3D CAD Packages like Autodesk Inventor can easily export out 3D PDF's for sharing and collaboration. Generally the person receiving the 3D PDF does not have a CAD system, making this a good way of sharing 3D information. The problem, is that by default Adobe Reader DC blocks 3D content in PDF's. The good news... Continue Reading →
Wiring an Electric Guitar in Autodesk Inventor
As part of the AU London class that I recently ran, I have added some voice narrations to the videos that I recorded around wiring up the guitar. I loosely based my wiring on the information shown on Frailin pickups website: https://www.fralinpickups.com/fralin-wiring-diagrams/. Note that I am not an electrical or electronics expert, the workflow I... Continue Reading →
Control Drawing View Reps & Style with iLogic
I've written some iLogic code to control the "View Style" and "View Representation" of drawing views. The code gathers all of the views in the drawing and presents them in a list to the user. It then presents a pre-defined set of "View Styles", once it has done this, it then gathers all of the... Continue Reading →
Heads or Tails with iLogic (UPDATED)
A while back I seemed to get obsessed with finding ways to use random number generators, and I created two interesting use cases, one was a coin flipper and the other was the magic 8 ball, I have these tagged on my site under "Toys", which makes them easier to find. The original Coin Toss... Continue Reading →
AU London 2019 – Thank You!
Another successful AU London done and dusted! The 3rd Annual Autodesk University was held at the Tobacco Dock in London this week. If you missed it, you really missed out, but you can see recordings of the live main stage presentations here: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/conference/live-stream the classes will probably go live in a few weeks. I just wanted... Continue Reading →
My First CAM Project in Fusion 360
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... Continue Reading →
Let’s Rock at AU London 2019
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... Continue Reading →
Moving from 2D AutoCAD to 3D
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... Continue Reading →
Magic 8 Ball in Inventor With iLogic
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.... Continue Reading →
Set Random Face Colours With iLogic
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... Continue Reading →
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