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This is admittedly a bit of a random idea! This blog post shows how to flip a coin using iLogic in Inventor. UPDATE: There is a new version that uses a 3D Coin in an Inventor .IPT; available here. The idea came from my previous blog post, looking at generating random numbers to create colours.... Continue Reading →
I ran across a really interesting thread on the Autodesk Inventor ideas station. The feature request is to have a visual style in Inventor that sets every component in an assembly to a unique colour. A comment by Tanner Dant included some VBA code, which creates a new view representation called "Unique Colors" and... Continue Reading →
Converting a laser scan to a mesh can be tricky, but there is a great workflow with Recap, Meshlab and Autodeks Inventor.
As part of my AU London class this year, I am building an electric guitar using the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection. For the Class, I have already built the guitar, sculpting the body with hand tools. The initial design starts with a PDF, which is imported into AutoCAD, this geometry is then used... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wanted to automatically create a drawing note on your Inventor drawing based on a pre-defined text file? Look no further, I have written some iLogic code that will place a drawing note on your drawing in a pre-defined position. The note will contain the contents of a text file that you you... Continue Reading →
The "Migrate Settings" tool in Inventor 2020 does a really good job of pulling through most of the settings that you need from Inventor 2019 (or earlier), but it does not bring over any custom iLogic Snippets that you have created. The good news, is that this is really easy to do manually. From any... Continue Reading →
If you have just installed a shiny new version of Autodesk Inventor, you may want to import all of the settings from a previous version. The process is fairly simple, fire up the new version of Inventor, and then on the "Tools" Tab, click on "Migrate Settings" Select the items that you wish to bring... Continue Reading →
When trying out the Inventor 2020 "Insert End Caps" command for the first time, you may run into the following error message: Frame Generator "Can't Locate the Inventor Custom Content" The fix is really simple. Inventor 2020's content centre is installed with a custom library for the end caps. This needs to be added to... Continue Reading →
Translator Import Export Alias V10 or later CATIA V4 All Revisions CATIA V5 R6 - V5-6R2018 R10 - V5-6R2018 Creo Parametric 1.0; 2.0; 3.0; 4.0; 5.0 DWF/DWFx 6.0 – 7.5 7.5 DWG All Revisions R2000; R2004; R2007; R2010; R2013; R2018 IDF 2.0; 3.0 IFC IFC 2x3 IGES All Revisions 5.3 JT Up to 10.2 Up... Continue Reading →
Autodesk Inventor 2020 launched officially this morning, which means that you should be able to access it from your Autodesk Account, or Autodesk Desktop App in the coming days. Below are the official Autodesk videos from YouTube. I have already done a test drive on some of the features, which you can see by visiting... Continue Reading →
Clint Brown 
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