Setting up your Vault-Inventor Workspace? Here’s how.
So you want set up your workspace, but confused about how it works. This quick guide will explain the basics. The Project File Inventor Project files control and point to the location of files and associated data for your Inventor designs. The locations of Templates, Libraries and Content Centers are all mapped here. In order […]
Fusion 360 Product Design Extension – Plastic Tools
Recently, you will notice a new tab in your design workspace in Fusion 360. This tab is centered around the design and prototyping of plastic components. The create panel contains most of the same tools as the solid modelling workspace, but with a few additions if you have the Product Design Extenstion. Product Design Extension […]
Inventor Express mode explained
What exactly is Express mode? Ever load up a large assembly and see the “loading express” text pop up while waiting for the model to fully load? That’s Autodesk’s clever way of reducing the computational intensity associated with large and complex assemblies. Express mode is an option that ,once enabled, allows two open options – […]
Convert Imported Part to Sheetmetal using Inventor
When creating a part file (.ipt) Inventor, we know that we can easily switch back and forth between sheet metal and standard part by using the “convert to sheet metal” switch. This allows us to access the contextual sheet metal ribbon and related toolsets. However, this only works with files created natively in Inventor. What […]
Save As and Replace component in Fusion 360 Assembly
Managing assemblies in Fusion 360 Fusion 360 has a very simplified method for creating assemblies when compared to it’s “big brother”, Inventor. The concept may be similar, but the implementation is worlds apart due to one key factor: File types. Gone are the days of part files (*.ipt) and assembly files (*.iam), in Fusion 360, […]
Copy design properties in Inventor
iProperties As you may already know, iProperties are a great way to manage data and attach certain critical information to your designs. This ay include things like: Part number Stock Code Customer details Location Approved by Checked Date Custom fields But entering them over and over again may not be ideal and can be very […]
Autodesk Vault Professional – Automatically assign category using rules
Categories Categories in Vault Professional can be useful for setting up fixed lifecycles and properties that are applied to a selection of files or folders. Often, you may want to automate the process of assigning these categories depending on where the path of the data is, for example, a “Research and Development” folder may have […]
Autodesk Vault – Check-in multiple CAD designs at once
Check-in multiple files from Inventor Checking in designs from Inventor has always been easy with the Vault add-in in the Inventor ribbon, however, we have always been limited to just a single check-in at a time. If you need to check in multiple files, your options are limited. But sometimes we have worked on multiple […]
Moving Fusion 360 projects to another team
So you have a bunch of projects on your single-user storage but now want to join a team to collaborate. How can you get those projects out to a new team? We have all at some point started a new project using Fusion 360’s cloud storage. Often, when not collaborating with company colleagues, we will […]
Autodesk Data Standards – Inventor add-in
What is data standard? Data Standard is a data control feature for the Vault Client, Vault Office Client, Inventor, and AutoCAD that helps you enter data for new or existing files in a standardized format. NB: It is only available with Vault Professional or Vault Office. It is NOT supported on Vault Basic. To install […]
