I’ve been meaning to write this blog post up for weeks! As you may or may not know, this comping week, I will be presenting my Autodesk University London class. The session is called: School of Rock: Building an Electric Guitar with the Product Design & Manufacturing Collection (Code: AULON565) In preparation for the class, I … More My First CAM Project in Fusion 360
In some installations of the Vault server, the “Reboot Needed” error will show on the installer pre-checks. If you have rebooted the server, and the pre-checker still shows this, the steps below will bypass the checker and proceed with the installation of Vault Server. NOTE: This method should be used as a last resort. You … More Autodesk Vault Server install – ADMS Pre-checks “Reboot Needed”
It’s just about that time of year again! I’ll be presenting at the 3rd Autodesk University at the Tobacco Dock in London. The event is on the 18th and 19th of June. If you don’t have a ticket yet, hurry, they won’t be available after the middle of this week. This year I decided not … More Let’s Rock at AU London 2019
Are you thinking of making the leap to 3D Design from 2D AutoCAD? There are several options available from many CAD vendors, but only ONE that works with native DWG technology. If you want to re-use your AutoCAD data and safeguard years of work, check out Autodesk Inventor. Initially developed by the creators of AutoCAD … More Moving from 2D AutoCAD to 3D
Anyone who has worked with me, will know that I am not a fan of the IGES file format. Having worked in the Automotive OEM supply chain in the early 2000’s, I have had my fair share of issues with IGES files. Mostly related to geometry that contained missing faces, gaps or faces oriented incorrectly … More 3 Reasons To Stop using IGES Files
I built a magic 8 ball using iLogic, utilising the random number generator to create a random answer. You are probably wondering why… Well the answer is, why not! I got the idea while stuck in traffic, and it was really quick and easy to knock together, so I thought I would share it here. … More Magic 8 Ball in Inventor With iLogic
Just about a year ago, I started blogging on this site, mostly about Inventor and iLogic, but also about Fusion360, AutoCAD and Vault. As you may have gathered by now, I am a bit of a CAD geek and enjoy putting together iLogic routines, and general workflows, some of which start out as my ideas, … More A Year of The New Blog
Yesterday I attended a meeting at Autodesk in Farborough, and everyone in our meeting was asked to join in on one of the volunteering sessions that the Autodesk Foundation were holding in partnership with SolarBuddy. SolarBuddy are an Australian company, and the lights we assembled are being sent to underprivileged kids in Papua New Guinea. … More Autodesk Foundation Volunteering
Virtual Components, or Virtual Parts in Autodesk Inventor are “empty” placeholder parts that allow users to replicate items like grease, or other consumables that would generally not be modelled. … More Understanding Virtual Components
This blog post is a direct result of a discussion on Twitter! the request was to automatically assign a random colour to a face in an Inventor part. I wrote a little bit of code, loosely based my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours. This specific code simply assigns a random … More Set Random Face Colours With iLogic
