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Guest Post by Sarah Manning Thanks for checking out my first Inventor guest blog, this is a "Quick Tip", I hope you find it useful. Inventor users might find it difficult to locate specific commands which seem hidden away under drop downs, or expanded menus. For instance the "Move Bodies" and "Bend" commands, are tucked... Continue Reading →
A few months back, the good folks at 3D Connexion sent me a SpaceMouse Wireless Kit. I've been using the kit every day for some time now, and I love it. The kit comes with both a SpaceMouse and a CadMouse. Many years back, I had a full sized SpaceMouse permanently connected to my CAD... Continue Reading →
I saw a thread on Reddit, where someone asked how to "show both Imperial and Metric steel sizes in a Parts List" I initially replied with a single line of iLogic, but this got me thinking. I've written an iLogic utility that lets users specify an alternative value for each of the members in their... Continue Reading →
Inventor turned 20 in September 2019 and at Autodesk University 2019 several key updates, as well as the new Dark Mode were announced. In light of this, I thought it would be fun to dig up some old Inventor videos and screenshots. Here are some old interface images, below is Inventor R8: This is Inventor... Continue Reading →
Thomas Rambach of CADToolbox.com recently asked if I would BETA test his latest creation "Batch Logic". Before I get into Batch Logic, it's worth pointing out that Thomas is the creator of Swift Prints and Design Notes for Inventor. Batch Logic is two fantastic utilities rolled into one, the first for Inventor and another for... Continue Reading →
Autodesk Inventor's BoM environment is a really useful tool for understanding the composition of Assembly files, but the one thing it does not offer, is the total Mass of the assembly. To remedy this, I have written some iLogic code to create a virtual component, the Mass of the Assembly is written to a custom... Continue Reading →
I mentioned the launch of Duplicate Search for Vault 2020.2 in a previous blog post. Once you have installed the update (brief update instructions at the bottom of this post), the new Duplicate Search Dashboard is available in your Vault client. To set up the duplicate search, from your Vault Settings (Tools > Administration >Vault... Continue Reading →
And that's a wrap! 2020 is on the horizon. I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who has visited the site in 2019, thank you for your support. I run this site as a hobby, generally putting blog posts together on the weekends, usually early on Saturday mornings with a cup of... Continue Reading →
The Vault team have just made "Duplicate Search" available to subscription customers. This is different to any duplicate searches that you have run on your Vault in the past, as this new technology allows you to search for duplicate files by their 3D shape. The new duplicate search actually compares the geometry of files to... Continue Reading →
If you have ever wanted to suppress a component using iLogic, you may have come up against the error message below. Error in rule: RuleName, in document: XYZ.iam Component.IsActive: Cannot change the suppression state of component ABC:1. The active Level of Detail in XYZ.iam is not a custom Level of Detail. The reason for this,... Continue Reading →
Clint Brown 
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