Do you want to view your Inventor Models in VR? If you have access to the Product Design and Manufacturing collection from Autodesk, you already have everything you need. I was asked this week if there is a workflow between Inventor and 3ds Max Interactive. The good news, is that there is, and that there … More Inventor to Virtual Reality Using 3ds Max Interactive
Something a little different, how about a heart modelled in Fusion 360 T-Splines! Here’s the workflow: Start with a T-Splines Box Set the Display Mode to Box Display (Alt+1) Add 2 new edges on the top face (insertion side = both) Delete the 2 bottom edges (this gives us a Vee-shape) Move the edge … More Fusion 360: T-Splines Valentines Day Heart
Bolted Connections created in Inventor can become out of date when changes to a part in an assembly happen (for example a material thickness change). I’ve adapted a bit of iLogic code shared on a forum by Rossano Praderi. My version of the code iterates through the assembly, identifies bolted connections, and sets them to … More Keep Bolted Connections Updated with iLogic
AutoCAD has the ability to convert any Vector based PDF files into DWG (or DXF). Vector based PDF’s are usually PDF’s that have been published by a drawing package and contains lines circles and arc, as well as layer information. Simply go to the “Insert” tab, then click on PDF, from there the wizard interface … More AutoCAD Quick Tip: Convert PDF to DWG
Inventor has a decent set of tools available for checking component interference, but what about running an interference check on the entire model with one click? I have adapted one of the Inventor API samples to work with iLogic, the code iterates through an assembly and highlights the interfering parts. The animated GIF below shows … More Detecting Interference with iLogic
I’ve written a bit of iLogic code for a rather niche problem in Autodesk Inventor, but it is something that you may come up against at some stage, or something I may need to refer back to in the future! When Inventor drawings are copied, particularly during a “File > Save As > Save Copy … More Inventor Title Block Updates with iLogic
Have you ever wondered what the difference between IDW & DWG file formats in Inventor are? Do you have a preference for IDW over DWG? I’m a big fan of the DWG format, and I highlight 3 reasons that I think DWG is better in this post, but I also show the drawbacks. … More Autodesk Inventor – 3 Reasons Why DWG Is Better Than IDW
I have written a tool that generates colours for Inventor based on the RAL, Pantone and Munsell standards. The idea, is that instead of having a full library of all of the colours (over 4000) from these standards, a user can generate the colour needed on demand, and then choose to add this to their … More RAL + Pantone + Munsell Colour Generator for Inventor
From the Inventor Tube and Pipe Environment, you can export your pipe runs to Bending Machine Formats. The available export types are XYZ, YBC, and LRA. To export Tube & Pipe runs in a bending machine-compatible file format, follow the steps below: Activate “Tube and Pipe Runs” Activate the specific pipe run (“Run02” is active in the image below) Right Click … More Exporting Tube and Pipe Runs in Bending Machine Format
After watching a video on the creation of the famous Star wars intro crawl, I figured that I could easily re-create this in Autodesk Inventor. The results can be seen below: In the original video, a transparent film with the yellow text printed on it, is pulled over a flat plane, while being filmed, this … More Creating a Star Wars Intro Scroll in Autodesk Inventor
