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Tips and Tricks

How to access Autodesk Inventor 2012 Help

September 11, 2011

Autodesk Inventor help files were part of the installation upto release 2010. Autodesk Inventor Help can now be accessed by two ways., Firstly by accessing the online wiki and secondly by downloading the help files Method – I Since with the release of Autodesk Inventor 2011, all the help files can be accessed online [...]

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Autodesk Inventor Tips and Tricks

September 8, 2011

CAD Professor starts a new blog – Autodesk Inventor Tips and Tricks Blog … Yes, gaining productivity and quick learning cycle is essential in today’s competitive CAD World and this is what CADProfessor decided to do. Start an exclusive blog on Autodesk Inventor Tips and Tricks. New tips will be showcase, every week through the [...]

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Accessing the student community site from Autodesk Inventor 2012

September 6, 2011

If you are a student, click Engineers Rule.ORG on the Get Started tab to enter the Autodesk Student Engineering and Design Community. This website provides free Autodesk design software and resources to help students get started in their careers and become leaders in the next generation of design. But how to access the website from Autodesk [...]

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Making a Sketch Active for Editing

December 27, 2010

Inventor Tips: To save a file, you need to exit the sketch mode. However, if you want to make changes to the saved sketches, you need to make the sketch active for editing., Let’s see how we can make the sketch active. Identify the sketch1 in the model browser bar to the left of the [...]

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Inventor Add-in: Center Point Rectangle

December 26, 2010

A Post from Mark Flayler Manufacturing Blog It’s in AutoCAD Mechanical, it’s in most other 3D modeling programs…so why isn’t it in Inventor? Why do packages of hot dogs come in 10 and buns in 8? It’s one of the great mysteries of the Inventor user base. Well Inventor user Brian Hall finally got tired of [...]

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Exploring the View Cube

December 25, 2010

The View Cube, is a 3D tool that allows you to rotate the view. Here are some viewing options: •If you click a face, edge, or corner of the cube, the view rotates so the selection is perpendicular to the screen. •If you click and drag an edge, the view rotates around the parallel axis. •If [...]

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Adding Automatic Tangents with Line Tool

December 23, 2010

Tips:When you are adding tangent line to a circle or arc, one can add the tangent constraint automatically. To execute the above process, start the line tool and click and hold on the circle or arc on which you are adding the tangent line, during this time, you will see a tangent glyph, now you [...]

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Inventor Tips on Sketch Editing

October 20, 2010

When you sketch in any CAD Tool, there are situations when you have to edit the sketch which may include Trim, Extend or even Split., in Inventor these can be performed with easy. Let’s say you are performing a trim operation and immediately go ahead with extend or even split operation simultaneously. That’s more easy [...]

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2011 Subscription Advantage Packs Now Available

October 1, 2010

Watch this video Click Here on Inventor Advantage Stay on the leading edge of your industry with the most current software features. Improve productivity by using new functionality that can help you to visualize and design faster. Autodesk® Subscription Advantage Packs are available for download now by Subscription customers. Get ahead by gaining early access [...]

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Task Scheduler in Inventor 2011

September 19, 2010

Task Scheduler is a separate application that performs automated tasks and acts as a batch processor in Autodesk Inventor and other applications. To open Task Scheduler, click Start >Programs >Autodesk > Autodesk Inventor (version) > Tools > Task Scheduler. Use the Task Scheduler to organize and define one or more time-consuming tasks from different types [...]