
Topics feature Autodesk manufacturing software, including AutoCAD and Inventor.

Fusion 360 to the rescue. The Manufacturing model has an “Arrange” command that will lay the pieces out for us. Sort of a lightweight nesting program.

With FeatureCAM’s tombstone fixture option, pre-programmed parts can simply be opened within a tombstone file (.tsf) and manipulated with respect to the size of the part, work offsets, and operations.

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Learn how you can leverage Named Geometry and Attributes in Autodesk Inventor to advance your automation.

Virtual Components are a method Inventor uses to represent non-CAD parts in a design.

Trim away unwanted regions of a milling toolpath with the new Toolpath Trimming tool included with the Fusion 360 Manufacturing Extension.

How to prepare for and use the IMAGINiT Vault Metadata Update Utility to Import new data or update existing data.

A detailed guide in setting up a custom numbering provider to create a common numbering scheme for both Files and Items in Autodesk Vault

Let’s face it, there are some repetitive tasks with Inventor and Vault that are tedious, time consuming and potentially error prone when they are performed frequently back to back.

The Inventor Task Scheduler is intended to perform automated tasks and acts as a batch processor in Inventor and other applications.

The Text editor in Inventor allows us to insert the iProperties from different sources. With this technique, your annotations will update in the drawing if the information in the model files change.

When you have a design that is long, sometimes showing its entirety in a drawing view leads to dimensions going to features that are hard to make out when printed.

Overview In this series we will explore the fundamentals of Content Center, starting with part 1, which covers its basic setup and configuration.

When creating advanced or complex Inventor sketch profiles, it is sometimes helpful to change the display properties of the sketch geometry.

Inventor does provide a solution for this from the Document Setting where we can configure the drawing to use the iProperties of the model.

Inventor CAM equips users with the ability to save the stock body at any stage in the machining process and then use it in secondary setups!

Here's an example a customer recently had where one simple feature was able to save hours of tedious analysis.

In this guide I hope to explain how Styles are managed by inventor both inside the active document and externally by Style Libraries, and how users can interact with Styles and Standards

Fusion 360 (Fusion) has 2 basic workflows for creating custom Title Blocks. The first is to create the Title Block within Fusion and the second is to create the Title Block in AutoCAD