Nick Johns heads up the UK Digital Manufacturing Business for Graitec Ltd, a global Autodesk Platinum Strategic Partner.
Graitec helps organisations to adopt manufacturing software and technologies through training, consultancy and services.
Nick has a long-standing passion for helping Manufacturers solve real business problems by helping its customers to digitise their processes through CREATE, SIMULATE, FABRICATE, MANAGE.
Without doubt, COVID-19 will change the way we work forever. This recent pandemic has forced organisations and their employees to reconsider a number of key activities during this period in our lives ...
Vault 2021 has now been released and there are many new enhancements and capabilities which delivers much more value to subscribers. The type of productivity enhancements you can expect to see in Vaul...
iLogic in Inventor 2021 has been expanded, and now includes standard tools for naming geometry and creating annotations out of the box. 2021 includes a new “Capture Current State” tool, which identifi...
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...
