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Autodesk Inventor Tips: Sketch Zero Origin and Click Hold Arc/Slot

Recently, we posted ‘LEVERAGING MODEL-BASED DEFINITION (MBD) IN AUTODESK INVENTOR’ which enlightened us on Autodesk Inventor’s features supporting Model-Based Definition (MBD). MBD streamlines the design-to-manufacturing process and even helps in fully reducing the chance of errors in manufacturing parts. Our Autodesk Subject Matter Expert from I GET IT Learning has created 120 short tech tips for Autodesk Inventor and presented

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Good Luck Ratchet Rockers!

FIRST Robotics Team 1706, the Ratchet Rockers, will compete this weekend (April 26-29) in the FIRST Championship in St. Louis, MO. The Ratchet Rockers completed in 2 events this year. In Huntsville, MO they qualified #4 out of 50 teams but lost in the quarterfinals. In their other event in St. Louis they qualified #2 out of 52 teams and ended

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Quick tip: Sometimes CAD is the beginning of PLM

Sometimes CAD can be used to start establishing PLM practices. Since PLM systems rely on data to be effective, ensuring consistent and correctly-entered information is paramount. Things like classification with properties and meta-data can rely on CAD very heavily to be effectively used. For example, let’s consider the classification and data for a machined part. If the part is going

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