Clint Brown's Autodesk Blog
On a recent training course, I was asked if the default display of BoM quantities in the Fusion Lifecycle "Bill of Materials" workspace could be changed. Out of the box, all quantities are displayed with a decimal place, for example 3.0. In this instance the quantities would always be whole numbers, below is the workflow... Continue Reading →
On a recent training course, a delegate pointed out a nifty setting in Vault, which allows for documents to be previewed without having to click on them twice, I thought I’d share it here 🙂 Let me explain… Several releases ago, if you clicked on any file in Vault, if the preview tab was active,... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
I have many versions of Inventor, AutoCAD and Vault (Clients) installed on my PC. Sometimes I fire up the wrong software and it wastes time A few months back, I saw some custom icons for Autodesk product and this got me thinking... What if I had a specific icon for each release of Inventor, Vault... Continue Reading →
If you use AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, Fusion360, Vault, or pretty much any of the main stream Autodesk products, you will have at some stage used an Autodesk cloud service. To help understand any planned maintenance or outages, Autodesk have created a "Health Dashboard", which shows the current status of all cloud services, as well as... Continue Reading →
This blog post a bit of a throwback to a few years ago, it's based on a very old unit converter that was hosted on Autodesk's website. The idea of this blog post, is an iLogic rule to fire up the unit converter inside of Inventor, as shown in the animation below. To make this... Continue Reading →
Autodesk Inventor 2020.1 is live, here are some of my favourite new features, as well as the details of how to get hold of the update -----------> Click here for a live link to my 2020.1 posts.
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 →
Vault 2020 is now available, this release features updates to the Vault Sync tool, as well as Copy Design and some improved functionality around PDF's. Below are 3 videos highlighting the new features: New features in Project Sync: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyVbnPYX4I&feature=youtu.be New Features in Copy Design: https://youtu.be/lDQuh3k8wyw 2020 PDF Enhancements: https://youtu.be/dQpT-fiRlh4
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 →
