Inventor 101: Simple Fully Constrained Sketches

This post is a MUST READ for all new Inventor users! Steve Bedder’s excellent post on naming, managing and displaying your parameters. (NB the new file dialogue in Inventor 2013should make this a little easier).Īutodesk Inventor: Quick Tip – Managing Parameters This ‘Oldie but goodie’ from Mark Randa is a great tip for Inventor CAD Managers. How-To Create Templates in Autodesk Inventor If you ever need to change the title block in a large number of Inventor drawings, you’d be glad that you read this post from Mark Flayler. In fact – there are Five ways to use the EOP (End of Part marker) – you can read about the other four on Shann Hurley’s blog.Īll my Inventor drawings need a different title block! Are you kidding me? This really handy tip from Steve Bedder is good to know about, particularly if you would like to Email a part or post a part in a forum. Reducing the disk size of Inventor part files In 2014 I expect it to be turned on by default! Note: This roll up option has been made a little more obvious in 2013. This tip from Steve Bedder is very useful to Inventor 2011 users who are using the Micro-toolbars, and who don’t need the full palette any more. Mark Flayler has put together an excellent reference guide, which you can download for free here. If you ever saw an Icon in the assembly browser and wondered what it did – go no further. Inventor Reference – Assembly Browser Icons Download it, print it and stick it up next to your monitor!

This very handy printable keystroke reference is downloadable from Steve Bedder’s Autodesk MFG blog. To help you navigate this post, I have broken it down into the following sections: A big thank you to Curtis Waguespack, John Evans and Scott Moyse, Mark Randa, Jon Landeros, Chris from Symetri, Jamie Ditsworth, Mark Flayler, Steve Bedder and Thomas Rambach for all your hard work and dedication to the cause.ĭid I miss any? Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any Tip Top Inventor tips that you would like to add!

In researching this post, I had a great time trawling through the Archives of some of my Favourite Inventor bloggers. There are some great resources out there on the web, and I try and track as many as I can. Here are over 100 links to my favourite Autodesk Inventor tips from my favourite Inventor Bloggers from around the web.

We can all use an extra edge to help us get our drawings out just a little quicker.

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