The Engineer’s Notebook is a very effective tool that gives you the ability to create notes and directly stores them as part of a model.

You can attach a note to an edge, sketch, feature, part, or other selection in the model. Each note consists of a comment box and a view of the model. To start the Engineers Notebook, select a part in the window, right-click, and select Create Note. When you add the first note to a model, the program creates a notebook. You can add comment boxes or additional views to a note or add more notes to the notebook. You can use the Engineer’s Notebook to save the history of development or to provide reminders for project designers. Examples of notes include design strategy, reason for a design decision, manufacturing instructions, or information from a test or FEA calculation.

Notes can contain links to external files, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, graphics, or audio files.

To better understand the process of adding Engineers Notebook, watch this simple video

How long have you been using Autodesk Inventor ?

If you answered many years then, the tooltip appearance might be some times irritating, as you hover over each command, a pop up information appears, showing you what the tool does with a simple figure. See below

However, on the other side, if you are a new user and want to learn what each tool does, then this might be of great help as it provides complete info about the tool in the display.

If in case you need to toggle between (Enable / Disable) tooltip appearance, then follow this simple step

Accessing tooltip Appearance:

Tools > Application Options > General Tab > Tooltip Appearance

Now, you can move to the Tooltip Appearance option under General Tab

Watch a simple video to understand better . . .

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Autodesk Inventor has many options to enable commands, either by keyboard or by mouse clicks.

In this video tutorial we shall see how to activate commands using keyboard. To enable command activation by keyboard in Inventor we need to first click on the Alt Key.

Note: To type without using the keyboard

Watch this simple video to know more . . .

Most of you must be aware of the polygon command in Autodesk Inventor 2010.

Use the Polygon command on the Sketch tab to create polygon shapes. Polygons can have up to 120 sides.

1. On the ribbon, click Sketch tab > Draw panel > Polygon.
2. Select the inscribed or circumscribed icon in the Polygon dialog box.
3. Specify the number of edges.
4. Click the center of the polygon.
5. Drag to determine the size of the polygon.
6. Click Here to watch a video

To quit creating polygons, press Esc, click another command, or click Done in the Polygon dialog box

To construct the name of a polygon with more than 20 and less than 100 edges, combine the prefixes as follows

• Watch a video to know more about polygon command in Autodesk Inventor 2010
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Assembly Features:

These are just like part features, except they can affect multiple parts, are created in the assembly environment, and are saved in the assembly file. Assembly feature definitions are not passed down to the component level. (Not saved in part level)

What are assembly features ?

These are features that are developed in assembly mode, that define a single logical feature that spans multiple parts, such as an extrusion cut through multiple connecting plates etc . . .

Further, these help in defining a specific manufacturing process, such as match drilling or post-machining.

Where can Assembly features be used ?

These can be used when match drilling and pinning is carried out, the holes can only be drilled after everything is positioned and sized as required.

Note:  Assembly features include chamfers, fillets, sweeps, revolves, extrudes, and holes. They also include the work features and sketches used to create them. You can edit, add to, suppress, or delete assembly features. You can also rollback the state of the assembly features and add and remove components that participate in the feature.

To better understand this concept of Assembly features, watch this video below . . .