Nick Johns is the Head of Digital Manufacturing for Graitec and has many years’ experience in helping Manufacturing, Construction, Engineering and Architectural Organisations solve business problems by utilising technology and innovation.
Autodesk Vault has powerful search functionality built into it, which works seamlessly out of the box. Think of the search in Vault, as a “Google Like” search engine for your data. Sometimes a search ...
If your organisation uses Autodesk Inventor, you may not be utilising the Bill of Materials (BOM) or BOM tool. The BOM is not the same as the parts list that is often included in drawings. It is an ov...
If you’ve ever tried to create a feature in a flat pattern and then have it appear in the folded model in Inventor within a sheet metal environment, then you’re probably aware by now that you can’t. T...
The ability to share a 3D model with almost anyone on practically any device makes “Shared Views” a really powerful function in Autodesk Inventor. A shared view is an online visual representation of t...
“Smart robots assembling products from a plethora of manufacturing lines by physically reconfiguring themselves on the factory floor” “Security drones handling monotonous tasks ranging from monitoring...
Inventor is full of incredibly useful design tools which are aimed at increasing productivity in common manufacturing situations, one of these is the “Frame Generator”. By default, in Inventor, you wi...
The Unwrap command in Inventor allows you to unwrap most shapes that cannot be flattened by the unfold command and saved or exported in different formats. Unwrap can be used to create a flat surface p...
