup
Creating 3D CAD models is one of the first steps in the design process. After you have a certain design, though, you need to validate that design through simulation. That means rendering complex...
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Quick Tip – Insert Image
Bringing in images to the design space within Inventor can be a great tool for reference. Whether you’re trying to recreate something already in existence or just need a visual reference for a design,...
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Quick Tip – Rotation Translation Constraint
Adding constraints to your designs within Autodesk Inventor is a crucial step in every assembly process. However, sometimes constraints aren’t as simple as just faces or centerlines. Take for example,...
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Connecting Frame Generator Parts with the Notch Command
Frame Generator is a huge time saver for those that are looking to create frame structures out of a quick sketch, but there are often times when some of the resulting 3D parts are not connected quite...
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Inventor 101: Punch Tool Sheet Metal
Designing sheet metal parts involve some different design methodologies compared to traditional component design, as you likely already know if you’re reading this. Often times in sheet metal design,...
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