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Lots. It’s been really busy over the past 4 or 5 months. On top of our day job, we have been supporting our customers moving from the office to working from home, we’ve been creating new online traini...

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...

It’s that time of year again with Inventor 2021 just being released and the question that’s on all our lips is ………………………… Autodesk Inventor 2021 has user driven updates and enhancements to features wh...

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...

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...

Do you use Inventor Professional as part of the Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Collection ? Are you looking to minimize waste? Do you use tools such as laser, plasma and water jet...

Have you tried Autodesk Inventor AND Fusion 360 ? Which is best? The good news is, you don’t need to decide. You can now use both these tools for what they are best at! Autodesk Inventor is Autodesk’s...