I recently Installed AutoCAD 2021, and when clicked on the Vault tab, I noticed that the tab was blank. The fix is pretty simple, even if seemingly scary. This problem occurs when the Vault client is installed before AutoCAD. Make sure that AutoCAD is not running. From the Windows “Add Remove” programs, find “Vault Client … More AutoCAD 2021: Fixing A Blank Vault Tab
By Michael Jones Overview We will be adding transverse hole spacing to the top and bottom flange of the content center wide flange family. We will be extracting the transverse hole spacing data from the 15th edition of the AISC Excel workbook. In structural steel detailing, gage is shorthand for the transverse hole spacing. Using … More Adding a Column to Content Center Steel Families
I’ve recently helped a customer who was not getting any notification emails from Fusion Lifecycle. The fix is really simple. The email address that the FLC notifications comes from is; noreply@autodesk.com It turns out that this company blocked all email from “noreply” addresses, getting this specific email unblocked by IT allowed the emails to come … More Not Getting Fusion Lifecycle Notification Emails?
Guest Post by Jelte de Jong Have you ever wanted assign specific profiles in your flat pattern to a custom layer before exporting them to DXF? I have been working on updating an Inventor add-on which we use at work. The tool exports sheet metal flat patterns to our CAM software. I did not write the … More iLogic: Setting Extra Layers In DXF Exports
I recently saw a problem on the Inventor Forum, where a user had a bent tube that they had modelled up. They needed to calculate the pre-form length. In this instance they were not using Tube & Pipe, my solution was to use the Sheet Metal environment to extract the flat shape, the video below … More Calculating The Pre-form Length of a Bent Tube
Guest Post by Jhoel Forshav Since this is my first guest blog post on the Unofficial Inventor blog, I’d like to thank Clint Brown for inviting me to do this. Those of you who visit the Inventor Customization Forum from time to time may have seen my name before, as I’m a very active in … More iLogic: Export All Flat Patterns To One DXF
Autodesk have just launched the exciting new Vault Mobile App. I’ve tested it, it’s awesome, but you need to be aware of a few things. The first hurdle is connecting to the server, you need to specify the server’s IP address as shown below. In my testing I found that if I specified the server … More Vault Mobile App: Setup & More
This week’s post is a variation on a theme, hence the name. I’ve previously written about “Tool-Tips” with iLogic in Inventor (see posts below). The common theme is that the tool-tip will show iProperties for a part in the assembly (using a section filter). This version shows these properties at the tool-tip, as well as … More iLogic Properties Tool-Tip #3
Guest Post by Jelte de Jong If you have read any of my blogs post before, you’ll know that I like to challenge myself to solve other Inventor user’s problems. I usually find these problems on the Inventor Customization Forum. A while back, I came across an interesting problem. This user wanted to change the iProperties … More iLogic: Unexpected Results
By Dutt Thakar I’ve written 2 iLogic utilities that I hope you will find useful. The first one rotates a section line at a specified angle. To get it to work, you simply need to edit your section sketch, then add in an angled dimension. In my example this dimension is controlled by parameter “d0”. … More iLogic: Rotating Section Views – Guest Post
