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 … More 20 Years of Inventor: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Have you ever wanted to use iLogic to print drawings, or create specific printer setups? Look no further, I have converted the Inventor print API sample to iLogic and expanded it to expose additional functions. Using this code you could set up rules for specific print job types, or just for specific printers. The code … More iLogic: Automate Your Print Jobs
The “Copy Properties eye dropper” has been updated in Inventor 2020.1’s Frame Generator Environment, making the copying of properties from one frame member to another much easier. Here is the workflow, I’ve included and animated GIF below to show it working! Select the frame members you want to change. Click the eye dropper Choose the … More Inventor 2020.1: Frame Generator Copy Properties Update
A really small, but useful enhancement to Inventor has been made in the 2020.1 update, and that is the addition of an icon next to the “Copy Properties” tool on the right click menu (drawing environment), as show above. The “Copy Properties” tool is a really useful way to match the properties of on Dimension … More Inventor 2020.1: Copy Properties Update
Inventor 2020.1 has a nice small enhancement to the Sketching environment, and that is the inclusion of a keyboard shortcut for the Horizontal command. To access the Horizontal Command in Inventor 2020.1’s sketch environment, simply press the dash key [ – ] (as shown below) When Mousing over the commands, both Horizontal and Vertical Constraints, … More Inventor 2020.1 Horizontal Shortcut
Some really cool features are being released in these point releases of Inventor. With Inventor 2019.2 we got “Spell Checking” in the drawing environment, click on the image below for all of the details around spell checking, as well as some cool hacks for getting even more out of the spell checker. Inventor 2020.1 now … More Inventor 2020.1 Update: Spell Checker Now Supports iProperties
Inventor 2020.1 release is now live, have a look at the details here. One of my new favourite features is the update to “Virtual Components”, or virtual parts. These can now be added to your Assemblies directly from the BoM environment. I’m a big fan of them, as they save a lot of time, and … More Inventor 2020.1 Virtual Part Update
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 … More Wiring an Electric Guitar in Autodesk Inventor
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 … More Control Drawing View Reps & Style with iLogic
It’s finally here, for those of you who enjoy this site on the go, you can now get to it via the Unofficial App. The new version of the app was uploaded on the 26th of December 2019. Click on the image above to download the “Unofficial Inventor” App for Android. The app is currently only … More Download the Unofficial App
