Category: Inventor Stuff
Featured in the Autodesk Manufacturing Community Newsletter
Some time in June, I was interviewed by the Community Editors of Autodesk Manufacturing Community. It was really an honor to be featured there. In fact, Garin Gardiner of Autodesk posting a comment on my Inventor blog already means a lot to me. . Before I received the newsletter in my e-mail, my colleage sent
Center of Gravity for Autodesk Inventor
Let’s say you want to have the center of gravity to be plotted onto your drawing file (idw file) so that you could keep a documentation of it. What you can do is to create a macro where the program automates the generation of workpoint based on the properties of the mass of the assembly
Autodesk Solutions Day 2006
Autodesk Solutions Day at Manila, Philippines was recently held at Makati Shangri-La. Rizal Ballrooms A, B and C were all filled with people coming from different fields such as Civil and GIS, Manufacturing, Media and Entertainment, and Education. At the event, I saw my former blockmate in college and some of my former students who
Autodesk Manufacturing Community Portal
I have never thought that someone like me would be featured at the In the Machine blog of the Autodesk Manufacturing Community where Amy Bunszel is the columnist. She is one of the product managers of Autodesk Inventor Professional and it was such an honor to be featured there. It was posted there since the
The Best PC Specs for Inventor 11
I’ve been quite geeky this past few days since I’ve got my hands on the Beta 2 version of Autodesk Inventor 11. And there are a lot of things that I’ve discovered about it. First thing to consider is the PC specs. A 512MB RAM can be good enough for Autodesk Inventor 10. However, for
Autodesk Inventor 11 soon to be released
I got a package from Phoenix, Arizona last Friday. It’s from Autodesk and as part of the Beta Team (Project Faraday) I got an oversized shirt and a DVD of the Beta 2 release of Autodesk Inventor Professional 11. I’ve been testing the Beta 2 release last Friday in the office and I was impressed
Consumer Electronics
The above is not an exact replica of Sony Ericsson’s W800i. Designing consumer electronics like mobile phones is another capability of Autodesk Inventor. This is where surfacing comes to the rescue. A feature that can be used to ease your task in designing such is the Replace Face tool. Using such tool would allow you
Designing Modern Furniture
Since there were PSID students taking up a class on AutoCAD in the training center in our office, I decided to design a simple furniture using Autodesk Inventor. The design of the coffee table is based on one of those websites selling modern furniture. And to make more things pretty interesting, I rendered it using
