Connect Design and Make: Introducing Autodesk Informed Design

 What’s Autodesk Informed Design? Autodesk Informed Design is a cloud-based solution that connects design and manufacturing workflows to streamline the building design and construction process. Informed Design allows architects to work with customizable, pre-defined building products that help the user...

Inventor 2024.1 What’s New – 3DCAD.news

 What has the Inventor development team been doing since we released Inventor 2024?  They kept the pedal to the metal!  It’s now 3 ½ months later and we’re excited to announce the release of Inventor 2024.1!  This point release...

iLogic for Top-Down design – 3DCAD.news

 Five Autodesk Inventor iLogic productivity hacks for non-programmers: Top-down modelling In previous exercises, we’ve learned how to add an iLogic form to a parametric part to communicate design intent, and we’ve learned how to add an iLogic rule to a...

Autodesk Inventor Sheet Metal, Flat pattern success—Every time!

‘Failure in creating a flat pattern.’ Who needs it? No one wants to create an Autodesk Inventor sheet metal part that won’t unfold!The Inventor sheet metal environment is designed to flat pattern ‘developable’ geometry. Think of the shapes you...

Incorrect System Time Causing Inventor to Crash

Inventor (and most other Autodesk products) utilizes time tracking to provide your usage data to Autodesk.  Autodesk in turn, creates reporting metrics in the account management portal, for viewing by your...

Autodesk Informed Design for Revit, Inventor Connects Design and Make Workflows in Industrialized Construction

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Feb 8, 2024 – Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today unveiled Autodesk Informed Design, a cloud-based solution that connects design and manufacturing workflows to streamline the building design and construction process. Informed Design allows architects to...

Autodesk Inventor What’s New 2024: Overview

Part modeling enhancements Parameters window The parameter window extends export functionality to text and boolean parameters in the user parameters section.  This allows us to access parameters in other places, such as the iProperties where we can insert them as part...

Autodesk Inventor What’s New 2023.2

Part Modeling Sketch names display in Select Other results When using Select Other, sketch objects listed in the results include the sketch name where they are used. This feature is available in Part, Assembly, and 3D sketches. Purge Unused Sketches and Work...

Factory Design Utilities dramatically improves efficiency in factory planning

  Global processing systems manufacturer streamlines workflows with iLogic and FDU As one of the largest industrial processing systems suppliers in the world, Dusseldorf, Germany-based GEA makes the machines that make the products we use every day, from the foods and...

New Data Exchange Connector for Inventor 2023 Released in Beta!

Today, we are excited to announce the launch of the full-fledged Data Exchange Connector for Autodesk Inventor (Early Access)! Building on last year’s integration, this connector now offers enhanced capabilities beyond just loading in exchanged data – now, you...

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